NEW YORK _ Cops found a suspicious package addressed to National Intelligence direction James Clapper at an Upper West Side post office Friday _ just as authorities discovered a similar device mailed to N.J. Sen. Corey Booker in a Florida mail facility.
The package to Clapper turned up in a United States Postal Service site on W. 52nd St., prompting police to shut down the busy Midtown stretch between Eighth and Ninth Aves around 8 a.m.
Police sources said the package "closely resembled" the ones that had been sent to former President's Barack Obama and Bill Clinton's homes and others elected officials, as well as Vice President Joe Biden and liberal philanthropist George Soros, and also CNN and the office of actor Robert De Niro.
Post Office employees immediately alerted the NYPD. The department Bomb Squad was in the process of removing the package Friday.
The new investigation comes as the FBI confirms that an 11th mail bomb was recovered in South Florida _ this one addressed to Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
Dozens of law enforcement agencies searched for the person or people behind the potentially lethal manila envelopes packed with homemade pipe-bomb explosives and delivered in the past four days. Authorities acknowledged additional undelivered packages could still be in the mail.
"We are investigating all of this with great precision, and I can say with certainty that we will identify and arrest the person or persons responsible for this attack," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday. "There are no current, credible threats to any individual, organization of locations here in New York City."
