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Ex-homeland security chief denies attacking Rumsfeld, Ashcroft

Tom Ridge, the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, denied Tuesday that he attacked former colleagues Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft in his controversial new book.

Ridge called them "people whose opinions I respect immensely" on CNN's "American Morning."

He made headlines recently by saying he fought their proposal to raise the U.S. terror threat level in the run-up to the 2004 presidential elections.

Read entire article at CNN