Letter sent to Obama tests positive for ricin, FBI says

Fox News ^ | April 17, 2013

[2ndDivisionVet]

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. Fox News has learned of several suspicious packages or envelopes in various Capitol Hill office buildings. Capitol Police say three packages that were flagged have been removed and the areas have been cleared. Separately, the office of Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., reported a "suspicious-looking letter" at one of the senator's Michigan offices; and a spokesman for Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., reported a "suspicious letter" was intercepted at Flake's Phoenix office.

The package alerts compounded security concerns in the wake of the letter incidents and the Boston bombing, which the FBI has said do not appear to be related....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, just a coincidence. Do they just assume we're all cretins?

[Gaffer]

Wow! I wonder if his golf game was interrupted...

[MarMema]

Wow. When it rains it pours. Could this all be connected in some way? The bombs and the ricin letters?

[Sgt_Schultze]

Bullcrap.

theOne needs an added dose of victimhood.

[cherry]

the media didn’t say much about the Wicker guy getting the ricin letter but remarkably bama just happens to get a letter too....presto chango...today all the news is about the bamey letter and the levin letter....pubs don’t count I guess...

[NoGrayZone]

He probably sent it to himself.

[Sarah Barracuda]

When Obama was notified that he received something “Poisonous” in a letter addressed to him..Obama’s response “Someone sent me the Constitution?”

[Gator113]

My crystal ball says that this is just the beginning.

[leapfrog0202]

Yeah, just a coincidence. Do they just assume we’re all cretins?

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Agreed. I call BS in a HUGE way. As Toby Keith says “I wanna talk about me....”

[onedoug]

obama is a pathological liar.

[Trod Upon]

Bingo. Someone’s taking Rahm’s advice to heart.

[dartuser]

This is cover for something else.

[NELSON111]

>>>My crystal ball says that this is just the beginning.

Mine too. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

I think we...and I mean conservatives...are being set up.

[Gene Eric]

Prolly

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Buckeye McFrog]

I suspect that if you are POTUS you have no fewer than twenty-five letters a day showing up with suspicious things inside. And you only choose to publicize them when it is to your benefit.

[goldi]

I hope he didn’t try to snort the contents.

[OldMissileer]

Yeah, just a coincidence. Do they just assume we're all cretins?

After I read about the second contaminated letter I started to think it may be all interconnected.

[Gator113]

We most certainly are.

[digger48]

I hope he did.