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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."
It's just another totally random coincidence that everybody who knows anything about the Clintons ends up dead!
TOTAL. COINCIDENCE.
Besides, the police have already declared that it was a robbery even though the man's keys and wallet weren't taken. Case closed!
1. Julian Assange will out a source if it will get him press attention, or
2. The dead guy was not the actual source and the DNC would have no motive to take retribution, so Julian Assange will lie about a source if it will get him press attention.
3. If you murder a Wikileaks source, Julian Assange will go after you with everything he's got, releasing the information at the worst possible moment, in the most damaging possible way, and offer rewards for the capture of the murderer.
In other words, it's a message to those who would murder wikileaks informants.
And in other news, Assange has stated that there are more Hillary Clinton revelations to come. The biggest stash yet, he says.
He has stated that he has proof that Clinton had a hand in arming ISIS.
I'm running out of popcorn - need to go out and buy some more!
It doesn't sound like a robbery. And it doesn't sound like something the Clintons would do.
It does sound like something Putin's men would do. Putin is clearly running the old KGB playbooks and interfering in US elections they way they used to interfere in Europe, but in the modern way.
Pressure Rich for dirt, and then ice him when he starts getting nervous and talks to FBI.
"“I know we are a smart enough nation to figure out how you protect responsible gun owners' rights and get guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them,” Mrs. Clinton replied."
Except that if that were true, then Clinton and the left wouldn't be constantly trying to ban a class of scary-looking rifles that are used in less murders than knives or even fists. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t...
Compare 'rifles' to knives, blunt objects, or fists.
You mean the Kenneth Starr that recently had to resign from Baylor due to a sex assault scandal? You mean the guy whose chief prosecutor in the case, Miquel Rodriguez, quit the Starr investigation, claiming that Starr’s staff was engaging in a cover-up of Foster’s death? That Kenneth Starr?
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
His chief prosecutor in the case, Miquel Rodriguez, quit the Starr investigation, claiming that Starr’s staff was engaging in a cover-up of Foster’s death
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
I agree with you that it's suspicious but I think the problem here is the suggestion that it must be because Hillary has some kind of kill squad and gave the order or some such. It's that that seems to be straying into the realm of nonsense for no other reason that to play partisan politics over the issue.
It's more likely in my mind that someone working alongside this guy was a zealot for the cause and took the issue into their own hands, entirely without any kind of knowledge or support of Hillary. We've seen how politics can breed extremists, and it's not exactly news that Democrats and Republicans alike have their own fair share of them.
It's like claiming Gabrielle Giffords was shot at the behest of John McCain or something. Nutjobs are more than capable of doing atrocious things without needing to act as a puppet to people like Hillary Clinton. It doesn't need a conspiracy theory, and in fact, it shouldn't have one unless someone can actually prove Hillary was associated to the crime, otherwise any further suggestion is as meaningful as saying it was the will of jesus and the guy was gunned down by holy bullets that morphed from the mere atoms of the air behind him in order to kill him.
It's meaningless to say because people who have known her have died that they've died at her behest, 7 people that knew me have died and I suspect I'm associated to orders of magnitude less people than Hillary, but unfortunately that's what happens to people as they get older and the 7th one was someone I knew at school who thought 120mph in a 30mph zone was somehow a good idea. Turns out it wasn't.
Seth Rich kin to Wikileaks: Stop the murder conspiracy theories
No, she's fine. My associate is vomiting for a totally unrelated reason.
You don't prove a negative, bud. You make a claim, you back it the fuck up. The evidence is... lacking.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
The fact that the Clintons have abused their political office to enrich themselves massively is self-evident from their net worth and their control of the Clinton foundation.
Essentially every member of congress makes an absolute shit ton of money during their first term. Speaking fees, legal stock market trading on confidential information, there's all kinds of things congress has decided to allow themselves because they "don't amount to corruption," in a quid-pro-quo sense. Not saying it's good; just saying it's normal.
But such claims of graft or unethical behavior are usually brought up by one party because they think their candidate is less tainted. In this case, the Clintons have been in public office for 30 years; they and their foundation have been subject to public disclosure of their financial records for much of that time. The Trumps have made their money by selling their name and managing mob-controlled construction projects and has kept his finances strictly private. DJT, in particular, has made a special point of emphasizing that he doesn't do anything unless he gets paid. How is he going to get paid as President?
Everything's a crazy conspiracy theory until it comes out decades later in declassified documents that it was true. I remember back in the 80's when charges that the CIA was helping South American drug lords import shit-tons of cocaine into the U.S. was just a crazy conspiracy theory too.
I'm far from a tinfoil hat wearing kook. But the fact that this guy was murdered in a decent neighborhood just weeks after he leaked a bunch of sensitive documents about major political figures, by a "robber" who didn't even bother to take his cellphone or wallet, seems more than a little suspicious to me. It strains belief that it was all just a coincidence.
Make no mistake, Edward Snowden would have met the same fate if he hadn't been smart enough to get the fuck out of the country.
Has the bar for crazy really dropped so low? So let me get this straight. Someone gets murdered in DC, and it's suddenly Clinton's fault?
Let me clue you in. You clearly don't live in this area. There are no "nice" areas that will prevent you from getting shot. Last week we had a case where four people jumped an old lady, shot her in the arm, then stole her shoes. Not her purse. Not her money. Just her shoes.
But clearly it was Trump trying to send a message, right? I mean, she was a black lady and had a pro Hillary sign on her property. #dumbassconspiracy
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Most aren't convicting here, just pointing out it smells funny. Especially given that what was leaked put to bed any doubt as to whether or not Hillary Clinton was engaged in collusion and conspiracy to try to rig the election. Seriously, Nixon just tried to wiretap these people, Clinton had them engaged in active collusion against her competition in a race that was running about 50/50. Her media insiders ignoring the numbers and saying over and over again that it was over and there was no chance. I actually sat and watched an interview on CNN where they told Sanders campaign manager they were going to announce Hillary Clinton as the victor before the vote in California... a state with enough delegates to have turned the outcome and ask if they are going to have a problem with that. Across the country diebold voting systems tallies were extremely disconnected from exit polls and the dnc worked to actively disenfranchise voters and succeeded to the tune of blocking millions of votes. To top it off the DNC actively funneled contributions to the DNC directly into Hillaries coffers.
Bottom line, no further evidence is needed to know she is very very dirty. As for crazy, when Enemy of the State came out that was crazy too. Most of it has turned out to be pretty much on point.