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Ridge admits Bush administration pushed to raise security alert for political reasons on eve of re-election.

Former Bush Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is releasing a book on September 1 titled, “The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege…and How We Can Be Safe Again.” U.S. News’ Paul Bedard reports that, in the book, Ridge reveals that he considered resigning because he was urged to issue a politically-motivated security alert on the eve of Bush’s re-election:

ridgebookAmong the headlines promoted by publisher Thomas Dunne Books: Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was “blindsided” by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.

Playing politics with terror was a relatively frequent occurrence in the Bush administration. In August 2004, the AP reported that even “some senior Republicans” privately questioned Ridge’s timing of a terror alert that came just three days after the Democratic National Convention. According to the AP report, “One top GOP operative, who works closely with Bush’s political team, said the White House appeared to overplay its hand, and voters may smell politics behind the warning.”

Update David Weigel recalls this 2004 quote by Ridge: "We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security."


103 Responses to “Ridge admits Bush administration pushed to raise security alert for political reasons on eve of re-election.”

  1. Democrat Soldier says:

    No surprise about that information.

    When Pres. Bush used Sept. 11th as a justification to invade Iraq, you just know that everything he does has an overwhelmingly political slant to it. I’m just surprised that it took over four years for the truth to come out.


  2. Wiz says:

    Putting out a false alert for political reasons needs to be criminalized.


  3. muzz says:

    Where were all the people who are screaming about the “government is out of control” now when all this crap was going on? What a surprise!


  4. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    “One top GOP operative, who works closely with Bush’s political team, said the White House appeared to overplay its hand, and voters may smell politics behind the warning.”
    _______________

    We smell something behind the warning pal, but it’s not necessarily politics…


  5. vinylspear says:

    Tom Ridge, along with every other Bush tool is managing in some way or another to capitalize on tragedy.

    “He considered resigning” yeah right.


  6. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    vinylspear says:

    “He considered resigning” yeah right.
    _____________

    “… but settled for waiting 4 or 5 years to write a bad tell-all book instead.”

    As Paul harvey used to say… And that’s the rest of the story.


  7. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    Wiz says:

    Putting out a false alert for political reasons needs to be criminalized.
    ____________

    Would it not be like shouting Fire in a crowded theater?


  8. NoMoreBush says:

    In the category of tell us something we didn’t already know. Shocking that the Bush administration would politicize national security. It politicized everything else, which is why the GOP has the same favorability as a dung beetle.


  9. Daddy-O says:

    Color coded alerts? To attempt to influence elections?

    No one could have predicted!

    Hey…tell me something I don’t know, m*th*rf**ker!


  10. Badmoodman says:

    Ridge admits Bush administration pushed to raise security alert for political reasons on eve of re-election.

    – - Say K-K-Karl, tell us again how the Bush White House would NEVER politicize an issue like this.


  11. Daddy-O says:

    Put them all in jail, or else say goodbye to our ‘democracy’.

    Here me, Obama? Do you hear me? PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL, NOW.


  12. McWars says:

    Throughout all of American history, there’s not one iota of evidence that a democrat failed to use the power vested in him as commander-in-chief to defend this country. One tactic that was on supercharge during the Bush years–played to the crazies, whose outrage was nowhere to be found–was that a democrat would be briefed on a threat, get agitated , then retort “You’ve covered your ass!” — wait, does this sound familiar?


  13. Chuck Feney says:

    and worth resigning over…but didn’t.

    Another (Republican) profile in courage.


  14. Badmoodman says:

    Ridge reveals that he considered resigning

    – - And that thought hung in his consciousness for all of about two seconds and then was gone, never to be considered again.


  15. RollaMO says:

    Heckuva job, Ridgey.


  16. McWars says:

    Daddy-O says:
    Put them all in jail, or else say goodbye to our ‘democracy’.

    Here me, Obama? Do you hear me? PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL, NOW.

    First, it has to go through Sen. Max Cattle, who must win the heart of Sen. Chuckley.


  17. Daddy-O says:

    Wiz says:
    Putting out a false alert for political reasons needs to be criminalized.

