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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."

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  1. Does anybody really doubt it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anybody really doubt that this man was assassinated by the DNC/Clintons/etc.? Days after a huge scandal? Double tapped in the back and nothing taken? Does that sound like robbery to you?

    1. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well, it wasn't a robbery since nothing was taken...

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    2. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Informative

      Does anybody really doubt that this man was assassinated by the DNC/Clintons/etc.?

      Yes. Snopes does.

      http://www.snopes.com/seth-con...

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    3. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      when 40 people associated with you suddenly "commit suicide" that's not something that happens all the time.

    4. Re: Does anybody really doubt it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      They probably found electrical burns on his nuts and that his fingernails were pulled out and assumed this was simply how he liked to party.

    5. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yes. Anyone not wearing tinfoil over their entire body does not believe this.

    6. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 4, Funny

      I dunno, if I had to listen to Hillary! drone on and on about needing more middle class taxes, I'd seriously consider suicide...

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    7. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The Clintons are "associated with" *thousands* of people. Bill was the f'ing president and Governor of Arkansas. Hillary has been politically active for decades. This is a 6 degrees problem and the evidence doesn't suggest that there's anything more than that.

    8. Re: Does anybody really doubt it by Type44Q · · Score: 2

      I'm just surprised they're not claiming it was suicide and that they gave him a burial at sea...

    9. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by geek · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Nice, thank you. Except that the next move will be to discredit Snopes in some way, citing how their neighbor's boyfriend's uncle knows a guy that works for Snopes and says they take hush-money from the DNC all the time.

      Not really necessary. Snopes has discredited themselves so many times now that they can't be taken seriously.

    10. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by DRJlaw · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Does anybody really doubt that this man was assassinated by the DNC/Clintons/etc.? Days after a huge scandal? Double tapped in the back and nothing taken? Does that sound like robbery to you?

      Days after a huge scandal? Was July 10th days after July 22nd in your universe? Because it wasn't in mine.

      Even if you were somehow referring to the June 12th interview, it would take an unheard of efficiency for the DNC/Clintons/etc. to track this man down simply on the basis of an interview where Assange claimed to have "emails related to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication."

      Anyone who could pull that off would deserve the Presidency. I'd look forward to years and years of the U.S.'s external security problems being eliminated weeks before they could actually materialize, rather than morphing into post hoc debacles run by the Keystone cops.

    11. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

      "tinfoil over their entire body"

      Stannic Tinfinger? Sounds like a 007 villain.

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    12. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2

      Those dirty Ruskies!

      None Dare Call It Treason

      Who would have thought the Clinton campaign would embrace the birchers...

    13. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by mbkennel · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

    14. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by mbkennel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, people are murdered all the time.

      But strangers are murdered, without robbery, infrequently. Strangers, not in criminal street or drug gangs and not being arrested by police, are murdered much less
      frequently than that. No witnesses, no leads, no explanations? A pro?

    15. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by HiThere · · Score: 2

      When I've looked things up on Snopes I haven't been very convinced by their analysis. I didn't check this one, since I don't know enough to decide whether their evaluation is flawed, biased, accurate, or what. The times that I did check, though, have made me reluctant to trust them as more than twice as accurate as "some random guy posting on the web", and considerably less accurate than WikiPedia...which I hardly trust at all on anything controversial.

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    16. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by HiThere · · Score: 4, Insightful

      OK. Now I've read the Snopes claim. They basically say that "conspiracy nuts" believe that the DNC is involved and the Police believe robbery. That's probably true, at least if you modify it to "the Police claim to believe it was robbery". It's not anything to base an opinion on. It certainly doesn't show that it wasn't a political murder...a quite difficult thing to prove, unless you do it by proving that it was something else.

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    17. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeah, leakers who embarrass uber-powerful political figures get gunned down all the time in affluent neighborhoods by robbers who don't take their cellphones or wallets. I see it every day on the local news.

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    18. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 2

      BAD LUCK?!?! What, a guy is walking down the street at 4am when a gun, pointed at his head accidentally went off behind him at close range? What, did the poor fool accidentally wander into somebody' else's gangland shooting? THAT kind of bad luck? What kind of bad luck are you talking about?

    19. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by WhiplashII · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A bungled robbery NEVER results in a double tap to the back.

      In a bungled robbery, the gun goes off while the victim and perp face each other most often, and there is not a second shot to confirm death. That's the whole point, the perp panics and forgets to take the stuff - he doesn't calmly put another round through the heart.

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    20. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by MightyMartian · · Score: 2, Informative

      Oh, and by the way, where does your "double tap to the back of the head" actually come from? In the article it says he was shot several times from behind and was still conscious when found. While it's theoretically possible to have multiple gun shot wounds to your head and still remain conscious for a while, if your description of an assassination is true, then either it's the worst assassin ever, or some other set of circumstances.

