Color Coded Nightmare

In a new book, former Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge has indicated that a political decision led to his department elevating the threat level prior to the 2004 presidential election date. According to Ridge, he was pressured to raise the terror alert on the eve of the 2004 election, based on information that was nearly four years old and not considered reliable.

The former secretary indicated that it was this decision that led him to resign from his position. Former White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card has retaliated to the claim by stating "the clear instructions were to make sure that politics never influenced anything."

When the terror alert was questioned days after the election in 2004, the White House admitted that the information was four years old, but it argued that a new "stream of intelligence," that came in at the last moment was the cause for the elevation. Despite the fact that it has never been substantiated, one can only assume that somebody is lying. I don't think for one minute that it is Tom Ridge.

Many of the blogs that I post on this site are directed at the current administration, due to the fact that the blog is less than a year old. However, that does not imply that I am not critical of the Bush administration and the corruption that marred it for eight years. If the American people would wake up and stop playing, the political party game, it is possible that real "change" could take place in America. Let's hope that some Republicans will take this information and start to see the fallacy of their own political party.