BREAKING: Threatening Letters Containing White Powder Sent To McCain Offices In CO & NH *UPDATED
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 6:27pm
AP:
CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Authorities say a threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to a John McCain campaign office in the Denver suburb of Centennial, and a similar letter was sent to a McCain office in Manchester, N.H.A hazardous materials team was trying to determine if the powder found in Colorado is harmful.
It wasn't immediately known if the New Hampshire letter also contained a powder, said Jeff Sadosky, a spokesman with McCain's national campaign office in Arlington, Va. Read on...
There are few details at this time, we'll keep an eye on the story.
Federal law enforcement sources tell NBC News that a threatening hand-written letter that sparked an evacuation of Sen. John McCain's Centennial office was sent by a person being held in the Arapahoe County Jail.
NBC News says the person is a prolific letter writer who was already in the jail.
Sources also tell NBC that there is no link between the Colorado letter and another threatening letter that appeared on Thursday at McCain's office in Manchester, New Hampshire. That letter had a return address from Denver, but investigators do not believe the two incidents are connected. Read on...
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DON'T SNIFF IT CINDY!
I guess another psycho in the Army biological research lab couldn't get laid?
Didn't Rove once fake that someone had broke into his campaign head quarters?
this sounds incredibly convenient. mccain sticks foot in mouth not knowing how rich he is with the homes quantity gaffe. all of a sudden a terrorist-related story develops just a few hours later. anything terror-related/scare the voters is good for republicans and at the very least shares time in the news cycle with mccain being an out of touch elitist.
10:1 someone within the mccain campaign is behind these threatening letters with white powder.
$50 says this turns out to be innocuous, fake, or set up.
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Return to sender: Karl Rove.
Baby powder - for diaper rash?
someguy @ 3:
I wouldn't be surprised.
Dem libruhlz is scary folk...dey wanna keel our babies and take our gunz.
someguy @ 3:
Welcome to big time politics. It ain't pretty. Never has been.
Maybe it's baby powder.
Please let this be the only October surprise of the election season. And let it be harmless.
Staged.
Like all of them.
understudy @ 5:
Hey, Big Spender. Hint: Bet the house (not yer lunch money) on a lock.
someguy @ 3:
He sure did. I bet Rove sent it and will blame Obama for it.
It is because he is a POW.
Just more republican fear tactics!
Nothing more.
New MCain campaign buttons available, here and here.
Older stock here
Pay them forward..
Karl Roves best create a threat scheme.... welcome to the criminal overthrow of the US Government...
A diversion for sure. Now we can talk endlessly about the envelopes with powder instead of his eight homes and Cindy not really meeting Mother Teresa. Hey, check the return address on the envelopes -- bet it says Karl Rove, 123 Main Street, Anytown, USA.
Would anyone be surprised if it turns out that a McCaininite sent them to elicit more sympathy for gramps? He was a POW you know.
It's a gimmick to gain sympathy and vilify Obama supporters. I believe this is what the Republicans were calling plan B.
What a Ko-in-kee-dink. McCain's worst day yet, and this shows up. Quelle surprise.
Guess what'll headline the news tonight?
Rove used it for jock itch. He should have bought a container of anti monkey butt, you can buy it at Tractor Supply.
http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/
http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/images/_photos/_amb_van/van_bk.jpg
Arrest the perps, and get on with the campaign
It's K.R.'s M O to take the thunder from Obama's VP pick, it is staged and MSM will run with it.
someguy @ 3:
Yes, it was back when Bush was running for Gov. of Texas. Rove planted a microphone behind a picture in his office, then got a private detective, and an FBI agent who is a notorious Republican operative in the area to FIND it. He then blamed it on the Democrats. I think he also timed the finding of it so it would hit the evening news just before the televised debate.
That was typical Rove, but THIS just smacks of standard, College Republican Lee Atwater copycats, honing their skills for the next generation. Every 20-something Republican these days wants to grow up to be either the next Ronald Reagan or the next Karl Rove. If you're handsome enough to be an actor, you follow the Reagan career path. If you're ugly, awkward and geeky, you follow the Rove career path. Send letters laced with talcum powder to Republican candidates. Print up leaflets promising free booze at Democratic fundraisers and hand them out to winos etc.
