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In this April 26, 2019, file photo, National Rifle Association Presi-
dent Col. Oliver North speaks at the National Rifle Association
Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum at Lucas Oil Sta-
dium in Indianapolis.
Associated Press

NRA wants a role

when Oliver North This photo released by NYPD shows a person of interest wanted for questioning in regard to the
suspicious items placed inside the Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan on Friday,
meets state investigators Aug. 16, 2019 in New York. Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A Nation- investigators and found Police seek to question man in
al Rifle Association leader- several dozen examples of
turned-critic is meeting with privileged information that NYC rice cooker bomb scare
New York investigators next had not been redacted.
week, and the NRA wants In a statement, New York
to be there.a Attorney General Letitia By JENNIFER PELTZ calling him a suspect," said are reported daily in New
New York's attorney gen- James defended the integ- Associated Press John Miller, the New York York City, but the proxim-
eral's office is questioning rity of her office. NEW YORK (AP) — Three Police Department's top ity to the site of the Sept. 11
Oliver North on Tuesday as "The NRA's scare tactics abandoned devices that counterterror official. "It is attacks served to heighten
it probes whether the NRA simply won't work here," looked like pressure cook- possible that somebody anxiety before police gave
broke laws governing its the statement said. "Our ers caused an evacuation put out a bunch of items the all-clear.
nonprofit status. investigation is proceeding of a major New York City in the trash today and this About two hours later, a
The powerful gun lobby with the same focus and subway station and closed guy picked them up and third rice cooker — the
asked a New York state fairness we apply to any off an intersection in an- then discarded them, or it's same make, year and
judge Friday to let it in the case. Whether its deposing other part of town Friday possible that this was an in- model — was also found
meeting, saying it would NRA leaders or fact finding morning before police de- tentional act." about 2 miles away (3 ki-
be "severely prejudiced" if through other investigative termined the objects were Earlier, Gov. Andrew Cuo- lometers) on a sidewalk
privileged information is di- tools, we will ensure that not explosives. mo had said authorities in the Chelsea neighbor-
vulged. justice is served because Police were looking to talk suspected the items were hood, prompting another
In court papers, it said it no one is above the law." to a man seen on surveil- placed in the subway "to police investigation.
had asked the attorney The NRA is facing several lance video taking two of suggest that they were "This is a frightening world
general's office to be in- legal battles. The attorney the objects — which police electronic devices and we live in, and all of these
cluded in the meeting but general of Washington, identified as rice cookers — possible bombs." situations have to be taken
was told it would be bur- D.C., has subpoenaed out of a shopping cart and Many rice cookers look like seriously because God for-
densome and was refused. the group and its related placing them in a subway pressure cookers, but the bid one day ... it's a real
The NRA cited grounds why charitable organization in station in lower Manhat- latter use pressure to cook device," said Cuomo, a
some information could a probe into financial mis- tan. In photos released by food quickly — a function Democrat. "We learned
be kept from investigators, conduct allegations. The authorities, the young man that has been used to turn the hard way after 9/11,
including attorney client U.S. Senate Finance Com- is seen standing by an el- them into bombs. and we are prepared."
privilege, work-product mittee also has launched evator and then lugging a Police swarmed the initial Michael Oji, a New Jersey
rules and other unspecified an investigation into the cooker in. finds around 7 a.m. on the resident who works in lower
privileges. NRA's operations. But police stressed that so mezzanine and platform of Manhattan, said he's lived
NRA lawyers said they re- North was forced out as far, it wasn't clear whether the Fulton Street station, a in the metro area for more
viewed 899 pages of docu- the NRA's president in the he was trying to frighten few blocks from the World than 20 years and saw the
ments from North's lawyers spring just ahead of the people or merely throwing Trade Center and New additional security that
that were prepared for group's annual meeting.q the objects away. York Stock Exchange. Doz- came to the area after the
"I would stop very short of ens of suspicious packages Sept. 11 attacks.q