threat level

Director of Shithead

Dear Tom Ridge,

What happened Tom?  Heat a little too hot in the kitchen once you threw the “Crusade 2.0 crew” under the bus for your own economic gain?

Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, speaking for the first time about accusations made in his new book, says he did not mean to suggest that other top Bush administration officials were playing politics with the nation’s security before the 2004 presidential election.

Tom, are you an invertebrate?  Can’t anyone have a backbone and stand up and be accountable for something?  Anything?  In the spirit of capitalism, you wrote a tell-all book to make money and in this book you said:

“Ashcroft strongly urged an increase in the threat level, and was supported by Rumsfeld,” he writes. “There was absolutely no support for that position within our department. None. I wondered, ‘Is this about security or politics?’ “  Although he prevailed and the threat level was not elevated, Ridge writes that the episode reinforced his decision to resign. He did so weeks after the election.

Wow.  That really is some tell-all stuff!  But you had to have known that that sentence alone would sell half of your books and being the Director of Homeland Security after 9/11, you must have had every CIA Tom, Dick and Harry scan through your book for things you are allowed to divulge and things you aren’t.  There must haven been multiple times someone editing your book lowered their glasses, raised their eyebrows, looked you in the eye and then pointed to the above text in red.  And what did you do?  You nodded with the armor of honesty and justice because it had to be said, the public needed to know what really happened.

Last week, when word got out about Ridge’s accusations, Rumsfeld’s spokesman Keith Urbahn issued a statement calling them “nonsense.”  Now, Ridge says he did not mean to suggest he was pressured to raise the threat level, and he is not accusing anyone of trying to boost Bush in the polls. “I was never pressured,” Ridge said.

You fucking pussy.  Does Rummy use your nuts like Chinese stress balls or something?  Your inability to tell the truth when it happened was shameful enough.  Your deciding to use the truth to sell some books was even worse.  Your now renegging on the truth because of the heat you took from the “Fear Factor crew” is despicable.  You were just pressured into making a decision for what’s sure to be political gains.  How ironic.  But I’m sure we’ll hear about this little game in your next book 5 years from now after you’ve won a Senate seat. 

Tom, you’re a prick and you wear prick pants.

Sincerely,

Browtf

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