ARE WE FINALLY ABOUT TO LEARN WHO KILLED SETH RICH?

An unsolved murder case that dogs the Democrats.

TRISH WOOD

My heart nearly exploded when I saw that Tucker Carlson and Seth Rich were trending on “X”/Twitter. Then I watched a video of Tucker with Stella Assange and for the first time in years, I was filled with hope that truth might prevail in this vexing case. The ramifications are so huge, that it could mean the end of the Democratic Party for a generation. And given how corrupt, demented and brazenly war-mongering and violent the Biden/Obama administration is, that won’t be a bad thing.

Watch as Tucker says out loud in the presence of Julian Assange’s wife, that Seth Rich leaked the emails from the DNC to Wikileaks — in part causing Clinton to lose the election. Sadly, instead of dealing honestly with the contents of the emails proving corruption within the party, the Clinton campaign deflected by hiring a contractor, and then made up a story about a Russian hack, blaming Putin and Trump.

As a true crime investigative journalist and longtime Hillary Clinton despiser, the renewed attention to the case is both exciting and depressing. The former because the 2016 shooting-murder of this 27-year-old DNC staffer on his way home from a DC bar was never solved and the official narrative makes no sense. The latter because powerful forces within the Democratic party and its allies in legacy media have intimidated anyone who tries to investigate and perhaps bring someone to justice.

Also in this story are sown the seeds of Russia/Gate, the phoney Democrat, deep-state operation that hobbled a presidency and in my view, destroyed democracy in America. So blatant was the Democrat/media campaign around the Putin-got-Trump-elected story and alleged collusion, that it became clear bad political actors could pull off anything with the help of compliant media. Hillary very likely knew or suspected the emails weren’t hacked when she blamed Russia for her humiliating defeat. She also knew the media would buy her lies.

And think about it. Since the election of Donald Trump there have been myriad phoney scandals that prove this point. The current lawfare/insurrection scandal is just the latest gambit by a political party out of ideas and operating with no moral compass but protected by the overpaid, pampered poodles in legacy media.

DNC emails that implicated Hillary Clinton in the rigging of the primary against her competitor, Bernie Sanders were released to the media by Wikileaks and became the beginning of the end for Julian Assange. No one plays dirtier than the Democrats and it’s no coincidence Assange is wasting away in a prison cell. The head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned over the rigging but Clinton then brazenly hired Schultz for her own campaign.

Many of you will know that based on my affinity for working people, I was a big fan of Bernie Sanders. But the DNC scandal that he was virtually complicit in and his acceptance of Hillary as the winner of a crooked primary — turned me off politics and the left entirely. Here is a piece I wrote to Bernie published in the Huffington Post on my disillusionment with Bernie and the Democrats.

Here is the problem with the Clintons, Democratic elites and you. The things that make the Clintons and their "machine" good at campaigning are they very things that should disqualify them from governance: dishonesty, entitlement and striving for personal enrichment. Authentic public service and honor are not on the menu. Everyone gets rich.

In a clip I’ve used on my podcast several times, you can watch in real time as Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook begins spinning the incriminating emails to his boss’s advantage. But that story relied on the emails being the subject of a hack from outside the organization, namely Russia, as opposed to a leak from someone inside. Watch carefully what Mook is doing here. Hack is what they want you to believe. Not leak, as in downloaded on to a device by an insider.

On July 10th, ten days before this clip was recorded on the eve of the convention, Seth Rich was gunned down. Just a few weeks before, the DNC discovered it had been digitally compromised. Rich, an idealistic DNC staffer and reportedly a Bernie supporter was killed in an odd, random-seeming shooting that was eventually papered-over by media, Dem lawyers and even Rich’s own parents as the ultimate conspiracy theory. The following is from Counter Punch.

Why is it a “conspiracy theory” to think that a disgruntled Democratic National Committee staffer gave WikiLeaks the DNC emails, but not a conspiracy theory to think the emails were provided by Russia?

Why?

Which is the more likely scenario: That a frustrated employee leaked damaging emails to embarrass his bosses or a that foreign government hacked DNC computers for some still-unknown reason?

That’s a no-brainer, isn’t it?

Former-DNC employee, Seth Rich, not only had access to the emails, but also a motive. He was pissed about the way the Clinton crowd was “sandbagging” Bernie Sanders. In contrast, there’s neither evidence nor motive connecting Russia to the emails. On top of that,  WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange (a man of impeccable integrity) has repeatedly denied that Russia gave him the emails which suggests the government investigation is completely misdirected. The logical course of action, would be to pursue the leads that are most likely to bear fruit, not those that originate from one’s own political bias. But, of course, logic has nothing to do with the current investigation, it’s all about politics and geopolitics.

 

 

We don’t know who killed Seth Rich and we’re not going to speculate on the matter here. But we find it very strange that neither the media nor the FBI have pursued leads in the case that challenge the prevailing narrative on the Russia hacking issue. Why is that? Why is the media so eager to blame Russia when Rich looks like the much more probable suspect?