    I’m pretty darned sure, Wiz, that it already IS a crime. What matters is this: Who’s doing the prosecuting…?

    Hear me, Obama? Hear me? PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL, NOW. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s an avalanche. Separate yourself from them now, TODAY, and start calling the damned Grand Jury, already!


  18. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Hey…

    (ralph checks watch)

    aren’t the trolls and tighty-righty pundits overdue to start their “smear Tom Ridge as a librul” campaign?

    They’re usually a little more punctual than this.


  19. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Nomorebush said,

    It (the Bush administration) politicized everything else, which is why the GOP has the same favorability as a dung beetle.


    Hey, dungbeetles have a much higher favorability rating than the GOP.


  20. Zimzone says:

    Tom Ridge: An integral part of the ‘WH furniture scheme’.

    Not a dining room table, mind you, but relegated to a step stool.


  21. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Ridge reveals that he considered resigning because he was urged to issue a politically-motivated security alert on the eve of Bush’s re-election

    Yeah, and I considered not hooking up with my best friend’s girl when she was drunk and coming on to me when we were alone.

    Do I get the same credit that Tom Ridge deserves for “considering resigning”?


  22. LeslieBurton says:

    I think everyone, who views and comments on Think Progress, as well as other liberal sights will agree with me when I say, “I told you so.” It just seems everything I feared about Bush and Co. has come to light. And the thing that kills me is the Republicans and their ilk still promote this type of fear mongering. This health reform debate is a perfect example. I think what we’re seeing this week is a growing grass roots movement of us progressives in getting back to the fight much like during the campaign. Pretty exciting act, I think.


  23. Daddy-O says:

    PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL, NOW.

    First, it has to go through Sen. Max Cattle, who must win the heart of Sen. Chuckley.

    I realize this is good-hearted snark, McWars, but I feel the need to remind folks that this has nothing to do with Congress, other than they also could choose to separate themselves from a rogue criminal enterprise that was the Bush administration, if they chose, by conducting separate investigations.

    No. It’s up to President Obama and Attorney General Holder to investigate, indict, prosecute and incarcerate the criminals who held sway over the entire nation a few short months ago. It is up to them. And I intend to hold their feet to the fire, for all the good it may produce…or not.


  24. ljm says:

    Do nothing before 9/11 and take advantage of it afterwards. No wonder that fear still is the chief weapon of the brave right wingnuts.


  25. dbadass says:

    So are things orange or yellow right now?


  26. nffcnnr says:

    And Keith O will run his “Nexus of Politics and Terror” segment on Countdown for the 6th time in 5, 4, 3…
    Perhaps the rest of America will get it this time?


  27. Skyler says:

    Hey, dungbeetles have a much higher favorability rating than the GOP.

    As well as a higher purpose.


  28. misscoleopteramolly says:

    It’s things like this that make me wonder what the situation really is.

    1. Is it that the sh!t will be hitting the fan at some point and all these former Bushies are racing to cover their fannies?

    2. Is it that it’s become obvious that nobody associated with Bushco will ever be held accountable, so it’s safe to talk now?

    3. Is it that Ridge doesn’t really know if it’s 1) or 2), but sees an opportunity to make some money by writing a book, but has to put something worthwhile in it so it will sell?

    If I had to place a bet, I’d put my money on number 3.


  29. m3vega says:

    Tell us something we didn’t already know. And when can we stop with the useless Orange Alert BS we get at the airport. And when can we stop having to go through the tedious and asinine inspections to get on the bus with wings. Enough already, anyone (with half a brain)knows that it is an ineffectual process whose only purpose is to make people feel safer without actually making them safer. I wonder how much this foolishness is costing us.


  30. McWars says:

    And I intend to hold their feet to the fire, for all the good it may produce…or not.

    And you should, Daddy-0. Whether the current consideration to appoint a special prosecutor (torture investigation) ends up anywhere, will be indicative of how serious they are of cleaning up the place. It’s not a matter of “if” in my mind — they committed crimes!


