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**SNIP** Warren spoke out about the threat, asked if she was concerned about being a possible target. “Look, I’m worried for all of us," Warren said. "I’m worried because it means there is a person or persons out there who really want to shut down the democratic process.” The F.B.I. is treating the case as an act of domestic terrorism, as the nationwide hunt for a suspect intensifies. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was one of the targets of the twisted plot, and spoke out for the first time after the incident. "My brave staffers and I saw those weapons of...

Federal authorities are probing the devices sent to people who are prominent Democrats or supporters of Democrats.... CIA Director Gina Haspel has had a face to face meeting with President Trump after hearing the audio recording of the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi during her visit to Turkey. Russia's Deputy Defense Minister says the United States coordinated an attack by 13 drones on a Russian airbase in Syria last January..... An Afghan Taliban leader has been freed from prison in Afghanistan....... At least fourteen children were injured in a knife attack in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing..... The Egyptian...

A former top adviser to Hillary Clinton suggested this week that the suspect or suspects linked to a rash of explosive devices addressed to top Democratic figures, including former President Barack Obama and the Clintons, may have been inspired by President Trump's Twitter messages. Appearing on MSNBC, Philippe Reines said the president's rhetoric can't be ignored in the wake of the attempted bombings, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “If you look at who they’ve targeted so far, it’s almost as if they’re following Donald Trump’s Twitter feed," Reines said Wednesday on "Andrea Mitchell Reports," adding that not everyone in public...

Should The New York Times, which published Trump-killing fan fiction, be held to the same standard it expects of the president? The New York Times published a fictional essay fantasizing about President Trump getting assassinated the same week that explosive devices were sent to prominent political figures across the country. After explosive devices were sent to prominent Democrats and liberal political figures — Maxine Waters, Joe Biden, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, and others — New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow blamed Trump for creating a “toxic environment” that led to these attempted acts of...

For progressives, the looming midterm elections apparently should not hinge on a booming economy, a near-record-low unemployment rate, a strong stock market and unprecedented energy production. Instead, progressives hope that race and gender questions overshadow pocketbook issues. The media is fixated on another caravan of foreign nationals flowing toward the United States from Central America. More than 5,000 mostly Honduran migrants say they will cross through Mexico. Then they plan to crash the American border, enter the U.S. illegally, claim refugee status and demand asylum. Once inside the United States, the newcomers will count on a variety of ways to...

The investigation into 10 pipe bombs sent to high-profile Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump is focusing on leads in Florida, a federal law enforcement source said on Thursday while another source said investigators believe the devices’ design came from the internet. All the suspicious packages were believed to have gone through the U.S. postal system at some point, the source said. Many of the packages had the return address of the Florida office of U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who formerly chaired the Democratic National Committee, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The instructions for such...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Soon, very soon, perhaps today, there will be an arrest. Law enforcement officials will be quoted in our fake news media as saying that the bombs sent out to various leftist leaders in recent days were the work of one man. He will be described as a “loner” and a “nut” and probably as someone with known associations to right-wing domestic terrorists. We will probably find out later on that those “known associations” aren’t really associations at all, but vague connections. Later than that, probably after Election Day, we will find out...

New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill said Thursday that law enforcement officials are treating the suspicious packages containing possible explosives sent to high-profile Democrats this week as “live devices," not “hoax devices.” “This is something that should be taken seriously,” O’Neill told reporters at the press conference in New York. “We are treating them as live devices." “As far as a hoax device, we’re not treating it that way,” O’Neill added. His remarks came after some conservatives, including radio host Rush Limbaugh, suggested that the bombs could have been part of a hoax or false-flag operation. Officials said Thursday...

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Fox Thursday that President Trump “could not have been more presidential” in his response to the suspicious packages mailed to the Clintons, Obamas, and other prominent Democratic lawmakers who have been critical of the president.Sanders was responding to a tweet from former CIA director John Brennan telling Trump to “look in the mirror” over the bomb scares and accusing him of “inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence.” Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. Clean up your...

Fortunately for the victims and investigators, the bombs were crudely made, did not explode and contain a treasure trove of valuable information that can be used to track down the culprit. “There’s DNA that can be recovered from the device,” Ryan Morris, founder of Tripwire Operation Group, a company that provides explosives training to law enforcement and military officials, told Fox News.  Morris said that investigators will likely be able to take DNA from the fingerprints found on the tape as well as the saliva from the postage stamps. Each package that was sent had six postage stamps attacked. Experts will...

Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton joined America’s Newsroom on Thursday morning to discuss the Democrat mail bomber. Fred Burton believes authorities have video of the suspect, are probably watching him and the suspect will be cracked by the end of the day.Bill Hemmer: Why do you think they’ll have this case cracked by the end of the day? Fred Burton: I think as a former federal agent who has looked into cases like this we never had the resources in my day to deal with a problem like this. Now the entire system is geared to find people just...

As speculation grows over who is behind the pipe-bomb packages sent to CNN and several high-profile Democrats, #MAGABomber is trending on Twitter. MAGA, of course, is an abbreviation of Make America Great Again, President Donald Trump’s famous slogan coined during the 2016 presidential campaign, now a hashtag and meme regularly pushed by his supporters to celebrate his policy decisions. The targets of Wednesday’s domestic terror campaign are prominent critics and political rivals of Trump. His Democratic presidential election rival Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama and former CIA director John Brennan. CNN, a news network often the target of the...

Waiting for the Kitchen Sink There’s a kind of goose-bump-causing fear in knowing that anyone’s life can be left in heartbreaking tatters by unproven but salacious allegations of sexual assault, and that the agent who brought the allegations forward could disappear from news headlines enriched by three quarters of a million dollars in Go-Fund me donations and leaving a ‘Believe Women’ meme in place to potentially entrap the next hapless victim. It’s downright scary that on the evening of the same day that nine packages said to contain pipe bombs discovered en route to powerful Democrat leaders, an aging celebrity...

The left is full of liars and frauds, which makes this pipe bomb attack difficult to believe In the 1972 children’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, everything goes wrong for poor Alexander. He wakes up with his chewing gum in his hair, gets stuck in the middle seat of the carpool, loses his-best-friend status during recess, his mom forgot to give him dessert in his lunchbox, and it just gets worse. The poor Democrats are also having a perpetual Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) said in a new interview that she "ain’t scared" after being targeted by two packages containing pipe bombs. "We have to keep to doing what we're doing in order to make this country right; that’s what I intend to do, and as the young people say, 'I ain't scared,'" Waters told Blavity. The California Democrat also called on President Trump to "take responsibility for the kind of violence that we are seeing for the first time in different ways," in the wake of multiple explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats.

I usually refrain from posting vanities, and will try to keep this one as short as possible. Anyone who has served in the Military or in Government has at one time (and usually annually) received training on how to spot "Suspicious" packages. As a result we all recognize the Biden package 100%. In the training you are shown sample packages, and are told to look for the following "tells": 1. Excessive Postage (Check) 2. Odd shape or poor packaging (Check) 3. Odd addressing, labels, large print, etc. (Check Check check) 4. Notations saying "personal" "Addressee Only", etc. (Check) 5. Fake...

A horde of Hollywood celebrities blamed President Donald Trump and his supporters — without evidence — for a series of suspicious packages sent to political figures across the country this week. “I’d be very curious to know the origin of today’s FALSE story that a bomb was sent to the White House in the midst of all the actual bombs sent to people Trump has called enemies of the state. MAGA has radicalized more domestic terrorists than ISIS ever could. VOTE” Modern Family executive producer Danny Zuker said.

Election 2018: As you likely are aware, several “crude” explosive devices were sent by someone to a number of prominent Democrats and at least one news channel, CNN, on Wednesday. As you are also likely aware, none of the bombs went off. Make of that what you will, but there are investigative reporters — no, real ones — who have been looking into this without peering through a partisan lens. Some of them are also talking to authorities like the FBI and other police agencies. And they’re being told some things that you’re not likely going to hear from the...

Here's to mocking the FBI. You have become an object of derision. Yeah, come talk to me, I really do not care. IF a conservative took the time to research bomb making and detonation and the addresses (Where did they get THAT information?) of where to send such devices, they would have been designed to appear to be normal packages (much smaller), arm themselves while being opened, have triggering devices that cause them to explode if they were moved at all after that and would not have had a failure rate of 100%. If this guy down in Austin could...

(SOME READERS MAY FIND THIS DISTRUBING) We all know that the Republican Party propaganda machine demonizes the Clinton's, Barack Obama, George Soros etc. and milks resentment of them to drive up voter turnout. What better way to neutralize that than to stage this kind of activity two weeks before an election to neutralize the GOP game plan. My own personal experience with hatred and resentment of 'enemies', real or imagined, reminds we of why I say this. My own experience with political activism reminds me of this and my experience applies to any kind of political activist, "Right" or "Left"....