Plot to Kill Obama
City and federal authorities in Denver may have thwarted an attempt to assassinate Sen. Barack Obama during his acceptance speech Thursday evening at the Democratic National Convention.
Law enforcement officials have arrested at least three people (four by some reports). The New York Times reports Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, Nathan Johnson, 32, and Shawn Robert Adolf, 33, were arrested at various times beginning Sunday when the Aurora police pulled Gartrell over for driving erratically in a rental truck early Sunday morning.
Tharin Robert Gartrell, left, and Nathan Johnson, right
While the U.S. Attorney for Colorado said the suspects pose no threat to Obama (an astute observation since they’re in jail), the suspects admitted in interviews with local authorities and CBS4 in Denver they intended to harm Obama.
One of those suspects spoke exclusively to CBS4 investigative reporter Brian Maass from inside the Denver City Jail late Monday night and said his friends had discussed killing Obama.
“So your friends were saying threatening things about Obama?” Maass asked.
“Yeah,” Nathan Johnson replied.
“It sounded like they didn’t want him to be president?”
“Yeah,” Johnson said.
Maass reported earlier Monday that one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.”
Law enforcement sources told Maass that one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative.”
It’s hard to know whether those are credible or delusional assertions since the authorities discovered the suspects were in the possession of methamphetamines.
The U.S. attorney’s office has scheduled a press conference for this afternoon.
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