Bush Pressured Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge to Up Terror-Alert Level
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Though Ridge has denied it, a new book claims that his boss pressured him to up the national terror-alert level on the eve of Bush's reelection. The Washington Independent guesses that this might be why Ridge never ran for office after he left Homeland Security. [Washington Independent]

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