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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republicans getting strange email threats—and they're coming from inside the building
Yeah, looks like things can always get crazier:
A group of House Republicans has received a mysterious threat in recent weeks: an anonymous email that promises political retribution for those who for vote yes to a debt-limit increase sent to their closely guarded personal email addresses.
Because of the near-secret nature of lawmakers internal email addresses, the emails have raised more than a few eyebrows and the possibility that one of their own was behind, or at least assisting in the attacks.
(That would be the debt limit increase that just passed.) All right, so it has to be someone who has access to the list of personal member emails, or was given access to it, and it has to be someone who, well ...
Its got to be another member. Probably one of the crazy ones, said a Republican who had seen the email, which was sent from an anonymous email address, unrepresentative1@gmx.com.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/someones-been-sending-gop-lawmakers-a-bizarre-threat-over-thhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/12/1277051/-House-Republicans-getting-strange-email-threats-and-they-re-coming-from-inside-the-building
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House Republicans getting strange email threats—and they're coming from inside the building (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2014
OP
We have the best spying apparatus around, so use the damn thing and reveal. n/t
Jefferson23
Feb 2014
#8
Yep, and I believe they should already be in the " know ", according to the NSA track record. n/t
Jefferson23
Feb 2014
#12
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)1. "Probably one of the crazy ones" Well that narrows it down..
..to what? 200?
Vox Moi
(546 posts)2. They should have enclosed anthrax.
It sure helped with The Patriot Act .
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)3. "Probably one of the crazy ones,”
That doesn't narrow it down much, does it?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)5. Glad I scrolled down
that was my first thought.
TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)9. I had the same thought.
Probably only gets it down to about 200 potential suspects.
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)4. Sounds like an old horror flick, "The call is coming from INSIDE the house!"
I remember that movie. Stranger in the House. It was about a babysitter. I was in middle school and babysitting a lot at the time . That movie spooked me for years.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)6. Gawd!
They're so nuts , I can't do anything but laugh anymore.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)8. We have the best spying apparatus around, so use the damn thing and reveal. n/t
K&R
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)10. There you go.
Brilliant. A great "test" as it were if this is anything other than sucking up info for corps.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)12. Yep, and I believe they should already be in the " know ", according to the NSA track record. n/t
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)11. What if...the person who sent it
also sent it to himself!
That would be the perfect RWer tactic to misdirect suspicion!