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Ridge: Bush officials sought to raise terror alert before ’04 vote

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 21, 2009

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge says he successfully countered an effort by senior Bush administration officials to raise the nation’s terror alert level in the days before the 2004 presidential vote. "An election-eve drama was being played out at the highest levels of our government" after Osama bin Laden released a pre-election message [...]

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Bush Weighed Using Military for Arrests Within the U.S.

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 26, 2009

Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials. Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, including Vice President Dick Cheney, argued that a president had [...]