Tom Ridge claims that Bush pressured him to raise the terror alert level to help win the 2004 election.
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I’m sorry this is just BDS from those damn liberals.Report
I’ll say something I said in January:
Obama’s first official act ought to have been to pardon Bush, Cheney, and Rice.Report
Damn, I wish I’d seen that. That’s an awesome idea. Could still do it, but it would lose some of its pop, for sure.Report
What’s the rationale, Jay?Report
It would have pretty much dominated Bush’s legacy for, like, ever. It would have put him and Nixon into the same breath of even his supporters.Report
Btw, Juan Cole writes this about the Blackwater hit squad story:
Anyone have any idea where he’s getting the Bush& CIA totally out of the loop idea? The NYT story has CIA ops training at Blackwater, just total intermeshing. How could a CIA hit program using Blackwater not have CIA in the loop? (And why am I writing this here?) Just certain Cheney-friendly spooks (Cofer Black, Kyle Foggo)? Don’t get it what Cole’s saying here.Report
Can we now refer to these Bush administration folks as domestic terrorists in their own right, or at least scum?
Btw, Greenwald dug up this USA Today article from a few years back where Ridge made similar claims. So this can’t be explained away by a simple desire to sell his book.Report