Thread: The Mysterious Death Of Seth Rich

The Mysterious Death Of Seth Rich

May 22, 2017 – San Diego, CA


The death of DNC staffer Seth Rich is stirring up national controversy as conflicting reports continue pouring in.
He was murdered last July–yet so far police have made no arrests in the case, and have no leads as to a suspect.
One America News believes solving this case—and bringing Rich’s murderer to justice—is essential to exposing the truth for the American people.
We are offering a $100,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of a suspect in the case.
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You find out who murdered Seth Rich and you'll find out who is really trying to destroy our democracy and I'll bet my last $1, it isn't Russia.

More about Seth Rich,

Fox retracts Seth Rich murder conspiracy

• 5/23/17

Fox News has retracted a report about a US Democratic party employee whose murder last year has fuelled a right-wing conspiracy theory.

The cable network's report made an unsubstantiated link between Seth Rich's death and Wikileaks' leak of hacked DNC emails.

The victim's own family have debunked the report, imploring Fox News to stop reporting it.

Mr Rich, 27, was shot dead in Washington DC, last year.
Police say evidence suggests the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) staff member was the victim of a botched robbery. No arrest has been made.

'Fake news story'

On Tuesday, Fox deleted its story, but said it would continue investigating his death.

Image copyrightCOURTESY OF THE RICH FAMILYImage captionThe 27-year-old was shot dead in in Washington, DC, last year

"On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich," the network said in a statement.

"The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting.

"Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed."

Mr Rich was shot in the back on 10 July last year in the north-west of the city at the Bloomingdale neighbourhood, where residents have reported a spate of gunpoint robberies.

Following his death, some right-wing media suggested his killing was revenge by figures linked to the Hillary Clinton campaign for allegedly leaking embarrassing DNC emails to Wikileaks.

Wikileaks itself fuelled the conspiracy theory by offering a reward for the capture of Mr Rich's killer and hinting that he may have been the source of the emails.

No evidence has emerged to indicate that Mr Rich provided the emails to the anti-secrecy organisation.

Fox News this month published and aired reports on Washington affiliate WTTG-TV, citing Rod Wheeler, a contributor to the cable network and private investigator, who said he was being paid by the Rich family to look into the murder.

He said evidence showed Mr Rich was in contact with Wikileaks before his death.

The Rich family rejected his claim and released a statement through a spokesman saying: "Anyone who continues to push this fake news story after it was so thoroughly debunked is proving to the world they have a transparent political agenda or are a sociopath."

WTTG-TV later retracted the report, acknowledging Mr Wheeler had no evidence to support the claim. However, the story initially remained on Fox's website.

Mr Wheeler told CNN the source for his assertion was a reporter at Fox News.

The Rich family sent Mr Wheeler a cease-and-desist letter and threatened legal action if he continued to discuss the case.

But Fox News host Sean Hannity continued to fan the conspiracy theory on his show, prompting the family to write a letter urging the programme to stop disseminating the claims.

Mr Hannity defended his decision to continue promoting the story on Twitter on Tuesday, suggesting an online entrepreneur, Kim Dotcom, can back up the claim.

Mr Dotcom, who is currently fighting extradition to the US from New Zealand on copyright infringement and money laundering charges, said he has evidence to support the conspiracy theory.
Brad Bauman, a spokesman for the Rich family, told CNN they were grateful for the retraction.

"The family would like to thank Fox News for their retraction on a story that has caused deep pain and anguish to the family and has done harm to Seth Rich's legacy," he said.

"We are hopeful that in the future Fox News will work with the family to ensure the highest degree of professionally and scrutiny is followed so that only accurate facts are reported serving this case."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40021373

So how's the murder investigation of Seth Rich going these days? Any new theories why the head of IT for the DNC ends up murdered in DC?

This young man deserves an investigation to find his killers who shot him in the back, whether his parents want that or not. Parents don't run investigations, they don't call them off, just because their friends don't like the narrative.

You solve the murder of Seth Rich and you'll find out how who really hacked the DNC.

Kim Dotcom Says FBI File About Seth Rich Is Fake, But He Won't Delete It From Twitter


Matt Novak
Yesterday 7:30am Filed to: KIM DOTCOM

Have you seen that FBI file, purporting to be about the death of DNC staffer Seth Rich? Kim Dotcom, who thrust himself into the story recently by telling Sean Hannity that he had evidence Rich had sent documents to Wikileaks, published the document on Twitter, helping to spread it online. Dotcom now acknowledges that the document is fake. But he told Gizmodo that he’s not going to delete it.

The fake FBI document was first published on a website called Borderland Alternative Media and it wasn’t long before it started to spread on social media, including by Kim Dotcom. Alex Jones’ Prison Planet picked it up, but has since deleted its own version of the story.

The internet’s interest in the July 2016 murder of Seth Rich revolves around claims that he leaked Democratic Party documents to Wikileaks, an idea that Julian Assange has hinted at repeatedly. The police say that Seth Rich’s murder was a robbery gone bad. But internet conspiracy theorists believe that Rich was killed as retribution for leaking emails about the DNC. Whatever the case, the FBI file is complete bullshit.

“I was skeptical. I tweeted that the document could be a fake and that the FBI has to weigh in about it,” Dotcom told me over direct message on Twitter.

The document is obviously fake to anyone who’s looked at real FBI files. For one thing, the FBI doesn’t use black to redact information, it uses white boxes. And much more damningly, the redactions include partial words and partial dates, as well as the partial redaction of its classification stamp, things that would never be done.



