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Obama Not Told About Alleged Assassination Plot

October 27, 2008 5:11 PM

Nm_obama_secret_service_detail_0810 A senior Barack Obama aide tells ABC News that Obama's Secret Service detail had not been briefed on the alleged plot to assassinate the Democratic nominee, an indication that the plot had not reached the point of posing a serious threat to Obama. 

"They were given no heads up," the Obama aide tells ABC News.

ABC News' Jack Date reports the ATF have arrested two neo-Nazis for an alleged plot to Obama.

The plotters were also planning to kill 88 individuals by gunfire and 14 African Americans by decapitation a federal law enforcement sources tells ABC News.

Obama has had Secret Service agents surrounding him since May 3, the earliest a candidate has ever been provided protection.

An Obama aide tells ABC News that Secret Service headquarters "would be notified of anything that mentioned" Obama. But adds that "it never rose to any sort of serious level," which explains why Obama's personal detail was not notified.

--George Stephanopoulos

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This is awful. I am a McCain Supporter, but I think this is awful. I wish that you people could be as equally upset and angry about the actions of another home grown terrorist Ayers. Imagine what the family of those individuals that the Weather Underground injured feel. It's all terror whether today or 25 years ago, we should be outraged across the board.

Posted by: Kim | Oct 27, 2008 5:26:34 PM

Oh ok then lets just dismiss the whole thing Ok?

Posted by: Thinking | Oct 27, 2008 5:28:26 PM

Be safe Obama.

Posted by: Stacey | Oct 27, 2008 5:28:53 PM

Be safe Obama.

Posted by: Stacey | Oct 27, 2008 5:28:55 PM

Palin's hate speech leads to this.
Words have consequences... something Ms Palin does not seem to understand.

Posted by: Gus | Oct 27, 2008 5:31:02 PM

What a couple of big talking, low IQ blithering idiots! What few teeth they have between them will soon be missing after they are put in with the general prison population. Don't drop the soap fools.

Posted by: Clint | Oct 27, 2008 5:32:04 PM

God please protect our next president!

Posted by: Kathy | Oct 27, 2008 5:33:56 PM

This type of hatred & divisiveness is only fuled by the dispicable attacks launched against Obama this campaign. And the new Republican ads airing linking Obama with Rev. Wright only further this type of hatred. Enough!!! Cant they end this campaign on a more civil note!!Its time the media blasted the Repubs for their dispicable attacks and shame them into a more civil mode. Enough of this divisive and hateful politics!! I hope the Obama team fights even harder & wins this election with a very desicive victory!!

Posted by: Dee | Oct 27, 2008 5:34:38 PM

The ages of these 2 idiots? 18 and 20, so no doubt the sons of racists idiots. Words are powerful, and Palin has some baggage in this...she can say she didn't hear ANY of the things screamed out by her fans, but i don't buy it.

Posted by: Dee | Oct 27, 2008 5:38:27 PM

This is the results of the hate messages McCain and Palin have been spreading. Nuts on the fringes thrive on such retraite. McCain and Palin should be held responsible for inciting such violence. Where has the justice gone??

Posted by: LANNY EDWARDS | Oct 27, 2008 5:41:11 PM

Dee, all the NeoCons have is hate, lies, and smears. Look at their rallies, that shows us the caliber of people that has infested the once proud GOP. At a Pallin rally today a woman yelled out N---er. Ms Pallin as usual, just kept on spreading the lies and hate.

Posted by: Clint | Oct 27, 2008 5:42:29 PM

Another glimpse of what Zero administration would look like. Just like Bush, he is not to be told many things, and then lies, and then, makes boneheaded mistakes.

Posted by: d0 | Oct 27, 2008 5:42:37 PM

I have to agree with Kim but I'm confused about this Ayers thing. If Ayers participated in the bombings wouldn't he still be in jail? I think he was just part of the group that was responsible for bombings. I know he is a professor at UIC which means he must not be to bad.

Posted by: Dave | Oct 27, 2008 5:44:48 PM

I have faith that Sen.Obama will be okay and that he will become the next President. This kind of stuff should not define this great nation and where it needs to go. This is time when all should be coming together and deciding how this nation will go for the next four years. Don't let this kind of thing divide us.

Obama/Biden 08

Posted by: francheska ;-) | Oct 27, 2008 5:47:03 PM

Ooh- I'd better go vote for Obama now and put him in the white house in order to stop racism. If I don't support him, I must be racist or a McCain or Hillary supporter. The logic of NoBama supporters is pathetic!

Posted by: Rob | Oct 27, 2008 5:47:48 PM

This is the waste product McCain/Palin hate rallies.

Posted by: petra jennings | Oct 27, 2008 5:49:07 PM

This is a result of the hate-filled rants by Palin and McCain at their violent and racist rallies. The GOP controlled press has just ignored this issue and pretends its not happening so private citizens have to go out there and document the reality. Pure inbred losers, that is what the GOP has become and that is what the television/radio media cows to.

Posted by: JD | Oct 27, 2008 5:49:10 PM

This has nothing to do with Ayers & to mention Ayers in this context seems only a means of trying to divert from this horrid issue of racism.

Posted by: Dee | Oct 27, 2008 5:49:29 PM

Maybe this is a typo but I think it was supposed to be kill 102 African Americans (88 by gunshots and 14 by decapitation). As it reads now, they were killin 88 individuals and 14 African Americans--which leaves the impression that African-Americans aren't, you know, persons.

Posted by: KJ | Oct 27, 2008 5:51:29 PM

Rob...what's up? You upset because they didn't succeed? You protest too much to be sane.

Posted by: Dee | Oct 27, 2008 5:51:31 PM

I wonder if the news reporter from Florida will ask McCain/Palin if their platform is that of the Neo-Nazis like she asked Biden about Marxism.

Posted by: fivepin | Oct 27, 2008 5:52:06 PM

WHY QUICKLY TAG THESE HIRED ASSASINS NEONAZI'S INSTEAD OF CALLING THEM AMERICAN CAUCASIANS WHO HATE TO SEE AN AFRICAN AMERICA BECOME THE PRERSIDENT OF UNITED STATE OF AMERICA? THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THAT THEY ARE REPUBLICAN AGENTS TO SILENCE OPPOSITION PARTY AND OFCOURSE AFRICAN-AMERICANS. WHY MUST THE CAUCASIAN'S KEEP RULING AMERICA? ALLOW OTHER RACE A LITTLE TIME TO SERVE THIS GREAT NATION

Posted by: ferera | Oct 27, 2008 5:52:27 PM

I blame mcshame and palin for the hatred that,s being spread about obama..obama you and your family be safe.

Posted by: lecky60 | Oct 27, 2008 5:52:38 PM

If I were the one spreading scurilous rumors and lies that put someones life in danger I would most likely be put in jail. I guess justice is just for the middle class and poor and the rich and powerful can say and do whatever they please.

Posted by: LANNY EDWARDS | Oct 27, 2008 5:53:41 PM

D0

you have taken over geevils spot as the biggest moron on these boards... congratulations


were talking about assassination and you are being a douche


nice going

souless dirt bag

Posted by: Bhrandon | Oct 27, 2008 5:53:44 PM

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