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Secret Service Probing Obama Facebook Threat

By David Kravets

A poll was created Monday on Facebook asking whether the creator of the “Should Obama be Killed Poll’ be arrested.

The latest poll comes hours after the Secret Service asked Facebook to remove a “third-party” poll asking whether the president should be assassinated. The answers included “yes,” “maybe,” “if he cuts my health care” and “no.”

More than 700 respondents took the survey before the Palo Alto, California-based Facebook removed it on Monday. Secret Service investigators were working to find out who created the survey. Threats against the president carry up to five years in prison.

Poll results were not available. Obama faces about 30 death threats daily.

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Full post as published by Threat Level on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).