      I'm thinking your "double tap" is just your idea of a necessary flourish to try to underscore what you know is a rather tortured line of logic.

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    21. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by theskipper · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ergo: Kevin Bacon did it. In Arkansas. With guns.

      Lots of guns.

    22. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by amRadioHed · · Score: 2

      It would also be an incredibly incompetent assassin to get in a fight with their victim before killing them when all they had to do was walk up behind them and fire one shot.

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    23. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by cats-paw · · Score: 2, Insightful

      right. i can't believe snopes, but i should believe all the CT crazies that erupt on this site whenever something about Clinton shows up.

      Got it.

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    24. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by number6x · · Score: 2

      Chicago isn't even close to D.C. Chicago doesn't make the top 100 list of most violent cities. D.C. is number 35.

      Media accounts of violence in Chicago are reported with a kind of frenzy that is out of phase with the reality. I don't know if it is because the mayor is so despised, or because Barak Obama might be embarrassed by it. Not really sure why Chicago gets so much hate in the national media over violence, murder and shootings when the truth is there are many more violent cities across the US.

    25. Re:Does anybody really doubt it by shaitand · · Score: 2

      "And it doesn't sound like something the Clintons would do."

      It sounds exactly like something the Clintons would do.

      "It does sound like something Putin's men would do."

      Oh, I get it, you think there is a substantial difference. We do have better propoganda and spin on our side, I'll give you that.

      Russian involvement in getting the message is neither here nor there. The "evidence" for it amounts to no more than I could accomplish with $5 hopping on a vpn service with an exit point in Russia. Actually Russian IPs encoded in files suggests it certainly was not the Russians, they are better at what they do than that, Russia has some of the finest hackers in the world.

      The whole Russia thing was a well targeted distraction from the Hillary DNC collusion and corruption, without it people would realize Nixon just tried to listen to DNC officials, Hillary engaged in collusion with results beyond anything Nixon could have ever dreamed of accomplishing with what he gained listening in. She was caught with her hands in the cookie jar and is distracting you by saying it was the Russians who unlocked the door so you could walk in and catch her.

  2. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    lots of people involved with the Clintons seem to have a sudden case of suicide for no apparent reason.

  3. Hillary! and guns? by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

    When guns are outlawed, only Clinton "persuaders" will have guns. So you better vote correctly or else...

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    1. Re:Hillary! and guns? by Nikkos · · Score: 4, Interesting

      "“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.

    2. Re:Hillary! and guns? by ChrisMaple · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's unreasonable for two reasons. The first is that for Democrats, any Republican isn't mentally healthy and therefor shouldn't own a gun. The second is that no restriction will ever be enough; having passed one gun ownership restriction law, they'll demand a stricter one, and then another, and then another - until the only people allowed to legally use guns will be their enforcers.

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  4. No way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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!

  5. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by gnu-sucks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's the list: (scroll down to "THE CLINTON BODY-COUNT")

    http://www.whatreallyhappened....

    Going to testify against the mob is probably a safer bet.

  6. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by gnu-sucks · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.whatreallyhappened....

    Scroll down to "body count"

    Perhaps some of this is circumstantial, perhaps some is accidental. Perhaps. But perhaps some percentage of this really is what it seems (to me) to add up to.

  7. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 3, Insightful
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  8. Clinton_body_count++ by liquid_schwartz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the 90's people who make excuses for the Clintons [I'm looking at you Snopes] suggested that anyone who knows so many people is bound to have some with questionable suicides. However I don't recall a similar list appearing either during the Bush II or Obama years. Just the Clintons. I guess we'll add that to the long list of amazing coincidences that continually surround the Clintons. For those too young to remember what I'm talking about, there is a long list of Clinton associates dying under questionable circumstances. The most notable was probably Vince Foster but there were others.

    1. Re:Clinton_body_count++ by hondo77 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Bill Clinton couldn't keep his bj with an intern secret but you want us to believe he's kept his involvement in the murder of dozens of people a secret. Because you're a moron.

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    2. Re:Clinton_body_count++ by Darinbob · · Score: 2

      There were suicides during Dubya and Obama years by government workers, party staffers, what not. Thousands and thousands of people end up being indirectly attached to any presidency. With roughly 25 suicides per 100,000 people, of course there will be a lot of them that could be tied to Dubya or Obama. You could make a similar list, there will easily have been enough suicides of the relevant type of person. Except that this is the Clinton's schtick with the conspiracy theorists, so they go with different conspiracies with those presidents, so no one is making such a list.

      But no one can ever make a conspiracy theorist change their minds. Not worth it to even try. The goal is to prevent more idiots from being sucked into their elaborate fantasy world. There's enough reality to criticize politicians about without making up shit.

    3. Re:Clinton_body_count++ by Kohath · · Score: 2

      What secret? Scroll up. Several lists have been posted. How is it a secret if it gets posted over and over? How is it a secret when millions of people will say "yeah, they totally murdered those people"?