A fake FBI file that has been circulating online purporting to be about Seth Rich (left) and a real FBI file obtained by Gizmodo recently about military historian Robert Dorr (right)

You can see the comparison between the fake FBI file on Seth Rich (above left) with a recently obtained FBI file on military historian Robert Dorr (above right). It’s a sloppy fake.

“After doing some forensic analysis of the document I came to believe it is not authentic. And I have retweeted Wikileaks which came to the same conclusion,” Dotcom told me.

But as any Twitter user knows, tweets with incorrect information spread much faster than corrections. So I asked Dotcom why he didn’t delete the tweets with the fake FBI file.

“There is no need to delete those tweets because I have been very cautious and warned within an hour of the release of that document that it could be a fake,” Dotcom told me.


That all seemed reasonable, if misguided, to me. But then I asked Dotcom for evidence of his claims that he knows Rich was involved in the DNC leak. During our back and forth on Twitter DM, Dotcom sent me a message saying that he knew I wasn’t going to write a balanced piece, and insinuated that he simply knows because of his close ties to Wikileaks.

I just had a look at your twitter feed and it looks like your are very much anti-trump. And that’s ok. I already know that your story wont be balanced. But this is not a Trump issue. Seth was a Sanders supporter. The progressives should ask what really happened to Seth. He’s one of yours. And they should be interested that the matters I have raised are properly investigated.

Please have a look at my Bloomberg interview in which I announced long before the election that Julian is going to be a problem for Clinton. My relations to Wikileaks are well known.

I have said many times in the past that I have been a major donor and Julian has been a guest at my moment of Truth event.
How do you think I knew?

The Bloomberg interview Dotcom is referring to is from May 13, 2015, wherein he said that Assange would be “Clinton’s worst nightmare.” At this point, Clinton had just announced her candidacy a month earlier and Donald Trump hadn’t even entered the race yet.

Interviewer: You’re saying Julian Assange is going to be Hillary’s worst nightmare?

Dotcom: I think so, yeah.

Interviewer: How so?

Dotcom: Well, he has access to information.

Interviewer: What information?

Dotcom: I don’t know the specifics.

Interviewer: Why Hillary in particular?

Dotcom: Hillary hates Julian. She’s just an adversary, I think, of internet freedom.

Interviewer: And she signed your extradition request.

Dotcom: Yeah.

Interviewer: So, you have a bone to pick with her.

Dotcom: You know what the craziest thing is? I actually like

Hillary. I like Obama. So it’s so crazy that all of this happened.

During the course of our conversation over Twitter DM, Dotcom pointed me to numerous links online, but none of them answered my basic question: How do you know that Seth Rich was involved in the DNC leak?



Glenn Greenwald and Kim Dotcom discuss the revelations about New Zealand’s mass surveillance at Auckland Town Hall on September 15, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

One of the links Dotcom sent me contained his open letter to the family of Seth Rich, who have asked Dotcom to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of their son.

In that letter, Dotcom says “I simply wish to make sure that the investigators have the benefit of my evidence.” Again, I asked Dotcom for that evidence and he said that he would only show such things to the Rich family, at the advice of his lawyers and “out of respect for the Rich family.”

But Dotcom’s most recent public comment on the matter, a letter posted today directed to the FBI Special Counsel who are investigating the Trump regime’s ties to Russia, makes it look like Dotcom’s interest in the Seth Rich case may not be altogether altruistic.


Dotcom is originally from Germany but moved to New Zealand from Hong Kong in 2009, and is currently wanted in the United States for running the file hosting and sharing site Megaupload, which was accused of systematically violating copyright. His extradition to the US has been blocked repeatedly and he’s been in a state of legal limbo for years.

But Dotcom’s new letter to the FBI Special Counsel says that he’d be willing to share his evidence that Seth Rich was involved in leaking information to Wikileaks provided he’s given safe passage to the US:

Mr Dotcom is also committed to achieving an outcome where his evidence can be properly received and reviewed by you as part of the Investigation. You will, however, appreciate that, given his current status, he is not in a position to voluntarily leave New Zealand’s jurisdiction. Further, he is concerned that, should he travel to the United States voluntarily, he would be arrested and detained in custody on the current counts on which he has been indicted.

The letter goes on to say that after “special arrangements” have been made, he’ll be glad to travel to the US to give his evidence. One imagines that those special arrangements would involve dropping the case against him.

Accordingly, for Mr Dotcom to attend in person in the United States to make a statement, and/or give oral evidence at any subsequent hearing, special arrangements would need to be discussed and agreed between all relevant parties. Such arrangements would need to include arrangements for his safe passage from New Zealand and return. This is because Mr Dotcom is determined to clear his name in New Zealand.

So make of that what you will. Kim Dotcom clearly has reason to be angry at the US Justice Department, but if he really had evidence proving that a man was murdered for political reasons, it seems a bit shady to use it as a bargaining chip for your own freedom. It seems unlikely that the FBI would grant Dotcom’s request, so if he really does have any information on the Seth Rich case, we may never get to see it.

But given the fact that there’s virtually no evidence outside of the wildest conspiracy theory boards that Seth Rich was killed by anyone connected to the Clinton campaign, I wouldn’t hold my breath anyway.

Kim Dotcom ended our Twitter DM chat by saying that he had to go and I thanked him for his time. His last message to me: “Patience.”

http://gizmodo.com/kim-dotcom-says-f...t-h-1795646891

SETH RICH UPDATE: DNC STAFFER MURDERED BY SERIAL KILLER, NOT IN BOTCHED ROBBERY