Monday, January 22, 2007
81 yr old man writes a letter and scares tn SS
Dan Tilli is 81 yrs old, retired and he writes letters to his local paper. He has been doing so for twentysome years. His last one got the Secret Service a little worried.
Tilli received a phone call from a Secret Service agent Thursday morning. The call surprised Tilli, but he was even more startled when he learned the caller and another dark-suited agent were sitting outside Tilli's Bethlehem apartment building at that very moment.And so after a nice chat they left and their conclusion.
"They said, 'We're coming up,'" Tilli recalled Friday. "They were in the parking lot and they came up in two seconds."
The agents, who confirmed the call and visit Friday, grilled Tilli for nearly an hour before deeming him safe. Their concern was Tilli's letter to the editor published in Monday's Express-Times.
The letter referenced the execution of Saddam Hussein and ended with the line, "I still believe they hanged the wrong man."
The government apparently saw that as a potential threat toward the president.
Letter writer: No threat made toward Bush
"I didn't say who I could've meant bin Laden," Tilli said, adding that the statement wasn't a threat. "They said that's true, but somebody could take it like that."
"We have no further interest in Dan," he said.It all seems a waste of money to me. After all, we have a replacement for presidents already elected and ready to go, and I just realized how necessary the Secret Service is.
Secret Service agent Kenneth Beauchamp said he enjoyed his visit with Tilli.
"He was an interesting man to talk to," Beauchamp said. "He seemed like a very nice gentleman."
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