Posted on 05/22/2017 8:06:49 AM PDT by Rockitz
Last week, Fox 5 DCs report incited a storm of controversy after former D.C. police homicide detective Rod Wheeler stated that there was tangible evidence on murdered Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Richs laptop suggesting that he was communicating with Wikileaks prior to his death. The story generated a large amount of outrage, with outlets like the Washington Post and Vice labelling it a conspiracy theory and claiming that it had no basis in fact. But details regarding the political affiliation of spokespeople and representatives of the Rich family appear to indicate that the DNC may be prioritizing its own interests, minimizing alleged political elements to the tragedy.
I. Legal Representatives And Spokespeople For Rich Family Have Ties To DNC, Crime Connected Unions
Since Fox 5 DCs report, a number of individuals speaking on behalf of the Rich family have blasted Fox News and Rod Wheeler for speaking out on the case. Rich family spokesman Brad Bauman insisted that anyone who continued to push the story either had a transparent political agenda, or were a sociopath. But an August 2016 tweet from Wikileaks revealed that Bauman is a crisis public relations consultant working with the Pastorum Group. A media release from the Pastorum Group reveals that Bauman previously worked for the DNC and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The SEIU has previously been reported by the Wall Street Journal as a top spender for the Democrats, openly endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and actively assisted in her campaign. It has been widely criticized by some groups for the involvement of union members in crimes including embezzlement, criminal conspiracy, perjury and identity theft. The SEIU is also a client of the Strategic Consulting Group, which was founded by the Democratic operative Robert Creamer. In 2016, Creamer was implicated in footage obtained by journalist James OKeefe which revealed that Creamer was engaging in voting fraud and violent disruption of political events, sometimes using his connections to unions who were as clients of his.
Baumans past professional ties to the DNC and the SEIU raise questions about the vehemence with which he has attacked journalists reporting on the circumstances of Seth Richs murder.
On May 19th, Rod Wheeler was sent a cease and desist letter on behalf of the Rich family by Joseph Ingrisano of the law firm Kutak Rock LLP. Kutak Rock has a long history of incredibly close affiliation with DNC politicians. The law firm donated $21,850 and $13,400 to President Barack Obama during his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, respectively. Kutak also gave $11,800 to Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential bid.
Kutak also has ties to the Rose Law Firm, which was at the center of the infamous Whitewater Controversy during the 1990s. Hillary Clinton as well as White House staffer Vince Foster both practiced law at Rose, though Clinton has sought to distance herself from the firm given the allegations of scandal that surrounded it. On April 13th, 1998, Arkansas Business reported that a number of attorneys from Rose left the firm for Kutak Rock. Kutak Rock continues to maintain offices in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Pro-Democrat interests have also taken to Change.org to attack companies advertising with Fox 5 DC. The boycott campaign is organized by Karl Frisch, a former senior fellow at propaganda group Media Matters for America who spent his time at the organization helping develop long-term strategy to target Fox News as a political actor.
II. Rich Familys Statements To The Public Are Inconsistent With Those Of Their Representatives
Despite the instance of representatives to the contrary, the Rich family have released multiple statements expressing gratitude to individuals privately attempting to help answer questions surrounding Richs murder and indicating fatigue at efforts from both sides to politicize the tragedy. On April 24th, Seth Richs parents released a video thanking those who had stepped forward to help identify their sons killers and donated to the familys GoFundMe. A May 18th update to the GoFundMe page by Seth Richs brother Aaron exhibited a general annoyance at third parties who were using the family for political motives. He asked for help that would allow the family to solve Richs murder without having to rely on aid offered with strings.
Message from Seth Richs brother criticizing third parties for politicizing Richs murder
The Rich family themselves appears divided on who was responsible for Seth Richs murder. Richs cousin, Jonathan Rich, told Sean Hannity on Twitter that he suspected Rich might have been in touch with Wikileaks. The topic clearly continues to remain controversial for the family.
III. The Investigation Into Richs Murder Has Been Marked By Incompetence
Facts about the investigation into Richs murder continue to raise concerns about the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Departments efforts to identify Seth Richs killers. The public incident report filed after Richs death shows that several officers who responded to the scene of the crime were wearing body cameras. But the Metropolitan Police claimed the footage was lost when met with requests to release the videos, which might have provided important clues. A May 21st, 2017 report by World Net Daily has also established that police failed to speak with staff at Lous City Bar (where Rich was last seen alive) to enquire about whether they had any pertinent evidence.
