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National Security Agency hiding communications between Seth Rich and Julian Assange
LawFlog ^ | December 30, 2020 | Ty Clevenger

Posted on 12/31/2020 7:36:49 AM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew

The transcript of a July 15, 2020 : https://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020.12.30-Exhibit-8-Hersh-depositionstamped.pdf

The National Security Agency is hiding records about murdered Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich, according to one of my sources, who informed me yesterday that the records are classified as a special access program (the highest level of classification) because they include intercepted communications between Mr. Rich and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Meanwhile, I’ve been authorized to release the transcript of a July 15, 2020 deposition of Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Sy Hersh, wherein Mr. Hersh is forced to admit that he did speak with a senior intelligence official about an FBI report about Mr. Rich and Wikileaks. That contradicts much of what Mr. Hersh has said publicly since early 2017 (more on that below).

As my regular readers know, Mr. Rich was murdered in Washington, D.C. on July 10, 2016, and shortly thereafter Wikileaks published thousands of DNC emails that were very embarrassing to then-Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. On August 9, 2016, Mr. Assange intimated that the DNC emails were obtained from Mr. Rich, not Russian hackers.

If you doubt my source, recall that three weeks ago — after three years of denials — the FBI was finally forced to admit that it had thousands of records about Mr. Rich, as well as his laptop. Meanwhile, virtually no one in official Washington has lifted a finger to help.

On May 7, 2020, for example, I sent a letter to Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell asking him to de-classify the NSA’s records about Mr. Rich, and I copied the letter to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, and Ron Johnson, as well as Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Mr. Grenell left office shortly thereafter, so I sent it with a cover letter to current Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on June 2, 2020.

To date, no one has responded to the letter. Absolutely no one. And for reasons that I do not yet fully understand, none of the Republicans in Congress (or even in the Trump Administration) are willing to go anywhere near the subject of Seth Rich. It’s like the last bus stop before Pizzagate (maybe I need to start looking into that, too). [Continued on p.2]

In a conversation recorded in 2017, Mr. Hersh told my client Ed Butowsky about an FBI investigation concerning Seth Rich and Wikileaks, but he then spent the next three years trying to disavow what he told Mr. Butowsky. See, e.g., Andy Kroll, “Killing The Truth,” August 16, 2020 Rolling Stone (ironically, few have spent more time “killing the truth” than Andy Kroll and Rolling Stone). In the July 15, 2020 deposition, however, he reluctantly admitted that he did discuss the FBI investigation with a senior intelligence official whom he had known for more than 30 years. See, e.g., pp. 198-199 of the transcript.

It’s a long deposition, and I find it disappointing that Mr. Hersh was so evasive when questioned. I’m a former journalist, as my readers know, and I understand the need to protect sources, but it is almost as if Mr. Hersh ran away from the story because it was so radioactive. Even at the time of the July deposition, he seemed to believe what his source told him, yet he had zero interest in pursuing the story.

I sought permission to release the deposition because I wanted to use it as an exhibit in Huddleston v. FBI, Case No. 4:20-cv-447-ALM (E.D. Tex.), the case where the FBI reluctantly admitted that it has thousands of records about Seth Rich. According to the court’s October 23, 2020 scheduling order, the FBI was supposed to produce the records two days ago. On December 16, 2020, however, the FBI asked the court for what amounts to an indefinite delay.

This morning I filed an opposition to the FBI’s request, and I attached the deposition of Mr. Hersh. Below I’ve posted links to all of the exhibits. As I explained to the Huddleston court, the FBI has a long history of deception and delay, and it perpetrated a fraud on at least two federal courts while hiding the Seth Rich records.

If you have any tips, please send them my way.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: julianassange; sethrich; seymourhersh; wikileaks
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1 posted on 12/31/2020 7:36:49 AM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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2 posted on 12/31/2020 7:53:19 AM PST by bitt (Anton Chekov: “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”)
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Ping - Yikes!


3 posted on 12/31/2020 7:53:38 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: bitt

We hit this bombast at the same time. :)


4 posted on 12/31/2020 7:54:51 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

If Pollard can go to Israel, then it is time to spring Assange out of the UK hoosgow.