This is one way to get attention in the Media. Don't ask the FBI to investigate they couldn't solve the last letters sent 4 years ago they had to blame it on a dead man their harassed.
I bet anything Hannity, Beck, or one of the other right-wing mouthpieces turn this into something that they try to link with "liberals" who support Obama. Coulter and Savage will then, in turn, try to use it to prove that "terrorist lovers" love Obama.
I'm sure it's fake. It would only take a short time to determine if the powder is dangerous, and it could be done long before the story ever got out. It's pure drama.
This was obviously baby powder sent by his supporters.
They have seen how the house story just really chaps his ass.
McMansions should throttle his Rovian tactics. You should save the kitchen sink for last.
Wow Very Convenient.....
McCain's Wrong On Timeline Regarding ABBA(Probably more exploitation to use POW again)
McCain laughs off his love of ABBA, the Swedish pop band, with the excuse that his musical tastes stopped evolving once he was shot down in Viet Namand became a POW. "Dancing Queen", one of ABBA's hits, is McCain's personal favorite. It's a great way to deflect ridicule for his taste in music and immediately remind listeners that McCain was a POW. However, McCain was shot down in 1967 and held prisoner until 1973. ABBA began recording their first album in 1972 and did not even refer to themselves as ABBA until 1973.
The funniest thing:
"Dancing Queen" was recorded in 1975 and released as a single in 1976.
Not quite in synch with McCain's story.
Johnny2Bad @ 13:
Heck I'd bet seven houses on it.
I knew I shouldn't have been eating powdered doughnuts when I wrote to McInsane.
Pericles @ 25:
Yep that sounds like what I remember Rove doing.
That was for GW,... another shipment of peruvians finest,...
Yep, could be a Karl Rove stunt, sowing more fear. This also gives Anne Coulter another excuse to rant about how liberals are all hate-mongering wild-eyed crazies.
Yup, this reeks of Rove. His porky little fingerprints are all over this one.
pure rovian
This is GREAT news for McCain.
Obama's toast now.
Yeah, right and I believe that.
does McCain have a rash?
considering the arkansas chairman and the unitarian church victims, I still doubt any one on the "left" would be up to this.
on the heels of the FBI faked "investigation" into the anthrax attacks, there is plenty of room to believe that this will go unsolved.
that makes it an attack by Democrats because mcKeating5 is "ahead in the polls". hannity and scarboro will milk this.
oh really @ 39:
Don't tell us you think Obama is behind that one!
Obama has more class than that, but you might consider Rove.
It's not the first time!
DHavok @ 27:
Does Rush Limbaugh shit 8 times a day? hells yeah! of course!
The Right must think it's important to spread around the nutty and pretend a lefty is being a terrorist. But we all know that terrorism is the work of right-wingers all over the world, especially here.
Look over there, it's Halley's Comet!
Jacki @ 26:
Hey, give the FBI a break. They're IMPROVING! At least they've moved on to framing DEAD guys!
Does anybody remember that silly mess at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta? Some dumpy, Barney Fife security guard finds a bomb, reports it. The FBI 'investigates,' concludes that the guy who found it must be trying to get attention, arrests him, and then goes back to their official job of bugging dirty Green Peace hippies.
Are we sure it wasn't chimpy sharing some of his coke?
And here I thought October was a couple of months away...when is martial law gonna be declared?
I'd check it for Rove's prints. I think he wants to get him the sympathy vote.
Grounded "no doze" for Grandpa.....and for the nine members of his audience at his tear inducing boring stump speeches. Seriously, McPOW is now reverting back to victim-hood for votes.
This is too reminiscent of the time Karl Rove planted a bug in his candidate's office to be discovered so they could blame his opponent.
