Potential explosive devices addressed to the homes of former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were detected and intercepted by the U.S. Secret Service, which has launched a criminal investigation into the incidents. “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 an emailed statement Wednesday. “The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them.”
One device was sent to the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, a suburb about 40 miles north of New York City. The other was addressed to Obama in Washington. The FBI’s New York field office said in a tweet that its Joint Terrorism Task Force “has engaged with our federal, state and local partners to investigate” the package sent to the Clintons.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, said in a tweet that “nothing got to any home.” The incidents followed an earlier discovery when police on Monday “proactively detonated” a pipe-bomb found at a residence in New York’s suburbs owned by billionaire philanthropist and Democratic donor George Soros.
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