Task #1 for Kash: Find the Killer of Seth Rich

Solve This 2016 Murder and The DC House of Cards Comes Tumbling Down

With the ever duplicitous Christopher Wray stepping down as Director of the FBI, dogged investigator Kash Patel is poised to take the top spot. Like Hunter Biden at a stripper’s convention, Patel may be overwhelmed by the choice of targets.

That conceded, one subject for investigation has the potential to drain the whole stinking swamp—the 2016 murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. Patel will want to discover not only who murdered Rich, but also and more importantly, who commissioned the hit.

The 27-year-old Rich, a DNC data analyst, was beaten and then shot 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 were his killers looking for. The media accepted the explanation of the Metropolitan DC Police 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.

Patel can start his inquiry without leaving the office. 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.

The media predictably blamed the Russians for pilfering this information, but as Clevenger pointed out, the FBI never looked at the DNC computers that were allegedly hacked. Instead, the alleged crime victim, the DNC, took the unlikely step of circumventing the FBI. Through its go-to law firm Perkins Coie, the DNC retained the cyber security outfit CrowdStrike.

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

The FBI then took the unprecedented step of accepting CrowdStrike’s word that the Russians were responsible for the crime. What the FBI had to ignore was 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.

This all happened on Obama’s watch

Clevenger, however, has kept plugging. He has posted on X a thread on what he has learned, beginning with the FBI’s grudging admission of the two Rich laptops in its possession.

Attached to the thread is the declaration of Michael Seidel, the FBI official who tries to explain why “none of the records previously showed up in the five years” that Clevenger has been requesting them.

Based on the evidence, writes 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 cites Hersh’s intel report, about which he testified under oath, “indicating that @Wikileaks got the DNC emails from an internal DNC source rather than from Russian hackers.” Says 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 real scandal here, the undeniable one, is that the media and the FBI have shown less than zero interest in finding out just who those killers are.

Concludes Clevenger, “The FBI lied and cheated for five years in order to hide that laptop report, and it's still fighting to hide that report from the public.” To no one’s surprise the FBI has slow-walked Clevenger’s request to get access to this information. “I don't expect anything before February 7th,” he told me on Wednesday. February 7 is the date ordered by the court.

The timing couldn’t be better. With a new sheriff in town, there will be much more incentive for the good guys within the Bureau to cut through the nonsense.

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