BACKGROUND
Ridge heads the agency created in 2002 that is responsible for coordinating over 1000 government organizations to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks in the U.S. He was serving his second term as the Governor of Pennsylvania at the time he was appointed by President Bush to be Director of Homeland Security in 2001. Ridge also served Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

PREMISE OF THE SUIT
SPADES are members of President George W. Bush's Administration, either Cabinet members or Advisors. The departments they lead implement the rules and policies established by the Administration as well as by the laws passed by the U.S. Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. They are in power as appointees of the President who is in office because of the choices made in the 2000 Presidential election by the voters and the U.S. Supreme Court.

LINKS
www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=11&content=13
www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html