SEATTLE — Federal authorities are investigating two suspicious letters found yesterday and one suspicious package found Friday in Washington state that appear to be targeting congressional offices and election officials.
The letters on Thursday contained white powder, with one being spotted at a downtown Seattle federal building and another intercepted before it reached the Washington Secretary of State’s elections division in Olympia.
“We strongly condemn this attack and as the Secretary of State of Washington, I consider it a terrorist attack quite frankly,” said Secretary of State Steve Hobbs. “Clearly this letter had the intention, by whoever did this, to create confusion and chaos and fear.”…