Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 21, 2009

In his new memoir ?The Test of Our Times,? Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge confirms something many had suspected, and many others had considered obvious: The Bush administration sought to manipulate the so-called ?terror alert level? in order to influence domestic politics.

According to Ridge, shortly before the 2004 presidential election he was approached by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft, who asked him to raise the terrorism alert level.

?After that episode, I knew I had to follow through with my plans to leave the federal government for the private sector,? writes Ridge.

Ridge doesn?t explain why he didn?t reveal the truth while he was still on the public payroll. Nor does he explain why he raised the terror alert in the summer of 2004, just prior to the Republican National Convention, or consented to several other curiously timed terror alerts. Though his admissions are valuable, Ridge isn?t exactly a paragon of principle.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.