by Alan Bock

AntiWar.Com

08/06/04

Ridge also insisted that 'We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,' which is palpably ridiculous. Whether the warnings were intended to deflect attention from the 'bounce' in the polls that John Kerry ended up not getting from the Democratic convention I have no real idea. But the warnings are quintessentially political in the sense that the authorities are deathly afraid that a terrorist attack will happen without them having warned us about it .... If that isn't a political motivation I don't know what is...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp