If Not the Russians, Did Seth Rich Bust Hillary and the DNC?

Rich's Mysterious DC Murder Remains Unsolved

Thanks to the revelations of DNI Tulsi Gabbard, we have every reason to doubt the involvement of the Russians in any phase of Russiagate, including the alleged data theft from DNC servers in April 2016. And if not the Russians, could DNC data analyst Seth Rich have been responsible?

The 27-year-old Rich was beaten and then shot to death by unknown assailants on a Washington, D.C. street in the early morning hours of July 10, 2016. His attackers appear to have taken nothing—not his wallet, not his phone, not his watch. This begs the question of what his killers were looking for.

One possible answer is data exfiltrated from the DNC servers by an insider. In the months that followed the murder, the media discouraged such speculation, insisting that the Russians hacked the servers from outside, but the FBI failed to examine the servers the Russians allegedly hacked. As the FBI said publicly at the time, “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.”

Based on wishful thinking and second hand information, the authors of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) claimed the Russian intelligence service "exfiltrated large volumes of data from the DNC." There were, however, limits to what the FBI knew. Avoiding the FBI, the DNC had contacted the attorneys at same law firm that served as a cutout on the Steele dossier, Perkins Coie, and they recommended CrowdStrike.

For the inside skinny on Perkins Coie, check out “The Law Firm Behind the Steele Dossier Also "Found" Obama's Birth Certificate.”

In closed door testimony before the House Intelligence Community in 2017, CrowdStrike President Shawn Henry quietly refuted the claim made by the FBI’s James Comey and his co-conspirators of a massive Russian hack. Said Henry, referring here to Russia, "There’s not evidence that [the data] were actually exfiltrated. There's circumstantial evidence but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated."

As readily as the media accepted the Russian hacker theory, they accepted the Metropolitan DC Police story that Rich’s murder was the result of a “botched robbery.” But how does a killer “botch” a robbery after beating and then shooting the victim at a time and place free of witnesses.

The FBI may have the evidence it needs to break the case buried in-house. Through his legal efforts on behalf of client Brian Huddleston, Texas attorney TY Clevenger has discovered that the FBI has in its possession not just Rich’s personal laptop but his work computer as well. “I think it’s huge,” Clevenger told Emerald Robinson on her program “The Absolute Truth.”

“I think Julian Assange was telling the truth,” Clevenger added. Two weeks after Rich’s death, Assange suggested on Dutch TV that Rich was his source for the DNC emails then unsettling the Democratic Party. As a Bernie Sanders supporter, Rich had the motive to expose the DNC mischief that blocked Sanders’s likely nomination. The leaked emails did just that. Not one to joke about the murder, Assange offered a $20,000 reward to find Rich’s killer or killers.

In effort to bury the story, authorities ignored what Assange reportedly told liberal media analyst Ellen Ratner shortly before the 2016 election. The FBI’s failure to interview Ratner was indicative. On the day after the 2016 election Ratner, a veteran news analyst, participated in a recorded symposium at Embry Riddle University.

“I spent three hours with Julian Assange on Saturday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,” said Ratner more than an hour into the conversation. “One thing he did say was the leaks were not from, they were not from the Russians. They were an internal source from the Hillary Campaign.”

An admitted Hillary Clinton supporter, Ratner had no reason to make this up. Not long after Trump’s inauguration Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sy Hersh cited an FBI report relayed to him by one of his most trusted sources confirming Assange’s claim.

Later that year, DNC head Donna Brazile dedicated her book, “Hacks,” to Rich and questioned whether the Russians had “played some part in his unsolved murder.” None of this interested our media.

Clevenger, however, has kept plugging. Based on the evidence, wrote Clevenger, “I strongly suspect that the data prepared for ‘exfiltration’ was found on Seth's work laptop, and I strongly suspect that Seth had downloaded that data onto a thumb drive.”

Clevenger cited Hersh’s intel report, about which Hersh testified under oath, “indicating that @Wikileaks got the DNC emails from an internal DNC source rather than from Russian hackers.” Said Clevenger, “I suspect the report he's talking about is the FBI's report on Seth's work laptop.”

What neither the FBI nor the mainstream media can deny is that Seth Rich was murdered on a Washington Street and that his killer or killers remain at large. The one detail that the dying Rich was able to communicate was that his killers spoke Spanish.

There is a new sheriff in town. Lord knows Kash Patel has enough on his plate, but in investigating Russiagate, he may very well find his way not just to Rich’s killers but to the saboteurs who hired them.

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