The houses of Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and multiple others were targeted with said to be "pipe bombs." Everybody evacuated and people were notified right away.Police said the package was merely "Abandoned property," and a Harris spokes woman said the "Suspicious packages" were not addressed to the senator or their office.
In a statement, the Secret Service said after that package addressed to Hillary Clinton was caught late Tuesday, a second package addressed to Obama's residence "Was intercepted by Secret Servicepersonnel in Washington, DC" on Wednesday morning.
"The packages were immediately identified during routine mailscreening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such. The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them," the Secret Service said in its statement.
The Secret Service said it has launched 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." Speaking at an event early Wednesday afternoon, HillaryClinton said her family is fine and "Grateful" for the work of the Secret Service which caught the package before it got to their home.
In New York, the New Castle Police Department and the Westchester County Police are assisting in their investigation into the first suspicious package.
Why do you think someone would want to do this?
Well, as most people know, Hillary and lots of others have targets on their backs. So obviously people are going to be threatening them. A lot of our presidents are targets or have been. Sometimes that is how they die. People get mad and don't think.
How would you do to make this situation better or prevent something like this situation from happening?
There is hardly anything that we can do to prevent this from happening. There are only a few things that I can think of, one thing I can think of is checking the mail all the presidents and people get.
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I think that because they're democrats, Hillary and Obama are both extremely targeted by radicals on the right. I agree, I think that stuff like this has already been prevented with the work of the secret service. The bomb didn't go off and no one was hurt, and the crime is being investigated.
This is very true! I feel like we need more protection than we have gotten throughout time. But, yes we are already trying to figure things out and yes it did not go off but there is still things that I fee we could do.
I think their is a lot of bad people out their. I'm guessing most likely the person or people that did this dislike Obama and Clinton's views and did a horrible act. I agree with you not much you could do to prevent this unless they check what is in the mail so its safe.
I agree with you 100%. I guess some people think that addressing things like this person or people did is the best way to deal with things. I don't understand why people have to be so distructive.