The Rachel Maddow Show   |  December 13, 2012

Mississippi latest in series of mysterious threats

Rachel Maddow reports on a strange pattern in which five states have had simultaneous threatening phone calls made to courthouses across the state.

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>>> i think this may end up being a national story. a bunch of courthouses across mississippi started getting calls. in each case they are threatening. by the end of the day 31 courthouses got these bomb threats . when you looked at the chronology at which threats came when, they were phoned in, by al fabet kal order by county. this is 25 of them. because of the threats, there were evacuations in mississippi , but no devices were found and no one was hurt. november 2nd , nine in the state of nebraska received bomb threats . in washington state . eight beginning in the afternoon. four days later november 19th , it was oregon. getting bomb threats . a week after that, it was 30 courthouses across the state of tennessee . bomb threats and no devices were found by authorities. one court clerk reported hearing a man say if this is the courthouse you are about to be blown up. so it was neb and washington and tennessee and mississippi . after the news broke, we spoke of officials and the fbi. and they told us that they were related. quote it is an ongoing investigation. but it would be foolish not to look into the possibility that these are connected. the director of homeland security told us we were in contact with several states. he told uses threats have been narrowed down to a couple of cell phones. that is new information tonight. we are watching this one closely and we will keep you posted. it is time for the