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Revealed: Bush White House Raised Terror Alert Based On Con Man's Wild Al Jazeera "Decoding" Claims
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 21, 2009.
A new article reports how a Nevada-based software firm employee duped the CIA into believing he held the key to decoding secret terrorist messages.
Tom Ridge Shows Why the Republican Party Is Intellectually Bankrupt
Paul Rosenberg, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. September 7, 2009.
An unwillingness to question authority dooms the conservative mindset to failure.
Rachel Maddow's Devastating Showdown with Tom Ridge: Comeuppance for Failures on Katrina, Terror Threats and Iraq
Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show. September 4, 2009.
Tom Ridge went on Maddow's show trying to promote his book, and came away bruised by Maddow's hard questions on the failures and lies of the Bush years.
Maddow Makes Tom Ridge Sweat Over Iraq
Beta Tester, AlterNet AlterNet: World. September 3, 2009.
"I don't think you guys get back your credibility on national security until you realize that [going to war] was a wrong decision."
Fox News: Tom Ridge? Never Heard of Him.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America AlterNet: Media and Technology. August 22, 2009.
Since news broke that Ridge admitted terror alerts were political, CNN has mentioned his name on air 41 times; MSNBC has 62 times. Not Fox.
Flashback: Ridge Offered to Take Lie Detector Test to Prove 'Politics Played No Part' In Threat Levels
Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Politics. August 21, 2009.
"Wire me up," Mr. Ridge said, according to a book by
New York Times
reporter Eric Lichtblau. "Not a chance."
Bush White House Pushed to Raise Terror Alerts on Eve of Re-election: Tom Ridge
Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 20, 2009.
Anyone surprised?
GOP Civil War: Gov. Charlie Crist Furthers the Republican Divide
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. May 13, 2009.
Expect the tensions between the party and the base to grow increasingly fervent.
Will Bush Officials Invoke State Secrets Privilege to Block Court Review of Arar Case?
Willam Fisher, IPS News. August 18, 2008.
Among the defendants in the lawsuit by extraordinary rendition Maher Arar are John Ashcroft, Tom Ridge, and Robert Mueller.