By: E&P Staff Last month, the New York Post mocked MSNBC host Keith Olbermann after he received a letter at his home in New York laced with an unidentified white powder and immediately called police, and later went to a hospital for a thorough checkup. This indeed happened, but Olbermann pointed out several factual errors in the report (the Post shares its News Corp. parent with his chief antagonist, Fox News), which seemed to make light of the whole affair.
Now it has emerged that the California man who has just been arrested by the FBI and accused of mailing threatening letters over the last three months, along with white powder, to Olbermann, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, and other high-profile figures, is a sometime conservative blogger.
FBI agents took Chad Castagana, 39, into custody Saturday on charges of conveying false information and sending threats via the U.S. mail. He will appear in court today.
Castagana has posted on several conservative sites. Earlier this year, for example, at ExposeTheLeft.com, he wrote: "Congresswoman Katherine Harris is a remarkable lady! She has perservered a lot to advance the Conservative Cause. We Red-Bloooded (sic) Americans are obligated to support her, siritualy (sic), not just politically!"
While the FBI is still trying to identify the white powder, preliminary tests revealed it does not pose a hazard.
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