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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) by urza9814 on Thursday October 25 2018, @02:17PM (1 child)
A couple years ago, Room 641A [wikipedia.org] was "outrageous conspiracy nonsense". Personally, at this point I'd prefer an uncensored discussion so I can decide for myself. If I can prove it wrong so easily, then I'll ignore it...but you seem to be asking to have someone else make that decision for me, which frankly I find inexcusable. If you're so eager for someone else to make those decisions for you then there's plenty of other websites which will gladly provide that service.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday October 25 2018, @04:46PM
I think you mean "around a decade ago", but that doesn't invalidate your point. It's one that SF authors have frequently bemoaned, i.e. you write a story warning against some hideous possibility and most people ignore it, but some bastard thinks it's an instruction manual.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.