Poison Plot Targeted Supremes – November 17, 2006:
NOVEMBER 17–Until former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor recently spilled the beans, federal prosecutors had succeeded in keeping quiet the details of a plot to poison all nine members of the high court as well as two top FBI officials. During a speech at a legal conference in Texas last week, O’Connor made a passing reference to the scheme as she talked about assorted attacks on the judiciary.
It really did happen: the list of targets/intended victims is pretty broad. They also include the chiefs of staff of each branch of the armed services. The sentencing memo (available at the link above) is interesting, if you’re at all interested in how these cases are unraveled. Typewriter ribbons, fibers from clothes, lists and various minutia, it’s like something of Sherlock Holmes.
The boys at Sadly, No! are better at tracking this but I haven’t seen any howls of condemnation from the “Rule of Law” crowd.