Suspicious Package at Military Building

News 14 Carolina ^ | 12/16/2008 | News 14 Carolina Web Staff

[freema]

The package matched the description of 11 other suspicious packages found at military bases around the country since Friday.

[Tallguy]

Perfect example of a story the media could make big news, if they wanted to.

Well... consider the 'target'? It would be entirely different if the recipients were Democrat members of Congress or major News editors. Then they would wet their collective pants & blame Bush and Homeland Defense for not being more pro-active (after daily whacking them over civil liberties violations).

[Cindy]

Let me make your link in post no. 14 clickable:

http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/story/No-Dangerous-Substances-Found-In-Package-At-Utah/HD1LBGDZvUunQe7AcrwBuw.cspx?rss=991

“No Dangerous Substances Found In Package At Utah National Guard Headquarters”

Last Update: 3:41 pm

[bicyclerepair]

Perp is testing the waters? And watching the results maybe?

[Cindy]

OPINION-SPECULATION:

It’s a possibility.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Where’s the Rolling Stone cover bearing the Goraculous image?

[HollyB]

Check out this website if you want to get info on what is going on everywhere. Crazy site, but you’ll like it.

http://ncc.globalincidentmap.com/home.php

[Brad from Tennessee]

[”. . .There are several signs that our mail personnel are trained to look at to make sure,” said Lt. Col. Rose Dunlap.]

The good news is we had alert mail clerks at 11 different facilities.

[newnhdad]

My wife just took a class that discussed the military’s relationship with the media and why it's so adversarial. One of the big reasons is that we never hear about stories like this until it's too late.
Why should the military trust a media that won't cover stories like this but will gladly print stories that place military lives at risk just because.

[ASOC]

Thanks for the link!

[Marine_Uncle]

At least it is nice to hear our military postal folks are trained to look for funny things inbound.

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

December 18, 2008

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel08/suspiciouspackages121808.htm

FBI Addresses Unrelated Suspicious Mailings Received This Week

There have been two issues covered by the press this week concerning suspicious letters. These matters are not related. The first issue involves letters mailed from Texas to more than 40 different governors’ offices around the country and numerous U.S. Embassies overseas. Each of these envelopes contained a similar typewritten letter and a white powder substance. The powder was field tested at the site and then forwarded to a regional laboratory for further testing. To date, the testing on the powder has proven negative for any harmful substance. It will eventually be sent to the FBI Laboratory as evidence in the case. Even though the substance is harmless, this matter is still a federal crime and is being investigated by the FBI’s Dallas Division and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

In a second, unrelated matter, several U.S. military facilities throughout the country have received envelopes containing a computer disk and other material. There has been no powder substance in these mailings to date. As part of the FBI’s WMD protocol, agents in each field office interact with countless people in their communities to provide training on how to recognize suspicious mail and the proper notification procedures. In several instances involving the letters to the military bases, the FBI responded, examined the envelope, and determined there was no federal crime. The FBI does not investigate individuals who write letters expressing their opinions. As this action is protected under the First Amendment, the FBI is not investigating this matter.

Information on how to recognize suspicious mail or packages can be found on www.fbi.gov or www.uspis.gov.

Special Agent Richard Kolko
Chief, FBI National Press Office

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