Posted on 07/15/2019 10:04:01 AM PDT by Eurotwit
Fox News news analyst Ellen Ratner relayed information from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Texas businessman Ed Butowsky regarding Seth Rich’s role in transferring emails to Wikileaks, according to an amended lawsuit that I filed this morning on behalf of Mr. Butowsky.
Although Ms. Ratner appears on Fox News, she is by no means a Republican or a conservative, and her role in the Seth Rich saga (like that of journalist Sy Hersh) obliterates the Democratic narrative that right-wing zealots fabricated the story about Mr. Rich leaking emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Mr. Rich, a DNC employee, was murdered in Washington, D.C. on July 10, 2016, and the murder remains unsolved. Here’s an excerpt from the amended suit (“RCH” stands for “Russian Collusion Hoax”):
45. Mr. Butowsky stumbled into the RCH crosshairs after Ellen Rattner [sic], a news analyst for Fox News and the White House correspondent for Talk Media News, contacted him in the Fall of 2016 about a meeting she had with Mr. Assange. Ms. Rattner’s brother, the late Michael Rattner, was an attorney who had represented Mr. Assange. According to Ms. Rattner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange wanted the information relayed to Seth’s parents, as it might explain the motive for Seth’s murder.
46. Upon her return to the United States, Ms. Rattner asked Mr. Butowsky to contact the Rich family and relay the information from Mr. Assange, apparently because Ms. Rattner did not want her involvement to be made public. In the two months that followed, Mr. Butowsky did not attempt to contact the Rich family, but he grew increasingly frustrated as the DNC and #Resistance “journalists” blamed the Russian government for the email leak. On December 16, 2016, Mr. Butowsky sent a text message to Ms. Ratner:
BUTOWSKY [7:10 a.m.]: “Why don’t [sic] you speaking up about email hack?”
RATTNER [9:28 a.m.]: “I have”
Ms. Rattner subsequently told Mr. Butowsky that she had informed Bill Shine, who was then the co-president of Fox News, about her meeting with Mr. Assange in London. Ms. Rattner also informed Fox News producer Malia Zimmerman about her meeting with Mr. Assange.
47. On December 17, 2016, at the instigation of Ms. Rattner, Mr. Butowsky finally contacted Joel and Mary Rich, the parents of Seth, and he relayed the information about Ms. Rattner’s meeting with Mr. Assange. During that conversation, Mr. Rich told Mr. Butowsky that he already knew that his sons were involved in the DNC email leak, but he and his wife just wanted to know who murdered Seth. Mr. Rich said he was reluctant to go public with Seth’s and Aaron’s role in leaking the emails because “we don’t want anyone to think our sons were responsible for getting Trump elected.” Mr. Rich said he did not have enough money to hire a private investigator, so Mr. Butowsky offered to pay for one. Mr. Rich accepted the offer and thanked Mr. Butowsky in an email.
48. On December 29, 2016 at 1:51 p.m., Mr. Butowsky sent an email to Ms. Rattner from his iPad: “If the person you met with truly said what he did, is their [sic] a reason you we aren’t reporting it ?” At 3:48 p.m. that afternoon, Ms. Rattner responded as follows: “because— it was a family meeting—- I would have to get his permission– will ask his new lawyer, my sister-in-law.”
The complaint also mentions an interesting development in my ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI. The feds claimed they had no information pertaining to Seth Rich, but they appear to be changing their tune. Shortly after Attorney General William Barr announced plans to declassify documents related to the Russian Collusion Hoax, the FBI’s attorney informed me that new documents were being processed. I should receive them not later than July 22, 2019. The DNC’s objections to our subpoenas for “Russian hacking’ information are also due on July 22, 2019, and production is due on August 8, 2019.
The more I’ve reviewed the Seth Rich case, the more I’m convinced of its central role in the whole Russian Collusion Hoax. I believe DNC officials knew that the emails would become public as the result of an internal leak, and they knew that the emails would be very damaging, so they attempted to turn the tables by pointing fingers at Donald Trump and the Russians. Hopefully we will know more by next week.
Well, I read through most of it now. It is a rather odd document with many spelling errors of the names of people involved.
Still, I am left with two key questions...
He seems to have Butowsky’s chat messages with Ratner that would prove his claims regarding her conversation with Assange. Someone should ask her?
