rockdawg21
05-18-2011, 08:11 PM
Can't say the Secret Service wasn't doing their job in this case. A 13-year old child (which could be a fake FB page) is fully capable of an assassination.
There's a video if you scroll to the center of the page.
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/18/6667233-secret-service-interrogates-13-year-old-over-facebook-post?GT1=43001
Secret Service interrogates 13-year-old over Facebook post
http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/nws/athima-chansanchai/6667466.jpg
A screengrab of Vito Lapinta Jr.'s Facebook page
By Athima Chansanchai
When Timi Robertson found out her middle-schooler son was being questioned by the Secret Service and the police at his Tacoma, Wa. school, she says she "just about lost it," — especially after they told her it was over a Facebook post the boy had written warning President Barack Obama of suicide attacks in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.
"My 13-year-old son, who's a minor, who's supposed to be safe and secure in his classroom at school, is being interrogated without my knowledge or consent by the Secret Service," Robertson told Q13 Fox News reporter Dana Rebik. She only got wind of the interrogation because a school security guard tipped her off and arrived a half-hour after the agent had already begun questioning her son. Tacoma police were also present.
The school said they began without her because she didn't take their call seriously, which Robertson called a "blatant lie."
By the end of the interview, which occurred May 13, the agent told the boy he was free to go and wasn't in trouble.
Her son, seventh-grader Vito Lapinta Jr., told the reporter he was "very scared" and that he's more careful about what he writes on the site. But his mother stands by her son and thinks the issue is how Truman Middle School and the Secret Service "handled it, because he's still a child," which you can hear her say in this video:
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/18/6667233-secret-service-interrogates-13-year-old-over-facebook-post?GT1=43001 (scroll to center of page)
Vito had posted a status update on Facebook a week earlier that highlighted his concern for the president of retaliation for the orchestrated killing of bin Laden. Then a week later, he gets called into the principal's office, where a man who identified himself as a Secret Service agent told him that the post was considered a threat to Obama.
Goes to show, if you think someone's reading your tweets and Facebook posts, you're probably right.
There's a video if you scroll to the center of the page.
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/18/6667233-secret-service-interrogates-13-year-old-over-facebook-post?GT1=43001
Secret Service interrogates 13-year-old over Facebook post
http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/nws/athima-chansanchai/6667466.jpg
A screengrab of Vito Lapinta Jr.'s Facebook page
By Athima Chansanchai
When Timi Robertson found out her middle-schooler son was being questioned by the Secret Service and the police at his Tacoma, Wa. school, she says she "just about lost it," — especially after they told her it was over a Facebook post the boy had written warning President Barack Obama of suicide attacks in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.
"My 13-year-old son, who's a minor, who's supposed to be safe and secure in his classroom at school, is being interrogated without my knowledge or consent by the Secret Service," Robertson told Q13 Fox News reporter Dana Rebik. She only got wind of the interrogation because a school security guard tipped her off and arrived a half-hour after the agent had already begun questioning her son. Tacoma police were also present.
The school said they began without her because she didn't take their call seriously, which Robertson called a "blatant lie."
By the end of the interview, which occurred May 13, the agent told the boy he was free to go and wasn't in trouble.
Her son, seventh-grader Vito Lapinta Jr., told the reporter he was "very scared" and that he's more careful about what he writes on the site. But his mother stands by her son and thinks the issue is how Truman Middle School and the Secret Service "handled it, because he's still a child," which you can hear her say in this video:
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/18/6667233-secret-service-interrogates-13-year-old-over-facebook-post?GT1=43001 (scroll to center of page)
Vito had posted a status update on Facebook a week earlier that highlighted his concern for the president of retaliation for the orchestrated killing of bin Laden. Then a week later, he gets called into the principal's office, where a man who identified himself as a Secret Service agent told him that the post was considered a threat to Obama.
Goes to show, if you think someone's reading your tweets and Facebook posts, you're probably right.