  31. Badmoodman says:

    ljm says:
    No wonder that fear still is the chief weapon of the brave right wingnuts.

    – - Ok, it’s time again for…. NOBODY expected 9/11! Our chief weapon is surprise!… Surprise and fear… fear and surprise… Our two weapons are fear and surprise… and ruthless efficiency! Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency… and an almost fanatical devotion to Bush… Our four… no… Amongst our weapons… Hmf… Amongst our weaponry… are such elements as fear, surpr…sigh…


  32. tokin librul says:

    Somebody needs to shove Ridge’s book somewhere the sun don’t shine.

    Jeezus! Filthy, rotten, scummy, reeking, feculent pile of shit!


  33. Bob says:

    I’m sure I’ll be disgusted for years to come by that administration as former conspirators come out with their money-making book projects. They constantly used national tragedy for political gain, covering their criminal incompetence with fear mongering.

    Never vote republican.


  34. evangenital says:

    The teabagger trash and the other stupids are just itching for the repiggie return to power.

    They love all that authoritarian, white-guy, gun-toting, war-loving crap, even if their own personal lives are in the toilet.

    The repiggies have been quite successful at convincing the stupid that they are part of some great divinely ordained movement.


  35. The Republic of Stupidity says:

    misscoleopteramolly says:

    It’s things like this that make me wonder what the situation really is.

    If I had to place a bet, I’d put my money on number 3.
    ___________

    You forgot possibility #4: That many Bushies, like Alberto, are now unemployable and will do anything in an attempt to make a buck.


  36. hellinabucket says:

    I’d like to see the costs of an increased security alert. How much money was pissed away just to keep a false sense of fear running through the public is something that should be brought to the light of day.


  37. realityhasaleftwingbias says:

    What a pack of criminal loons. Is there anything they DIDN’T screw up?


  38. McWars says:

    Exploiting Americans’ fear of terrorism wasn’t all brilliant. EC count was 251-286, was it? They still needed their Ohio henchmen to pull off an electoral heist.


  39. muzz says:

    … and everytime that pathetic excuse for a human being KKKRove says something about how they “never would have considered doing some of the things Obama is doing” it makes me want to spit, puke, and look forward to the day when his Karma catches up with the lying sob.


  40. Marie says:

    So…
    some repugniscum may have remnants of conscience inside them, but they just can’t bring themselves to do the right thing when it counts, is that it, Ridge?
    They prefer to write the truth in a book which will contribute to their bank accounts.


  41. buffalo nickel says:

    Repubs are the first to scream “election fraud,” yet here is one more addition to the mountain of evidence that they will employ ANY underhanded measure in attempting to “win” elections.

    Bush was determined not to repeat his fathers one term presidency, no matter what had to be done to insure a “victory.” Truth be told, he never really won either of them.

    Prevent fraud by insisting on verifiable voting paper trails in your local precincts. Democracy depends on transparency.

    Peace :)


  42. Lora says:

    Way to go, Tom! Do nothing to prevent the deceit while in office but now try to make money out of your confessions and new-found misgivings.


  43. glogrrl says:

    Would that be like hiring protestors in an Astroturf attempt to shout down Democratic congresscritters at Town Halls and squelch any attempt at healthcare reform? Must be in the Republica DNA.


  44. Bozo The Neoclown says:

    let’s file this under the heading “no shit, sherlock”. like i couldn’t figure that out. the “terror alerts” conveniently disappeared after 43 “won” the election.


  45. An Outhouse says:

    scaring people for political purposes is terrorism, no?


  46. CageyCretin says:

    Jesus H(ussein) Christ on a greasy pogo stick!

    Just to chime in with everyone else — at what friggin’ point have we reached “enough information clearly shows criminal intent, actions, and possibly conspiracy.” At what friggin’ point?!?! HOW MUCH do you limp-dicks NEED to take action?

    Politicians need to stop protecting other politicians (and ex-politicians) just because they are/were politicians.

    The stench of “Old boy networking and @ss-covering” is getting unbearable.


  47. dasm says:

    Bush & Co.: American terrorists. They should be treated the same as any other terrorists.


