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BREAKING: Lawsuit Outs Reporter Ellen Ratner as Source for Seth Rich Information
GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 7/15/2019 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 07/16/2019 8:44:10 AM PDT by bitt

Businessman Ed Butowsky filed a lawsuit on Monday that outed FOX News reporter Ellen Ratner was his source for the Seth Rich information.

This comes after Michael Isikoff’s report last week that labeled Butowsky as a Russian source.

Ed told The Gateway Pundit today that Ellen Ratner lied to Isikoff. Ed provided The Gateway Pundit with a copy of his email with Ratner.

Butowsky added that he spoke with Isikoff off the record and he broke his trust by contacting Ratner.

Butowsky told The Gateway Pundit that after last week’s report he was forced to speak out. Ed also says he has more evidence that Ratner was his source on the Seth Rich information.

Butowsky claims Ratner gathered the information on Seth Rich after contact with Wikileaks officials. The Gateway Pundit has not confirmed that information.

Isikoff is already tied to the Trump-Russia collusion scandal after reporting on the junk dossier in his Yahoo report in 2016. The deep state leaked the info specifically to Isikoff who they knew to be a friendly reporter.

Lawflog.com reported:

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: butowsky; edbutowsky; ellenratner; foxnews; gatewaypundit; gaywayplungeit; hillary2016; hillaryemails; isikoff; lawsuit; michaelisikoff; michaelratner; sethrich; spies; spooks; thegatewaypundit; trumprussia; wikileaks; yahoo; yesterday
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1 posted on 07/16/2019 8:44:10 AM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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2 posted on 07/16/2019 8:44:24 AM PDT by bitt (US intel is there to protect the safety and security of Americans. It is not a political tool.)
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To: bitt

Gateway Pundit. I dunno.


3 posted on 07/16/2019 8:46:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: bitt

“Lawsuit Outs Reporter Ellen Ratner as Source for Seth Rich Information”

right. because we all know that because something is in a lawsuit it must be true.

btw, this bullshit Butowsky clickbait has been posted here at least a dozen times in the last 24 hours ...


4 posted on 07/16/2019 8:48:33 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: bitt

"Assange told me, 'Seth Rich gave me the dirt on Hillary'"

5 posted on 07/16/2019 8:48:49 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

She’s one mean Lesbian.


6 posted on 07/16/2019 8:52:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bitt
So now the news media will start mentioning the Seth Rich murder again?

Taking about it was banned, even Hannity on Fox, was not allowed to talk about it.

Let me get this straignt, Seth Rich (D IT guy) was responsible for the DNC data leaks (not Russia) and he was murdered a few days after the leaks happened, his murder has never been solved....

A real free press would be attempting to connect the dots.

7 posted on 07/16/2019 8:52:49 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: catnipman
this bullshit Butowsky clickbait has been posted here at least a dozen times in the last 24 hours ...

It needs to be posted, MSM is not going to report it.

8 posted on 07/16/2019 8:54:27 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: bitt
***Butowsky added that he spoke with Isikoff off the record and he broke his trust by contacting Ratner***

Why would anyone trust Isikoff with privileged information? He was used by the DS to add credibility to the Steele Dossier and he sat silently on WJC's Lewinsky affair until Drudge blew the lid off.

9 posted on 07/16/2019 8:57:02 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: bitt
My goodness sakes alive....

Butowsky added that he spoke with Isikoff off the record and he broke his trust by contacting Ratner.

Why would anyone trust anything associated with Isikoff?

10 posted on 07/16/2019 8:58:53 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: Ann Archy

Fugly, too.


11 posted on 07/16/2019 8:58:54 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: TruthWillWin
.. he was murdered a few days after the leaks happened,

another way to say it: He was murdered a few days before he was scheduled to testify he leaked the emails

12 posted on 07/16/2019 8:59:16 AM PDT by SGCOS
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To: TruthWillWin

If Trump tweets about it, they’ll have no choice. Frankly, I think that’s one reason he tweets. He forces their hand.


13 posted on 07/16/2019 8:59:55 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: TruthWillWin

“It needs to be posted, MSM is not going to report it.”

it’s been posted a dozen times here in the last 24 hours, including from gateway pundit itself several times ... AND it’s a garbage post anyway ...


14 posted on 07/16/2019 9:00:30 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: TruthWillWin

They have top men working on it. Top. Men.


15 posted on 07/16/2019 9:02:57 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - rever.)
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To: bitt

Well now we have a new term: “Seth Rich information”? It has never been allowed to be called that before. This implies that it was purloined by Rich, an accusation that has been toxic, anathema, to date.

Clearly a piece of spin. By whom? One has to wonder if this is a deliberately set “mystery bomb” planted by the FBI.

I myself am 100% equivocal as to whether the “Seth Rich information” found its way into Assanges’ hands via Rich or the Awans. I have no way of knowing, don’t know, don’t see how we might ever know. It could be careless or deliberate handling by either. The FBI, having utterly and in some respects, gleefully failed to examine the DNC server, is absolutely at fault if not complicit in this “not knowing” but perhaps that is quite deliberate.


16 posted on 07/16/2019 9:04:06 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: SGCOS; TruthWillWin
another way to say it: He was murdered a few days before he was scheduled to testify he leaked the emails

The other detail: He was murdered a few days after Podesta told people that the Leaker needed to be found and the Democrats needed to "make an example out of him".

17 posted on 07/16/2019 9:05:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Butowsky claims Ratner gathered the information on Seth Rich after contact with Wikileaks officials. The Gateway Pundit has not confirmed that information. Isikoff is already tied to the Trump-Russia collusion scandal after reporting on the junk dossier in his Yahoo report in 2016. The deep state leaked the info specifically to Isikoff who they knew to be a friendly reporter.
Thanks bitt.

18 posted on 07/16/2019 9:12:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bitt

“Isikoff is already tied to the Trump-Russia collusion scandal after reporting on the junk dossier in his Yahoo report in 2016.”

Christopher Steele gave Isakoff the dossier info. Isakoff wrote the yahoo article which Rosenstien et al provided to the FISA court as “evidence” of Trump’s collusion with the Russians.

The whole thing was one big intelligence/media circle jerk.


19 posted on 07/16/2019 9:13:31 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: bitt; gaijin

GPundit delivered a word salad. Guess I read too fast.
What the heck?

So, how is Ishikof the immediate catalyst for forcing ED B. to come forward at.this.time? Why Now comes Ed B.?

I’m confused about this.

Did Michael Ishikof write something recently, prompting the current motivation to out Ellen Rattner, as Ed B.’s source?

I mean, Assange was our source as well. We all saw Assange on HANNITY (ions ago) alluding to Seth Richards as the Assange/Wikileaks source, for the trove of DNC revelations.

The parents (the Richards’) were oddly incurious and too silent about the strange and incriminating circumstances of their son’s murder. They knew the wrong people were involved, and they perpetuated the Russia myth. The wrong people were of the Richards’ own political party— the DEMOCRATS.

The parents were so defensive over Trump reaping a benefit from outing the Truth, they were willing to see their son’s murder facts deep-sixed.


20 posted on 07/16/2019 9:20:35 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skools/Academia are the Marxists Farm Team for more coming. Infinitum.)
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