Keith rightly states that “terror used for gain is terrorism.” That is the sum and total of the issue discussed in this video. According the Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security, that is exactly how the Bush administration used the terror level charts. Join Keith and John Dean as they discuss Tom Ridge’s revelations in his new book, ‘The Test of Our Times.’Ridge reveals what many knew all along, the terrorism alerts were an extremely effective tool for improving
the president’s popularity at key times, and keeping the public distracted enough to hand our freedoms over to the Bush administration in unprecedented ways. It is no joke that the campaign slogan could have been “Vote for Us or You Will Die!”
As secretary of Homeland Security, Ridge was never privy to meetings which took place before he received orders from Ashcroft and Rummy to raise terror levels. He relates a fascinating instance demonstrating this, which took place four days before the election of 2004. It appears that Homeland Security was no more than a propaganda agency for higher ups in the administration.