      Is Juanita Broddrick's story of Bill Clinton raping her a secret?

      Personally, I'd say the Clintons are totally innocent of more than half of the crimes people have accused them of.

      It will be interesting to hear the next 4.5 years of denials and excuses for incident after incident as this stuff (and worse) continues to coincidentally happen to Clinton associates. Most of the incidents will continue to be "secret".

    4. Re:Clinton_body_count++ by Kohath · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Monica's bj would be a "secret" too, except she kept her stained dress and DNA tests exist. Otherwise she would be just another person on one of the various lists.

  9. Re:Debunked ??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't it funny that Snopes managed to debunk this particular murder before a police report was available? In other words, Snopes says in effect that the allegations can't be true even though the facts haven't been established. Isn't that the opposite of proving something?

  10. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Stenchwarrior · · Score: 2

    Works for fundamentalist Christians the same way, I think...

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  11. Re:People who were associated with... by radarskiy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must we allow Kevin Bacon to murder again?

  12. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Calydor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Two directories and a file name in all caps.

    Domain name already borderline conspiracy theory invoking.

    I'm ... going to need a slightly more reputable source to believe it.

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  13. Russians really hate Hillary by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, so many Russian troll farm posters around these parts with silly conspiracy theories. Putin must really really hate Hillary Clinton.

    1. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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    2. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by ChrisMaple · · Score: 2

      Putin regards Clinton as a useful idiot, just as USSR leaders considered US leftists useful idiots for decades.

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    3. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by rtb61 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Now for a slice of reality, the Russian government does not care which one is elected, Trump or Clinton, as they are empty figure heads and the power is with those that control major US multinational corporations, political plants in the CIA/NSA/DOD as well as other government agencies. You really think the Russian intelligence services are as stupid as the typical American voter and believes the elections in America have any real input into the purposeful mismanagement of the country (seriously they are purposefully bankrupting it so they can pillage it in the process, first cities, then states and finally the entire country, mass greed driven idiocy). Seriously this fucked up McCarthyist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) troll of those opposed to Hillary Clinton must be paid Russian agents, is sickening. So they purged the democrat rolls of Bernie Sanders supporters, what's next purging the country of those opposed to Hillary Clinton because they must be agents of foreign countries (technically I am bwa ha ha), you can really, really see the goldwater gal in these tactics. (admittedly the American voter did get close to controlling their elections with Bernie Sanders and could even nail it, if they can get a Libertarian or Green candidate to wrest control of their politics from the corporations).

      The HRC campaign now looks exactly like a Republican campaign, absolutely no difference from previous Republican campaigns, seriously, looks nothing at all like a Democrat campaign from the seventies, prior to the corruption of the Clintons and their corporate supporters, a steaming pile of bullshit. One truly laughable complaint by Clinton against Trump, critiquing Trump for inciting violence, seriously WTF?, is she jealous, the person who purposefully incited violence across the globe killing tens of thousands, concerned Trump is cutting in on her territory with his amateur attempts at inciting violence, when she is a true professional at mass incitement of violence enough to trigger actual wars (yep a true progressive Liberal warrior, uh huh, just like Uncle Tom Obama). HRC now going after international what communist Russian paid agents, what the fuck next, how can they twist Bernie Bros to attack Dr Jill Stein.

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    4. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Informative

      Now for a slice of reality, the Russian government does not care which one is elected, Trump or Clinton, as they are empty figure heads

      I don't think you realize how serious this election is. Putin regards the breakup of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy. Only one of those candidates is implying that Russia can invade former USSR states like Estonia unless they cough up money they don't have.

      So they purged the democrat rolls of Bernie Sanders supporters

      I had no problem when I went to vote for Sanders. Nobody I knew who voted for Sanders (lots of people) was "purged" from the "democrat rolls". And when I eagerly rifled through that DNC dump looking for dirt on Hillary, I came up empty.

      One truly laughable complaint by Clinton against Trump, critiquing Trump for inciting violence, seriously WTF?

      Yeah, WTF is right... Trump wasn't calling for assassination, just "armed revolt"!

    5. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by quenda · · Score: 2

      You really think the Russian intelligence services are as stupid as the typical American voter and believes the elections in America have any real input into the purposeful mismanagement of the country

      Its not about being stupid. Even Obama seems to have gone into office genuinely believing he could "make a difference". 7 years later, GTMO is still going and Obama is presumably wiser.

    6. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by Boronx · · Score: 2

      Clinton is part of a bi-partisan movement to squeeze Putin hard. I personally think adding the Baltics to Nato and trying to flip Ukraine is going too far, but Clinton is probably gung ho about all of that. Putin would love to see her go down.

    7. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

    8. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by Xyrus · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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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    9. Re:Russians really hate Hillary by shaitand · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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.

  14. We know one of two things is true by radarskiy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  15. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by bobbied · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a list, it's over 50 people.

