Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge 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.

WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said yesterday people “are hyperventilating” about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections. “A consensus was reached. We…

Tom Ridge, the former congressman and governor of Pennsylvania who became the nation’s first secretary of homeland security, took questions on www.WashingtonTimes.com on Monday morning about his new memoir, “The Test for Our Times: America Under Siege . . . and How We Can Be Safe Again,” which will be on bookshelves Tuesday. To read the transcript of Mr. Ridge’s responses, click here. Email

ERIE, Pa. — Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said in an interview that he did not feel “pressure” from the Bush administration to raise the terror alert level before the 2004 presidential election, but that officials “expressed an opinion” different from his.

Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security, discusses the agency.

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In an interview with TIME, Tom Ridge expresses regrets about his stint as Secretary of Homeland Security, but he stops short of blaming his former colleagues

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Forgive us for being a little confused by the former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge. Ten days ago we learned that in his memoir The Test Of Our Times: America Under Siege, Ridge suggested that politics had infected decision-making at…

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people “are hyperventilating” about his assertion that politics played a role in talk of raising the terror alert before the 2004 elections.