Even stranger, police chief Cathy Lanier resigned just a month after Richs death. Her replacement, Peter Newsham, has been plagued by past allegations of alcoholism and domestic violence. Newsham was also accused of severely mishandling a rape case after the family of an 11 year old girl alleged that he allowed the victim to be charged with filing a false report despite several medical accounts detailing her sexual injuries and genetic evidence indicating that she had been abused by multiple assailants.
It is also not clear why police would seize Richs laptop for an investigation into what was supposed to be a robbery gone bad. The Washington Post claimed that neither the FBI nor the police were in possession of Richs laptop. But this claim contradicts a report by the Washington Examiner which cited a former law enforcement official who stated that the laptop was examined during the investigation.
Whether the truth about who killed Seth Rich will emerge or not remains to be seen. In the aftermath of Fox 5 DCs claims, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom claimed he would provide proof that Seth Rich was the source of Wikileaks DNC email release on May 23rd. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has additionally hinted that while Wikileaks never discloses their own sources, other parties may hold important information concerning Seth Richs potential communications with the publisher.
Should information emerge showing that Seth Rich did in fact act as a source for Wikileaks, the intense denials from national media outlets and the intimate involvement of figures tied to the DNC in the case will undoubtedly fuel renewed allegations of a politically motivated cover up.
Why/how did the killers ‘forget’ to make it look like a robbery? Because he fought back enough to slow their plan down?
txhurl wrote: "Why/how did the killers forget to make it look like a robbery? Because he fought back enough to slow their plan down?
There is so much more to this story. George Webb's investigative series covers not only the Rich Seth murder investigation, but the Pakistani IT/Congress scandal with the Awan brothers, the human-trafficking, organ-harvesting, & drug ratlines - all/or/some of which may be connected to the Seth Rich murder.
Rough transcript:
Liz Crokin:Ok, so, in summary Ive got some breaking news for you guys. So we have a story thats not even up yet. So we have a news story that were going to break at WND really soon. When the private investigator that ws hired by the family when he started working on this case he started calling his friends in the police department to try to figure out what was going on, right? So, listen to this.
Apparently, when he was making calls investigating the case, a high ranking member of the DNC got very upset about this and called not only the police to complain about this private investigator snooping about the Seth Rich case, she also called Seth Richs family and complained.
Well, guess who that high ranking DNC official was? It was none other than Donna Brazile.
Now, if you remember, Donna Brazile lost her job at CNN for abusing her position at CNN to leak debate questions to Hillary Clinton. So, if anyone has an ax to grind with a potential leaker to WikiLeaks it would be her.
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Liz Crokin:
So, the crisis manager, the spokesman for the family is not really a spokesman hes a crisis consultant we talked about this on the last show -
So he was quoted telling one of our reporters who was asking about this whole situation, he said to her, anyone that believes that Seth Rich may have leaked DNC emails deserves a place in hell.
Ok, your supposed to be a crisis manager and youre telling people to go to hell? This is the biggest train wreck ever. . . .this Seth Rich story is the domino piece that is going to make all of them fall down....the whole house is about to fall. Because, if indeed Seth Rich was the leaker that means it wasnt Russia so their lie about Russia hacking, including against Hillary during this election was a complete lie, so that ruins that narrative. It proves that the DNC has assassins proves that the DC Police Department is corrupt proves that politicians closely tied to the DC police dept. are corrupt also proves that a huge chunk of the msm is covering up for it As far as Im concerned, if youre covering up for this murder, youre complicit in it.
Larry Hagmann:
What about Rod Wheeler. Whats your take on Rod Wheeler?Liz Crokin:
Heres another bit of information for you. Rods really upset because he did say that the local Fox network misconstrued what he said. Now, hes thinking about taking legal action. You know, Ive talked to him. I genuinely feel really bad for the guy. I mean, when I talked to him he sounded really broken. He just said to me, you know what, I wish I never got involved with it. Hes like, its a nightmare. I just was trying to do the right thing. I didnt know this was so political. I dont have an agenda. Hes trying to help a grieving (freaking) family and now hes been viciously attacked. ...I feel bad for the guy....Its very obvious to me that this family, you know, the DNC and certain outlets that are lying about this said that the family didnt want anyone to investigate this any further. Thats a lie. They made a video a few months ago, they set up a whole go fund me account so they can raise money so they could investigate on their own. That is a huge lie.What reasonable family would tell their private investigator whos close to finding a murderer to stop investigating the case? ...it makes no sense. If Seth, indeed was the leaker, why would they hire the only group with a motive to kill him to be their spokesperson?...
