JUNEAU, Alaska — An eighth letter containing suspicious powder and addressed to a governor’s office was intercepted Tuesday, and it bore a Texas postmark as with suspicious mailings to other governors this week, officials said.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin said the letter was received Tuesday in Juneau addressed to Palin’s predecessor, Frank Murkowski, who left office two years ago.
Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said she didn’t know from which Texas city the letter came. Seven other letters to governors’ offices received this week bore Dallas postmarks, the FBI said Tuesday.
And while the letters held harmless powder, results of tests on the Alaska letter were pending Tuesday night, the FBI office in Anchorage said.
Government operations were disrupted Monday when workers in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island opened the letters and discovered white powder.
Evan Dreyer, spokesman for Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, said Monday that the office had not received any suspicious mail.
