{"id":3015,"date":"2008-10-16T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2008-10-16T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T14:44:16","slug":"secret-service-says-kill-him-allegation-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/secret-service-says-kill-him-allegation-unfounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service says &#8220;Kill him&#8221; allegation unfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Obama caught in yet another lie. With so many wild claims and distortions Obama&#8217;s behavior is showin dangerous signs of pathological behavior.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/news\/breakingnews\/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html\">The Times Leader<\/a> | Andrew M. Seder | Oct. 15, 2008<\/p>\n<p>The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled \u201ckill him\u201d when presidential hopeful Barack Obama\u2019s name was mentioned during Tuesday\u2019s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama\u2019s name a man in the audience shouted \u201ckill him.&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC\u2019s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story. <\/p>\n<p>Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was baffled,\u201d he said after reading the report in Wednesday\u2019s Times-Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton. <\/p>\n<p>Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell \u201ckill him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/news\/breakingnews\/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama caught in yet another lie. With so many wild claims and distortions Obama&#8217;s behavior is showin dangerous signs of pathological behavior. The Times Leader | Andrew M. Seder | Oct. 15, 2008 The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled \u201ckill him\u201d when presidential hopeful &#8230; <a title=\"Secret Service says &#8220;Kill him&#8221; allegation unfounded\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/secret-service-says-kill-him-allegation-unfounded\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Secret Service says &#8220;Kill him&#8221; allegation unfounded\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-totalitarian-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}