Do they have to check all 12 of his luxury homes every time something like this happens? Someone from his security detail better ask him how many homes he has so they can be sure they checked them all. He's getting old, he may have forgotten to tell them about a few of his many luxurious multimillion dollar houses. They're gonna need to hire extra agents to search all of McCain's giant luxury homes. It's gonna take forever.
Rove bugged his own office during a Texas governor's campaign that he was running for a Republican businessman, who was behind in the polls. Rove then blamed the bugging on the Democratic candidate, a boring but honest man. Rove's man won, even though an oil well he owned was pouring crude onto the Texas coastline at the time.
The bug was placed behind a painting on the wall behind Rove's desk.
That's Texas for you.
Cindy's mail order drugs arrived pre-crushed now?
oh really @ 39:
You sound like the kind of oxygen thief who would pull a dumb shit prank like this.....you're probably Cindy's mail order dope pusher.
John J @ 31:
McCain is the dancing queen! Master of the sidestep! (Can't take credit for this, though.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mNDHTfdn1A
Pure crap! A setup that The public will eat up :(
I suppose Rove has an Alibi.
This was done by a right wing team, and meant to make McCain look heroic. Nobody remembers it was real anthrax sent to top DEMOCRATS by an american military man.
Terrorists never sent anything to any Republicans ever. This a scam that happened on the same day that Obama launches his offense, no coincidence. This is a SCAM
But...but...we caught the anthrax killer, right? No one else could have access to weapons grade anthrax, right? Riiiiight?
It's all such theater.
I'm betting it's a "disgruntled fred thompson supporter". Upset that his grandfather didn't get the nod.
Not a cool thing to do, but at least it wasn't anthrax...like the buttheads that mailed letters to Democratic Senators back in the days of total chaos after the Twin Tower attack.
Did anyone check to see if it was mcsames handwritting on the letter?
It stinks of Karl.
Strohdog @ 6:
No more needs to be said
I would never harm McSame or anyone delusional enough to volunteer for his campaign (I feel sorry for them more than anything else!)
However... I'm not shocked that this would happen. If it was real, this is no surprise. If it was Rove, I'm even less surprised.
BS this is an attempt to change the news cycle.
they are scared.
someguy @ 3:
Yes, and way more than that. 40 years of lies and dirty tricks. I also smell Rove in the latest, "Obama is a baby killer" meme that Hannity & Coulter were trying to plant when another McCain advisor, this one a former Baptist minister and college professor, got caught doing the nasty with an 18 yr old student.
McCain advisor caught w/pants down = cries of "Obama is a baby killer" on Faux.
If it looks like Rove, walks like Rove and smells like shit - it's Rove.
We all know they can't win without cheating, but I'm starting to think they don't even know how to run without cheating.
It's probably nothing more than Cindy's next shipment
I have a gut feeling that this was a set by the Repubs. I hope I am wrong on this one.
Also, Bob Schaffer (R) Colorado. His wife has a benign tumor and his is taking two weeks off the stump. He has been trailing Udall for a while but has made gains.
My first instinct is that this is the plan the Repubs are using. Once again I hope I am wrong. Good luck to all involved.
Sounds very Rovian, very Contrived...and very much wag the doggish- the past 24 hours have not gone well for McCoot...I am betting on baby powder......
( I personally think they would love to come up with a way to Crack Down on all of us "Liberal Extremists "as he calls us- just in time for Denver...the govt has over 400 Guard ready for Denver and HLS has rooms rented already....)
Nothing is too low. They will stop at nothing to retain control of the white house so McCain can hide all of Bush's wrongdoing. Pathetic.
here we go into endless sympathy attacks on mcfuckhead
everytime his rating goes down there will be some kind of
phony ploy or attack or fear card played to regain
points for him. the gop reichwingneocons will
use any means to retain power. and i do mean
they will use any means. LIES are only a small
part of their venue. just wait for bush's fear card
right at election week.
you do realize that the gop does not care about
mcfuckhead, they plan on bush declaring
martial law to retain his office and deny the
elelction........call me paranoid, who cares.
