9/11 Anniversary Terror Threat On White House Facebook Page Probed By Secret Service

WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service is investigating three threatening messages that were posted on the White House's Facebook page.

The messages included a picture of Osama bin Laden. One said, "We'll come back 11/9/2011 to kill u all." Another showed small plane icons and said, "Today we'll come 11/9/2011."

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the agency has referred the messages to its Internet threat desk.

Donovan says the Secret Service has a process in place to handle the wide spectrum of Internet threats, social media posts and tweets brought to the attention of officials.

The White House referred all questions to the Secret Service. The messages were first reported by WNBC in New York.

Comments

[dbrett480]

07:18 PM on 10/02/2011

This is pretty dumb considering that ip addresses can be readily tracked on Facebook.

[Louis Bernardi]

10:43 AM on 09/13/2011

I'd put money it's some 11 year old kid who's buddies on Call of Duty dared him to do it. What a joke.

[cleves2007usa]

12:46 AM on 09/13/2011

we need to end all free trade this would create jobs americans and charge all nations 50% to trade in america and have a national lotto 5us tickets and prize system held each week and also funds could pay alot of things off and imprive schools-much also lower american taxes to a one way system like ross perot wanted and end all censorship cause ya know bush dad banned war of the world tv show and made freddy kruggar tv series come on late at night and they banned etv to become pbs ,,,,where canada funds all of there shows and has a parliment goverment and sovernity by the queen of england,,,,a internet tax would be good and a postal email tax would be good also a mailbox tax be good or a oneway tax system,,,,

[iCode v2]

02:29 AM on 09/13/2011

Could you keep your indecipherable blabbering in one post instead of flooding everyone with it?
It's annoying enough to scroll past one message already.

[cleves2007usa]

12:40 AM on 09/13/2011

post office want to lay off 150,000 and let friday or saturaday go-really they could keep the jobs and charge a internet postal email tax once a year on your bill like 25us fee and 20us fee for all folks owning mail boxes for there mail to come-raise moneyorders by 2.00 its insured upto 1,000us from 750us,and also this would save jobs and create more postal jobs and keep post office open...well obama could of had a internet tax for the debt to be paied off and also a tax on the water and light bill federal tax and also increase ssi checks to 200us more this would create jobs cause folks going to spend it up anyway ya on food and bills,checks are be up ya need to contact all house and congress end all free trade now and charge them tax and charge china taxes on anything now and all nations,and elect puerto rico as a new usa state now cause they part of the usa, increasing fees to ssi on payroll checks and going paperless to cards soon,direct express ssi checks on them or any you choose ,,rick perry f up ya badly even mitt romeny saw it,,,obama cutted pbs funds completely off ya to all shows nomore grants,also he banned online poker you can only play in a club site as a member now,thats was huge the usa could of made money tax off of them to pay the debt off

[cleves2007usa]

12:26 AM on 09/13/2011

,,,obama messed up osama alive ya and mad as hell the news lies to us,,,obama-all leaders since after jfk do what the overlords tell them what to do see obama lied to us alot where his promises and why he end nasa cause the ones are here and ready and why nasa lie to us on mars its life there bill clinton said it long ago and the face on mars could be our lord christ it matches the shrould of christ also see islam book do states he was taken up more proof and proof was on here of russia went to mars in 1964 i saw it they got stuff there that shock the usa there life there see a russian cosmanaut he went there in some ship and saw things that shock all live footages,,,we was lied to and russia had a space station called mir and we never knew of it,,,i think islam and all faiths been tamper with by the overlords,,,see it all on youtube on illumanti and overlords and area 51 yes they do have a place its real and in wikki leaks and why julian anssage was threaten hes a news man and have free expression and can place or do as he like we suppose be a nation of free rights

[cleves2007usa]