    Being a Conservative Republican myself since Regan.. This list is hog wash born in the darkest corner of Arkansas. The Clinton's are many nasty things, but they are NOT stupid enough to be out ordering hits on their detractors. I don't put it past some of their supporters, but Bill and Hill wouldn't do something as stupid as you suggest.

    So can we PLEASE STOP with this tripe? Dredging up Vince Foster and Fort Marcy Park is pointless and detracts from *real* issues, like Hillary's role in the "bimbo eruption" team and what she allowed to be said about the long parade of women claiming Bill sexually abused them, then turning around claiming to be the "champion of women's issues" because she happens to have that kind of plumbing, not because she's done anything.

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  16. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by johnsmithperson123 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not willing to believe that the Clintons are killers. Not because they have moral scruples. Because murders are just too high profile and easy to understand.

  17. It hasn't even been truly investigated yet... by Xenographic · · Score: 2

    The Snopes story confirms that he was shot for essentially no reason. We might know more if we had info from his girlfriend or the ambulance team, but nobody has made any public statements. I understand that it's way too early to go around pinning it on somebody, but it's hard to say it's "debunked" when basically no investigation has actually been done yet.

    1. Re:It hasn't even been truly investigated yet... by Darinbob · · Score: 2

      True, but you can debunk the allegations that he was on his way to meet with the FBI over testimony against Clinton.

      That's how conspiracy theories work. You take a tiny bit of fact, like a news story. Then you tie it to something else with little to no solid links, implying that the two events are related. Because the tiny bit of fact was the origin this causes conspiracy theorists to latch onto it. If the new story has a mysterious part to it, such as "why was this guy killed?" then it's easy to just make up something as present it as a possible solution to the puzzle, such as "Hillary must have done it, it's the sort of thing she's done before." Then mess up the facts, add some exaggeration, misdirect the reader, etc, as in "Top DNC Official Murdered" instead of "DNC staff member killed."

      Then of course, it's "whatdoesitmean.com" which is full of the most outrageous and outlandish stories that almost no one could believe (and yet a few people still manage to believe that Obama wanted to nuke Charleston). Even if that web site says that the sky is blue, I'd still look out my window to make sure.

    2. Re:It hasn't even been truly investigated yet... by Dan+East · · Score: 3, Insightful

      True, but you can debunk the allegations that he was on his way to meet with the FBI over testimony against Clinton.

      The problem is Snopes did not debunk that. How did Snopes prove he didn't get a fake contact from someone claiming to be the FBI and wanting to talk about what he leaked? According to a third-hand report (his dad said that his girlfriend said that Seth said) that Snopes quotes, he said "he was just about home". He could have just said that meaning he would be home soon. That didn't literally mean he was on his way home. And what was he on the way home from? Maybe meeting with a phantom FBI agent who didn't show, and he was followed and killed when he was at a nice secluded location in a known high-crime area? Snopes hasn't debunked a thing.

      Obviously the police know *where* he was. The shots were heard and he was found there. Was that indeed "almost home" relative to where he lived? Was it directly between wherever he left from (did he leave his girlfriend's or do they live together?) and his home? Or was he just out somewhere random? The police know all these things, and have not released that information, and his father didn't provide it either.

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  18. Anyone know what Assange's game is? by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This isn't whistle blowing anymore. For one thing a whistle blower _never_ reveals a source. Even if they're dead the sources family might be targeted. He's after Hilary. I can't say he doesn't have good reason ( she's part of the administration that arranged the false rape allegations ). I'm just not sure what he'll get out of this. Trump (and more importantly Mike Pence who's going to be the real president) aren't exactly favorable to Assange.

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    1. Re:Anyone know what Assange's game is? by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 5, Informative

      This isn't whistle blowing anymore. For one thing a whistle blower _never_ reveals a source.

      Julian didn't reveal the source either, and he stated as much in the interview.

      You're listening to what the *press* said Julian said. That's a completely different thing.

      (viz: what the press reports that Donald Trump says, versus what he *actually* said.)

  19. Re:Debunked by sexconker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Snopes would have "debunked" all the stories about the NSA spying on us a few years ago.

  20. Fits with past comments by AHuxley · · Score: 2

    The news about another nation having the skills to get into a computer network, stay undetected, able to remove bulk plain text data but then have details about methods used got discovered was strange.
    Why would such a method be caught now with a such weak tool set when every other part of the data extraction was undiscoverable?
    The early hint to that was it was not another nation:
    http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
    ""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces."
    This seems more like a classic Watergate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... insider walk out than any nation with amazing skills to get into a network that then lacked any ability cover its way out of a US network.
    Nsa Whistleblower: Agency Has All Of Clinton’s Deleted Emails (31 Jul 2016)
    http://www.breitbart.com/jerus...
    ".... surmised that the hack of the DNC could have been coordinated by someone inside the U.S. intelligence community angry over ..."
    " .... directly out of Gamma reporting. "

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  21. Third option by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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!

