Sharpton, Olbermann, reporter targets of white powder conDavid Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday November 23, 2007

The FBI recently contacted the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, the New York Daily News, and several other groups to let them know they might be receiving letters containing a suspicious but harmless white powder.

The FBI itself had received the first of the letters at its Albany office on Monday and were easily able to identify the sender as an inmate in a New York prison because he included his inmate number in the return address. FBI officials then warned other potential recipients as a precautionary measure.

According to the Daily News, the list included “MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann, Fox 5 reporter Mary Garofalo, CBS’ ‘60 Minutes,’ the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, the Post Star newspaper in Glens Falls, the New York State Bar Association, Brooklyn state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, the Prisoners Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society in Albany and the Center for Law and Justice Inc. in Albany.”

However, there was no explanation as to why the jailed robber selected those particular targets or how the powder-packed letters were able to slip past prison authorities.

One year ago, as RAW STORY reported, Olbermann was sent “fake anthrax” by a California man, who was said to be an acolyte of conservative pundits such as Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. A Fox News-owned tabloid, The New York Post, later mocked the “caustic commentator” for insisting on being checked out by a hospital after being ‘dosed’ with what a NYPD HazMat unit had already concluded was a “harmless soap powder.” In 2001, the Post was sent an anthrax-filled letter by an unknown person, still at large, who had targeted two Democratic senators, and ending up infecting at least 22 people, killing five.

Sharpton, who often receives threats and racist communications, was described as “extremely concerned” by a spokesperson. “It’s a reminder, a sad reminder, that civil rights, you’re always going to be facing threats and even in this day and age you always need to be on your guard,” a representative of his group told the Associated Press.

The inmate, Keith Lettley, describes himself on a prison pen pal website as “mature, grounded, open-minded, self motivated, focused, loving, caring, aggressive when need be, concerned, fair and supportive. … My hobbies are designing clothes, studying law, welding, playing sports, reading, writing, lisenting to all types of music, lifting weights and enjoying life.”

This video is from The Associated Press, broadcast on November 21.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._1123.html

44 Years After JFK’s Death, New Assassination Plot Revealed
Just Three Weeks Before Dallas, Feds Uncovered Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago, Says Ex-Secret Service Agent

The presidential motorcade through Dallas a few moments before
John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was shot.
(Library Of Congress/ Getty Images)

By CHUCK GOUDIE, WLS-TV
Nov. 22, 2007

A former Secret Service agent has told WLS-TV there was a plot to kill President Kennedy in Chicago three weeks before he was assassinated in Dallas.
Kennedy was murdered on Nov. 22, 1963. Today is the 44th anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
Lee Harvey Oswald would never have had the chance to kill Kennedy in Dallas, had an assassination plot in Chicago succeeded three weeks earlier, a plot that has been mentioned over the years.
Kennedy was due to arrive in Chicago the morning of Nov. 2 to attend the Army-Air Force football game at Soldier Field and ride in a parade. Newspapers had even printed JFK’s detailed travel plan from O’Hare airport to the Loop.
Although police were preparing to line the motorcade route, Secret Service officials in Chicago were deeply troubled about the visit because of two secret threats.
Right-wing radical and Kennedy denouncer Thomas Vallee had arranged to be off work for JFK’s visit; Vallee, an expert marksman, was arrested with an M1 rifle, a handgun and 3,000 rounds of ammo. But then there was the phone call to federal agents from a motel manager concerning what she’d seen in a room rented by two Cuban nationals.
“Had seen lying on the bed several automatic rifles with telescopic sights, with an outline of the route that President Kennedy was supposed to take in Chicago that would bring him past that building,” said former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden.
Bolden, 72, of Chicago, was a young agent in 1963. After a few years as an Illinois state trooper, Bolden joined he Secret Service and was invited by Kennedy onto the prestigious White House detail. He was the first black agent assigned to protect a president.
Bolden recalled how agents bungled surveillance of those two suspected Cuban hit men. They disappeared and were never identified.
“No one was sent to the room to fingerprint it or get an ID. The case was lost and that was the end of it,” Bolden said.
On Nov. 2, the president was about to leave the White House for Chicago and Bolden says a Cuban murder squad here was unaccounted for.
“The morning of the game, the special agent in charge of the Chicago office called the White House and recommended the president cancel his trip to Chicago,” Bolden said.
News reports stated that Kennedy didn’t show because he was ill or because of a diplomatic crisis. Official investigations of JFK never determined why the president canceled Chicago Nov. 2. But in his first interview in 44 years, Bolden said JFK stayed away because of an imminent threat.
Bolden said the president didn’t come to Chicago because he was basically waved off by the Secret Service, and it wasn’t because he had a cold.
Information about Vallee, his similarity in appearance and background to Oswald and details of the Cuban hit squad in Chicago were never given to federal agents in Dallas.
Bolden said the information was not known to have been passed on to Dallas.
In a book that Bolden wrote with his wife, due out in the spring, he will cite another contributing factor in the JFK murder: on-duty drunkenness by Secret Service agents.
“I told the chief of the Secret Service this, that if anything happens, an emergency situation develops with President Kennedy, that their reflexes are going to be in a condition that they won’t be in a condition to respond, and Dallas, Texas, proved I was right,” he said. “The president’s life was in grave danger because of the inefficiency of security around him, too many weaknesses.”
“When that bullet struck the head of the president, it struck me too because I saw it coming,” Bolden said.
When the Warren Commission began investigating JFK’s assassination, Bolden says, he attempted to inform members about the Chicago plot and misconduct by his fellow agents.
During that time Bolden was arrested and prosecuted for soliciting a bribe from a counterfeiter and served a six-year sentence. He says it was a setup to silence him. The main witness has since recanted, and Bolden hopes now to clear his name.
A spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington said that officials “would not have any comment whatsoever about Mr. Bolden’s statements.”

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/s…..amp;page=1

Did a radical right-wing group deliberately conspire to assassinate the president of the United States?

Why did it take 44 years for this news to come to light?

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Face miles of piles of trials with smiles for it riles them believe that we perceive the tangled webs they weave.
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moody and bluesy!

Yep, it is. When it went below 50% for the first time (statewide) it was a news item in the Statesman.

Still very much a Republican state, and will be for a while.

At least for a few more months.

it will take a few mess-ups to get knowing how to quote and post correctly

Are we bound by history to impeach this President and vice President? Do we owe it to the generations to come to focus on nothing else till this criminal administration is brought to justice?

Is Impeachment Our Obligation?

My thinking is, that anything a President does that isn’t confronted is a set precedent. Making future Presidents using it will make it harder to object to then.
http://willyloman.wordpress.co…..bligation/

Is Impeachment Our Obligation?

http://willyloman.wordpress.co…..bligation/

I’m not sure where the convention is, but when I get more details, and we get closer, I’ll do you up a whole Austin tips post. Probably more than 1.