Janet @ 1:
BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Speaking of sniffing, does anybody smell bullshit?
Kinda convenient considering McBush committed the mother of all McBush fuck-ups when he tried to side-step the issue of him being just another rich, old white guy, and not "one of us".
It bit him in the ass, and now this?
I'm not trying to be a conspiracy nut, but remember when Karl Rove wiretapped himself and then tried to blame it on his opponent's campaign?
As many others have already said, this thing smells like a typical Republican "Terrorist Threat Level Warning" type propaganda stunt. It has been a bad day for McCain. In order to distract from the beating he is taking publicly, they run this garbage to turn him into a victim/would-be martyr, while at the same time playing the "fear" card as a means of accentuating what they perceive as their candidate's strong suit.
Why does the McCain campaign staff send Polident through the mail to their boss? I'm getting so afraid, I may have to vote for McCain. Readers might think this posting is in poor taste, but it's OK because I'm a Progress who gets his kicks acting like a lying right winger.
dadams @ 74:
these timed events wouldn't have the emotional cache unless it was for the Holy Grail of Patriotism - don't question it.
where did that box of baking soda go at?
Angry conservatives desperately doing what they need to do. Now watch gold Rush point out how desperate Obama is.
Haggerty's crystal, Coulter's coke, Limball's viagra, Clannity's make-up, Rove's Desenex--all ground up into on fine mess.
Lord, shelter me from the powder AND the finger...
9News in Denver is reporting that "a threatening hand-written letter that sparked an evacuation of Sen. John McCain's Centennial office was sent by a person being held in the Arapahoe County Jail. NBC News says the person is a prolific letter writer who was already in the jail."
Sorry, J-Mac. Guess you can't use this one to make people forget you are dangerous overseas and out of touch at home(s.)
Postmarked Sedona?
Right. And Karl Rove planted secret microphones in his own party headquarters and called the police to investigate.
This has Rove's fingerprints all over it.
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It will be interesting to see where this all leads and what the results of the tests are. While I am not usually into conspiracy theories, it seems rather coincidental that this occurs within 48 hours of the other candidate's expected announcement of a VP. Frankly, the chances of the USPS delivering two letters to two locations on the same day sounds suspicious enough. The chances of that are slim.
This sounds like a novel way to grab the headlines, although I certainly hope that no one would sink that low. I do, however, recall that news story about a certain political operative who broke into his own office, reported it to the police and then blamed the other candidate. I hope we aren't back there again.
poerba @ 11:
Don't bet on it. Our best bet on the "october surprise" is that re-PIG-lics are so irretrievably stupid they often misjudge the way people will react to things. There's a very good chance they'll hang themselves.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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Too bad Bruce Ivins killed himself; the FBI could blame him and close the case.
Strohdog @ 6:
Hahahahaha!! We can go home now.
Apphouse50 @ 87:
You don't believe in ghosts?
Million Dollar Mansion Gate getting too close for the McCampaign. INVENT A DISTRACTION QUICK, and what better way than to use Terror! Notice a pattern here? But wait, if Bruce Ivins took his secret recipe to his powdery grave, who could have done this? Karl?
Funny thing....this story is not really being reported by anyone but FOX....hmmm, very odd...
ashton @ 89:
I believe children are our future. I believe for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows.
I believe I can fly.
Drew @ 82:
OUCH! Yeah...tough one to score political points on.
Let me try...
Ummm....
Maybe the prisoner used the Prison Library's Internet Connection surf Media Matters and Crooks and Liars?
Maybe he was a faithful member of the FDL Book Club?
Maybe he had the General Betrayus ad taped to his cell wall?
Maybe fellow prisoners overheard him telling other prisoners in the shower how his favorite movie is Fahrenheit and it's like...SUCH bullshit that they didn't even like...nominate it for Best Picture in 2k5?
Maybe he's taking some courses in prison and raised his hand to correct to the prison professor and say, "Yep. The French helped us win the Revolution."
Maybe his prison thesis was about the Iran Hostage Crisis, and how it wasn't totally Carter's fault?
