if the news of the past week has felt like a more are horror film, news coming occupy mississippi about the ricin letters feels like a coen brothers movie, a strange tale of impersonators, organ harvesting conspiracies and internet fights over mensa certificates. police swept across washington, chasing reports of suspicious packages, letters containing the deadly poison ricin sent to the president and mississippi senator roger wicker. both letters were signed i am kc, and i approve this message. later that day, the fbi arrested a man named paul kevin curtis at his home in corinth, mississippi.
the guy as a paranoid loner who thought the government was out to get him, trying to ruin his reputation. as for the body part conspiracy there was word he was deeply disturbed from his time working in a hospital. both letters saying, quote to see a wrong and not disclose is it is to become a partner to its continuance. it ended, i am kc and i approve this message. john roberts is live in mississippi. what can we say about this now today, john? we re learning all kinds of things about this fella and the possibility as well learned in court, overhearing conversation between the u.s. attorney and the judge there may be not confirmed a fourth letter out there some one. kevin kurtis had the appears, official charges, threatening the life of the president. we overheard him say to his attorney, would never be involved in that. those charges, by the way, carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a half million
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know right now. wolf, i m going to do that, but i would like to start first with some new information that we have about the letters you were discussing with brianna. the letters appear to have tested positive for the poison ricin. according to law enforcement sources who have talked to our joe johns, this is the actual text of the letter. put it up on the screen for our viewers. to see a wrong and not expose is, is to become a silent partner to its continuance. and both letters were signed i am kc and i approve this message. clearly it seems to be a takeoff on political ads which say i am barack obama or senator wicker in this case and i approve this message. so that is the text of the letter that went apparently to both destinations senator wicker and president obama. or at least that was the intention, brianna mentioned, that neither of them got past the offsite mail facilities. in addition to that i should also let you know that since we last talked the senate sergeant
here it is. again, if we want to show it again. to see a wrong and not expose it is to become a silent partner to its continuance. it is signed i am kc and i approve this message. this is the letter that was in the envelope believed to also contain the poison ricin. there was a positive test for that initially. the senate sergeant in arms says he s confident that it ultimately will be proved positive as ricin. it s being tested in another lab as we speak. in fact, we expect to get formal results on that. all right. we re going to interrupt dana to bring john king back. john, you re working your sources and getting more information. exclusive reporting. what else are you learning? one of our sources from our national security contributor fran townsend, one source is a boston law enforcement source wlo tells me that an arrest has been made in the investigation. so the suspect that was identified has now been