Report: Man Who Threatened To Kill Obama Stopped At White House Gate

The South Lawn of the White House in Washington is seen on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. A device, possibly an unmanned aerial drone, was found on the White House grounds during the middle of the night while President Barac... The South Lawn of the White House in Washington is seen on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. A device, possibly an unmanned aerial drone, was found on the White House grounds during the middle of the night while President Barack Obama and first lady were in India. It was unclear whether their daughters, Sasha and Malia, were at home at the time of the incident with their grandmother, Marian Robinson. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) MORE LESS
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An Oklahoma man who threatened President Obama as well as former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton was stopped Sunday at the White House gate, despite travel restrictions against him, according to Washington television station WRC.

Archie Monroe Glass, Jr. was charged in 2008 for threats against Obama and Bush and was sentenced to federal prison for five years, the television station reported. He was in a halfway house and not supposed to leave Oklahoma without permission, according to the NBC affiliate.

In 2008, Glass sent a letter from El Reno, Oklahoma, the site of the same prison Obama happened to visit this summer. The letter read: “Mr. President, I’m going to murder you very soon by shooting you in the head and will do the very same thing to the winner of the November Presidential election,” according to WRC.

Glass was at a halfway house during Obama’s visit, the station reported. Glass has served a sentence for threatening to kill former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the station reported.

On Sunday, according to WRC, Secret Service agents stopped him outside the White House gate and made arrangements to transfer him to a mental health facility.

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  1. Bipartisanship on display?

  2. Well, at least now we know who Scott Walker’s VP candidate will be…

  3. Mentally ill, or merely a run of the mill Teabagger?

  4. Avatar for jep07 jep07 says:

    Can we get a list of publications and books he read, and what radio and TV stations he listened to and watched?

    didn’t think so… which means FOX and Rush (The Lump) and Bleck and Coulter were probably at the top of it.

  5. A true centrist. The Villagers should be leading hunger strikes (4 hours without consuming kale in some form) to get him freed.

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