Asheville Citizen-Times: Secret Service says student’s rant was no threat to Bush
A Mars Hill College student’s Internet post with song lyrics including “the president’s bullet-ridden body in the street” constitutes no threat to President Bush, U.S. Secret Service agents have determined.
But officials must examine Tim Willis’ seized computer for any other information before deciding whether they think he broke the law, said Russ Nelson, special agent in charge of the Secret Service in North Carolina.
“If there is nothing there, then the computer will be returned,” he said.
An agent took Willis’ computer last week after someone tipped the federal agency’s Charlotte office about a posting on
myspace.com, Nelson said.
Willis, a freshman at Mars Hill, said he meant no harm in posting lyrics describing the violent death of Bush.
Threatening the president is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison.
“We take all allegations of threats seriously,” Nelson said.
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