12:24 AM on 09/13/2011

Ya osama bin laden alive!!! see the seals killed the wrong man some religious cult leader ya and osama bin larden was in afighanstan ya member the other seals was going in on the area close in the mountains well there tomahawk was blown up massively by boozokais and bombs i could not believe it i said thats they was going in to the real osama but they could not get him and its a crime to kill someone and there family they are a cult leader in another nation and pakistan stated no osama was in there nation the guy was a cult leader there whom looked like osama ya or a clone double or might been a lie to us and the seals really found nothing there only a abbandon place or some cult members of sun moon type of guy this dude healed folks and was a holyman ,,,see some of the same seals was in that tomahawk ya that was blown up massively see youtube thats the area where osama was ya on his milk machine he has massive armyPortal to the new age in freedom of expression media entertainment!!!

[GirlInNYC]

10:41 PM on 09/12/2011

How can a country get involved with wars and not expect retaliation at some point?

[harboreagle2]

11:59 AM on 09/12/2011

All of this is fair warning, He is coming back soon!!!!!

[GetrealU]

02:53 PM on 09/12/2011

Very cryptic comment. Who is coming back soon? The Terminator? Santa Claus? Elvis?

[harboreagle2]

03:19 PM on 09/12/2011

You'll find out soon enough,,,save yourself!

[Louie Rey]

10:37 AM on 09/12/2011

Well, the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 came and went and nothing was perpetrated by these sucidal fanatics. However, the one thing this country CANNOT do is fall into complacency again. In hindsight, in our post-9/11 world, if you were working the ticket counter at an airport and several Middle Eastern men bought one-way tickets with cash on a transcontinental flight how many red flags would go up in your head? Thousands maybe? Thanks to the fact that radical Islam had actually been at war with America for a decade but our leaders refused to acknowledge that, when that scenario presented itself in Boston's Logan Airport and in Dulles International Airport in DC it didn't raise an eyebrow. We are lying to ourselves if we think we can go back to a pre-9/11 mindset and not be heinously attacked.

[freedomsxm]

10:37 AM on 09/12/2011

Maybe they should start with checking Palins e-mail account.....

[Kirsten555]

09:49 AM on 09/12/2011

Obviously they should be aware and they shouldn't ignore it, but keep in mind it is most likely some bored kid or crazy middle aged guy just trying to stir things up. The white house doesn't take to trolling too well.

[riddysback]

01:49 PM on 09/12/2011

maybe a middle-aged woman

[calmly2]

06:13 PM on 09/12/2011

You're right, it could be Bachmann.

[mitchellri]

09:36 AM on 09/12/2011

When you use the right aluminum foil on your lampshades, and the blinds on the windows are grounded, you will hear the voices from Facebook telling you what you need to know...

[mrsscotty]

09:36 AM on 09/12/2011

I do not understand...it was on the wh facebook page...and it took a NEWS Station to find it????? Makes me wonder....... u think that Secret Service would be monitoring any or ALL social media related to the White House FIRST???

[Moll Flanders]

10:27 AM on 09/12/2011

It's better known as......bogus.

[LilaGrace]

11:25 AM on 09/12/2011

You seriously need to settle down. The article said WNBC was the first to REPORT on the threat, they weren't the first ones to DISCOVER it. There is a HUGE difference. The Secret Service DOES monitor all WH social media. Did you read ANY of the article?

[Rollin McKim]

09:29 AM on 09/12/2011

The date Obama is scared of is Tuesday, November 6th.......ELECTION DAY.

[Summlife Oneday]

11:17 AM on 09/12/2011

YOU should be worried if he is not re-elected.The republicans will cause a great depression and marshall law.

[Orange22]

12:45 PM on 09/12/2011

we are in a depression and this administration has already been looking into banning certain cable news shows

[marinec215]

11:22 AM on 09/12/2011

Amen F&F

[StansDad]

03:14 PM on 09/12/2011

Obama is afraid alright, afraid that he might not have to spend any money on the election as the GOP can't come up with one viable candidate. Obama's reelection is all but guaranteed at this point.

[Big Nicky]

09:26 AM on 09/12/2011

Another idiot about to be thrown in jail for Facebooking the wrong way!