“We went over backwards repeatedly and with great discipline to make sure politics did not influence any national security and homeland security decisions,” former White House chief of staff Andy Card told POLITICO. “The clear instructions were to make sure politics never influenced anything.” “I’m a little mystified,” former homeland security adviser Fran Townsend added in an interview. “Never in my experience did I see any political influence exerted on the cabinet secretary.”

Just yesterday, explosive new allegations from Bush Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge confirmed what many had suspected: that Bush used terror alarms to frighten Americans into voting for him. Predictably, two Bush staffers rebutted Ridge today

I have three questions for Politico. First, since when is Andy Card a reliable source of anything but bullshit?