Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claims that Seth Rich reached out to Wikileaks and set up a DropBox account with “an extensive sample” of DNC emails that they were later able to access.
Rich was a DNC staffer who was later murdered during what police claim was a botched robbery.
A lawsuit filed by Rod Wheeler, private investigator for the Rich family, contains a tidbit provided by GOP financier Ed Butowsky, in which he claims Hersh told him of a ‘purported FBI report establishing that Seth Rich sent emails to WikiLeaks.’
In leaked audio of a phone call between the journalist and Butowsky, Hersh’s own words confirm that the report exists.
Via Big League Politics:
In an audio recording provided to Big League Politics by a source that currently wishes to remain anonymous, journalist Seymour Hersh confirms that Seth Rich had contacted WikiLeaks with sample emails from the leak. Hersh cites an FBI document as proof for his claim.
“There are no DNC or Podesta emails that exist beyond May 21 or 22, last email from either one of those groups. What the report says is that some time in late Spring… he makes contact with WikiLeaks, that’s in his computer,” he says. “Anyway, they found what he had done is that he had submitted a series of documents — of emails, of juicy emails, from the DNC.”
Hersh explains that it was unclear how the negotiations went, but that WikiLeaks did obtain access to a password protected DropBox where Rich had put the files.
This is devastating news to the left’s ‘Russia hacked the DNC’ narrative, despite the media’s focus on other aspects of the lawsuit.
Strange how the MSM only talks about Seth Rich when they can spin it to damage Trump.
Seymour Hersh’s huge revelations IGNORED. pic.twitter.com/c4Daotwm7u
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 2, 2017
I’m sure @washingtonpost & @jaketapper are all over the Seymour Hersh revelations that completely debunk Trump/Russia. #HisNameWasSethRich
— BlueReaganite (@ThinBlueLR) August 1, 2017
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The conversation also hints that Rich was concerned for his personal safety, sharing the DropBox account with a few trusted friends.
Conspiracy theorists have questioned the official police report of Rich’s death being due to a botched robbery.
“The word was passed, according to the NSA report, he also shared this DropBox with a couple of friends, so that ‘if anything happens to me it’s not going to solve your problems,'” Hersh stated. “WikiLeaks got access before he was killed.”
If you’re wondering about the credibility of Hersh, it should be noted that aside from being a Pulitzer and Polk award winner, leftist media outlets such as Alternet and Salon often use him as a reliable and credible source.
He was awarded multiple merits for exposing the Abu Ghraib scandal.
There is little reason for the media to ignore this story, other than to protect the carefully crafted Russia narrative they’ve been inundating American with for months now.
What do you think of this Seth Rich bombshell? Share your thoughts below!
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I think Bannon had him killed and staged it to look like Hillary was to blame. It worked and now tRump is our POTUS.
In all such cases where alternate theories are presented as to what actually occurred, there are elements who are compromised within the departments that have supposedly investigated the crime and presented a response. Who are the police investigators who came up with the botched “robbery” result? Why did they think it was a robbery when nothing was taken except the poor guy’s life? Did they look into the possibility of a targeted killing if not, why not?
In all such cases where alternate theories are presented as to what actually occurred, there are elements who are compromised within the departments that have supposedly investigated the crime and presented a response. Who are the police investigators who came up with the botched “robbery” result? Why did they think it was a robbery when nothing was taken except the poor guy’s life? Did they look into the possibility of a targeted killing if not, why not?
Like everyone has known all along, another hit by #Clinton/murder/inc.
Y’all will excuse me if I don’t hold my breath waiting for the MSM to even think about reporting this.
Y’all will excuse me if I don’t hold my breath waiting for the MSM to even think about reporting this.
Nice tale, except, you know, he was shot twice in the back, not stabbed.
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Autopsy results reviewed and new report released — Seth Rich dead from suicide attempt. Medical examiner announced yesterday that absolutely no evidence of HRC’s or DWS’s DNA found on body. Further, there was no forensic evidence that Seth had contacted WikiLeaks or even that he had incriminating DNC e-mails in his possession at the time of his death. Although the investigators were unable to explain the presence of bleach-soaked clothing and total lack of finger prints on the knife found lodged in his back. Seth was known to be a contortionist and experts speculate that he could have easily stabbed himself in the back 10 to 15 times, were somewhat surprised that he did not shoot himself as well.
More than 45+ individuals (with ties to the Clintons) have died under suspicious circumstances. HOWEVER, Seth’s suicide was OBVIOUSLY staged in an attempt to link HRC’s failed campaign for President to Russia’s election interference and ongoing WikiLeaks.
Spokespersons for HRC and DNC denied any knowledge of further investigation and would offer only one additional comment at the time of this report — “We KNOW that there are no witnesses who will come forward to refute the veracity of this report,” and praised the investigative skills of the Police Detectives involved in this case.
