MAIL BOMBS PUT TOP DEMS ON HIGH ALERT

Devices target Obama, Hillary, others

Five of the highest-profile Democrats in the country — including former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — were the targets of mailed pipe bombs over the past three days, and experts say the bomber likely won’t stop until caught.

Someone mailed rudimentary but live pipe bombs to Obama’s home in Washington, D.C., the New York home of Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, liberal billionaire donor George Soros, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and former CIA director John O. Brennan, the FBI said.

None of the bombs exploded. No one was hurt, and no suspects have been named publicly.

“This investigation is of the highest priority for the FBI,” said bureau director Christopher Wray. “We have committed the full strength of the FBI’s resources and, together with our partners on our Joint Terrorism Task Forces, we will continue to work to identify and arrest whoever is responsible for sending these packages.”

The FBI said people should remain vigilant and report anything suspicious, as it’s possible additional packages were sent elsewhere — a possibility experts say is likely if the bomber isn’t caught.

“They’ll continue to escalate,” UCLA professor Jeffrey Simon, who studies domestic terror and political violence, told the Herald. “That’s something we find with the serial terrorist. They’ll follow patterns in terms of the type of bombs they are making.”

Massachusetts state police, Boston police and the local FBI office all told the Herald there were no related reports of suspicious packages in the Bay State yesterday.

The packages all appeared similar, with six stamps and the misspelled return address of the office of Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Democratic National Committee chair. The package sent to

Holder in Virginia was returned to sender, so it ended up at Wasserman Schultz’s office.

The questions law enforcement professionals are trying to answer are the same ones everyone else has, Henry Willis, associate director of the RAND Corp.’s Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center, told the Herald: Who, why and what’s next?

“What distinguishes terrorism from murder is motivation,” Willis said, pointing to other acts of political violence and terror throughout recent history. “The motivations are as wide as your imagination.”

The package intended for Brennan was sent to CNN’s New York City offices, which were evacuated. Brennan is an analyst who appears on the network, often speaking critically of President Trump. Soros, who lives in Westchester County, N.Y., is a liberal mega-donor who’s often held up as a villain by the political right.

“It’s people who want to make a big statement of their anger to the quote-unquote ‘liberal elite,’” Gary Ackerman, a terrorism expert at University of Albany, said of the bomber or bombers.

He added: “That many devices shows a level of skill. Every time you construct a bomb there’s a chance it blows up and hurts you.”

‘THEY’LL FOLLOW PATTERNS’: Image obtained by CNN shows explosive device mailed to the CNN New York office addressed to former CIA chief John Brennan, an analyst for the cable news network.

EVACUATED: People gather outside the Time Warner Center in New York yesterday after the discovery of a suspicious package forced the evacuation of CNN’s offices.

CLINTON HOME: Cops guard the suburban New York home of Bill and Hillary Clinton yesterday after a bomb was found on the property.