Friday, August 21, 2009

Fear Factor


This is pretty astonishing stuff. Not surprising in the least, and completely worthless in the sense that not a thing will come of it -- but astonishing nonetheless.

The Washington Post: Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security Director, Admits He Was Pressured by Bush Administration to Raise Terror Alert Level on Eve of 2004 Election/8.21.09

For those of you who don't remember Keith Olbermann's excellent 13-minute segment on the staggering number of times that a supposed "terror threat" just happened to coincide with a political downturn for the Bush administration -- aired all the way back in October of 2005 -- let me refresh your memory.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann: The Nexus of Politics and Terror

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