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Nerve Agent Scare At Our Capital!
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| Marc Summers |
| quote: | Nerve Agent Scare Clears Senate Building
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
35 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - At least eight senators were among 200 people being held in a Capitol parking garage Wednesday night after a security sensor indicated the presence of a nerve agent in their office building. A later test proved negative.
"Tests initially indicated a nerve agent," said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. "A subsequent test indicated it is not a nerve agent."
Schneider said the senators were among 200 people who were asked to remain in the West Legislative Garage. Senate aides inside the garage said they were told they would be held for up to an hour as authorities awaited the results of a third test for more conclusive results.
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., was among the lawmakers inside the garage. He and several of his staff were headed out of the Russell Senate Office Building around 7 p.m. EST when security closed the doors and told everyone to go to the garage, said his spokesman, Mike Buttry.
"We're stuck until they get the results back," Buttry said.
Schneider said none of the people gathered in the garage was showing any signs of sickness or other adverse symptoms, such as a runny nose, that might indicate the presence of a nerve agent.
She did not know whether sensors positioned in the attic of the Russell building, which picked up the suspicious material, were able to tell whether it was in powder, liquid or gas form. Earlier, police said they had discovered a suspicious powder in the attic.
The Homeland Security Department did not have an immediate comment, but a senior counterterror official said it did not immediately appear to be an emergency.
Among the senators in the building according to aides were: Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Gordon Smith, R-Ore., Richard Burr, R-N.C., Larry Craig, R-Idaho, John Thune, R-S.D., Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. |
http://www.comcast.net/news/index.j.../08/322179.html
Nothing was found, thank goodness.
But it's a failure in security. What if it was for real? All the freedom that was taken from us by the patriot act, and that hasn't stopped anything.
We need to rethink this whole anti-terrorist stuff, because nothing is working. |
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| MisterOpus1 |
*tin foil hat on*
Anyone else, at least in the back of your minds, find it just slighly peculiar to have yet another "terrorist" scare, right around when Bush is sucking wind with the bipartisan incredulity of his domestic spying bull, or when his ties to Abramoff are about to be published all over the papers?
Let's see, where have I seen such alerts being fired up when things are a bit blue for the prez?:
http://img70.**************/my.php?l...t_chart_NEW.gif
Hmm, oh well. Moving on.....
*tin foil hat off*
Whoa, where was I? What just happened there? My head's numb as hell! Dangit, did that liberal conspiracy guy come flying through again?!? |
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