  48. dbadass says:

  49. nanlichi says:

    Ok. We knew it was going on, now the rest of the world has to admit it. So my problem is why does anyone, ANYFCKINGONE, still support Bush and his incubi?

    But 30% of the humanoids we share this country with do.


  50. tomdurk says:

    So he lied to help bush. What else is new–he is a Republican. Paul O’Neill is the only one to come out of that whole administration with any honor- because he left early & revealed that bushies were gunning for Iraq before Inauguration Day.


  51. jbrantow says:

    GOP “fair and honest”…just like Fox is fair and balanced. Both actually pedal fear and lies.


  52. Joe Sixpack says:

    Shocking.

    And shocking to think that the Bush Administration would use dupes and fools in such a callous, self-serving way.


  53. tomdurk says:

    gog & Magog are from Ezekiel (sp) 35- these are the enemies of God, and the reason the bushies used to start a war on a country that had nothing to do w/ 9/11


  54. dbadass says:

    54:
    I know. I was just questioning who might be the manifestation. Seems the Bush crew may have come unto us in disguise…


  55. MapleStreet says:

    When I worked for the govt (15 years ago), the agencies were extremely concious that their words could invoke unnecessary and counter-productive panic.

    Everything had to be reviewed all up and down the chain of command.

    Weasel Words were highly used.

    And now that it is a crime to terrorize, what did the Bush Cabal do ??????????????????


  56. Art says:

    Using fear for political purposes is the very definition of terrorism.


  57. katy says:

    … something he saw as politically motivated and
    worth resigning over.

    yet he stood there and let that lying chump put
    The Medal of Freedom around his neck…

    there should be a movement to get that medal back…


  58. muzz says:

    I guess it’s taking the mindless trolls who lurk around here a little longer than usual to get their talking points on this one – mindless fools


  59. Daddy-O says:

    How much money was pissed away just to keep a false sense of fear running through the public…

    Pissed away? No, my dear, that taxpayer money was WELL-SPENT…keeping Bush in power, that is. It was worth EVERY PENNY to him and Uncle Dick.


  60. Zooey says:

    …was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.

    But you didn’t resign Mr Ridge, and that tells us all we need to know about YOU.


  61. NinerFan says:

    muzz: “I guess it’s taking the mindless trolls who lurk around here a little longer than usual to get their talking points on this one – mindless fools”

    They need to wait until they can hear Rush, Glen, Shaun or Michael Weiner says about this thing before they can rush back here and repeat it.


  62. ElBruce says:

    No, he did resign on 11/30/04.


  63. rmwarnick says:

    Oh really? “Voters may smell politics” when the Bush administration issued another groundless terror alert? The stench was overpowering. President Bush briefly became the most popular President in the history of polling after the 9/11 attacks, and Karl Rove terrorized us for years trying to get us to rally around the Worst President Ever.


  64. Mr. Evil says:

    FEAR!

    The single greatest weapon that right-wing, super christian whacko, nutjobs have in their arsenal.


  65. Mike Hunt says:

    And this is news?


  66. pastcaring says:

    Weren’t libs & progressives saying this back when it happened?


  67. LibertyLover says:

    So, he only considered resigning? How brave.


  68. A Patriotic Anopheles Acting says:

    Slighty OT but in the vein of Bush era criminality. Breaking news today about Bush’s CIA outsourcing hit squads to take out al queda members:

    I thought that Congress was the only Government branch with the authority to raise armies or militias.
    Article 1, section 8 clause 11 of the Constitution says the Congress has the power: “To raise and support armies…”. Section 8, clause 16 gives Congress the power to provide for the organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States. Correct me if I’m wrong but Blackwater was contracted for security purposes solely for the intent of safely shuttling US and coalition forces from point A to point B (eerily similar to the Templar Knights purpose during the Crusades. They were founded specifically to ensure the safe travel of Christians seeking the Holy Land). Giving them the authority to use deadly force in clandestine military operations would be a federal crime would it not? Oh Mr. Tenet? Paging Mr. Tenet?


