Posted on 04/17/2013 8:03:38 AM PDT by blam
REPORT: A Second Letter Sent To The US Senate Tests Positive For Poison
Michael Kelley
April 17, 2013
A second letter sent to the U.S. Senate has tested positive for the poison ricin, according to Terry Moran of ABC News.
Last night Poltiico reported that an envelope sent to an office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) tested positive for the deadly poison.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ricin is a poison naturally found in castor beans. It gets inside the cells of a person's body, preventing the cells from making any proteins. It can come in the forms of a powder, a mist, or a pellet, or it can be dissolved in water or weak acid.
As little as 500 micrograms — smaller than a grain of sand— can kill an adult.
Mail to the Senate has been halted as of yesterday. Last night Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) told CNN that police have already identified a suspect who sends a lot of letters to lawmakers.
In 2004 three Senate offices were shut down becasue of a ricin scare. Postal workers began sorting through mail at an off-site facility after anthrax attacks in 2001 targeted lawmakers including then-Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy.
The letter sent to Wicker, which tested positive three times in the field, has been sent to a Maryland lab for further testing.
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There was an earlier post saying that a second letter was received by a Republican Senator. Sorry, I’m not sure where that post is.
And of course there could just be confusion or misreporting involved.
Don’t remember the names, but I think both were southern Republicans.
I just heard that too. My guess is that a few more will be getting letters before this is over. Standard operating of nutters and terrorists. Just reported that the letters were signed: ‘I am KC and I approved these messages’ by Fox News.
Deja Vu!
That is exactly what is being said on the blue side of the street.
bttt
If the DNC is behind this, I think they would have targeted a Republican senator who could be seen as more vulnerable for re-election. If they had succeeded in killing Wicker, the chances are that a Republican would win his seat, not a Democrat. They would have gone after someone like McConnell.
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