'AN ACT OF TERROR' Pipe bombs sent to 6 or more targets, CNN, Obamas, Clintons, Soros, Cuomo, Holder

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS STORY, AND WILL BE UPDATED. Authorities in New York are holding a press conference on what they say are a series of 6, potentially 7 pipe bombs sent to political targets around New York, and in other parts of the United States. This appears to be an attempt to assassinate up to 7 different perceived political enemies of President Donald Trump.

One or more of the packages also contained envelopes that had an unknown white powder inside.

All of the targets are perceived as activist Democrats.

Targets include former first families the Obamas and the Clintons, NY governor Andrew Cuomo, philanthropist George Soros, the headquarters of CNN in New York, and former Attorney General Eric Holder. Another package is now said to have been intercepted at a U.S. Congress mail facility, which is not located on-site where lawmakers themselves work.

The bomb sent to Holder ended up being re-routed to the return address of Florida Democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, in Florida. There was no package addressed to her, but multiple packages had her address as the return address.

The CNN package got all the way into the mailroom.

During the live TV briefing, New York governor Andrew Cuomo revealed that his office in Manhattan also received an explosive device.

An ATF official said during the press conference that the device sent to CNN was a pipe bomb.

NYPD said the device sent to CNN was a live explosive device, and the implication is that this and other devices had the capacity to kill. Read the rest