    1. Re:Third option by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      He has stated that he has proof that Clinton had a hand in arming ISIS.

      Fuck me, that's a nothingburger. Name me one administration that hasn't sold weapons all over the middle east. This isn't a Hillary or Democrat problem, it's an American problem.

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  22. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > I'm ... going to need a slightly more reputable source to believe it.

    Of course, attack the messenger.
    Which Allinsky rule is that, again?

  23. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a list

    Please add me to the list!

    Me too!

    Tons of people? I guess I must have missed that "Soylent Clintons" sales day in my supermarket.

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  24. Re:Debunked? by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Until now, I have always found Snopes a reliable source of information. After having read what they had to say about Seth Rich, I do not understand how they can patently claim a "FALSE" status to this rumor. They offer no evidence at all to the contrary. Their claim that just because he was young, was part of the DNC since just 2014, and "only" developed a system to help voters find voting locations, means that he could not have been the source of the leak or killed to cover it up. If he had access to their systems to some degree, and was a developer capable of implementing a site of this scale for national consumption, then he most certainly could have obtained the emails if that particular server was interconnected in some way to the systems he had access to. That part actually fits to me, because that is where most leaks come from - not from a head honcho (as if the only person capable in Snope's eyes of causing such a leak was the main guy over the DNC email servers themselves). Usually it is someone ancillary on the fringes that has just enough access (or the ability to get the more privileged access relatively easily due to security vulnerabilities) that is responsible for these kinds of leaks. Look at Snowden.

    Their arguments are really illogical. For example:

    According to Joel Rich, Seth was on the phone with his girlfriend when the shooting started, and Rich indicated to his girlfriend that he was nearly home and not headed out for an FBI meeting implausibly scheduled in the middle of the night on a Saturday:

    Rich said Seth was talking to his girlfriend on the phone outside when the incident happened.

    “Asked him if he was home yet and he said just about, and then she heard some noise, he said he had to call her back — I don't know when that conversation ended but at 4:18 two shots were fired,” said Rich.

    What about that proves he wasn't set up with a fake FBI meeting? Maybe he went to the meeting location, no one was there, and he was going home and was ambushed? And this... "Asked him if he was home yet and he said just about" that doesn't mean he was headed home. He could have simply been reassuring her that he would be home soon, and didn't literally mean he was going home that instant and was just about there.

    And then there's the bit where the debunker said "an FBI meeting implausibly scheduled in the middle of the night on a Saturday". What?? If it wasn't a *real* FBI meeting, as the conspiracy theory states, then why not in the middle of the night? Maybe the FBI doesn't really do business in the middle of the night on the weekend (although they probably do), but most people would certainly think cloak and dagger affairs like that do happen at those times. So if he was tricked into meeting, what does that have to do with the plausibility of whether or not the FBI really does meet people at 4 AM on a Saturday? The goal would have been to get him alone so he could be killed without witnesses.

    I don't believe this theory is true, and I don't believe it was disproved. However to see Snopes claiming in black and white that it was debunked, with no actual evidence to back it up, has really knocked my respect for them down several notches.

    If there's something I missed that they presented as actual evidence that the theory is false, then please tell, because I didn't see it.

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  25. Assange Implies It's A Slow News Day by davmoo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I see several comments where people ask something like "What's Assange's game plan?" His game plan should be obvious to anyone. His plan is to say anything it takes to get his name in the news so he can somehow dream that he is still relevant and play the martyr.

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  26. How Clintonian of you to say the C word. by sethstorm · · Score: 2

    How about not using the tired 20+ year old excuse that has been used by the media to smear people on all matters Clinton?

    Besides, there's plenty of motive for the Clintons to signal their usual suspects to take the guy (never mind the rest) out.

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  27. Taken [Re:Does anybody really doubt it] by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How can anyone verify "nothing was taken"? The guy whose stuff it was is dead.

    Suppose hypothetically Mr. Rich owned a hula-dancer lamp that was his favorite, and the robber took it?

    Mr. Rich is no longer around to say, "Hey, where's my favorite hula dancer lamp?"

  28. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Darinbob · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's wrong with attacking the messenger? Are we supposed to believe every moron that comes along just because the moron is a "messenger"? If a conspiracy theorist comes along and claims the moon landing was a hoax then you attack both the message and messenger.

  29. The MSM doesn't count. by sethstorm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm ... going to need a slightly more reputable source to believe it.

    Then believe whatever lies that the conventional media feed you on the Clinton matter.

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  30. Re:Debunked ??? by EvilSS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Police reported that Rich was conscious and breathing at the time of the shooting.

    Well duh, I imagine most shooting victims are alive and breathing when they are shot!

    In all seriousness though, he was shot in the back. He likely didn't know anything about the person who shot him, no matter what their motive was, if they didn't approach him after the shooting to rob him.