You folks know the the deep state operates. You know how the Clinton mafia operates. These people use fear. They use intimidation. They will hurt you. They will hurt your family. They will hurt your pets. Theyll slash your tires. They will do horrible things to you. I believe this family is ....very fearful.
Larry Hagmann:
How did they get this family get Brad Baumann who is the PR crisis consultant for the Pastorum Group, which really the DNC or DNC organ type thing. Obama, by the way, and perhaps you can verify this or confirm it or if you know its my understanding that Brad Baumann, the spokesperson for the Rich family was also employed or a shared employee for the House Democrats from 2009 to 2013. So, that the ties here for the family spokesman to the DNC is absolutely incredible.Liz Crokin:
I want to cover this in future stories because its very obvious to me there is a cover up. There are so many ties between this Motley Crew...John Podesta, Robby Mook, all these DNC operatives, these Clinton operatives. There are so many ties between them and the DC police chief, the commissioner, the mayor, ... The people that are freaking out the most about this story are the ones that are linked to it. Like John Podesta came out today ...frantically trashing Trump. Theyre acting like rabid animals that are cornered. Youve got the spokesperson telling people to go to hell youre supposed to be a crisis consultant? Is that how you deal with a crisis? These people are losing their minds.Whats unbelievable to me, its so frustrating to me, being someone that was part of the mainstream media for so long is that there are so many reporters that are flat out lying about it. There are so many reporters that are going to attack me, of course I was expecting that . . .thats ok . . .but whats so frustrating to me is that theres so many people in the media that are flat out lying about it. They are playing it as a conspiracy theory. There are some people, there are some outlets that I actually thought were legit and straight up, that were respectable and cared to actually hear about the truth..its just so frustrating...
Larry Hagmann:
Liz, to watch what you went through is its hard to watch. And folks, Liz has been on the receiving end of some nasty, trashy stuff on twitter, on social networking ...and so the flack youre catching means youre getting, youre over the target. So, thank you.Liz Crokin:
Right. So, ok. This is what I want to say. The Clintons have been using as a defense the whole conspiracy theory tactic for at least 20 years now, maybe 30. Whenever someone uncovers some scandal they are involved in, Hillary Clinton gets in front of the camera and says oh, its a vast right-wing conspiracy. Shes been saying it since Monica Lewinsky.So what was that like 20 years ago? Now that tactic worked and the DNC and the Clintons have used that for a very long time period and its not working anymore. Now, if you just did 5 minutes of research on this murder, you will see that they are trying to say that it was a robbery and within 5 minutes youll find out that nothings robbed. You have to be absolutely brain dead to believe it was a robbery when nothing was stolen.
My point is that, weve talked about pedo-gate before. Pedo-gate is something that is really horrendous. Its really dark. Its really hard for a normal person with a soul to comprehend that people could be doing these horrible things to children. So its easier for people to cast this aside as a conspiracy theory.
Whats not hard to comprehend is that people murder. People murder over money and power. Ok? Thats not hard to comprehend. So, this whole wag the dog, lets just call these people conspiracy theorists and call this a conspiracy theory when its so freaking obvious that Seth was not robbed and he has clear ties to WikiLeaks and most likely was the leaker thats not going to work anymore. The gig is up. All these stories that are coming out saying its a conspiracy theory its been debunked...we saw the same thing with pedo-gate. But no one debunked it. If you want to debunk a story, a conspiracy theory, you have to prove evidence that X, Y, or Z isnt true. And no one does that. This is not the conspiracy theory defense. Im sorry, this is just not going to fly anymore. The story has turned into a beast. Sean Hannity is on it now. Thank God. Rush Limbaugh talked about it today. Its starting to go main stream. There are just too many worms out of the can and they cant put them all back.
Larry Hagmann:
Thanks to you. Your part of this exposing this. And you know, Liz, the connection to pedo-gate and the organ trafficking theres that too the rat lines and such. Youre bringing it home and thats why youre so radio-active in the media. I believe that.you can finish watching at link
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