Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com)

Okian Warrior quotes a report from Fox News: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange implied in an interview that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer was the source of a trove of damaging emails the rogue website posted just days before the party's convention. Speaking to Dutch television program Nieuswsuur Tuesday after earlier announcing a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Seth Rich's killer, Assange said the July 10 murder of Rich in Northwest Washington was an example of the risk leakers undertake. The Washington Post provides some details of the murder in its report: "Rich was shot twice in the back as he walked to his townhouse about 4:20 a.m. Nothing was taken, but police have said attempted robbery is their leading theory for a motive, noting a spike in robberies in the neighborhood in the preceding weeks. WikiLeaks released the trove of emails later that month, on July 22. Rich, 27, had worked for the DNC for two years and helped develop a computer program to make it easier for people to find polling places on Election Day. After his death, the DNC's then-chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), attended a vigil for Rich in front of his home, and Hillary Clinton, before she was nominated in her run for president, evoked his name during a speech in which she advocated for limiting the availability of guns."

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Re: Clintons have killed tons of people

[Fire_Wraith]

Basically, we can either choose to believe that:
A) The Clintons are merciless killers whose cunning conspiracy knows no bounds, but are also so cluelessly inept as to get caught for stupid stuff that would be much more easily hidden than a string of murders, OR
B) This is a bunch of conspiracy BS.

I've been hearing this same crap for almost 24 years now. No amount of investigations by any number of conservative lawmakers has made anything stick, nor has the right-wing media been able to do anything more than rumormonger about fringe innuendo and conspiracy schlock. Cry wolf enough times, I stop believing you after I keep not seeing any wolves. Sorry, I'm just not buying it.

ITT: A fuckton of apologists for Clinton

[sethstorm]

Apparently no-suspect murders, no-loss "robberies", and multishot "suicides" of politically linked officials are too commonplace for some Slashdotters.