Feds Initially Took Obama Threats Seriously

[struggle4progress]

Source: The Denver Channel

POSTED: 7:53 am MDT September 4, 2008

... U.S. Attorney Troy Eid later said the men were drug users who made racist threats but had no firm assassination plot and no ability to carry one out. No one has been charged in relation to the alleged threats.

In an Aug. 25 search warrant affidavit for the truck and a hotel room where Gartrell, Adolf and Johnson were allegedly using drugs, FBI agent Robert Sawyer said Johnson told the Secret Service that Adolf wanted to kill Obama with a high-powered rifle during Obama's presidential nomination acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High.

According to the document, Johnson also said Adolf and Gartrell wanted to kill Obama because he is black. Sawyer concluded there was probable cause to believe there could be a conspiracy to kill Obama ...

All three are being held on federal drug and weapons charges ...

Read more: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/17389026/detail.html

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New Details About Plot To Kill Obama

Dencer, CO - Three men in Denver discussed assassinating U.S. Sen. Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention in Denver by sneaking into one of his events and shooting him with a gun hidden inside of a camera.

Nathan Johnson's girlfriend, whom 9NEWS is not naming because she's a juvenile, said "it would have to be a suicide mission," according to federal court records ...

Johnson, Shawn Adolf and Tharin Gartrell all thought that Obama had a suite in the third floor of the Hyatt hotel, where they were staying. In fact, Obama was staying in another Denver hotel.

The men were doing methamphetamine inside the hotel with two women on Aug. 23 discussing the plot to kill Obama, according to federal records ...

http://www.digtriad.com/news/elections/article.aspx?storyid=110197&catid=117

[struggle4progress]

1. Related GD thread: FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged, But A Rove Appointee Said No

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3921929

[Ian David]

2. Someone in power is not trying very hard to keep Obama alive. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

7. Kind of like when they didn't try very hard to stop 9/11...n/t

[notadmblnd]

3. The story is also in Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/id/155795/page/1

[sabra]

4. U.S. Attorney Troy Eid was pushed in to the position by Karl Rove

[no_hypocrisy]

5. And yet in St. Paul, the Gestapo is "pre-emptively" arresting journalists and

reporters and protestors before they do anything.

[skooooo]

6. Isn't there another way to press charges?????

By the state or something??

[struggle4progress]

8. Might be appropriate to complain to Congress

[unblock]

9. now run along and get a firm plan and some training, kids!

any guess how long they'd be in guantanamo if their target had an (r) after their name?

[Kali]

10. so a couple methheads with rifles threatening to kill Obasma in Denver is nothing

and journalists are charged with terrorism in St Paul?