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  31. I did check the qoute by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here it is:

    "Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks," Assange said. "As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington."

    He's strongly implying that the deceased man gave him information and that he was killed in retaliation. It's impossible for any reasonable person to conclude anything else when the quote is taken in context. Saying anything else is just being dishonest.

    The same is true for Donald's comment about Second Amendment Solutions. He was suggesting (in jest?) someone should assassinate Hilary if she wins. If you're not American and lack the proper context then you might have missed that. But there isn't a man or woman alive in the United States who didn't get his message loud and clear.

    The press is reporting exactly what both Assange and Donald said and meant. I'm sorry if that makes you uncomfortable but it doesn't change facts. Hell, it makes me _very_ uncomfortable. There is no way in hell either man should be saying things like this for a variety of reasons. Donald's just a blow hard and an a-hole. I still don't what Assange is up to. Maybe he's given up on making the world a better place and wants it to burn...

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  32. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by uncqual · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's possible that dealing with the Clintons might just drive some people to suicide.

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  33. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by Alomex · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing "decent" about that list. Vince Foster suicide was investigated to death by Republican prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Starr's report stated that he found no reason to believe the death was other than suicide.

    A list that contains such a person after being cleared by such an impeccable source with ample investigative resources is now proven to be impervious to facts.

    Heck for all I know Clinton killed every one of the other names listed, but this is the equivalent of the list opening with "the earth is flat and the moon landing was faked". No one in their sane mind would give any value to such a list.

  34. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by coldsalmon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Snopes has declared all of this False. http://www.snopes.com/politics...

    "Clinton was acquainted with some people who died — that's about all one can make of this list."

  35. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by smkndrkn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's wrong with attacking the messenger? Are we supposed to believe every moron that comes along just because the moron is a "messenger"? If a conspiracy theorist comes along and claims the moon landing was a hoax then you attack both the message and messenger.

    So they're a moron for linking a website and mentioning a very popular theory? Not sure how this gets voted insightful. The idea that powerful people, especially this particular pair, might be wrapped up in murders is certainly not moronic. You sir are a cunt.

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  36. That's what you call a Two-Fer! by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    Wow, not only was she able to kill the source of the leak to set an example of what happens when you cross the Clintons, she was ALSO able to use it to promote stronger gun-control! That's really getting two for the price of one.

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  37. What? No "it's a trap" theories? by rbrander · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Assange IS this story, and his name comes up here surprisingly seldom. Here's a game plan for you: Trump is an extreme case of conspiracy theorist; it wasn't just birtherism, he believes in a lot of them. A Clinton-murder conspiracy has got to be catnip to him right now, desperate as he is. So Assange is floating one: and if Trump bits, Assange plays him a bit, leads him on, his statements get more extreme...and Assange pulls out the rug.

    1. Re:What? No "it's a trap" theories? by amRadioHed · · Score: 2

      That makes sense, except for the fact that Assange hates Hillary and will do anything to screw her campaign.

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  38. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by Cytotoxic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, it is nutty tinfoil hat stuff.

    However, it is interesting that they came up with someone who committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Twice. With two separate guns.

    That's nutty enough to inspire a boatload of conspiracy theories all by itself - forget any connection to political powers.

    And there was a guy who committed suicide by cutting his arms 11 times, his neck twice and shooting himself in the head in such a way that no gun was found.

    Or the suicide by gunshot to the back of the head.

    Or the chick who packed her luggage and arranged it in the living room before committing suicide by gunshot.

    Another guy who committed suicide with two guns? Wait... What?

    Somebody spent a lot of time trolling the papers for weird suicide stories. How the heck do you even find a single "suicide by two guns" story? That can't be true... can it? Not the Clinton part.... just the "suicide by two guns" part. Most of these stories have to be covered in goofy sauce that doesn't hold up to scrutiny, right?

    So a quick trip to Wikipedia.... and multiple gunshot suicide is actually a thing. And not just "guy rigged up two guns", but actual "dude took 3 shots in the chest to kill himself" multiple gunshot suicide. from the wiki:

    One particular case has been documented from Australia. In February 1995, a man committed suicide on parkland in Canberra. He took a pump action shotgun and shot himself in the chest. The load passed through the chest without hitting a rib, and went out the other side. He then walked fifteen meters, pulled out a pistol and shot himself in the head. After reloading the shotgun, he leaned the shotgun against his throat, and shot his throat and part of his jaw. He then reloaded a final time, walked 200 meters to a hill, sat down on the slope, held the gun against his chest with his hands and operated the trigger with his toes. This shot entered the thoracic cavity and demolished the heart, killing him.[5][6]

    Now that's determination.

  39. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by smelch · · Score: 3, Funny

    This has already been declared false by snopes. http://www.snopes.com/meta/cou...

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  40. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by russotto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vince Foster suicide was investigated to death by Republican prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Starr's report stated that he found no reason to believe the death was other than suicide.

