Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, was taken into custody by the Secret Service, and charged with threatening to assassinate Obama. "Threats against the president-elect will be taken very seriously," Dunn Lampton, US attorney, said in a release. "Use of Internet chat rooms to express those threats is as much a crime as uttering the words. Threats of this nature will be pursued swiftly and vigorously." |
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