Pa. man's letter brings Secret Service
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Is our secret service a bit paranoid? The scary thing is that there are far worse thing written on here then what he wrote.
Pa. man's letter brings Secret Service
Sun Jan 21, 2:51 PM ET
An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.
The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday's edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, "I still believe they hanged the wrong man."
Tilli said the statement was not a threat. "I didn't say who — I could've meant (Osama) bin Laden," he said Friday.
Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, he said.
The Secret Service confirmed the encounter. Bob Slama, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Philadelphia office, said it was the agency's duty to investigate.
The agents almost immediately decided Tilli was not a threat, Slama said
"We have no further interest in Dan," he said.
Tilli said the agents appeared more relaxed when he dug out a scrapbook containing more than 200 letters that he has written over the years, almost all on political topics.
"He said, 'Keep writing, but just don't make no threats,'" Tilli said of one of the agents.
It wasn't Tilli's first run-in with the federal government over his letter writing. Two FBI agents from Allentown showed up at his home last year about a letter he wrote advocating a civil war to unseat Bush, he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_us/letter_writer_threat
Pa. man's letter brings Secret Service
Sun Jan 21, 2:51 PM ET
An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.
The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday's edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, "I still believe they hanged the wrong man."
Tilli said the statement was not a threat. "I didn't say who — I could've meant (Osama) bin Laden," he said Friday.
Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, he said.
The Secret Service confirmed the encounter. Bob Slama, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Philadelphia office, said it was the agency's duty to investigate.
The agents almost immediately decided Tilli was not a threat, Slama said
"We have no further interest in Dan," he said.
Tilli said the agents appeared more relaxed when he dug out a scrapbook containing more than 200 letters that he has written over the years, almost all on political topics.
"He said, 'Keep writing, but just don't make no threats,'" Tilli said of one of the agents.
It wasn't Tilli's first run-in with the federal government over his letter writing. Two FBI agents from Allentown showed up at his home last year about a letter he wrote advocating a civil war to unseat Bush, he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_us/letter_writer_threat
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was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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Death threats I think, but would you seriously consider this vague "wrong man" comment as a death threat?
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Bush's Iraq policy led to total failure
G.W. Bush's address on Wednesday night was nothing more than an admittance of failure in Iraq, which we all knew before this.
You don't fight a war four years and then change plans, you make plans before you go to war. At a time when we should be sending troops home from Iraq, this idiot wants to send 20,000 more U.S. troops. It is clear that the more troops you send to Iraq the fewer will be coming home.
Democrats in Congress should not vote one more dollar and not allow one more soldier to be sent to Iraq. This maniac must be stopped at all costs. Iraq has lost its dictator but we still have G.W. Bush.
If you can't win in Iraq with 140,000 U.S. troops, you can't win with 240,000 troops. But Bush is too dumb to know it. After more than 3,000 U.S. deaths and more than 16,000 wounded and more than $400 billion tax dollars lost in Iraq, you would think that any moron would know it's time to go.
The best thing now is to get U.S. troops out of Iraq and get Bush out of Washington. I still believe they hanged the wrong man.
Dan Tilli
http://www.pennlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1168837502108500.xml?expresstimes?olt&coll=2&thispage=4
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Ok well he is as pissed as I am. So by agreeing to the content of his letter will I be receiving a visit from the SS?
"We have no further interest in Dan," he said.
are this is a story because?
I thought the SS disbanded back in the 40's?
Two visits from the boys. This guy is popular. Wonder when somebody is going to say he should sue for harassment.
ha
I was just too lazy to spell it out.
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Edit: Come to think of it...what did Miller say he did for a living again? :eek:
Good job i've posted pictures of some unknown good looking dude on my MySpace site then.
Yeah your right, because he probably wouldn't have written editorials threatening W.
his last statement that the wrong person was hanged, is however a little vague to warrant a Seceret Service visit.