    And that's why Ken Starr is alive today.

  41. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not a moron for linking to the website and mentioning it, but for pointing to that website as evidence.

  42. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by emil · · Score: 2

    Here is a nice fact for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... "Responding to homicide allegations, an official of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology acknowledged that doctors initially were puzzled by a circular wound on the top of Brown's head when his remains were recovered at the crash scene. The forensic pathologist then consulted with others and took extensive X-rays. As a result of these consultations and full-body X-rays, we absolutely ruled out anything beyond a blunt-force injury to the head."

  43. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by ooloorie · · Score: 2

    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

    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. The fact that two smart lawyers controlling billions of dollars, with tons of connections and power, and with access to FBI and CIA files have been able to weasel out of being held legally responsible is hardly responsible.

  44. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by Curunir_wolf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

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  45. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by Curunir_wolf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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

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  46. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by rtb61 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hint, hint, kind of stupid to professional suicide someone if you don't get away with. Sure plenty of amateurs get caught and most certainly the Clinton Clowns would have got caught if they attempted to do is personally, hence insider professionals were likely involved and using the government trained skills, quite simply got away with it as you would expect professionals to do (the reason why it was investigated 'to death' is it made no sense, except as the individual being suicided). Now a crushed throat training accident and two bullets in the back suicide 'er' robbery, in short order, added to the rest of the list, real organised crime stuff.

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  47. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Mashiki · · Score: 2, Insightful
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  48. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Mycroft-X · · Score: 2

    But 20,000 suicides a year is only 7 per 100,000 people. So if the Clintons are closely tied to, say, 10,000 people, then over 30 years one would expect 21 of those to commit suicide assuming their "close ties" represent a random sample of the US population and not, say, a circle of successful, well positioned political players. It appears that being a successful, well positioned political player associated with the Clinton's skews the distribution somewhat in favor of offing oneself. Can't say I blame them.

  49. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Maritz · · Score: 2

    Whatreallyhappened is a crank site. That guy is a fucking mentalist. Ever see how angry he gets about the big bang theory? Not the show. The fucking cosmic event. So essentially yeah - fuck your messenger.

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  50. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Maritz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You don't prove a negative, bud. You make a claim, you back it the fuck up. The evidence is... lacking.

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  51. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by tburkhol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

  52. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh Mashiki, how many times are you going to fall for this?

    Let's take your Reddit link, because it's the most hilarious. It cites the Daily Beast article as the source of its "proof", when that is in fact the very thing that Snopes is debunking. And if you do the most basic research into the claims made in that article, they are obviously false. For example, they talk about a member of "LatinAction", which if you search for it doesn't seem to exist. No-one else has been able to confirm the claims made by the Daily Beast, and in fact some of the students have said directly that they were inaccurate.

    "LET US BE CLEAR: We are not scared of the chalk. We are not mad about being politically challenged. We are rightfully angry because we also exercise our first amendment right to freedom of speech and there are people on this campus, and in this country, who as a result choose to threaten us and twist the truth to protect their own bigotry."

    Okay, one more, because you might learn something from this one.

    The Ethics Alarms article is very obviously misleading you. For example, it claims that "Notice that the TRUE and FALSE sections donâ(TM)t match the claim. Thatâ(TM)s because Snopes is playing the logical fallacy games of moving the goalposts and using straw men." That's only because of the way they edited the quote from Snopes.com, if you follow the link they provide it is extremely clear that they are addressing the exact claims made and what Ethics Alarms is claiming is a "straw man" is just a short summary of those claims.

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  53. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by CaptainLard · · Score: 2

    I'd prefer the format to be a "binders full of victims". Thanks.

  54. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh please. Snopes does this all the time to mislead people. They create a strawman of the actual story so they can label it "mostly false" and then in the print acknowledge the actual argument so they can pretend to be credible. Case in point, the Philando Castile shooting.

    Castile was shot by a police officer in July. His girlfriend then made a video of the aftermath and put it up on facebook in which she claims they were stopped for a busted taillight and the officer flipped out and shot Castile for no reason other than the racist cop was scared of black people. The media ran with the girlfriend's story without question. This drew national attention and was one of the incidents cited by the man who shot and killed 5 Dallas police officers later in the week as one of the motivations for his actions.

    Her story sounded fishy, and conservative media, which doesn't believe that racist cops are gunning people down for no reason investigated and found that, in fact, Castile was pulled over because he matched the description of an armed robber from a convenience store heist a few days before. And this is the claim made in the article snopes declared false:

    Castile and Ms. Diamond Reynolds (Facebook video uploader) were pulled over by police because Castile matched a BOLO Alert for an armed robbery suspect from four days prior.

    What does snopes pick as the claim?

    Claim: Philando Castile was wanted for armed robbery when he was killed by police officers.

    Which they then labeled "MOSTLY FALSE."

