The pipe bomb scare widened Thursday, as law enforcement officials seized three more suspicious packages and said they were similar to crude pipe bombs sent to George Soros, former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, Rep. Maxine Waters and former Attorney General Eric Holder.Two packages addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden bearing similarities to the other packages were recovered at two postal facilities in Delaware. A law enforcement source said a similar package addressed to Mr Biden was intercepted at a Delaware mail facility, reigniting fear yesterday's bomb scare drama was not an isolated event. It comes after 24 hours of chaos when up to seven suspicious parcels - some containing crudely built pipe bombs - were intercepted before reaching their targets, who included former US President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Obama’s attorney-general Eric Holder. His package never made it to its destination due to a delivery error and was bounced back to the return address, listed as Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office in Sunrise, Florida, which was briefly evacuated.Lastly, a police bomb squad removed a package addressed to for CIA Director John Brennan, an NBC News contributor, at CNN's New York City office at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle.The object appeared to be a small pipe bomb with wires extending from it, which was removed from the building at 11:37 a.m. and taken to a remote location to be detonated.Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an act of terrorism. NBC News contributing correspondent Jonathan Dienst said on MSNBC that law enforcement officials are concerned that a potential package addressed to Biden was sent to the wrong address and therefore shipped to an office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida because that address appeared on the return label. Former CIA Director John Brennan, prominent Democratic Party donor George Soros and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, another fierce critic of President Donald Trump, were also targets of packages.
The United States Secret Service intercepts two suspicious packages described as "potential explosive devices" addressed to former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. One addressed to former CIA director John O. Brennan was received at CNN's New York studios, which were evacuated. Other politicians who received similar packages include U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz (whose name and address was on the return label of a package meant for former Attorney General Eric Holder but had the wrong recipient address) and Maxine Waters. Authorities are also attempting to locate a suspicious package sent to former Vice President Joe Biden that was marked return to sender due to a bad address.