Department of Homeland Security?

Published on Thursday, February 17, 2005 by the Associated Press
Ridge, Pollsters Met During Bush Campaign
by Pete Yost

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.

Shocking? Hardly.

And on an unrelated note, here’s a good read from Dahr Jamail — News About Iraq Goes Through Filters

I couldn’t be bothered to provide my own commentary, but I felt the need to get back on the current event track. I did actually just complete a 2,000-word paper on same-sex marriage, but I’m really unhappy with it, and don’t feel like it’s worth posting. Perhaps I’ll pick out a bit or two though, like I did with the slippery slope section earlier.

Stay tuned.