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So That’s What Security Alerts Are For
Friday, August 21st, 2009Years ago Bill Maher asked something to the effect of, “What does raising the security alert to orange mean — am I supposed to wear a sweater before I leave the house?”
So now we know. Security alerts were meant to make you scared and vote for an incompetent fool who claimed that he would protect you.
Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says pressure from fellow cabinet members to raise the nation’s terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election helped convince him it was time to quit working for former president George W. Bush.
via Was U.S. terror alert used for political reasons? – The Globe and Mail.
Frances Townsend is quoted in the article refuting these claims. And it makes me wonder if the reporters who write these articles have heard of a search engine called Google, where you can look up people and see what sort of record they left behind. They even get to use this thing called Lexis Nexis that I can’t afford to use to find everything ever printed about anyone. Except me, I suppose 
This blurb from the Huffington Post doesn’t paint a pretty picture. It would seem there’s no point in taking Townsend seriously, especially since she went around telling everyone that Al Qaida was possibly/maybe/might disrupt the 2008 elections. So, it would seem she has a history of using fear as a way to try to manipulate an election. She’s a believer. She must be considering her praise for George Bush when she resigned (in 2007! all these dedicated yet quitter Republicans…), so why bother asking her opinion. She’s a shill for her master.
She’s now a commentator on CNN — her new master. What better way to boost her ratings than to jump into this fray.
