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The man charged last week with sending threatening letters to John McCain campaign offices also mailed a letter to one of Barack Obama's offices, according to a federal official familiar with the investigation, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information. The suspect—a Colorado inmate named Marc Harold Ramsey—told investigators about the missive when questioned last week; it was intercepted at the post office.

Ramsey was already known to the Secret Service for similar activities in the past, and he took little care to hide his identity. In the McCain letter, which contrary to initial accounts did not contain a harmful powder, he listed the Araphoe County detention facility in suburban Denver as a return address and included his inmate ID number. Ramsey complained to investigators that his father had served in Vietnam at the same time as McCain, but that while the government took care of McCain, they neglected his father, who suffers from from exposure to Agent Orange. The Obama letter did not contain any threatening language.

According to the federal official, no less than 62 different law-enforcement agencies are participating in convention security operations. Last week the Homeland Security Department announced that eight of its agencies, including the Secret Service, FEMA, Transportation Security Administration, its intelligence bureau and "Domestic Nuclear Detection Office" (which buys scanners that are supposed to spot nuclear and dirty bombs) are all involved in Denver. But Russ Knocke, spokesman for the department, says that "There is no specific or credible information at this time to suggest a terrorist threat to the DNC."

The Obama campaign declined to comment.

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  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/26/2008 6:23:05 PM

    Hosenball is peddling more hysteria I see. What trouble these ''agencies''ARE having,appear to be in the form of leftwinged agitators who are duking it out with the cops in downtown Denver at the moment.[ZOMBIETIME,a prolific watcher and chronicler of all things leftwinged,has several excellent detailed photographs capturing the fighting and rioting on his website]. With absolutely no suprise,it becomes the Democrat Party spoiled-brat wing that is causing all the trouble at this time.[as Hosenballs ''white supremacist''shooter didn't pan out,he now moves on to more lurid pastures in order to find his very own Oswald].

  • Posted By: repub4obama @ 08/26/2008 1:24:23 PM

    Yeah no kidding. There are so many right wing conservatives out there who are so full of hate and self loathing, they want to kill the one man who will bring this country back to it's former greatness, before the right wing conservatives took over.
    These right wing conservatives want the world to be as miserable as they are, they want to see America in turmoil and the American people suffer. They are complete sadists.

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