Many, many questions are still to be answered about the emails themselves and the death of Rich. For instance, the DNC would not allow the FBI access the server itself. Imagine being hacked but not wanting the FBI — top cyber experts in the world, to examine your own server. Why?

Instead it contracted with a private company called CrowdStrike to do the analysis. And then the DNC lied about it - saying the FBI never asked for the server.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE Democratic National Committee hack and Russia's alleged involvement have been swirling for months, and have intensified as the intelligence community prepares to brief president-elect Donald Trump about its conclusions on Friday and release a declassified report next week. Ahead of this announcement, the DNC told Buzzfeed on Wednesday that neither the FBI nor any other intelligence agency ever did an independent assessment of the organization's breached servers. Instead, they alleged, the FBI relied exclusively on information from private digital forensics company Crowdstrike. Now the FBI is refuting this account of the events.

In a statement to WIRED, a senior FBI law enforcement official wrote in an email Thursday that "The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated." This contrasts with what DNC deputy communications director Eric Walker told Buzzfeed in an email: “The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division and its Washington (DC) Field Office, the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation, but the FBI never requested access to the DNC’s computer servers.”

Just to make clear what is going on here. An outside hack allows the DNC to blame Russia and hang it around the neck of the Trump campaign — a scenario being set up by Mook in the clip above. A leak, meaning inside job, takes that distraction off the table and could have sunk Clinton’s corrupt campaign — and perhaps even the Democrats, for years.

And worse, even CrowdStrike, the company hired by DNC through its lawfare lawyers Perkins Coie to review its servers had waffled in its findings. President Shawn Henry said under oath, in evidence hidden for TWO YEARS —CrowdStrike had found no proof of a Russian hack. But by then the narrative against the Trump campaign — the one that saved Hillary’s butt on the eve of the convention— had already been set. Remember the experts Mook refers to? That would be CrowdStrike

The CrowdStrike walkback story got virtually no high profile attention from legacy media who were squarely dug in on Russia/Gate as a means to end Trump. This piece is from Aaron Maté.

CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.

Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry: We just don’t have the evidence ...

CrowdStrike President Shawn Henry's admission under oath,  in a recently declassified December 2017 interview before the House Intelligence Committee, raises new questions about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller, intelligence officials and Democrats misled the public. The allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails from Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and others and then passed them to WikiLeaks helped trigger the FBI's probe into now debunked claims of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to steal the 2016 election. The CrowdStrike admissions were released just two months after the Justice Department retreated from its its other central claim that Russia meddled in the 2016 election when it dropped charges against Russian troll farms it said had been trying to get Trump elected.

Back to Seth Rich. It may be a stretch to definitively declare that Rich was killed by anyone connected to politics in an effort to keep him quiet. Those kinds of stories are always hard to prove and do seem wild. But the claim by Democrats and DC police that it was a robbery gone wrong is also a stretch. Nothing was stolen or missing — and no one has ever been charged. So of course, speculation runs rampant.

The case for Rich being the leaker is more solid. He was an idealistic young man and some say, a Bernie supporter as so many people his age were in 2016. The DNC rigging against Bernie was a trauma for a generation of voters and could have been for him, too.

Even Julian Assange, who has an impeccable reputation for honesty seemed to let the cat out of the bag during an interview with Dutch television. Watch this and see for yourself if Assange is inadvertently naming Rich as the leaker.

Early reports suggest the evidence didn’t indicate a robbery of Rich at all — despite police telling his distraught mother it was a possibility.

A 27-year-old man who worked for the Democratic National Committee was shot and killed as he walked home early Sunday in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C., police and his family said. 

Seth Conrad Rich died after he was shot multiple times on the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW, three blocks east of Howard University Hospital, police said. 

"Worst nightmare," Rich's mother, Mary Rich, said by phone. 

Mary Rich said police told her family her son may have been the victim of an attempted robbery.

He was talking on the phone with his girlfriend when she heard noise on Rich's end of the line, Mary Rich said. Her son told his girlfriend not to worry about it. 

"There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything," she said. 

Virtually anyone who tries to report this story has been sued or slandered in the most extreme ways. Rich’s parents, both Democrats have made multiple statements that their son wasn’t the leaker and anyone who says otherwise is classified as a conspiracy nut. This is why Tucker Carlson who went to visit Assange in Belmarsh prison recently — is the right person to examine this issue. He has the resources and the credibility to resist the pushback. He is personally wealthy, untethered to a network and brilliant. And quite fearless.

Here is Julian Assange on Hannity denying the Democrat emails from DNC (and John Podesta) came from Russia. As I said, Assange has an impeccable reputation for honesty.

Meanwhile — Assange is slowly dying in prison for doing the actual hard work of journalism while the bought and paid for legacy media take dictation from globalists and the West’s corrupt uni-party - now busy cashing out from the weapons industry on the blood of civilians and soldiers in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Yes, the murder story is far-fetched. That the emails may have been downloaded by a disgruntled and hopeful DNC staffer does make sense. Both things can be true. Or neither or perhaps just the latter. But I guarantee this — after all of the misery, corruption and political squalor wrought by Clinton/Obama and their party — we need to find out.

Perhaps Tucker is the way.

Stay critical.

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