No one could have ever imagined this was going on at DHS:
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states.
Ridge’s get-togethers with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff during a period the secretary was saying his agency was playing no role in Bush’s re-election campaign were revealed in daily appointment calendars obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.
“We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,” Ridge told reporters during the election season.
His aides resisted releasing the calendars for over a year, finally providing them to the AP three days after Ridge left office this month.
Shocking, eh?
Although there is reason to be skeptical and cynical, lets hope that Chertoff will be a different kind of DHS Secretary.
Which means the kind that tells the truth apparently. My cynicism has returned.
Politicians lie!?!?!?!?!?!!?
My hope in the world is lost…