FORT KENT, Maine — Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were working with local law enforcement Tuesday night to determine who sent an unidentified white powder to Fort Kent Elementary School.
The powder came in an envelope with a letter and had a Rowlette, Texas, postmark.
Tim Doak, superintendent of AOS 95, said the letter was opened in the principal’s office around noon. The secretary opened it and found the powder and a letter that Doak said “said some derogatory things about the FBI.”
Doak said school officials immediately placed the envelope into a sealed zip-close bag, as protocol dictates. They then called police, who arrived a short time later.
The school was not evacuated.
“We kept people out of the office and saw that no one in the office had gotten sick,” he said. “It would have been different if this letter had been opened in a classroom or the cafeteria or a hallway or something. But it was in the principal’s office, and the cops told us pretty quickly that it did not appear suspicious.”
Fort Kent Police Chief Kenneth Michaud said FBI agents from Waterville drove up to examine the contents of the envelope.
“Six people came to the police department,” Michaud said Tuesday evening. “The tests showed that it does not look harmful at this time, but they still don’t know what it is. They are taking it to a lab in Augusta.”
Schools across the nation, including in Texas, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have received similar envelopes with powder in them since Monday, according to The Associated Press. The contents have turned out to be cornstarch in several cases.
Doak said that the school would re-evaluate its protocol to see if anything needs to be changed, but he said that police told school officials they acted correctly by sealing it up and calling authorities.
this is serious. Once they find the perpertrators they must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And then pick potatoes during the fall harvest.
Why would someone target Fort Kent Elementary School? Only thing I can think of is relationship with teacher gone bad. Way too random.
How is it way too random if “Schools across the nation, including in Texas, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have received similar envelopes with powder in them since Monday”?
http://www.fiddleheadfocus.com/story/fort-kent-school-officials-discover-white-powder-envelope7006
Sounds like this is not an isolated case…. Many other schools and Government buildings have been sent envelopes containing white powder.. postmarked from Texas…
Soooooooooo if the FBI was doing their job… all schools government buildings should have been on high alert for envelopes from Texas. I’m just sooooooooo sure that a elementary school in Fort Kent, Maine should have thought it a little wierd to get an envelope from Texas to begin with… Second of all IF they had been notified to be on the look out already they wouldn’t have opened it. And as far as not evacuating the school for a potentially dangerous material doesn’t sit well with me. And it’s probably a good thing my kid doesn’t go there or I’d be really pizzed!
Fear no cornstarch.
Ploye mix
All these precautions have to be taken because some doofus scientist couldn’t get a date with a sorority girl ten years ago and mailed anthrax traces to a handful of members of congress…Thanks bud…glad you whacked yourself.
…FBI agents from Waterville drove up… I would have urged them to watch out for the MSP speed traps on 95. Those guys are HARD CORE!
That’s because they’re trying to find drugs – for good reason.
OMG; If the FBI has drug problem we are all in trouble!
Sometimes prescription drugs are necessary.
Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression
by David Martin
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring
down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based
defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these
techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a
mere token opposition party.
Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.
Wax indignant. This is also known as the “how dare you?” gambit.
Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild
rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to
learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.”
Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect of the
weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild
rumors and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the
charges, real and fanciful alike.
Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nut,”
“ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and of course, “rumor monger.” You must
then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you
have thus maligned.
1-Adam-12 conspiracy nut case ranting on BDN-possibly under the influence of hallucinagens-1 Adam 12 may be dangerous and spouting 9-11 conspiracy fantasy statements-proceed with cautium
I don’t like the way our schools respond to emergencies — they’re assuming it’s not really serious. This is scary.
Chill out, once you examine the evidence for the US Government/FBI creating 911 things will go a lot easier waiting for their next false flag operation on the American voter and taxpayer who paid their salaries while they planted and set off explosives that collapsed the twin towers and then they sent Anthrax to our US Senators sort of like the horses head in the movie THE GODFATHER with its own unique anthrax subliminal warning.
