Tom Ridge

Tom Ridge, the nation's first director of Homeland Security, urges members of Congress to pass a clean bill and keep DHS funded.  

Over two terabytes of information have been extracted from Osama bin Laden's hard drives, taken during the raid on his compound last Sunday. According to Tom Donilon, President Obama's national security adviser, the amount of information could fill a small college library. We talk with Tom Ridge, former head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; former governor of Pennsylvania; and current president and CEO of Ridge Global, an international security and risk management firm based in Washington, D.C., about the impact that the new intel will have on our national security and foreign policy.

Tom Ridge entered the federal government as President Bush's Homeland Security advisor, and later became the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the mega-agen...

Tom Ridge was governor of Pennsylvania when President Bush tapped him to be the country's first Secretary of Homeland Security after September 11, 2001. In The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...and How We Can Be Safe Again, he discusses his role coordinating the federal domestic counterterrorism effort, ...