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Former Homeland Security advisor Tom Ridge
Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009

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In the summer of 2004, the Bush White House asked its Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to add three sentences to his announcement of an elevated terror threat alert for key U.S. cities. According to his new book, The Test of Our Times, Ridge did as he was asked. Read the full story here

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