Posted on 05/25/2017 4:04:20 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Corpus Christi Republican Congressman Blake Farenthold considers the source behind the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee's email server an unanswered question and believes a federal investigation is warranted.
Speaking on CNN Wednesday, the fourth-term congressman refuted a widely believed conclusion that the Russian government interfered with the U.S. presidential election to aid President Donald Trump's campaign and instead indicated a conspiracy theory about a slain Democratic National Committee staffer could be true.
"My fear is our constant focusing on the Russians is deflecting away for some other things that we need to be investigating," Farenthold said on the network. "There’s still some question as to whether the intrusion of the DNC server was an insider job or whether or not it was the Russians."
Later Wednesday, Farenthold elaborated on his opinion of how the investigation should be handled in a phone interview with the Caller-Times. The death should be investigated in the same manner Russian interference has been reviewed, he said.
"That should be a part of the ongoing investigation into alleged Russian interference in the election, because that’s an alternative theory that deserves being looked at," Farenthold said.
The "insider job" theory centers on the July murder of Seth Rich, who worked for the Democratic National Committee and was shot in the back.
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But they have exchanged the word “hack” for “meddling” and sometimes a pundit may use “interference”.
I think that’s because saying that the Russians “hacked” the election was too specific and was easily proven to be true or false-as is “leaking”. But “meddling”? That could mean ANYTHING.
Someone on another thread, maybe on another site made a statement that clinched this for me.
“Seth Rich was shot three times yet no democrat has used his murder to call for greater gun control”
That right there tells you all you need to know.
Good points.
We already have a Special Counsel charged with investigating supposed Russian ties to the recent election.
Since “Russians” were supposedly responsible for hacking the DNC and spilling dirt all over Podesta and Hillary, and since it’s very likely that Mueller is going to find out otherwise, what makes you think the Seth Rich case isn’t already under the microscope?
[what makes you think the Seth Rich case isn’t already under the microscope?]
Because it occurred under Comey’s watch and his lieutenant is still there.
I’d be happy to be completely-wrong. I am of the opinion that SR was assassinated. Or it’s an amazing coincidence. Just like a lot of stuff that happened around the Clintons and Obama. Multiple times.
Mueller reports to Justice, not the FBI. And he has access to any evidence that the FBI has not been able to act on because of refusal from Lynch’s Justice Dept.
Good. Well, if LL was still there.........
One thing is for certain, the Democrats and the MSM want to ridicule the SR story as “conspiracy” when it’s quite obvious he was leaking to Wikileaks.
I find it obvious, too, and want very much for some of the scoffers to eat crow and the guilty to pay. I would love to think that there’s a federal grand jury already being convened.
Is Seth Rich and his family related to the wealthy crook Dem financier Marc Rich that sold Iranian oil, that Bill Clinton pardoned for kickbacks in his last days in office? Too many coincidental events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
The Seth Rich case reminds me of the Mary Mahoney (WH intern) case from when Clinton was Prez.
She worked at a Starbucks, had some connection to Lewinsky or Paula Jones' case against Clinton.
The Starbucks is robbed, nothing is taken as far as $ yet the robbers killed every employee in the store.
Including Mahoney.
Don't "robbers" usually actually take something from their victims?
The Seth Rich Murder clearly wasn't a "robbery gone bad".
Some DNC staffer like Rich probably isn't someone who would argue with a robber.
Someone sticks a gun in his face, and he would have given up any valuables he had, like any normal person would.
And being shot in the back twice?
You don't have to believe in conspiracies to find *everything* about his murder "odd".
And the magical coincidence that he was the DNC’s Wikileaks source.
He was Fosterized.
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