FBI hunt for sender of package bombs

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"It does remain possible that further packages have been or could be mailed," William Sweeney, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told an afternoon news conference in New York.

The FBI has said that at least five of the packages bore a return address for the Florida office of US Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who formerly chaired the Democratic National Committee. Holder's package ended up rerouted and delivered to the Wasserman Schultz return address.

No one has claimed responsibility for the bombs, and the public was asked to report any tips.

The parcels each consisted of a manila envelope with a bubble-wrap interior containing "potentially destructive devices," the FBI said. Each was affixed with a computer-printed address label and six "forever" postage stamps, the agency said.

Sweeney said all of the devices were being sent to the FBI's crime lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis.

Most of the intended recipients were high-profile Democrats and all were known to be outspoken critics of Trump, foils for his political rhetoric or both.

Trump long questioned Obama's US citizenship and referred to Clinton, whom he defeated in the 2016 presidential race, as "crooked Hillary." He has derided Waters publicly as "low-IQ Maxine."

The president revoked Brennan's security clearance after the ex-CIA chief, a veteran intelligence official in Democratic and Republican administrations, lambasted Trump's Russia summit performance as "nothing short of treasonous."

Biden once said he would have fought Trump if they were in high school, while De Niro received a loud ovation when he hurled an obscenity at Trump at the Tony Awards in June.

At a Wisconsin rally on Wednesday night Trump, who has denounced news media organizations as an "enemy of the people," called attention to "how nice I’m behaving tonight” but on Thursday morning he attacked the media again.

Reuters