  69. A Patriotic Anopheles Acting says:

    link to today’s NYT story on Blackwater and the CIA:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html?hp


  70. shoeless says:

    “One top GOP operative, who works closely with Bush’s political team, said the White House appeared to overplay its hand, and voters may smell politics behind the warning.”

    Unfortunately, only about half of us smelled the rat. For eight years, the Bushbots made fun of us when we tried to tell everyone what these bastards were doing. Now it has been proven that we were correct about everything. What happened to all of the Bush bootlickers who spent all of those years denying that Bushco was doing anything wrong?


  71. Zooey says:

    ElBruce says:

    No, he did resign on 11/30/04.
    August 20th, 2009 at 11:22 am

    I meant that he didn’t resign at the time they were jerking him around and making him manipulate the security alerts — he waited until AFTER the election.

    Resigning when he did meant absolutely nothing.


  72. shoeless says:

    ElBruce says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    No, he did resign on 11/30/04.

    As always with these SOBs, too little, too late. Anyone with the least amount of moral fiber would have spoken up before the election.

    Sorry, Tom, you are not forgiven. You are a traitor, just like the rest of the Bush cabal.


  73. po says:

    it’s not like this wasn’t known at the time (as opposed to publicly confirmed – nothing they did was) but at some point, the Bush administration’s incompetence on the issue of ‘terror’ rises to the level of treason – ignore warnings, over-react, torture, indefinite detention, and now domestic propaganda in aid of the terrorists.

    oh, but let’s go yell at obama for being a fascist . . .


  74. LeslieBurton says:

    Republicans complain all the time about not trusting government, and yet they misconstrue and lie on important issues to the American people. Makes me sick.


  75. shoeless says:

    I notice the trolls are steering well clear of this thread. God, they are cowards.


  76. dixie blood says:

    Too bad this a$$hole was too spineless at the time to speak out.

    He is the very definition of a cowardly, jerk-off, facist!!!

    You’re political career is over you RePugniScum bastard!!!!

    You should be in prison for calling in false reports and filing false information to REAL law enforcement agencies!!!!!!!

    What a useless, unAmerican jerk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  77. Mr. Cobb says:

    The Bush criminal enterprise terrorized the American people for 8 long horrific years and then skated.


  78. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    They have skated so far, but there is no statute of limitation on war crimes.

    I still think Obama is going to start war crimes trials a month or two before the 2010 elections. That would kill the GOP for 2010, and the trials would not be over by 2012, so it would kill the GOP for 2012 as well.

    Maybe that’s just wishful thinking, but if Obama is as good a politician as I think he is, I think the GOP is going to look back fondly at a time when they had as many seats as they now hold.


  79. Incars says:

    There ya go all you repug trolls. Manipulation and you asses fell for it along with some other sheep. God you repugs are brain dead, ya can’t figure out that the shrub administration played you silly asses.


  80. SoapBox says:

    …not a big surprise. In fact, not a surprise.


  81. nellieh says:

    He sold his soul to benefit George Bush and himself. Of course resignation amd exposing this at the time never entered his mind. It must be book selling time. He is beyond shame!


  82. Buckie Boy says:

    Wow, I am soooooo surprised…I had no idea that Bush would do such a thing…

    ….we all, of course, remember when that happened and we called it right…

    ….again.

    Why is Bush and Cheney not on trial for WAR CRIMES?


  83. seeclearly says:

    @ shoeless . . . I’m guessing the reason there is little rebuttal from conservatives on this thread is they all have JOBS, unlike most of the liberal geniuses posting here. (BTW, I’m on my lunch break and sometimes read this mindless trip for entertainment purposes. Thanks for not disappointing!)


  84. justaspectator says:

    shoeless says:

    I notice the trolls are steering well clear of this thread. God, they are cowards.

    Sometimes it’s just too hard to defend the indefensible . . . this is my guess as to why the wingnutties aren’t protesting this story.


  85. FastMovingCloud says:

    “Putting out a false alert for political reasons needs to be criminalized.”

