Posted on 08/04/2025 6:04:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Recent revelations from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have undermined the Deep State party line that Seth Rich’s murder was a botched robbery. This assumption hinged on the nearly universal acceptance that it was the Russians who hacked the DNC and DCCC servers in 2016. That assumption has collapsed.
In the early morning hours of July 10, 2016, unknown assailants beat and then shot to death the 27-year-old DNC data analyst. This much is not in question. Everything else about Rich’s murder is. The most honest assessment of what happened to Rich came from his mother. On the day after the shooting, Mary Rich, told local TV news that her son struggled with his attackers: “His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything….They took his life for literally no reason. They didn’t finish robbing him, they just took his life.”
In fact, they did not start robbing him. They left without taking his cellphone, his wallet, or his watch. The dying Rich told the police only that his assailants spoke Spanish (as, curiously, did the operatives who broke into the Watergate). Against the backdrop of the very public Hillary email scandal, the inexplicable murder of a Bernie Sanders-supporting DNC data analyst should have been catnip for every red blooded journalist in DC.
It wasn’t. From this point on, Democrats and their media allies aggressively suppressed any suggestion that Rich’s death was something other than a “botched robbery.” As FOX News learned the hard way, to question whether Rich may have been the source of the emails leaked to Julian Assange and Wikileaks was to invite scorn and crippling law suits.
For Democrats, the one silver lining in the April 2019 release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference was the belief that, if nothing else, Team Mueller put the kibosh on the various “conspiracy theories” around Rich’s murder. Said the leftist Daily Beast at the time, “Julian Assange repeatedly blamed Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer, for Russia’s leaks. The Mueller report shows that Assange was lying from the start.”
Far from “blaming” Rich, Assange offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to Rich’s killers. Team Mueller acknowledged that Assange had strongly suggested Rich was his source but dismissed Assange’s comments, claiming they were “designed to obscure the source of the materials that WikiLeaks was releasing.“ This was nuts. Assange had far less reason to protect the Russians than Mueller did to indict them.
Team Mueller expressed shock that even after the now infamous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) was released on January 6, 2017, “Assange continued to deny that the Clinton materials released by WikiLeaks had come from Russian hacking.” According to Mueller, Assange reportedly told a U.S. congressman “that the DNC hack was an ‘inside job,’ and purported to have ‘physical proof’ that Russians did not give materials to Assange.”
It would have helped, of course, if Mueller and his team had spoken with Assange, but his first hand evidence would have spoiled the second hand narrative they established at the top of the report—”The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” This unfounded assumption dictated all conclusions that followed. Assange was “lying” because he challenged those conclusions.
In tracing the “evidence of Russian government operations,” the Mueller report cites as Exhibit A the fact that “in June [2016], the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised its computer network.”
The “cyber response team” in question was CrowdStrike, an outfit recommended by Perkins Coie, the same law firm responsible for the Steele dossier. The FBI had been shut out of the review. On January 5, 2017, a “senior law enforcement official” admitted as much, telling CNN, “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.” CNN reported this a day before the ICA was released.
The fact that its agents were denied access to the DNC servers may explain why, as Tulsi Gabbard reported, “the FBI and NSA had ‘low confidence’ in attributing the data leaks from these entities to Russia.” In its October 7, 2016 press release on Russian interference the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of Homeland Security chose to suppress this exculpatory bit of information.
Even CrowdStrike president Shawn Henry had doubts about Russia hacking the DNC servers. In closed door testimony before the House Intelligence Community in 2017, he conceded, "There’s not evidence that [the data] were actually exfiltrated. There's circumstantial evidence but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated."
Leonard Benardo was less concerned about whether Russians hacked the DNC servers than he was about how Hillary Clinton could exploit the rumor that they had. Benardo, senior vice president for George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, was planted deep in the Clinton campaign. Of note, he began his work with the Open Society Foundations at the Soros Foundation Moscow.
Clinton’s schemes, laid out in a pair of emails, were unearthed by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) John Durham and shared by Gabbard this week. In a July 25, 2016, email, Bernardo wrote, "The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid...Julie says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire."
“Julie” refers to Clinton campaign official Julia Smith. In the two days that followed Smith appears to have run her plans by Hillary Clinton. On July 27, 2016, Benardo wrote, “HRC approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russia hampering U.S. elections. This should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level." When questioned by Durham’s staff, Benardo lamely asserted that “to the best of his knowledge, he did not draft the emails.”
None of this proves people close to Hillary Clinton had Seth Rich killed, but it does show that Assange is a more credible source than the conspirators who framed Donald Trump. The Rich murder deserves the attention it was denied from day one. There can be no surer way to pierce the fog in which the legacy media have shrouded this scandal than to find Rich’s killers.
