USATODAY.com - Ridge reveals clashes on alerts

And so we get an admission that the Shrub played the politics of fear.

USATODAY.com - Ridge reveals clashes on alerts: "Ridge reveals clashes on alerts

By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says."