FBI releases text of ricin-laced letter mailed to White House

[Judi Lynn]

FBI releases text of ricin-laced letter mailed to White House


Wire Services, Associated Press February 23, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - A letter containing ricin sent last year to the White House threatened to turn Washington into a "ghost town" if new trucking safety regulations went into effect, according to a copy of the letter released today by the FBI.

The letter, one of two intercepted last year that were signed "Fallen Angel," bore an Oct. 17 postmark from Chattanooga, Tenn. It was addressed to the White House and was discovered by the Secret Service at a Washington offsite mail processing facility in early November.

The White House letter was typewritten on what appears to be yellow legal paper. Although it was addressed to the White House, the letter begins with "department of transportation" and then says:

"If you change the hours of service on January 4, 2004, I will turn D.C. into a ghost town. The powder on the letter is RICIN. Have a nice day. Fallen Angel."
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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11013091&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68555&rfi=6

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Weird. Whaddya think he means?

"Hours of service?" A tad bit upset that the buses don't run on time, eh?

Somebody please explain this to me.

[Richardo]

4. DOT initiated new hours of service for truckers...

...limits their productive worktime, from their point of view.

[CaptainClark23]

6. DoT Regs on truckers

changes to the number of consecutive driving hours a trucker can have in his log w/o taking a proscribed rest. The truckers don't like it.

But I think its bullshit too. This was a distraction.

[wabeewoman]

2. Interesting what they release

isn't it? No 9-11 data, no true records on anything but they release this letter. Why?

[stepnw1f]

3. Because it's all bullsh*t

[Robb]

5. Sounds like a junior-varsity frame job...

The South Carolina letter also claimed that the author was the owner of a tanker fleet compnay and had access to large amounts of pulp from castor plants, which are the source of the poison ricin.

I mean, if you're trying to not get caught, you don't give the feds anywhere to start looking. Unless you want them to start looking. I'll bet it's someone that got fired from a "tanker fleet company". :eyes:

[TacticalPeek]

7. Beware the disgruntled employee.

Probably not a lot of tanker fleets in SC that haul castor pulp.

:evilgrin:

[Toucano]

8. What a cliche.

I hate it when people say something nasty and then say "have a nice day".