    That would be good but even more importantly, it needs to be prosecuted. I’m pretty sure that ginning up false intelligence to start an unnecessary war is illegal and, indeed, criminal but if nobody enforces the law, what good is it?


  86. labman57 says:

    This was not an isolated incident. There were numerous occasions when the security alert level was raised for purely political reasons.


  87. blue53 says:

    Oh, and Rove was more involved in the firing of attorneys, CIA hired Blackwater and it failed, CIA briefed Congress when they felt like it, Blackwater chief–involved in murder, contractors built buildings that no one can use because they have too many toilets–the plumbing in Iraq cannot take it.
    Our soldiers electrocuted from fatly wiring, over 4500 of our men, women killed, 35,000 wounded, and these bastards are still not in jail.
    Two years from now, they will be bragging about how they lied and schemed to stop President Obama’s vision for our country.

    I say we change our agenda right now:
    1. Roll back the tax cuts and increase them more.
    2. Repeal DOMA, DADT
    3. Regulate Wall Street and the banks and insurance companies up the …
    4. Close every tax loophole in tax code.
    5. Prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfield
    6. Stop every corporate tax break
    7. Stop corporate farm subsidies
    8. Investigate every 501© (3) non-profit, including every religious organization
    8. Investigate the C Street “Family”
    Add what ever else we can think of to turn this country around.


  88. Ape-Man says:

    Fcuking criminals still have a politicl party! WTF!?!?!?!!?!?


  89. Ape-Man says:

    The Republican party is a criminal party. They fool no one any more.


  90. Uncle Ho says:

    seeclearly says:;

    If the Reichwing nuts have jobs that keep them from posting here, why are they here in DROVES on other threads day in and day out, hmmmm?

    Next time, know WTF you are talking about B4 you post!


  91. shadow7 says:

    Why is everything such a surprise? Those of us who reported the real news through the Bush years KNEW that the alerts were politically motivated. Fear was the factor that worked best from 9/11 to the present.

    Here is an early editorial from TvNewsLIES.org –
    http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/clockwork_orange_.html

    We knew.


  92. wiley says:

    I can’t wait for Bush and Cheney to go for each others’ throats.


  93. kwsventures says:

    So what. I assume the democrats have never, ever done anything like this in history. Please.


  94. givemelibertyordeath says:

    Once again I am amazed at how the left is so hypocritcal. Ya’ll constantly go on about how those of the right are intolerant or hateful. They have nothing on the left, liberals spew hate like a firehose. I read your bile to remind me why I left the Democratic party and became a free American with no party affliation. All politicians are liars and are only interested in having power over those people too sheep-like to question their anti-American rhetoric !!!


  95. ElBruce says:

    kwsventures says:

    So what. I assume the democrats have never, ever done anything like this in history. Please.

    Not to my knowledge. Do you have any such evidence?

    .

    givemelibertyordeath says:

    Once again I am amazed…

    Wah wah wah wah, libs are mean to me boo hoo, just because I’m trying to destroy America from within and they won’t let me get away with it…


  96. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    WHEN GOVERNMENT USES TERROR/FEAR TO MANIPULATE THE PEOPLE…
    … IT IS KNOWN AS T-Y-R-A-N-N-Y!

    .


  97. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Q U E S T I O N:

    Why did they have CODE GREEN and CODE BLUE if they never used them?

    Does this mean that Americans were NEVER safe?

    .


  98. EugeneDebs says:

    givemelibertyordeath says:

    Once again I am sick to death of your ignoran serial snivel that you posted in every thread. Just STFU til you have something useful to say



  99. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    #94 kwsventures,
    Like… ?

    .


  100. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Dear givemelibertyordeath,
    G(no)P withdrawal much?

    .


  101. JustTruthPlease says:

    Has the GOP become the party of thugs? Against my better judgement, I am about ready to boycott the thug party all together. Voting a straight Democratic ticket becomes more and more appealing.


  102. i aint you says:

    like the dems have never done any thing like that. ol’willy did it all the time, but he did it to avoid getting found with his ding dong in some girls mouth. give me a break you “hypi”crits.



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