Update 2: The Secret Service clarified that the White House did not receive a suspicious package as some reports indicated. CNN rescinded its earlier reporting that the White House had been sent such a package.
CLARIFICATION: At this time the Secret Service has intercepted TWO suspicious packages - one in NY and one in D.C. Reports of a third intercepted package addressed to the WH are incorrect. We refer media to our statement: https://t.co/lJdTn04KmI
— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) October 24, 2018
CNN has now rescinded its report that a suspicious package was sent to the White House
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 24, 2018
Update 1: Suspicious packages were also addressed to the White House and CNN.
.@evanperez reports: Another suspicious package with a device addressed to the White House was intercepted at Joint Base Bolling in Washington, DC. According to a law enforcement official, the device was similar to ones sent to homes of Soros, Clintons and Obamas.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 24, 2018
Breaking: CNN NY office evacuated. Police bomb squad is here. We’re told of explosive device received. @CNNnewsroom
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 24, 2018
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The Secret Service has now reportedly identified two suspicious packages, one addressed to Hillary Clinton in New York and one addressed to former president Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. Both packages were found during "routine mail screening procedures."
Breaking: @SecretService has now identified TWO suspicious packages addressed to Hillary Clinton and fmr Pres. Obama. pic.twitter.com/OifYXEWArH
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 24, 2018
BREAKING: Secret Service: Packages sent to Hillary Clinton and former President Obama "were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such;” they were not “at risk of receiving them.”
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 24, 2018
An “explosive device” was found by a technician who screens the mail for Bill and Hillary Clinton early Wednesday morning, a law enforcement official told The New York Times.
The official described the device as “similar to one found at the home of the billionaire philanthropist George Soros on Monday.”
The device found at Soros's home was a pipe bomb which was found in the mailbox. Soros lives in the same New York county as the Clintons.
ABC is reporting that “preliminary investigations suggest the package was found near, not on, the Clintons' property in the Westchester County town of Chappaqua.”
"The Secret Service has initiated a full scope criminal investigation that will leverage all available federal, state, and local resources to determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible," Assistant Special Agent Mason Brayman with the Secret Service said in a statement.
The White House condemned the incidents in a statement.
JUST IN: White House on suspicious packages being sent to Obama, Clinton and others: "These terrorizing acts are despicable, and anyone responsible will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law." pic.twitter.com/194wg8tk7p
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 24, 2018
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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