But eh, you could have the inside track on what to do and 1,600 architects and engineers got it wrong. LOL http://ae911truth.org/
I am sorry make that 200 jet fighter pilots and airline pilots http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/core.html
I am sorry make that fries, burger and chips to go http://physics911.net/
WOW! Kudos on your wildest rant ever! Now, once again, put on the tinfoil hat and get back on your meds.
Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression
by David Martin
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring
down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based
defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these
techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a
mere token opposition party.
Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.
Wax indignant. This is also known as the “how dare you?” gambit.
Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild
rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to
learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.”
Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect of the
weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild
rumors and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the
charges, real and fanciful alike.
Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nut,”
“ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and of course, “rumor monger.” You must
then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you
have thus maligned.
Envelopes of white powder to other schools were corn starch……we never really know when one of those envelopes won’t be corn starch! My grandson attends school there….do I worry about this sort of thing happening? I most certainly do!
“But it was in the principal’s office, and the cops told us pretty quickly that it did not appear suspicious.”
Yet the FBI is investigating? Sounds like a school administrator covering for the lack of proper action on their part or the local PD? The State does have specific guidelines to assess these types of incidents and determine the threat level, one must ponder whether these protocols were followed? No evacuation? Haz-Mat/WMD team call out? One must decide if we’re going to take these things seriously or blow them off, you shouldn’t play both sides, parents should know what the schools thought process is to understand what their children may or may not be exposed to in the form of any type of risk.
Well I for one think the FBI did the right thing, eh? LOL
Did I mention the top cop at the FBI John Conditt head of the FBI OPR
the man in charge of investigating other FBI agents for misconduct was recently sentenced to prison for having sex with 6 year old children?
FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse
Tuesday February 17, 2004 11:46 PM
By JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press Writer
https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1077052156
WASHINGTON (AP) – The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
see link for full story
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fbi.internal.documents/index.html
CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape
By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011
Washington (CNN) — An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.
A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while “satisfying himself.”
And an employee in a “leadership position” misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.
These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.
Read the FBI documents obtained by CNN
actually, Haz-MAT/WMD/CST was called, that’s who went from Waterville.
Funny of the two sides the FBI and the conspiracy nutjobs, only one is required to tell the truth? Care ponder who? The FBI is made up of American citizens, you really think for one millisecond that every one of those agents is in on a epic conspiracy? For little money no less? Seek help you need meds and your voting rights taken away!
Thanks BRIGHT for your reasoned response to my post.
I can see why you chose your name,eh?
I suspect you could have used fewer footnotes. LOL
Sounds like you are a little miffed Mr McSteamy over my post
to the Rockland Harbor Commission BDN story.
I continue to take my meds on time and respond to selected stories at BDN
at the request of my Mental Wealth counselor who tells me
posting at BDN can be therapeutic and it does leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling after bonding with you. more LOL
Sorry, I no longer vote. I do not want to give away my power
to someone else.
Oh, sorry but I thought I named some of the FBI agents involved.!
see http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660197443/Nichols-says-bombing-was-FBI-op.html
even more LOL
Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plot
By Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News
Published: Thursday, Feb. 22 2007 1:02 p.m. MST
Summary
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.
A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others.
The declaration was filed as part of Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue’s pending wrongful death suit against the government for the death of his brother in a federal corrections facility in Oklahoma City. Trentadue claims his brother was killed during an interrogation by FBI agents when agents mistook his brother for a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
The most shocking allegation in the 19-page signed declaration is Nichols’ assertion that the whole bombing plot was an FBI operation and that McVeigh let slip during a bout of anger that he was taking instruction from former FBI official Larry Potts.
I had heard Al Queda had been targeting Fort Kent for some time but the Fort part of the name had been scaring them away. This powder was just a test to see if they would be able to penetrate the walls of the Fort with mail. The real threat will be what follows. Stay vigilant Fort Kent. When Americans are called infidels by our enemies, they are talking about you too.
So let me get this straight…unidentified white powder, derogatory things about the FBI and “the cops told us pretty quickly that it did not look suspicious.” Really?