The Secret Service will investigate the hacking of the Fox News political Twitter account over tweets claiming that President Barack Obama was assassinated in Iowa.
Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie said this afternoon that the law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect the president will conduct an investigation of the false postings.
The hacking early today resulted in six false tweets that Obama was assassinated. The tweets from the FoxNewsPolitics account alleged that an unknown shooter assassinated Obama in Iowa, and that the shooter is unknown.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/FoxNewsTwitterHacked/2011/07/04/id/402368
Secret Service to Probe Hacking Into Fox News, Claiming Obama Assassinated