Secret Service Probes Facebook Poll on Murdering Obama

Bloggers alerted law enforcement to potential danger
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 28, 2009 3:52 PM CDT
Secret Service Probes Facebook Poll on Murdering Obama
A screenshot from a Facebook poll on whether or not the president should be killed.

The Secret Service is looking into a Facebook poll that asked users to weigh in on whether the president should be killed. “We are taking the appropriate investigative steps,” said a rep for the agency. The poll, which has already been taken down, offered four possible answers to the question "should obama be killed?": “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” and, perhaps most tellingly, “If he cuts my health care,” Plum Line reports.
(More Barack Obama stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X