Now comes former Homeland Security Chief Tom (Scoop) Ridge revealing that the Bushies ordered him to declare a Code Orange alert for political reasons just before the '04 election. Ridge doesn't say if he was waterboarded.

What other big surprises does Ridge have for us? There were no weapons of mass destruction? The Washington Nationals won't win the World Series this year?

Ridge writes in a new book that Rumsfeld and Ashcroft made him do it. At which point, Rumsfeld's and Ashcroft's attorneys went Code Red.

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As for George W. Bush — with friends like Dick Cheney and Ridge, who needs Michael Moore?

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