PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Secret Service says it's investigating the hanging of a cardboard effigy of Barack Obama from a tree on a Christian university campus to determine if it constitutes threats against the Democratic presidential candidate.
But the agent in charge of the Portland office says he doesn't expect to turn up a crime.
"We are continuing to investigate but I don't think it's going to go any further," agent Ron Wampole said. "There certainly wasn't any crime committed. I don't believe."
The FBI, meanwhile, is looking into possible civil rights violations, said agency spokeswoman Beth Anne Steeled.
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