News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

30 May 2013

Breaking: Secret Service: Ricin letter to White House intercepted 30 May 2013 The Secret Service says a letter similar to ones sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been intercepted by a White House mail screening facility. The agency says the letter has been turned over to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force for testing and investigation.

President Barack Obama targeted in 3rd threatening letter 30 May 2013 President Barack Obama was the targeted recipient of a letter suspected of containing ricin, following similar letters sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg... A law enforcement source told ABC News that the letter to the president had an anti-gun control message along with a suspicious substance, similar to two letters recently sent to Bloomberg. The Secret Service confirmed the apparent link among the letters. The two letters addressed to the mayor had a Shreveport, La. postmark, according to a statement on the postal union's website.

Sandy Hook Report Put Off --Release possible in September --Unit involved in the investigation, said part of delay is redacting FBI reports 29 May 2013 State police said Wednesday that the final investigative report on the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown may not be released until the end of September. Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky, who's in charge of the investigation, said in January that the report wouldn't be released until June at the earliest, so the new forecast continues a pattern in which information on the case has been delayed in its release or withheld outright. State police have been criticized for releasing little information to the public about the investigation while at the same time discussing the case at conferences across the country.

Officials: Man who knew Boston bombing suspect was unarmed when shot 29 May 2013 A Chechen man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent last week during an interview about one of the Boston bombing suspects was unarmed, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. An air of mystery has surrounded the FBI shooting of Ibragim Todashev, 27, since it occurred in Todashev's apartment early on the morning of May 22. The FBI said in a news release that day that Todashev, a former Boston resident who knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed during an interview with several law enforcement officers. The FBI has provided few other details, saying that the matter is being investigated by an FBI review team that may not finish its probe for several months. 

Father of Chechen killed in Florida says FBI murdered him --'They murdered him to keep him from talking.' 30 May 2013 After FBI agents questioned Ibragim Todashev for hours on end about one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, his father alleged Thursday, they murdered him to keep him from talking. Abdulbaki Todashev, who applied Thursday for a U.S. visa so that he can pick up his son's body in Orlando, where he died, said that he has heard nothing from U.S. officials about the May 22 shooting. Despite earlier accounts of the incident, two law enforcement officials told The Washington Post on Wednesday that Todashev was not armed. He was shot seven times.

Friend of Boston bombing suspect unarmed when killed by FBI 30 May 2013 Ibragim Todashev, who was killed during an FBI interview last week, was unarmed when he was fatally shot, fueling speculation that his association with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was enough, in the eyes of police, to be fatal. The death of Ibragim Todashev has been shrouded in mystery since he was mortally wounded during an interview with FBI agents on May 22. Before Wednesday's admission that the 27-year-old was unarmed at the time of his death, investigators offered conflicting accounts of what happened in Todashev's final minutes.

Judge rejects legal challenges by accused Colorado theater gunman 29 May 2013 A Colorado judge rejected challenges on Wednesday to the state's insanity defense statute and death penalty law by accused movie theater spree gunman James Holmes, resolving a key legal hurdle in the sensational case. Lawyers for Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers and wounding dozens more in a rampage last July, had argued that the state's insanity law was unconstitutional because it forces their client to cooperate with court-appointed psychiatrists. They also contended that compelling the 25-year-old former neuroscience graduate student to reveal information to mental health experts that could be used against him at trial violates his constitutional right against self-incrimination. But Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour disagreed.

Three more people die of novel coronavirus in Saudi Arabia 30 May 2013 Saudi health authorizes say three more people have died from a deadly new respiratory virus related to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the country. Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that the three victims, aged between 24 and 60, were suffering from chronic diseases, including kidney failure. They had been hospitalized a month ago. Thirty people have died globally from the novel coronavirus. The novel coronavirus, also known as nCoV-EMC, is a cousin of SARS. [US bioterrorists are busy little bees!]

Russian Pacific Fleet enters the Mediterranean in challenge to West 28 May 2013 For the first time in a decade, a large combat fleet from Russia's Pacific Fleet based in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East is joining other Russian warships in the Mediterranean on a combat patrol. To deploy large warships thousands of miles away from East Asia to the Middle East demonstrates President Vladimir Putin's resolve to resume Russia's military and strategic glory of the past by challenging the collective military power of the West. [It's about time.]

Head of company overseeing leaking nuclear tanks at Hanford to step down 29 May 2013 The head of the contracting company responsible for containment tanks found to be leaking radioactive liquid at the Hanford, Wash., Nuclear Reservation announced his retirement Wednesday. The head of the contractor overseeing cleanup operations at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina will replace Mike Johnson, president and project manager of Washington River Protection Solutions, or WRPS, Johnson said in an email message to employees obtained by NBC station KING of Seattle. WRPS has been the subject of extensive federal scrutiny since it was learned in February that at least six of 177 underground tanks housing highly radioactive nuclear waste at the site were leaking.

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