Foreign Correspondence

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Ridge will postpone the election only under what he and Bush consider to be extreme circumstances which because of its ambiguity and subjectivity could be anything that might harm Bush’s chances of reelection.

What is interesting is that in this release Ridge already cites his department as having the authority to postpone the election. Mr. Ridge said his department would postpone the election only under extreme circumstances.

The Department of U.S. Homeland Security is going to seek or steal the necessary means or legislation that would bestow upon them such power. The election is not postponed they are only readying to postpone it. Ridge's department last week asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the election were an attack to take place.

Because the Department of Homeland Security considers they have the power to postpone the election the postponement plan is definitely in the works.

The following is a snow job.

Ridge: Election Not Postponed, CIA Misread Threat
(2004-07-12) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today announced that the November presidential election will go on as scheduled despite his recent warning of terrorist threats to disrupt it, and news that a postponement plan may be in the works.

"Central Intelligence misread the threat," said Mr. Ridge. "They started with the presumption that terrorists want to terrorize us, and then they intercepted chatter which sounded like a threat to our constitutional Republic from the enemies of freedom."

As it turns out, the intercepted communications came from the headquarters of the Democrat National Committee, during a discussion about the upcoming convention in Boston."

Mr. Ridge said his department would postpone the election only under extreme circumstances.

"We would consider such extraordinary measures only if, for example, we learned of plans to run a NASCAR race on election day," he said. "That would constitute a clear and present danger to our electoral process."

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