It is only true if they did it.

Again, Ridge said that NONE of the actual alerts were in response to political pressure. Furthermore, no one came out and said, “Hey, let’s jack up the terror alert so we can win.” Ridge merely got the VIBE in that ONE meeting that some of the people present MIGHT have been thinking that. In the end—-at the time when they would have benefited most (right before an election)——the decision was made NOT to raise it.

Regarding Olbermann:
Go and read some of the transcripts of Olbermann’s shows where he is interviewing terror experts after the airliner plot from Europe (remember the liquids plot—-the reason we can’t carry toothpaste). He tried to get the terror expert to agree that it wasn’t really a threat (part of the conspiracy to instill fear) but the terror expert made clear the plot was real and, thank God, it was stopped. They LOVED Olbermann at the Loose Change website until he finally made a comment putting down the truthers.