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Posted: September 4, 2009 at 4:05 a.m.
Michael Chertoff, an ex-homeland security secretary, said political considerations "never entered" his decisions on terror alerts, addressing the issue as his predecessor, Tom Ridge, tried to soften his accusation in a new book that top Bush administration officials pressed him to raise the terror alert level just before Election Day in 2004.
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