I would look into John Podesta and those who handled his dirty work.
He’s sworn to never give up his sources, if Julian Assange ever told where he got the DNC emails then it would clear up a lot about the Seth Rich murder.
My belief is that Seth Rich is the source of the emails, he probably had a problem with all the illegality of what was going on at the DNC and gave Julian Assange the emails as evidence and he was murdered as a result.
Nothing can be done about it, but I have sympathy for the family of Seth Rich. Their son or brother died nearly 10 years ago, understand mysterious circumstances. They may have been told to keep quiet. Our Feds can be a brutal bulldozer of civil rights when they choose to be. That said, the name of their deceased family member keeps popping up every few years. Each political party uses the name of Seth in order to make certain political points.
The ability to choose what to investigate, and what not to investigate is a huge political power of investigative agencies.
Barrack Obama worked hard at politicizing the CIA, and the FBI and virually all the bureaucratic apparatus.
They were most likely told Seth’s brother would be killed if anybody denied the official narrative. I suspect the same thing was said to Andrew Breitbart’s family. It’s what these Deep State crooks do; they threaten the family of the person they want to stop.
As Chuck Schumer described it, the “intelligence community” has “six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” Until that changes, the Rich family and every other family who might expose crimes are all held hostage. There is no way for them to properly grieve because Rich’s heroism and patriotism has not been allowed to be successful or appreciated. He was a whistleblower when it was desperately needed, and he may have saved this country.
I hope that exposure and prosecution of this (originally 16-year) seditious conspiracy that has now consumed the last 20 years of governance in this country will allow the whole world to see who the real villains and heroes are/were, and to allow us to heal through the administration of justice and move forward in such a way that this can never happen again.
Remember how the, normally, loquacious Donna Brazile’s voice was “squelched” after she evoked Seth Rich’s name in the media and remarked about what a nice kid he was?
Somebody put a bug in her ear; after which she looked like she had seen a ghost!
No more talk of Seth Rich. She was frightened.
I would look into John Podesta and those who handled his dirty work.
Podesta might have ‘ordered it’, and the actual deed may have been done by disposable people (yes, murdered to cover up the murderer), but that isn’t the story.
The real story is the Motive and the Cover-up. The FBI has all of the answers to those questions, including the cover-up. The laptops (which they denied having for 4 years) have the ‘Why’ and the people connected with denying FOI are the coverup. I suspect it goes all the way to the same guy who ordered the Russian collusion conspiracy.
“I hope that prosecution will allow all to see who the real heroes and villains are.”
For greater understanding of that, most people would need to be reeducated on the circumstances. I guessing most people have already forgotten who Seth Rich was and how his death could ever be something of great significance.
There remain a few of us who were around at freerepublic during the 1990’s Clinton years. There were many many bodies that turned up in the wake of the Clintons. We investigated them all. We called them Arkansides. They were all very curious both in the way they happened and by the curious way all formal investigations of them were turned aside and suppressed.
Seth Rich was absolutely a classic Arkanside.
At the time, or shorty after, there were postings here that the murderers were a couple of patsies who were themselves killed in South Carolina.
I can easily believe Rich was murdered for political reasons.
But the “he fought back” part of this story was news to me - and fightung back against muggers is both bound to draw attention (call the police, someone!) and also get you killed.
see Miranda Devine, two postings prior to this article:”According to a Rasmussen poll released Monday, nearly two-thirds of voters (65%) are following declassified releases over the past month by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) “very closely” (32%) or “somewhat closely” (33%)”
Team Mueller expressed shock that even after the now infamous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) was released on January 6, 2017, “Assange continued to deny that the Clinton materials released by WikiLeaks had come from Russian hacking.” According to Mueller, Assange reportedly told a U.S. congressman “that the DNC hack was an ‘inside job,’ and purported to have ‘physical proof’ that Russians did not give materials to Assange.”
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JA has it all
bring it on
It was pretty clear that the FBI was not going to investigate.
And, if his murder was a part of the Russiagate / Clinton email / etc. conspiracy (and we know it is), it is as current as the last time Brennan, et al., lied. So a murder investigation is valid X2.
I remember that. They were at a house waiting to be paid for their deed. And they were paid, Just not how they thought they would be.
“I suspect the same thing was said to Andrew Breitbart’s family.”
And similar to what the Kennedy family had the Kopechne family’s priest tell them.
That’s good to know.
“There were many many bodies that turned up in the wake of the Clintons.”
“The Clinton Body Count”. I believe I still have it in my computer.
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