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So, Tom Ridge writes a memoir of his time as Secretary of Homeland Security, the preview of which tells of political pressure to jack up the color-coded terrorist threat warning to boost George W. Bush's poll numbers. Kind of shocking. Kind of not really at all. I think Atrios has the best line about it, when he says "And just so it's clear: using the threat of terrorism to try to achieve political goals is, you know, what terrorists do." Pretty much.