Tom Ridge On the Terror Alert

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people “are hyperventilating” about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections.

“A consensus was reached. We didn’t go up. The process worked,” Ridge told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Now, I really like Tom Ridge. What he did for PA before moving on to DHS cannot be forgotten. That said, what did he expect to happen after making those statements. I don’t think anyone was real happy to hear that the terror alert system could be vulnerable to political pressure instead of raw intelligence.

I hope Obama overhauls that system.

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