Officials Saw Spike in Threats on Obama Early

[Pirate Smile]

Source: The New York Times

By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG
Published: December 5, 2009
WASHINGTON — The young Marine’s rogue mission, laid out with maps and photographs, was as straightforward as it was chilling. He called it Operation Patriot.

The Marine, Kody Brittingham, a 20-year-old lance corporal, wrote that he had taken an oath to “protect against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.” In a signed “letter of intent,” tucked away in his barracks at Camp Lejeune, he identified a “domestic enemy” he planned to eliminate last winter: President Obama.

The details of this threat, which were revealed at his arraignment hearing in North Carolina, have not previously been reported. Mr. Brittingham pleaded guilty in August and awaits sentencing on charges of threatening to kill the president and attempted armed robbery.

It is one of the cases in a spike of threats against Mr. Obama before his inauguration and in the early months of his presidency, raising deep concerns inside the Secret Service and at the White House.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/us/06threat.html?pagewanted=1&hp

[SkyDaddy7]

1. If someone does do the GOP's dirty work...

It will more than likely be an inside job.

[Jamastiene]

9. Yes, it will.

That's how they operate.

[lapfog_1]

2. I've seen this youtube video

purportedly of the day of the JFK assassination. It shows the Presidential motorcade as it's leaving the airport for downtown Dallas. Two Secret Service guys are about to hop onto the rear of the limo where there is a handhold and step installed, they are waved off by a more senior secret service guy (at least the video identifies him as such) and the reaction of one of them (the right rear bumper) is emphatic. He looks back at the following car at his superior in an angry quizzical WTF expression, and makes repeated shoulder shrugs and hand gestures indicating his confusion and disagreement with being waved off.

If it's not a fake, it makes you wonder.

Couple that with Thom Hartmann's assertion that there was another plot just weeks before Dallas to kill JFK in Tampa... One that was foiled only by luck and a last minute change of plans.

Yes, I worry about President Obama and inside jobs.

[EFerrari]

3. I have very little confidence in the SS to protect Obama

any more than the Feds protected NOLA.

[GrantDem]

4. I hope this is the case.

“There are no extra precautions to take, since we put forth the maximum effort all the time.”

[groundloop]

5. I pray that "maximum effort" will be good enough

There are plenty of wack jobs out there, all it takes is one slip up.

[Hekate]

6. 5th Rec. Deepest and darkest...

... fears.

Hekate

[Lasher]

7. Me too.

Just listen to the pundits and check out the rightwing forums. You can almost cut the hate with a knife.

[Jamastiene]

8. There are some truly sick people in this world. n/t