How's that....?
Hello?
Anybody??
Nah, just spooks. Spineless, shameless gop-slime spooks.
Gee, good thing nobody ever thought of doing this before.
Apphouse50 @ 87:
Since when is death an excuse?
Johnny2Bad @ 9:
Theres been quite a few break ins at DFL and Democratic part offices around the country, either the RNC, FBI or CIA or all of them are busy bees
OT--
From Malloy tonight:
DOJ looks to expand FBI's abilty to "investigate people without any clear reason or suspicion"
http://www.newser.com/story/35430/fbi-looks-to-expand-powers-of-investig...
Scary shit, folks...
OMFG..weapons of mass distraction!
Didn't Ann Coulter send some white powder to Keith Olberman?
Is his campaign so desperate that they'd sink this low... to such an obvious, lame "red flag"
fake threat so as to stave off the sh*tstorm the whole "I don't know how many houses..." quote driven stuff that's exploded today????
Why am I/would I be surprised on second though.
Oh yeah, the FBI is gonna work overtime on this one... NOT! Don't want to be able to back-track it to a Repuglican.
kerplunk @ 99:
One of
herhis fanatics: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/151106olbermann.htmDon't send that stuff to McSame you dumba$$(es) !!! Send it to LIEberman !!!!
(Testing, testing......one, two, three.....Dept. of Homey Security? You there? Yeah, hey, this was a joke....I in no way hope to harm anyone with anything - so don't try and make a big deal about a joke, k? )
Productconsumer @ 61:
Cheney was in the military? I never knew.
Bullshit. Literally hours after Kerry announced Edwards as his running mate, Tom Ridge raised the terror level, effectively pre-empting their big swing state tour. I remember they were campaigning in Florida at the time. I'm 100% this was once again orchestrated by the Rove-ites.
And what about the suspicions surrounding Obama's plane a few weeks back? Barely a mention in the MSM. That could easily been another JFK Jr.
America is inching closer and closer to fascism.
PorridgeGun @ 105:
Inching? I'd say goose stepping closer and closer to fascism is more like it.
Probably a coke-snorting Bush memo.
McCain screwed up big time with him not knowing how many houses he owns. This is just something to distract from his gaffe.
Yeah, I was gonna add: "Of course, you could argue Amerca is already there." I was being optimistic.
OMG, here we go again!
Give me a break!
This whole white powder thing is about as real as mccain's attachment to the truth. He is obviously looking for the "scare the shit out of the gullible populace" vote.
How dare you! John McCain is a guy who didn't get any threatening letters with white powder sent to him for five and a half years -- in prison.
BREAKING: Threatening Letters Containing White Powder Sent To McCain Offices In CO & NH
I thought that Rove said he wasn't "working" for the McCain camp?
Dubya: You sent my stash where?
planted to divert attention in this media cycle
the timing of this 'false flag' is so obvious, obama announcing VP, DNC convention next week, iraq and afghanistan falling apart and the economy tanking....mclame needs a distraction!
this will turn out to be a hoax, just as it always is when the neocons are involved.
six years ago they could not find the real anthrax killer who KILLED people, and you want us to believe they are targeting the GOP?????? get real people....faux snooze needs a new spin.
understudy @ 5:
$100 I would bet you are right!
Never underestimate the evil darksided trickery of The Republican Crime Syndicate.
someguy @ 3:
Same thought crossed my mind.
so this is what Dick and karl cooked up while dubya was in China?
will the bush admin suspend the election, just as the progressive movement has predicted they would?
this would be the beginning, if that were their intentions.
next step, declare martial law and arrest all political opponents, right karl?
seems like someone is trying to control the news cycles again.
too many houses to count.......reinstate the draft.
WWRD What Would Rove Do?
abc is reporting that both letters originated in Denver, and that at least one of them was a hoax sent by a prison inmate.....
yeah, real smooth karl. get the convicted to do your dirty work. Oh that's right, scooter's still on the payroll, isn't he?
