Ridge: "I don't doubt for a moment that any of my collegues that were involved in those discussions felt the reason we should either go up or not go up, add more security or reduce the security was based on what they thought was in the best interest of the security of the country, PERIORD."

But the extremely attractive Bush hater Rachel Maddow keeps trying over and over to make him say the threat level was politicized...It's clear that she had him on to say that the Bush Adm. used the terror threat level in 2004 for political reasons, not security reasons.