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Dave Weigel, writing for the Washington Independent, notes that in the past, Ridge has denied manipulating security information for political reasons. In 2004, for example, he said, "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security."

The Bush administration was forced to admit in the days after the 2004 alert that it was based on intelligence three or four years old. Officials then claimed there was a previously unmentioned "separate stream of intelligence" that justified the warning -- but offered little tangible information to support their new story..

Ridge's book, "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...and How We Can Be Safe Again," comes out September 1.

Ridge reveals that he considered resigning because he was urged to issue a politically-motivated security alert on the eve of Bush’s re-election:

Time to CYA and blame Georgie.
Try them all for their crimes.

By rights, by the many eye-witness accounts of lying and mendacity, most of the Bush administration should be behind bars awaiting trial.

The anthrax attacks one week after 9/11 also contributed to fear and warmongering.

The anthrax was traced backed, eventually, to coming from a USA military biological warfare lab.