Threat notes (w/powder) mentioned Bush (sent to Club hosting Bush event)

[truthpusher]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_re_us/threatening_letters_1

Prosecutors: Threat notes mentioned Bush

By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer

5 minutes ago

An engineer at a nuclear power plant has been charged with sending threatening letters containing a powdery substance to country club where President Bush is scheduled to appear Tuesday for a Republican campaign event.

Michael Lee Braun, 51, was arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on two federal charges of sending threats through the mail. Each carries a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The charges are connected to two letters prosecutors said Braun mailed on Thursday to the Serrano Country Club and Serrano Visitors Center in El Dorado Hills, a tony community in the foothills east of Sacramento. Bush plans to appear at the club Tuesday afternoon in a campaign event for U.S. Rep. John Doolittle (news, bio, voting record), R-Calif.

The letters contained threats to President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Doolittle, according to an FBI statement.

A federal affidavit said that Braun has sent 51 threatening letters, including the two most recent ones, since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The letters threatened the lives of the president, Cheney, First Lady Laura Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_re_us/threatening_letters_1

[rzemanfl]

1. Agree with his list if this were a "Who should God strike dead?"

poll, though.

[LiberalEsto]

2. Distraction. Terra alert!

Pay no attention to that Woodward book or that pesky Foley scandal.

[stillcool]

3. he sent it on Thursday?

and was arraigned today? How's that anthrax investigation going? I smell something..

[Berry Cool]

4. Obviously, sending threatening powdery letters is an equal-opportunity

federal crime.

[diamidue]

10. He sent 51 letters to the White House!

in a period spanning 5 years. He must have been a well known harmless nutcase whom they just decided to pick up at this opportune time. The whole thing is just more poorly staged theater to scare the sheeple.

[Lerkfish]

5. wow. I really believe this. but then again, I believe in the tooth fairy

the timing is amazingly fortunate, once again.

[truthisfreedom]

6. yawn. a nutjob who writes "naughty" letters, right Tony?

they sure capture the white powder guys fast when it's about bushco.

[ck4829]

7. Imagine that

This guy gets caught at breakneck speed.

But, we're still looking for the guy(s) who sent letters with REAL anthrax in them to Democratic Senators.

[Minnesota Libra]

8. I can't help but wonder...........

....how many more would-be terrorists there are out there who are simply waiting for poll results in November before considering anything? There are a lot of very unhappy people in this country.:shrug:

[dkofos]

9. He must have put his return address on the envelope

Can you say DUMB FUCK