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Olbermann: Threatening letter no joke
“Countdown” host Keith Olbermann received a suspicious letter filled with white powder, and the New York Post reported the incident despite the FBI’s request to keep it quiet. Olbermann responds.

COMMENTARY
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC
Sept 27, 2006

The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, The New York Post, may have just impeded an FBI investigation into terroristic threats.

I know this because I was a recipient.

The Bureau asked us not to report any of the details so that the person or persons responsible would not know any of the threats had been received by any of the targets -- and we of course complied.

I still cannot confirm many of the specifics -- again in order to make the jobs of the FBI and the New York Police Department a little easier. But I find it necessary to respond to the genuinely shocking tone with which Murdoch's paper reported the event, and the string of factual errors they made either through negligence or a premeditated disregard for the truth.

“Powder Puff Spooks Keith," reads the headline. The article then gives the details of the event which we were asked not to divulge....

TRANSCRIPT AND VIDEO AT LINK: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15036633/