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Three Explosive Devices Sent to Clintons, Obama and CNN Offices
Explosive devices were sent to former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as to CNN's offices in New York, sparking an intense investigation on Wednesday into whether a bomber is going after targets that have often been the subject of right-wing ire.
A law enforcement official said the three devices were similar to one found Monday at the home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and liberal donor.
[...] The device sent to CNN was contained in a manila envelope addressed to John Brennan, who was the C.I.A. director in the Obama administration and is a harsh critic of Mr. Trump. The president revoked Mr. Brennan's security clearance in what was seen as an act of retribution. The return address bore the name of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman who formerly headed the Democratic National Committee.
In a statement, the White House condemned "the attempted violent attacks."
Update 1: The explosive devices have been described as pipe bombs. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says that a device was also sent to his office.
Update 2:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's spokesman has identified the device sent to his office, originally believed to be suspicious, as a thumb drive containing files on the far right group Proud Boys. It does not appear to be related to the explosive devices.
[...] Another suspicious package has been intercepted at a Congressional mail screening facility in Capitol Heights, Maryland, according to CNN. [...] ABC News reported the package was addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:08PM
(cont) Building 7 went down faster than Colin Kaepernick goes down for our beautiful National Anthem. And we lost a lot of people that day. Almost 3,000 people dieing (RIP!!!). While thousands celebrated. And while Bush Jr. read about Goats. A book about Goats. You didn't have Donald J. Trump as your President. Very sad!
This one, fortunately we didn't lose anybody. Maybe some hurt feelings, right? But by the way, this one is Muslim. Because ISIS is Muslim. And, this one is ISIS. They did the ISIS Flag, the sticker of ISIS Flag. On the Fake bomb at Fake News @CNN [twitter.com]. I'll tell you, we haven't forgotten ISIS. We've been moving very strongly on ISIS. And we've absolutely obliterated ISIS. We blew up their capital, wiped out their capital. Raqqa. Something nobody thought we could ever do. We totally rocked that one. Back to the Stone Age. And we're very close to ERADICATING #IslamicState [twitter.com]!!