U.S. Secret Service InvestigatesLetters Threatening Obama

The United States Secret Service is investigating two letters sent last week to democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to the Associated Press.

The authorities are trying to discover the nature and extent of the threats, according to agent Douglas Zloto, who is in charge of the organization’s Saginaw office. A letter was sent to the campaign headquarters in Livingston County, and another to a local office of the party.

“The Secret Service takes all threats extremely seriously,” affirmed Zloto. “We will use all available resources to investigate this threat and determine how it was made.”

One of the letters claimed to “want Obama shot.” The second letter contained racial slurs. The Michigan police is also investigating graffiti on outdoor advertisements for Obama’s campaign in the region. The authorities believe that the graffiti, which include swastikas and symbols of the Ku Klux Klan, were made last week.

Assassination Attempt

In the last week of August, four people were detained in Denver and the police is investigating if they were involved in planning an assassination attempt against the democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, according to local media citing police sources.

Local television station KCNC-TV-CBS4, of Denver, informed that the police detained in the last hours four people, including a woman, who possessed high caliber rifles with telescopic sights, camouflaged clothing and drugs.

The detentions happened after the police stopped a van in a rural city in Colorado and arrested Tharin Gartrell, 28. Inside the van the police found arms, drugs, radios, a bullet-proof vest, registrations and drivers licenses.

The television station added that the alleged assassination attempt on Obama was scheduled for Thursday, the day when the democratic candidate accepted the candidacy of his party for the President of the United States.