They sure caught the guy who threatened Obama and some Senators fast enough didn’t they? But we KNEW they would!
One report I heard on the news today (Bloomberg radio?) said that the Senator’s letter didn’t test positive in subsequent analysis.
I find a similar detail in this Washington Post article:
But FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said late Tuesday that “initial field tests produced mixed results, so the substance is in the process of undergoing further analysis at an accredited laboratory. Only after that test result can a determination be made about whether the substance is ricin.”
Previous incidents have led to negative tests of suspicious letters. A false positive happened in 2004, when a letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was believed to contain ricin.