WASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian woman was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison in Washington Thursday in the mailing of a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-President
oh, yeah. let s do it. absolutely. finally. let s get to it. let s go. not friday quite yet. we begin with the promising lead in the case of the poison letters. fbi agents are questioning someone they consider a person of interest from new boston, texas, the man s wife called authorities after she noticed something strange in her refrigerator. the latest ricin laced letter was addressed to president obama. with more, here is our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. reporter: the secret service says the third suspected ricin letter was intercepted at a screening facility far from the white house. officials say the threatening language was similar to that sent in suspected ricin letters to new york mayor michael bloomberg, and the gun control lobby group in washington he started. it says anyone that comes for my guns will be shot in the face. reporter: a copy of the letter obtained by abc news
measures. none of us are going to be deterred by this. isn t it common sense that a guy that was going to send a ricin letter, wouldn t we want to send him through a basic background check anyway? just saying. well, i would think so. i would think so. and we would want him to have that background check, whether he was buying the gun from a licensed dealer or out of the back of a truck. we would want those checks to be universal to weed out people like that. i want to switch gears now and talk about the journalists who did not boycott the media sessions with attorney general eric holder. and they re now talking about that session in kind of a broad sense, saying that holder expressed a willingness to revise the guidelines for the kind of investigations that would involve journalists. stopped short of saying any concrete offers. do you think this peace offering o of a balanced approach is going to go far enough to turn down the heat on holder? it s pretty hot in and around d.c. on
oh, yeah. let s do it. absolutely. finally. let s get to it. let s go. not friday quite yet. we begin with the promising lead in the case of the poison letters. fbi agents are questioning someone they consider a person of interest from new boston, texas, the man s wife called authorities after she noticed something strange in her refrigerator. the latest ricin laced letter was addressed to president obama. with more, here is our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. reporter: the secret service says the third suspected ricin letter was intercepted at a screening facility far from the white house. officials say the threatening language was similar to that sent in suspected ricin letters to new york mayor michael bloomberg, and the gun control lobby group in washington he started. it says anyone that comes for my guns will be shot in the face. reporter: a copy of the letter obtained by abc news shows it was postmarked in shreveport, louisiana, may 20th. and the