The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday's edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, "I still believe they hanged the wrong man."
Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, (for their files*) he said.
Bob Slama, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Philadelphia office, said it was the agency's duty to investigate.
"We have no further interest in Danhe said.
It wasn't Tilli's first run-in with the federal government over his letter writing. Two FBI agents from Allentown showed up at his home last year about a letter he wrote advocating a civil war to unseat Bush, he said.
>*more from (Jan 20)
Tilli received a phone call from a Secret Service agent Thursday morning. The call surprised Tilli, but he was even more startled when he learned the caller and another dark-suited agent were sitting outside Tilli's Bethlehem apartment building at that very moment.
"They said, 'We're coming up,'" Tilli recalled Friday. "They were in the parking lot and they came up in two seconds."
The agents, who arrived about 10 a.m. after traveling 60 miles from Philadelphia, asked Tilli a little of everything: Do you have siblings? Have you considered committing suicide? ("Hell no," he responded.) Have you visited Washington, D.C.?
Express-Times editorial page editor James S. Flagg said he received a call Wednesday from a Secret Service agent, asking for Tilli's address and phone number. The agent said he was having trouble finding Tilli's information, which is unlisted.
Flagg said it is The Express-Times' policy not to disclose a letter writer's address or phone number -- even to the Secret Service.
Writer finds an agent -- from the Secret Service | Express Times
~Did Mr. Tilli say the two secret service agents mentioned last year's "run in"?
Did the Express-Times editor refuse to give the Secret Police Mr. Tilli's address and phone number or did he change the policy in this instance?
Bush's Iraq policy led to total failure
G.W. Bush's address on Wednesday night was nothing more than an admittance of failure in Iraq, which we all knew before this.
You don't fight a war four years and then change plans, you make plans before you go to war. At a time when we should be sending troops home from Iraq, this idiot wants to send 20,000 more U.S. troops. It is clear that the more troops you send to Iraq the fewer will be coming home.
Democrats in Congress should not vote one more dollar and not allow one more soldier to be sent to Iraq. This maniac must be stopped at all costs. Iraq has lost its dictator but we still have G.W. Bush.
If you can't win in Iraq with 140,000 U.S. troops, you can't win with 240,000 troops. But Bush is too dumb to know it. After more than 3,000 U.S. deaths and more than 16,000 wounded and more than $400 billion tax dollars lost in Iraq, you would think that any moron would know it's time to go.
The best thing now is to get U.S. troops out of Iraq and get Bush out of Washington. I still believe they hanged the wrong man.
Dan Tilli
Bethlehem
http://www.nj.com/letters/expresstimes/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1168837502108500.xml&coll=2&thispage=4
~It took a little digging to find Mr. Tilli's letter.
Posted by Stubbornson at January 22, 2007 06:55 AM