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Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 9:55:10 AM   
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Washington (CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday: Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, says one of his home-state offices received a "suspicious-looking" letter and alerted authorities. "We do not know yet if the mail presented a threat," Levin said.]
White House mail handlers identified a "suspicious substance" -- possibly the poison ricin -- in a letter sent to President Barack Obama the same day a similar letter was found in a Senate mailroom, the Secret Service said Wednesday.
Both letters arrived Tuesday at off-site postal facilities set up after the 2001 anthrax attacks and have been sent to laboratories for additional tests, authorities said.
"A letter addressed to the president containing a suspicious substance was received at the remote White House mail screening facility," Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said. The Secret Service, FBI and Capitol Police are investigating, he said.
The FBI said later that the envelope "preliminarily tested positive for ricin," a deadly toxin with no known antidote. But initial tests can be "inconsistent," and the envelope was sent to a laboratory for additional tests.
"Additionally, filters at a second government mail screening facility preliminarily tested positive for ricin this morning," it said. "Mail from that facility is being tested."

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 9:57:20 AM   
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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 11:03:36 AM   
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/politics/tainted-letter-intercepted/
Washington (CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday: Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, says one of his home-state offices received a "suspicious-looking" letter and alerted authorities. "We do not know yet if the mail presented a threat," Levin said.]
White House mail handlers identified a "suspicious substance" -- possibly the poison ricin -- in a letter sent to President Barack Obama the same day a similar letter was found in a Senate mailroom, the Secret Service said Wednesday.
Both letters arrived Tuesday at off-site postal facilities set up after the 2001 anthrax attacks and have been sent to laboratories for additional tests, authorities said.
"A letter addressed to the president containing a suspicious substance was received at the remote White House mail screening facility," Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said. The Secret Service, FBI and Capitol Police are investigating, he said.
The FBI said later that the envelope "preliminarily tested positive for ricin," a deadly toxin with no known antidote. But initial tests can be "inconsistent," and the envelope was sent to a laboratory for additional tests.
"Additionally, filters at a second government mail screening facility preliminarily tested positive for ricin this morning," it said. "Mail from that facility is being tested."


I hope they can trace both back to their source(s) and that no one gets poisoned in the process.


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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 12:17:36 PM   
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Now we gotta wonder about a conflation.  Marthon-ricin.


If there's a connection (which I doubt, fortunately) - jeez, this would indicate a really frightening campaign.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 12:19:30 PM   
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I wonder if this cunt in Boston might have stuck a couple of letters in the post before he started blowing people up.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 1:42:04 PM   
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How long does a letter take to be delivered in the States?
I wonder if this cunt in Boston might have stuck a couple of letters in the post before he started blowing people up.


Depending on distance and pickup/delivery times, anywhere from 2-5 days. It really wouldn't have been hard to plan out...drop the letters in a mailbox on Thursday or Friday, plant bombs on Monday.

That being said, outside of the timing, I don't know of anything to link the two.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 1:51:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		i reckon the letters words point to some crazy tin foil scientist that can cook up ricin trying to tap into tha fear & uncertainty caused by tha marathon blasts.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 3:38:19 PM   
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How long does a letter take to be delivered in the States?
I wonder if this cunt in Boston might have stuck a couple of letters in the post before he started blowing people up.


Depending on distance and pickup/delivery times, anywhere from 2-5 days. It really wouldn't have been hard to plan out...drop the letters in a mailbox on Thursday or Friday, plant bombs on Monday.

That being said, outside of the timing, I don't know of anything to link the two.

It is more likely a coincidence, true enough.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 5:26:36 PM   
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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 5:42:08 PM   
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How long does a letter take to be delivered in the States?
I wonder if this cunt in Boston might have stuck a couple of letters in the post before he started blowing people up.


Apparently, it's standard that such nutcases will go for one method, with one target, and not another method and target. I don't see someone who zeros in on a marathon race with an IED sending a ricin-laced letter to the President. It doesn't gel. Angry, looney people tend to be angry and looney in quite a specialised way. Or so I've read, anyway.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 11:51:12 PM   
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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/17/2013 11:58:56 PM   
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How long does a letter take to be delivered in the States?
I wonder if this cunt in Boston might have stuck a couple of letters in the post before he started blowing people up.


It was a guy from Mississippi who sent letters to both Obama and a Rep senator from Miss.
Aparently a well known crackpot.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/18/2013 3:35:07 AM   
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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/18/2013 4:12:15 AM   
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How long does a letter take to be delivered in the States?
I wonder if this cunt in Boston might have stuck a couple of letters in the post before he started blowing people up.


Apparently, it's standard that such nutcases will go for one method, with one target, and not another method and target. I don't see someone who zeros in on a marathon race with an IED sending a ricin-laced letter to the President. It doesn't gel. Angry, looney people tend to be angry and looney in quite a specialised way. Or so I've read, anyway.

I thought that was serial killers, not nutcases in general, to be honest. Mea culpa.

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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/23/2013 3:16:10 PM   
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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/24/2013 11:58:42 AM   
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RE: Ricin laced letter sent to Obama - 4/24/2013 12:00:19 PM   
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