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The Daily 202's Big Idea

America is on edge as more pipe bombs are discovered

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The discovery of five pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, CNN and a liberal billionaire have put the country on edge and sent law enforcement officials scrambling to prevent any more packages from reaching their targets.

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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

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202 for Thursday, October 25th. In today's news, the CIA director listens to audio of Jamal Koshogi's death provided

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by Turkish intelligence.

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President Trump keeps using his personal iPhones even though he's been told that the Chinese and Russians are definitely

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listening to all his calls. And the Dow plunges more than 600 points, wiping out the market's

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2018 gains. the discovery of five pipe bombs mailed to

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but first the big idea

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the discovery of five pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, CNN, and a liberal billionaire have put the country on edge and sent law enforcement officials scrambling to prevent any more packages

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from reaching their intended targets.

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The hunt for a serial mail bomber began late Tuesday night

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when secret service personnel conducting standard mail screenings

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found a pipe bomb inside a plain manila envelope with a bubble-wrapped interior addressed to Hillary Clinton.

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A similarly packaged bomb was found hours later in mail addressed to Barack Obama.

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Now neither bomb got close to its intended target and neither contained a written message.

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But the twin discoveries led to other undetinated devices being found elsewhere.

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Packages were also discovered in the mailroom at CNN's New York headquarters and the

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Congressional Office of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a former chair of the Democratic National

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Committee. The packages used as a return address, Wasserman Schultz's office.

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That meant that when one package was sent to former Attorney General

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Eric Holder using a wrong address,

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