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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 Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:35PM (3 children)
Go with the latter possibility. If someone mails a bomb to you or me, and it doesn't have wires hanging out, it's going to arrive at our house(s). High profile targets have mail sorters in mail rooms working diligently to separate the cruft from the crap.
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:19PM (2 children)
Sometimes the simplest explanation makes the most sense.
The FBI likely created and sent all the bombs, so they obviously know where they are; its not difficult for them to make sure they all get found for maximal PR impact.
They can't afford to let any of them actually explode; the FBI spent a lot of time and effort to plant evidence in the bombs they made and sent, and an explosion isn't going to help them frame the "correct" people.
Its likely all detail of the devices will be classified for national security reasons such that we can safely assume none of the devices ever contained explosives, etc. It would be extremely embarrassing during the trial if the explosives were chemically traced back to the BATFE or FBI, so its legally less risky to put nothing but air in the "devices". Even if some brave person wikileaks the classified data, if the devices contain air not explosives, they can not be traced back to government supplied explosives if there is nothing there...
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:14PM (1 child)
Interesting times. Interesting at least, in that this has a medium to high probability of being the truth. "conspiracy theory"? Actually, conspiracies happen all the time. Anyone paying attention to what the FBI and CIA admit to doing over the last 50 years will realize that it isn't even a stretch.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday October 25 2018, @08:25PM
Some of the private communications inside the FBI since Trump are pretty chilling, basically a rogue agency working on a coup. Crazy times.