by Saagar Enjeti, The Daily Caller:

• The Secret Service intercepted “potential explosive devices” sent to Bill and Hillary Clinton in New York and Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., the agency announced Wednesday.


• New York Police Department officers also responded to a suspicious package discovered in the mailroom at the Time Warner Building, where CNN’s New York bureau is located.


• The Clintons and Obama were not “at risk of receiving them,” the Secret Service said in a statement.

Suspicious packages containing “potential explosive devices” were sent to Bill and Hillary Clinton in Upstate New York and in Washington, D.C. to Barack Obama, the U.S. Secret Service confirmed Wednesday.

BREAKING: Bomb found at home of Hillary and Bill Clinton in New York City suburb.

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 24, 2018

BREAKING: Secret Service intercepts suspicious packages addressed to the residences of former President Obama and former First Lady Hillary Clinton. Working with our law enforcement partners on the investigation. Our Statement: https://t.co/lJdTn04KmI

— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) 24 October 2018

“Late on October 23, 2018, the Secret Service recovered a single package addressed to Former First Lady Hillary Clinton in Westchester County, New York. Early this morning, October 24, 2018, a second package addressed to the residence of Former President Barack Obama was intercepted by Secret Service personnel in Washington, DC,” the Secret Service said.

The Secret Service continued that both packages “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.”

Law enforcement officers are present at the home of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the New York suburb of Chappaqua, New York, October 24, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Law enforcement officers are present at the home of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the New York suburb of Chappaqua, New York, October 24, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Segar

FILE: Police vehicles are seen outside the home of former President Bill Clinton and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after firefighters were called to put out a fire at the property in Chappaqua, New York, January 3, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Segar

“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,” the agency said.

NBC New York Channel 4 noted that authorities believe the suspicious package sent to the Clintons is similar in character to an explosive device found at the nearby home of liberal activist and billionaire George Soros. Soros’s device did not explode and was properly disposed of by authorities.

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