Ricin envelopes

I hope they're not saying that a return address that actually belongs to that sailor is what they're basing their suspicions on.  If you were sending ricin through the mail, would you put your own return address on the envelope, or would you put a random address?

Or, maybe they're looking at someone who really hates that sailor.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

The FBI has arrested a man in connection with sending letters containing a suspicious substance to the Pentagon and White House, the Utah U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed on Wednesday.

The suspect has been identified as William Clyde Allen III, of Logan, Utah, said attorney’s office spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch. Charges against Allen are expected to be filed on Friday.

The Pentagon received two envelopes addressed to Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson on Monday. The envelopes initially tested positive for castor seeds, which is used to make a poison known as ricin, according to the Defense Department. Neither men were exposed to the substance.

Officials in the Defense and Justice Departments have declined to say whether the substance in the letters was toxic. It was also unclear on Wednesday whether there was enough of the substance in the letters to make people sick.

  Task and Purpose

So, not a Muslim or a Mexican then?

Kind of a Light Sentence, Don't You Think?

And on top of the fact that she sent the letters to Obama, she did it pretending to be her ex-husband.

Remember That Ricin Letter?

Well, it gets really good. Looks like the guy they arrested didn't do it at all. So who did? Maybe this guy.  (I know.  Everyone was wondering why the guy would sign his own initials on the letters.)

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Ricin and Bombs

There have actually been several domestic ricin plots in recent years, none involving jihadists and most the work of antigovernment radicals. Not that any have come close to executing a successful attack: in late 2011, for example, federal agents arrested four Georgia men with militia ties whose plans included bombmaking and killing government officials with ricin. “This is worse than anthrax,” one of them reportedly boasted. “There ain’t no cure for it either.” The men, all in their 60s and 70s, were busted before they even began brewing the substance, which experts said they likely would have been unable to use on the mass scale of their imagination anyway.

  Time

Ricin Letter Arrest

UPDATE; 4/24/13 - The man has been released, and it's beginning to look as though the actual perpetrator may be a Mississippi GOPol.

Federal agents arrested a man on Monday suspected of sending letters feared contaminated by the poison ricin to President Obama and a Mississippi senator, according to two officials with knowledge of the case. The suspect was identified as Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Miss.

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The letters were signed: “I am KC, and I approve this message.”

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The arrest, two days after the letters were intercepted in mail-sorting facilities for the White House and the Capitol, was based on information collected “very early on” about who had sent the letters, said one of the officials.

  NYT

Oh, Brother

An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was told the letter was addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi.

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Sen. Claire McCaskill told reporters after a briefing for lawmakers that a suspect has already been identified in the incident. Members will be warning their home-state offices to look out for similar letters, she said.

  CNN

And by the way, we never did get a satisfactory explanation for the September 2001 anthrax attacks, did we?