5 posted on 12/31/2020 7:56:05 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

Our government seems to be very good at one thing: keeping information from the taxpaying public and making it nearly impossible to get.


6 posted on 12/31/2020 7:57:43 AM PST by Starboard
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

If the democrats killed Mr Rich I have no doubt the FBI would cover that up, no doubt.
The FBI/DOJ have proven themselves the enemy of a free people and equal justice under the law.
Until proven otherwise I will consider everything they touch corrupted.


7 posted on 12/31/2020 8:00:23 AM PST by glasseye ("If you don't fire that prosecutor, you ain't black." -Joe Biden)
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To: glasseye

“...The FBI/DOJ have proven themselves the enemy of a free people and equal justice under the law.
Until proven otherwise I will consider everything they touch corrupted....”

Yep...and bears repeating.
As far as the everyday, ordinary citizen is concerned, they’re as useless as teats on a boar hog.


8 posted on 12/31/2020 8:03:09 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

Strzok, or an agent just as putrid, most likely murdered Seth.


9 posted on 12/31/2020 8:09:43 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

The corruption in DC is a bottomless pit. Even if we get Trump for another 4 years, I doubt it can ever get cleaned up unless all of the crimes can be exposed. All we can do is pray....


10 posted on 12/31/2020 8:22:54 AM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

The Deep State participants continue to unmask them =selves.


11 posted on 12/31/2020 8:26:54 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Dogbert41
It was clearly the Clinton mafia's work...

The Clinton Crime Family keeps adding bodies to their count

12 posted on 12/31/2020 8:27:07 AM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: glasseye

The DNC-FBI-CIA Satanic Cabal can all rot in hell for what they have done. I always suspected it was Seth Rich who exposed the evil of Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and all ththe other Satanists in the democrat party.

Somehow the Satanists learned it was Seth Rich who exposed their evil, and they turned their murderous gaze on him. When he was shot to death, the FBI cleaned it all up and looked the other way. Assange is lucky he is still alive.


13 posted on 12/31/2020 8:48:45 AM PST by Prole
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To: Dogbert41

My guess is that the union goons belonging to SEIU or someone off their back bench made the hit on SR, and then they got whacked to tie up loose ends.

Shot placement was kind of amateurish, so there is that angle. Pros normally double tap in the right spots.

DC Metro never released any info. from area cameras that might have had visual or acoustic clues.

Metro police chief resigned within months if not weeks of the shooting/coverup and was shortly thereafter hired to be head of NFL security.


14 posted on 12/31/2020 8:53:30 AM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: All

NSA, FBI and the rest of the Deep Criminals who conquered USA and are working full time to destroy our law and our very lives...

Father forgive us for allowing these creatures to exist.


15 posted on 12/31/2020 9:00:46 AM PST by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

Bttt.

5.56mm


16 posted on 12/31/2020 9:07:33 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: Starboard
Our government seems to be very good at one thing: keeping information from the taxpaying public and making it nearly impossible to get.

+1
17 posted on 12/31/2020 9:18:35 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Dogbert41

Possibly Strzk, but more likely an MS-13 or DC thug paid by Strzk


18 posted on 12/31/2020 9:20:32 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew
The National Security Agency is hiding records about murdered Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich, according to one of my (unnamed) sources, who informed me yesterday that the records are classified as a special access program (the highest level of classification) because they include intercepted communications between Mr. Rich and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Just releasing the classification is a felony. More praise of felonies that make some feel good, while they speak out of the other side of their mouths' to condemn felonies committed by election officials.

19 posted on 12/31/2020 10:08:58 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ptsal

*** If Pollard can go to Israel, then it is time to spring Assange out of the UK hoosgow. ***

Pollard flew to Israel on Sheldon Adelson’s private jet.

At Assange’s hearings (if you have been following the Assange case) Adelson’s rep’s have been there consulting with our DOJ which is pursuing extradition and 175 years in ADX SuperMax for Assange. Adelson’s rep’s are not there to advocate for Assange’s freedom.


20 posted on 12/31/2020 10:30:00 AM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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