Though in the end, that would only confirm that Assange alleged that the two Rich brothers were his sources for the leaks. Assange has at least twice publically hinted at that Seth Rich was a source anyway, so I am not sure what this would accomplish. Wikileaks or Assange would be in possession of the Seth Rich emails which could prove such a connection you would think, but...yeah..I am rambling.
The second thing that struck me is that the local Fox affiliate still has the original story up and “stand by their report”. Their reporter, who according to the official story then must be a liar seems to have made no retraction either and still works for that channel.
Other than that it goes into a lot of material regarding the investigation that has been posted on here before regarding FBI involvement and denials of involvement, strange timeline regarding when the DNC closed down their servers (several weeks after they claimed to have known to have been hacked), as well the claims by some security experts that according to the metadata it would have been impossible to have transferred the data in the timeframe claimed and that a device such as a thumbdrive must have been used.
Oh, lastly. We might find out more on July 22 when the FBI has to respond to a FOIA request.
Ooops. Did a bit more research. It is indeed a strange story. This from a CNN report. It is even implied that Wheeler was in love with that local reporter and therefor spilled the beans to her...
“No one knows,” the person said. “This is like a huge question mark internally. This is a giant mystery.”
https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/10/media/seth-rich-fox-news-timeline/index.html
Have a good one.
Well, their son Aaron, Seth’s brother was also involved in leaking emails. Maybe they were told he would be killed as well.
Wow. Been doing more research and they apparently have Wheeler
on secret recording talking about the case, and the statements about Aaron are rather astonishing.
He seemed to have gone out of his way to make sure no investigations or even questions were asked about emails...
Aaron, according to Wheeler, had Seth’s computer, but refused to hand it over or talk about it. Sounds like Aaron really did not want anyone to solve the case...
Not too strange perhaps, if his life was in danger...Or even facing the possibility of a lengthy jail session for felony computer crimes..
From what is apparently a secret recording of Wheeler made by Butkowski...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p8at6PD4L8
Wow. Been doing more research and they apparently have Wheeler
on secret recording talking about the case, and the statements about Aaron are rather astonishing.
He seemed to have gone out of his way to make sure no investigations or even questions were asked about emails...
Aaron, according to Wheeler, had Seth’s computer, but refused to hand it over or talk about it. Sounds like Aaron really did not want anyone to solve the case...
Not too strange perhaps, if his life was in danger...Or even facing the possibility of a lengthy jail session for felony computer crimes..
From what is apparently a secret recording of Wheeler made by Butkowski...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p8at6PD4L8
Bump.
Who is Wheeler?
Bttt.
5.56mm
He is the private investigator who was hired to work for the Rich family paid for by Butkowski. This is all acknowledged.
Wheeler is also a Fox News contributor, hence the connections with Fox you can hear him talk about in the recording.
Here is a vid of him on Hannity, so you can also hear that his voice matches the one from the secret youtube recording...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRJDKEVxHY
Thanks :)
In hiding I should think.
“Questions I have never seen an answer to: Did any of those other robberies result in the victims being injured or murdered?”
This is a political hit that “sends a message loud & clear” to certain people while still able to be passed off as a garden-variety stickup.
Why?
If it was a random 'robbery gone wrong' why would the police take his laptop?
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Why wouldn't they?
They examined his laptop to see if there was anything on it relating to Wikileaks.
Would they be doing their job if they didn't address the conspiracy theories?
Besides, before they could determine that it was a robbery gone wrong, wouldn't they check the laptop to see if anyone had been stalking or threatening him?
There's no indication that they kept the laptop.
DNC officials knew that the emails would become public as the result of an internal leak, and they knew that the emails would be very damaging, so they attempted to turn the tables by pointing fingers at Donald Trump and the Russians.
I know Ellen a bit. I once worked at a radio station where she had a show. She’s nice, but she’s a crazy liberal.
This tends to confirm all the rumors that Seth Rich was the source. They need to subpoena his brother.
In a way, it’s better that these things are coming out from Democrats. I can tell you that among the Bernie supporters, many believe Seth was the emails leaker. And that he was murdered by the Clinton machine.
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D.C. cops explains more!
Debbie Weisseerrrrrman Schultz Bro is big in DC police department!
(How convenient !).
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How indeed!
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