Explosive device addressed to Clintons' home, suspicious package to the Obamas that was intercepted

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Josh Margolin, Bill Hutchinson, & Aaron Katersky - ABC News


Federal authorities are investigating suspicious packages addressed to the homes of Bill and Hillary Clinton in New York and the Obamas' home in Washington, D.C.

A potentially workable explosive device that was addressed to the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York, was found early Wednesday, a senior law enforcement official said. It is similar in construction to an explosive device found earlier this week in the home mailbox of billionaire George Soros in a nearby community.

A suspicious package addressed to the Obamas' house was also intercepted.

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

ABC News




Explosive devices addressed to Hillary Clinton's home and the house of former President Barack Obama were intercepted, and the Time Warner Center that is home to CNN in New York City was evacuated after a suspicious package was sent there, officials said.

Investigators are working to determine whether the two devices addressed to Clinton and Obama are connected to a pipe bomb found earlier this week in the home mailbox of billionaire George Soros in the community near where the Clintons live in Chappaqua, New York, multiple law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The preliminary belief is that all three devices are of similar pipe-bomb-style construction.

The New York City Police bomb squad was responding to the suspicious package inside the mail room of the Time Warner Center in Manhattan's Columbus Circle.

Sources told ABC News that the suspicious package appears to be a metal pipe with wires. Floors above and below the mail room are being evacuated.

CNN anchor Jim Sciutto was on air at the time of the evacuation, and the channel's news coverage was switched over to their offices in Washington D.C. Sciutto called in to their broadcast and said that he and hundreds of other CNN employees were standing outside, watching a "very fast-acting, quick response group" of NYPD officers responding to the scene.

The Secret Service stressed that the packages sent to Clinton or Obama did not reach them.

"The packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such," the Secret Service said in a statement.

Bill and Hillary Clinton live in Westchester County north of New York City, and the Obamas in Washington, D.C.

President Trump has been briefed on the suspicious packages sent to the Clinton and Obama homes and the White House has now issued a statement forcefully condemning the "attempted violent attacks."

“We condemn the attempted violent attacks recently made against President Obama, President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and other public figures," Sarah Sanders says in a statement. "These terrorizing acts are despicable, and anyone responsible will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. The United States Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies are investigating and will take all appropriate actions to protect anyone threatened by these cowards.”

[DemonGeminiX]

13 days before midterms.... hmmm...

[RBP]

13 days before midterms.... hmmm...

Leftist hoax?

[DemonGeminiX]

Why not? Everything else is. And even if it isn't, you know the left is eventually gonna come out with the saber rattling, saying that it's Trump and the Republicans' fault. "The Right is doing it all! They have to go! Vote in the midterms to get rid of them all! Resist! Resist! Resist!!!"

Everybody with half a brain knows that, if you're going to assassinate a high profile public figure, it's a suicide job, and you're gonna have to get in real close to get the job done. Mail bombs are bullshit.

[RBP]

Of course. Better to focus on general course and choose the people that are going the direction you want. The rest is bullshit. From both sides.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

almost

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[DemonGeminiX]

Sent to Maxine Waters and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as well. Eric Holder. John Brennan (the CNN one)

NY Gov Cuomo said he got one too.

[Griffin]

The democratic party is like a rube Goldberg machine.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Pelosi and Schumer are blaming this all on Trump

[DemonGeminiX]

Why not? Everything else is. And even if it isn't, you know the left is eventually gonna come out with the saber rattling, saying that it's Trump and the Republicans' fault. "The Right is doing it all! They have to go! Vote in the midterms to get rid of them all! Resist! Resist! Resist!!!"

Pelosi and Schumer are blaming this all on Trump

It's like I'm psychic.

[lost in melb.]

It's like I'm psychic.

Statement from CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker: pic.twitter.com/OXyIT6oSLT

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) October 24, 2018

[RBP]

It's like I'm psychic.

Trump's Going To Get To 'The Bottom' Of The Pipe Bombs? He Is The Bottom

President Donald Trump got a standing ovation for vowing to “get to the bottom” of at least six homemade bombs sent to prominent Democrats and news media outlets?

Seriously? President Trump is the bottom.

Maybe those attending a White House bill signing Wednesday were applauding Trump’s description of the attempted bomb attacks as “egregious conduct that is abhorrent to everything we hold dear and sacred as Americans.” Maybe they clapped in the hope that Trump finally had figured out that words -- his words — have consequences.

The bombs targeted the homes or offices of political adversaries and media outlets whom Trump has regularly reviled on the campaign trail as “enemies of the people,” “disgusting,” “criminals,” “evil,” and “low IQ individuals,” including former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Eric Holder, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, former Florida Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic donor George Soros and former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, a regular commentator on CNN whom Trump has reviled as “very dishonest” and “a bad person.”

Dating back to the 2016 campaign, Trump has used incendiary rhetoric against reporters and Democrats as guaranteed applause lines in red meat rallies designed to gin up his political base. Did he think no twisted individuals would ever take his ugly words to heart? Whoever constructed those pipe bombs, the responsibility for these attacks rests just as squarely with the man whose vile and hateful speech about anyone who opposes him dishonors the Oval Office he occupies.

Only last week, in Montana, Trump praised Republican Congressman Greg Gianforte for assaulting a reporter during his campaign for Congress last year. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he’s my kind of — he’s my guy,” Trump said, even as the world was horrified by the still-unfolding news of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, perhaps by agents of Saudi Arabia.

Does Trump expect Americans to take seriously his sober response to these attempted attacks — words that, not incidentally, he read from a teleprompter? “In these times, we have to unify," he said. "We have to come together and send one very clear, strong and unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America.”

This from a man who urges his supporters to rough up demonstrators up at his rallies? This from a man who encourages cheers of “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton and “CNN Sucks” about the cable news network. This from a man who uses Twitter to mock reporters and media outlets as “dishonest, “Fake News,” “phony,” “sick,” “with an agenda of hate,” “phony sources,” “fabricated lies,” “DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!” and “the enemy of the American People.”

The Reality TV Star presidency needs to end right now. Whatever else he does not comprehend about representative democracy, Donald Trump needs now to understand that he is president of the entirety of the United States; he is not president of his fervid followers alone.

He made no move in that direction Wednesday night in Wisconsin where he played to supporters who are warmed by his scorching speeches. He did not reach out, even with a telephone call, to citizens targeted by those bombs — two of them former presidents of the United States.

Instead, Trump characteristically made himself the victim, taking no responsibility for the dangerous effect of his vilification of the media and his political opponents. Instead, he blamed reporters for “endless hostility and false attacks and stories” and warned that no one should be compared with “historical villains,” an apparent reference to those who have noted the striking similarity between his own rhetorical style and that of the late demagogue, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, and the fascist dictators of World War II, Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

“We want all sides to come together in peace and harmony,” he said in Wisconsin, an echo of his disingenuous response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that led to the death of a counter-demonstrator last year. There were bad people on both sides, Trump said then, equating racists with those protesting racism.

That false equivalence didn’t wash then. It doesn’t wash now. But now there are pipe bombs in the mailboxes of Donald Trump’s political adversaries. Will voters really believe that the president’s snarling contempt for dissent is in no way complicit in that?

http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018...ileen-mcnamara

[DemonGeminiX]

All of these people that received these mail bombs (as shitty as these bombs are and as cowardly as that act is), technically, they do belong in jail for various reasons. We've all said so. Maybe the person who's doing this thinks so too and has lost faith in the system.

I don't think this is over. Not by a long shot.