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US Congress members receive threatening letters
WASHINGTON: Three members of the US Congress have received threatening mail containing a suspicious powder later found to be harmless and law enforcement officials on Wednesday warned that more may be coming.Another US law enforcement official said letters sent to television personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert threatened biological attacks on US senators. Other letters to a number of news organizations and postmarked Oregon warned that 100 letters had been sent to the Washington or home-state offices of US senators and that 10 of those contained a deadly pathogen, a law enforcement source said. At least two of the letters already received - one to the home-state office of a senator and the other to the district office of a member of the House of Representatives - contained a powdery substance. Tests found the substance to be harmless, according to a statement by Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer, the chambers chief law enforcement officer. In a statement to members of the Senate, Gainer did not say what was found in the third letter. Gainers notice, Urgent: Suspicious Mail Alert, warned that the unidentified sender of the letters indicated that additional letters containing a powdery substance will be arriving at more Senate offices and that some of these letters may contain actual harmful material. He warned that special attention should be paid to letters postmarked from Portland, Oregon. The official said the messages to Stewart and Colbert threatened to send letters to all 100 US senators, and that 10 of them would contain a deadly pathogen. Other law enforcement officials said some of the letters in question contained anti-government and anti-Wall Street rhetoric. The New York Police Department was made aware of the letters received by some news organizations on Tuesday night and alerted the FBI and the US Capitol Police, a law enforcement source said. The letters to the news organizations did not contain any suspicious substances. The letters demanded an end to corporate money and lobbying in US politics, an end to corporate personhood and called for a new constitutional convention, the source said. The letters were signed the MIB.
Posted by: Steve White 2012-02-23 |
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