    No. No one ever said the cops were out looking specifically for Castile. Just that he was pulled over because he matched the description (and he did). So, reality is the cop did not freak out and murder a random black man. He had a reasonable suspicion he was dealing with an armed robber. It would have been great if the situation had ended a different way, but if the officer was wary of the man and shot it was "because possible armed robber" and not "because black." To this day we do not know if Castile was the robber or not. I looked and couldn't find any new information about that aspect of the investigation.

    Why didn't snopes choose this as the claim:

    Claim: Philando Castile was stopped on suspicion of armed robbery when he was killed by police officers.

    That's the actual claim from conservative media, and could have been labeled "TRUE."

    But, snopes has their bias to push, so of course they can't do that. Would have been nice, though. Maybe if the media had run with "Man pulled over on suspicion of armed robbery shot" instead of "Racist cop murders black man for no reason" the Dallas shooter might not have been so mad, and not murdered all those cops?

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  55. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

    They said it was mostly false, and then (2nd and 3rd paragraphs) explained why:

    WHAT'S TRUE: Police who pulled over and killed Philando Castile reported they thought he might have resembled a suspect in an armed robbery case.

    WHAT'S FALSE: Philando Castile was not "wanted" on an armed robbery charge or a "suspect" in such a case at the time he was killed.

    It's right at the top, in bold, extremely prominent, in green and red text. The claim they are debunking is from Conservative Treehouse, and is headlined: "Confirmed â" Philando Castile Was an Armed Robbery Suspect â" False Media Narrative Now Driving Cop Killingsâ¦"

    Their claim is correct, he was not a suspect, he resembled a description given of a suspect. However, this headline seems to have little to do with the outrage. If anything heightened it, it was probably the Medical Examiner's office declaring the killing to be a homicide.

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  56. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by Alomex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So now we have a conspiracy to kill Vince Foster that not only includes Bill and Hillary, but also a Republican prosecutor. This is just like the moon landing, where for it to be true requires our sworn enemies at the time (i.e. the Russians) to go along with it. I mean it anything is possible, but you just lowered the probabilities of either of these events being true by orders of magnitude.

    A conspiracy of confederates I can see, a conspiracy that includes your enemies is out there in la-la land.

  57. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by Curunir_wolf · · Score: 2

    What makes you think that establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats are "enemies"?

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  58. Re: Clintons have killed tons of people by Enigma2175 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here is a nice fact for you:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

    "Responding to homicide allegations, an official of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology acknowledged that doctors initially were puzzled by a circular wound on the top of Brown's head when his remains were recovered at the crash scene. The forensic pathologist then consulted with others and took extensive X-rays. As a result of these consultations and full-body X-rays, we absolutely ruled out anything beyond a blunt-force injury to the head."

    Not sure what you are saying here. Wouldn't you expect the cause of death for people who crashed a plane into a mountain to be blunt force trauma?

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  59. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people by micahraleigh · · Score: 2

    "... without evidence ..."

    Whoa, whoa ... hang on.

    In Riches case he was reportedly killed by a robber, who left him with all of his materially valuable possessions (including his wallet). Several people close to the killings of the DNC officials have expressed that there deaths were very strange. I thought I heard on the radio yesterday Rich's parents have expressed as much.

    People get shot and killed everyday ... but we're talking about a group of people in the DNC who were all killed around the time the DNC leaks happened. This isn't enough to throw someone in jail, but that doesn't mean OJ is innocent of murder. What it does mean is this all needs to be closely investigated.

    I know there are a lot of MoveOn folks that are going to ask, 'Do we have to have the tax payers PAY to investigate every suspicious death linked to the Clintons?' Absolutely. No reservations about that.

    Also, in this case voters are also the jurors. There might not be enough evidence to indite a suspect, but that doesn't mean they should be elected president. And there are well over 40+ suspicious deaths of people who were at least acquaintences or working partners of the Clintons.

  60. Re:Hello CTR shill. by shaitand · · Score: 2

    The woman just had the director of the FBI aquite her of wrongdoing following an investigation in which enough evidence came to light publically to prove her wrongdoing and with a speech in which he outlined wrongdoing before stating the opposite conclusion. She was just proven to be involving in a conspiracy with the DNC both to funnel funds to her campaign and to rig the nomination. At the convention the delegates whose job it was to represent the interests of voters they represent who were proven to have been duped and cast their vote for the other candidate were openly told by every speaker to stfu and fall in line, the message was even being repeated over and over again by the mainstream media to the public. She is even busting out the typical 80's R side f33r the evil Russians argument.

    The evil and corrupt dictator we are supposed to fear Trump will be if elected Hillary is already proven to be and she isn't even in office yet, she just already has that much power without the Presidency added to it. I think it is fair to say the vast majority of the intelligent people in this nation don't want either one of them. The usual lesser of two evils argument wears pretty thin when both options are so blatantly evil.