In the midst of–rightly–suggesting that Tom Ridge should have resigned as Director of Homeland Security if he believed his terror alerts were politically motivated, Kathryn Lopez of National Review remains neutral on his charges by declaring, “I wasn’t in the room.”

But Lopez didn’t have to be in the room to see that the administration was manipulating terror alerts–all she needed was some healthy skepticism and an ability to discern patterns. As Marcy Wheeler points out, all a person needs is simple empiricism to assess the terror alerts. Matching terror alerts to reports on which they were based shows the hyped-up charges administration officials were making. Apparently that’s too much to ask of National Review editors, though. They’ll shill for a Republican administration whatever the facts.

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