Is there a terror threat against the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas? The FBI is checking out a hot tip.
The FBI is investigating a bomb threat made regarding the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University.Someone who overheard a conversation about the bomb threat called a Crime Stoppers tip line, and that information was passed along to the FBI, said A&M spokesman Lane Stephenson.
"This is something that's not being taken lightly," he said.
FBI spokesman Bob Doguim said today that the agency, along with other participants in the Joint Terrorism Task Force and university police, has been investigating the case since Wednesday, when the Crime Stoppers tip was received.
"Someone called in with a concern that they had heard some individuals possibly planning to do some damage to the library," Doguim said.
Doguim said authorities are trying to track down the information received from the tipster. So far, none of it has been substantiated, he said.
KHOU in Houston featured the story in its broadcast Thursday night (Windows Media), including details about the apparent plotters being overheard talking about the threat in a restaurant. That seems unlikely -- surely genuine terrorists would be more circumspect. Nevertheless, the Bush Library would damn sure make an attractive symbolic target.