How the Bush Administration Used Terror Alerts for Political Gain

The first and former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge has written a soon to be released book. It has confirmed what Keith Olbermann and many on the left had suspected all along, that the DHS infamous color coded terror alert was misused to put the nation on high alert in order to a) manipulate the news cycle in order to distract the nation’s attention from news unfavorable to the Bush administration, and b) to boost it’s political advantage by placating to the populous that was convinced that the administration and the Republican party’s tough on terror image would go over well if the country was in fear of an imminent terrorist attack.

Watch how Keith Olbermann chronologues long before this revelation by Secretary Ridge with stunning accuracy and frequency how the Bush administration used fear mongering for either political gain or political cover.

This can easily be categorized as a conspiracy to mislead or defraud a government agency, a federal crime. However, even if the statue of limitation had not expired, good luck in getting the Democratic controlled Congress to investigate these serious matters. Although it is disturbing that those tasked with protecting the American people chose instead to scare, it unfortunately doesn’t rank as highly as other crimes committed by the Bush administration such as torture, outing a CIA agent or lying us into a war with Iraq.