Another Intercepted 'Ricin' Letter Sent to President Obama

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RT @ChadPergram: Fox confirms that in addition to Wicker letter, another intercepted letter was sent to President Obama.


Chad Pergram ?@ChadPergram (
Letters sent to Obama & Wicker contain similar language and are signed identically.

Chad Pergram ?@ChadPergram 4m
Both letters sent to Obama and Sen Roger Wicker (R-MS) were both postmarked from Memphis, TN on April 8, 2013.

____ An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News also said a second letter was sent to Obama, and was intercepted. That letter is still being screened.

The bulletin said both letters included the phrase: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."

Both were signed, "I am KC and I approve this message."

more at link (sorry, FOX broke this): http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/17/envelope-containing-ricin-sent-to-sen-wicker-lawmakers-say/


update:

Talking Points Memo ?@TPM 6m
Letter addressed to Obama preliminarily tests positive for ricin, FBI says: http://bit.ly/11huVqE

[cali]

1. shit. i read somewhere that the person who sent the letters is well known

for sending a lot of letters to congress critters, so if that's true, I'm surprised they haven't identified and arrested this person. I believe it was Senator McCaskill who said this.

[Voice for Peace]

23. this, from the link

The envelope had a Tennessee postmark and no return address.

The letter inside included an implied threat to effect of: "You haven’t listen to me before. Now you will, even if people have to die," Politico also reported.

Sources say officials are familiar with the person believed to have sent the letter as the person has sent other letters before.

[Mojorabbit]

27. What kind of person has chemicals like that

lying around ready to use right after an incident like this? They have to be deeply disturbed.

[Horse with no Name]

29. Someone who writes a lot of letters?

And happened to write someone who hooked him up?

Patsy?

[Voice for Peace]

32. I read that ricin comes from the castor bean which is easily obtained

and that a crushed bean will test positive for ricin, even if it
hasn't been processed to its deadly form.

I think that's part of why preliminary tests are considered
unreliable.

[Myrina]

26. ... and they're sure that "person" isn't using a pseudonym & fake address?

n/t

[Common Sense Party]

2. What kind of connection would there be between Repub Wicker from MS

and President Obama? Or is there intentionally no connection? Weird.

[nolabear]

3. The connection is in the mind of the perpetrator.

Sadly, madness attaches itself to all kinds of things that don't connect in any rational way.

[cali]

4. well, Wicker didn't support the repub filibuster of gun control in the Senate

and he was one of the 12 repubs who had dinner with the president last week.

[Voice for Peace]

24. aha.. thanks for that info

makes more sense

[bigtree]

6. another politician?

"The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members," McCaskill said as she emerged from a classified briefing.

[Common Sense Party]

7. Ah. I didn't see that.

I was assuming the suspect just randomly opened the Congressional Directory and picked someone, until someone else pointed out the gun filibuster and Wicker having lunch with the President.

But it could just be an anti-pol crank.

[Nay]

10. Since one is a Republican and the other is a Democrat, and the link between them is that they

seemed to be on the same side in the latest gun legislation, it's fair to conclude the letter writer is a gun nut...

[Common Sense Party]

11. Unless that's just a coincidence and the Republican was chosen at random

Too soon to draw any conclusions yet.

[MjolnirTime]

8. Wicker is one of the Repubs who voted to allow the Gun Control bill to proceed to debate

It wouldn't surprise me if we find that all of them got similar letters.

I'm really getting the feeling this is all a Domestic Terrorist reaction to the potential for Gun Control legislation.

I wonder what the letters say?

[SummerSnow]

19. Totally agree with you

This sounds like anti gun reform retaliation.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. anti-government are extremists.

Think of the people who have been moving the Republican party to the extreme right.

[actslikeacarrot]

18. could be an intentional misslead...

...as I am having a hard time believing the President isn't the ultimate target.

[BlueCaliDem]

28. + 1000. eom

[n2doc]

5. Gotta be pretty stupid to think Obama opens his own mail n/t

[bigtree]

15. I remember the anthrax mailings

. . . and I think of the mail handlers at all levels who were exposed.

[Agschmid]

12. MSNBC

Says RICIN is not confirmed in either letter.

[bigtree]

13. right, still testing

. . . hard to id the report in a heading without the 'ricin' reference.

Still mostly correct to use it in the title, with ricin apparently the most relevant and potential threat that I can see here.

[Agschmid]

14. Agree. n/t

[Ligyron]

16. what made them think it was Ricin in the first place and that they NOW need to check for it?

on edit: sorry, my puter wasn't working right and couldn't open the link

[bigtree]

17. field tests on the first letters

. . . something in them was suspicious enough to alert authorities who did initial tests which pointed to ricin.

respectfully, google Wicker + Ricin . . . lot's on the wire.

[Ligyron]

33. interweb working correctly now. got it - sorry about that. n/t

[madokie]

20. One thing about it

is the FBI will be able to find out if this is connected to the other ricin letters due to the differences two separate cooks would make.
these guys, FBI, are good and thorough.

[bigtree]

21. update: initial tests positive

Talking Points Memo ?@TPM 6m

Letter addressed to Obama preliminarily tests positive for ricin, FBI says: http://bit.ly/11huVqE

[Ron Obvious]

22. It's almost funny

The mindset of someone who would do something like this. Do they envision Obama getting out of bed in the morning, getting the newspaper off the porch of the White House, and getting the post out of the letterbox?

"Let's see, JC Penny Catalogue, junk, junk.. Say, this looks interesting..."

[Marr]

31. No kidding-- you'd have to be a complete idiot.

[Myrina]

25. Also heard on MSNBC that Levin's office in MI got one ..

n/t

[Unknown Beatle]

30. Oddly familiar.

After 9/11 letters were sent that contained anthrax, now, after Boston letters are sent containing ricin. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

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