Seymour Hersh: I’ll tell you what I know. What I know comes off an FBI report. Don’t ask me how. You can figure out I’ve been around long enough. This is according to the FBI report. What they find is he [Rich] makes con[tact]. First of all, you have to know, you have to know some basic facts. One of the basic facts is there’s no DNC or Podesta email that exists beyond May 22nd, May 21st, 22nd, the last emails from either one of those groups. And so what the report says is that sometime in late spring – we’re talking about June, you know, summer and June 21st, late spring would be after, I presume … I don’t know. I just say late spring, early summer, he [Rich] makes contact with Wikileaks. That’s in his computer and he makes contact. They [FBI investigators] found what he had done. He had submitted a series of documents, of emails, some juicy emails from the DNC. He offered a sample, an extensive sample – y’know I’m sure dozens of email – and said, “I want money.”
Later Wikileaks did get the password. He had a Dropbox, a protected Dropbox, which isn’t hard to do. I mean you don’t have to be a wizard, IT wizard. Y’know he was certainly not a dumb kid, and they got access to the Dropbox. He [Rich] also, and this is also in the FBI report, he’d also let people know with whom he was dealing, and I don’t know how he dealt – I’ll tell you about Wikileaks in a second. I don’t know how he dealt with Wikileaks – the mechanism. But he also, the word was passed, according to the FBI report, “I also shared this box with a couple of friends, so if anything happens to me, you’re not, it’s not going to solve your [their?] problem.” OK? I don’t know what that means, I don’t know what he was … anyway, but Wikileaks got access and before he was killed.
Ed Butowsky: But what you’re saying is that he uploaded stuff into the Wikileaks dropbox and they pulled it down and that’s where the Podesta and DNC emails came from.
SH: It doesn’t preclude Russians also hacking them! I just don’t think that. Y’know it’s always Occam’s Razor. Wikileaks got ‘em.
EB: Yeah, I know. I understand. But I wanta stay focused on one thing just for a moment. You saw the FBI report?
SH: No. I have somebody on the inside. Y’know I’ve been around a long time and I write a lot of stuff. I have somebody on the inside who will go and read a file for me. And I know this person is unbelievably accurate and careful. He’s a very high-level guy and he’ll do a favor.
EB: And is there any way we can get our hands on the report?
Hersh responded that he could not risk exposing his high-level FBI source by sharing a document even if he could get one. He then asked Butowsky to tell him what he knew:
SH: My pen is down. I’m not quoting you about anything. I know that. What do you know?
EB: I know that Julian Assange told a friend of mine who met with him that he got the emails from Seth Rich.
SH: Whoa!
EB: And they’re very personal friends.
Hersh said that he had been working on the story since August 2016 because he foresaw that Russia would be blamed for the email leaks.
SH: I’ve been doing this story since the late summer because I smelled it. I smelled it in August, OK? That the fallback was going to be Russia.
That’s an abridged version of the conversation between Seymour Hersh and Ed Butowsky, but anyone who wants to listen to the whole thing – to be sure I haven’t mangled the meaning or for any other reason – can find it on this Reddit post of the YouTube video: Full 20 min audio available for first time of Sy Hersh & Ed Butowsky discussing Seth Rich.
Rich was a Berny bot and saw how the DNC/Hillary people totally destroyed Berny in every way possible. Stealing his money, donors, entire voter list, you name it they ripped it away form naive ol' Bernie.He never had a prayer.
Rich went crazy and started downloading stuff to wiki.He got caught later by Crowdstrike when they figured out it had to be Rich.
The dnc made an example out of him and had him shot. I don't know if the FBI shot him or two ms13 goons.He wound up at Medstar and the head of surgery Jack Sava either finished him off or moved him somewhere else. I don't know. George Webb walked the entire walk Rich took the night he was shot just to get the feel of things. Later he noted that the fbi stole all the info, intel, and any cameras that might have picked up anything on Rich and either destroyed it or sat on it and as they said never did investigate.dc police were told to STHU and go away on the Rich case and they did.