FBI, Capitol Police are continuing their investigation into a letter that tested positive for poison that was sent to Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker. Meanwhile, a second, similar letter to President Obama has been intercepted.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted a letter addressed to President Barack Obama that contained a "suspicious substance."
A law enforcement official said the letter is very similar to one recently mailed to Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker. That letter tested positive Tuesday for poisonous ricin.The official requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.
The letters were received at separate facilities that sort mail addressed to the White House and Capitol Hill. The mail facilities are not located on the main White House and Capitol Hill complexes.
Word of the suspicious letters comes amid already heightened tensions in Washington and across the country since the deadly bombings on Monday at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 170. Law enforcement officials haven't said whether they believe the letters are related in any way to the Boston bombings.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the letter to Obama was intercepted Tuesday, the same day congressional officials alerted the public to the letter sent to Wicker. Secret Service is working with the FBI, as well as U.S. Capitol Police, on the investigation, Donovan said.
Both were signed, "I am KC and I approve this message," according to the Fox report.
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Letter sent to Obama tests positive for ricin, FBI says
The FBI has confirmed that a letter addressed to President Obama has "preliminarily tested positive" for ricin, a day after lawmakers said another letter sent to the Capitol Hill office of Sen. Roger Wicker tested positive for the same substance.
The warnings come amid a flurry of reports on suspicious packages on Capitol Hill. Fox News has learned of at least three suspicious packages in two separate Capitol Hill office buildings, compounding security concerns in the wake of the letter incidents and the Boston bombing, which the FBI has said do not appear to be related.
Both of the suspicious letters were apparently intercepted on Tuesday. They never reached the Hill or the White House.
An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News said the letter sent to Obama is still being screened, though it initially tested positive.
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."
The letter to the Mississippi Republican was intercepted at an off-site mail screening facility.
Authorities declined to comment on a suspect or any other aspect of the investigation being led by Capitol Police, but Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told the Associated Press police have a suspect in mind.
"The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members," McCaskill said as she emerged from a classified briefing.
Testing is apparently still underway. The letter tested positive for ricin in a field test, but the FBI released a statement Wednesday saying tests have shown "inconsistent results" and the substance is being further analyzed.
Is this somehow tied to the bombings?
My gut tells me it doesn't.
My gut tells me it doesn't.
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Carney just confirmed the letter to Obama also tested positive for Ricin.
Hey, what happened to your rant? I thought it was pretty good and dead on.
Thanks for the information. I bet this will somehow put a "righty did it" swing on the bombing huh?
I had took it down to do some things. Got distracted by school. Will repost. Thanks. :)
Yes, similar stuff did happen right after 9/11, but they were not related to each other.
Just as I don't feel these are related.
But then again, I could be wrong.
Yes, most definitely these bombs were set up to inflict as much damage as possible.
Waiting to hear now who they believe may have done this.
Hopefully, truthful answers will come out now.
It bothers me that the two politicians (Obama and the Congressman) who the ricin was sent to are both enemies of the Right.
The Congressman is a RINO seeking dialogue on gun control, from what I know.
It was on Tax Day, and it is in Boston, where the American Revolution was begun.
It seems to me this could be Righties after all.
My gut feeling is that this is another red herring that show "our brave leaders" at at the forefront of all attacks. Nothing whatsoever will ever be discovered about these "attacks", thank God the public has the attention span of a retarded child. Once the next big news item comes up it will be safely buried.
The letters are definitely from the right, and a stupid reaction to the gun control issue.
I'm still hopeful the bombing is not another Oklahoma City bombing. Although checking on that event, there appears to be a third subject, identified by name, by Jayna Davis, the author of "The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," but this lead was not pursued by the FBI. This is from Wikipedia ... I'll have to check more accurate sources, and read Davis's book. Has any one of you read it, and have an opinion on that issue?
I watched a documentary about the third subject. Very interesting and curious subject that is.
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