What a conveniently timed announcement. I guess Mukasey has now joined the McCain campaign.
This sounds like an inside job by some wingnut. The timing and the modus operandi are just too obvious.
What's next? McCain's surrogates are going to go on TV and radio smearing Obama by implying that he had something to do with this?
While we're on the subject of political crimes, why hasn't there been an investigation into the shootings in AK just a few days ago? Why isn't the government rounding up suspects, infiltrating radical groups and tapping their phones? I guess it's just easy to call the shooter insane, a lone gunman, and close the investigation, eh? Can you imagine how long this would have been on TV had the shooter been Muslim? They'd call it terrorism and parade the shooter's picture on TV 24/7.
Rove.
abc radio is now reporting BOTH letters were HOAXES....move along people, nothing to see here...back to bad news mclame....
Another fake blunder to get attention off the eight houses and the reality, these folks, still have not presented their Tax Records to the American people.
He may have been senile and forgot, but we have not, and this very new and real revelation adds even more room for charges that he is out of touch.
It's probably Metamucil
Lighten up... it's just Bu$h sending McSame his coke order...
That powder smells like a self-inflicted gunshot wound. I would bet one of his emloyees did this.
Yeah yeah. As expected brigades of all descriptions geared up for WWIII in 12 different specialized multimillion dollar trucks costing a least a few hundred thounsand dollars show up for.....
drum roll....an envelope with Dr. Scholl's foot powder in it some poor slob incarcerated next door managed to put a stamp on and stick in the mail from his prison cell.
We live in the MOST idiotic meaningless country in the world.
It sounds like a Rove (TURD BLOSSOM) letter to me. Just remember that Rove(TURD BLOSSOM) had his offices broken into during a ELECTION he was running in TEXAS. And it turned it was hem that broke into his own OFFICE. So that is WHY I say it looks like a Rove(TURD BLOSSOM) letter to me.
This is becoming so multi-layered I JUST LOVE IT !
I can see it now -- 4 weeks from now on FOX Channel :
Ann Coulter : Hussein Obama is the candidate that wants to chase down syndrome babies through hospitals and kill them right after they exit their mother's womb. What rational person can support Hussein??
Sean Hannity : They're not rational people. Hussein's supporters send white powder to John McCain.....sometimes the powder is poison...sometimes it's baby powder.
Fair and balanced guest # 3 : Not just powder ! Osama's supporters send threatening letters and threatening email. Death threats.
Guest 4 : No wonder -- so many Americans are now saying Obama's the Anti-Christ.
Ann Coulter : HE IS !! GOD FORBID HE'S THE NEXT PRESIDENT - THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BLOW UP !!
I lived in Centennial, Colorado before it was incorporated! But, I did not send the letter. I do use talcum powder.
ben @ 4:
Damn - you beat me too it. That was the very first thing I thought when I read this piece :)
It will probably turn out to be an envelope full of McCain's whiskers.
This is just a political gotcha. We are in danger my friends so elect me to stop powder being sent through the mail.
Pathetic his campaign is through and through.
False-flag. These clowns of the mccain campaign will resort to anything to get attention.
But they already framed, er caught the Anthrax guy!
John J @ 32:
I don't think this matters. Music changed when he got out of his service. Maybe ABBA was all he could relate to ... maybe? Well, besides Flight of the Valkeries played over the loudspeaker of a gunship....
and the smell of naypalm in the morning?
I guess he smelled the victory then (it never came) just like he smells it now.
Tell me again Why are we even considering this guy for the Presidency???
was the letter from his bank, demanding backlogged mortgage payments he has missed for the past six month?
pay up johnny, or we'll FORECLOSE on your sorry arse!
*If* the jailbird story is true, then one wonders what deal was cut to ask him to write it.
If it isn't a matter of someone being asked to do it, then there are better ways to scare the McCainchurian campaign, like telling the facts about his treason while in Vietnam, or his racist voting, or his part in the S&L fraud, or etc. etc. etc.
PS The inmate also sent a letter with white powder to Obama.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/155542
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