As of now, it appears to be a hoax, but suspicious white powder was mailed to at least four federal office buildings in the Pacific Northwest as of today. In Bellevue, Washington, a woman at the IRS opened an envelope, saw white powder fall out, and ran. Similar incidents played out at the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle, the FBI office in Spokane, and the U.S. Attorney's office in Boise, Idaho.
The Seattle Timesis reporting that the powder in the Bellevue incident is a bleach compound, not anthrax or something of that level of danger. Stay tuned to find out which teabagger-inspired right-wing loons think it's funny to mail white powder to federal office buildings. No doubt it will be someone who watches Fox News and didn't know that their little joke could land them in jail. Not with God and Ron Paul on their side.