Police investigating white powder found in Bill Clinton's office

[ck4829]

We are following a developing story out of Harlem. Police investigators are looking into a suspicious white powder that has been found inside former President Bill Clinton's office in Harlem on West 125th Street.

Shannon Sohn is in NewsCopter 7 with the latest where ESU units are on the scene.

According to the US Secret Service field office in New York City, the incident began at 3:45 Friday afternoon when a clerk in the 13th floor office of President Clinton opened an envelope containing a white powdery substance. It was then brought up to the 14th floor where the Secret Service is housed. Police were then notified.

Hazmat teams are now testing the contents of the envelope.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4703270

[SharonRB]

1. I love how they say he's on his way to celebrate his birthday...

what idiots! It's Hillary's birthday -- his is in August.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Please don't let it be Anthrax. I hope he wasn't there and I hope

the clerk is alright.:(

[BurtWorm]

8. I'm betting it's the baby powder Coulter usually sends to her enemies

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/07/18/coulter/index.html

Ann Coulter, felon?

An envelope containing a suspicious white powder showed up in the mailroom at the New York Times last week. We can't tell if she's joking or not -- really, can we ever? -- but Ann Coulter is claiming that she's responsible.

Raw Story ferrets out the news from an item in Women's Wear Daily's Memo Pad blog. Memo Pad's source at the Times said the powder incident makes Coulter's call for the death penalty for Bill Keller just "a little less funny." "I wonder," the source said, "if she considers herself at all responsible when lunatics read her columns and she says that we should be killed."

Memo Pad asked Coulter about the incident. Her response? "So glad to hear that the New York Times got my letter and that your friend at the Times thinks I'm funny. Good luck in journalism and please send me your home address so we can stay in touch, too."

The white powder turned out to be harmless, but perhaps it's time to fight fire with fire anyway. If Coulter thinks that reporters at the Times should be tried for treason -- and she does -- wouldn't it be fair game to say that Coulter herself should be tried for threatening to use WMD or using the U.S. mail to send threatening communications? Those are federal crimes, and it seems to us that Coulter has just admitted committing one.

-- Tim Grieve

[AnnieBW]

3. How Long

Until O'Lielly or Flush claims that it was blow?

[TheDebbieDee]

5. 3....2....1..... Not Yet!

But you're right - it's a matter of time!

[madokie]

4. after watching this I wonder if maybe something sinister isn't going on

http://www.devalpatrick.com/index.cfm

[Rocknrule]

6. I'll bet Coulter put it there

[Lex]

7. .