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(This is a complete tale of fiction……Just like MSM!!)
*** BREAKING NEWS *** BREAKING NEWS *** BREAKING NEWS *** BREAKING NEWS ***
Autopsy results reviewed and new report released — Seth Rich dead from suicide attempt. Medical examiner announced yesterday that absolutely no evidence of HRC’s or DWS’s DNA found on body. Further, there was no forensic evidence that Seth had contacted WikiLeaks or even that he had incriminating DNC e-mails in his possession at the time of his death. Although the investigators were unable to explain the presence of bleach-soaked clothing and total lack of finger prints on the knife found lodged in his back. Seth was known to be a contortionist and experts speculate that he could have easily stabbed himself in the back 10 to 15 times, were somewhat surprised that he did not shoot himself as well.
More than 45+ individuals (with ties to the Clintons) have died under suspicious circumstances. HOWEVER, Seth’s suicide was OBVIOUSLY staged in an attempt to link HRC’s failed campaign for President to Russia’s election interference and ongoing WikiLeaks.
Spokespersons for HRC and DNC denied any knowledge of further investigation and would offer only one additional comment at the time of this report — “We KNOW that there are no witnesses who will come forward to refute the veracity of this report,” and praised the investigative skills of the Police Detectives involved in this case.
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(This is a complete tale of fiction……Just like MSM!!)
Follow the money. The biggest bunch will come back to who? Clinton? Obama? If Putin does not get along with or even like Trump, is that why the dems are slowly backing away from all their claims that Russia decided the election? W ho paid for the DNC to be hacked so she could have Bernie take a fall and annoint her queen?
Who decided when she didn’t win that hack to be somehow tied back to Trump?
Who continues to seek impeachment, mudslinging, damaging hurtful things agains trump even when there is 0 evidence shown to warrant investigations, seizures, etc. Where are the IT guys for Whatshername Shultz? And where is the Big O in all of this? Will he retain people from outside the country to impune or target Trump, like they did the republicans playing tennis? Or will he simply mobilize more protestors with the help of G Soros and craigslist to bring down the country? Is there really a ‘silent coup’ going on? How long will the american people ignore the trends and tendancies that have been developing over the last 9 years? What will happen when a few million old vets and people who have seen this game before get sick of it all?
CLINTONS AND DNC ALL OVER IT
CLINTONS AND DNC ALL OVER IT
Now tell us who the trigger man is, Sy? Which Awan brother did it?
Is it true that cable TV installers, plumbers, landscapers or interior decorators who have families, will not go to addresses owned by Clinton, anywhere in the country, for fear that they’ll commit suicide at any moment? Just asking.
Is it true that cable TV installers, plumbers, landscapers or interior decorators who have families, will not go to addresses owned by Clinton, anywhere in the country, for fear that they’ll commit suicide at any moment? Just asking.
Looks like Seth Richards was killed by his Russian handlers when he threatened to expose them.
What if the FBI is never finds the killer or the person or persons who hired the killer. Does this mean that this evidence will never come out from the FBI. It should come out as evidence that there is evidence to contradict that the Russians “hacked” the DNC computer. If three political analysts in three security agencies say that Russia hacked the election, and all point to the “hacking” of the DNC computer as the basis for their opinion, do they now have a duty to say they found evidence to contracting those opinions?
What if the FBI is never finds the killer or the person or persons who hired the killer. Does this mean that this evidence will never come out from the FBI. It should come out as evidence that there is evidence to contradict that the Russians “hacked” the DNC computer. If three political analysts in three security agencies say that Russia hacked the election, and all point to the “hacking” of the DNC computer as the basis for their opinion, do they now have a duty to say they found evidence to contracting those opinions?
The “conspiracy theory” regarding the murder of Seth Rich is far more credible than the white-wash the Beltway “investigators” came up with–
The media has demonstrated a total disregard for its investigative role in our society over the past generation–Obviously the corporate control explains part of it, but not enough–The political suicide which is occurring among democrats and traditional republicans to maintain their status quo over the political direction favored by the deep state is demonstrated so clearly by the assassination of Rich who obviously was compromising the secrets of the DNC–the corruption of Nixon’s White House was like a kindergarten make-believe play compared to the ruthless disregard for law and our heritage displayed by the Left and the establishment–They deserve a revolution where the Clintons and Obamas would be offered a last cigarette before the blindfolds–
this has the clintons written all over it
this has the clintons written all over it
This is the Clinton MO!!!
Another Clinton bodybag!!
Another Clinton bodybag!!
Seth Rich’s death and the story behind it are so damning. Some time ago I would have thought it to be a 2nd rate spy drama; but these things are happening more and more and they occur just as a person is about to testify in a Clinton type probe! Get the Brastards!
The democrats elevated American politics to the status of being a blood sport ,since back in 63 when Lyndon B. had John F.shot its been continual and its been mostly their own who they take out.It takes a man like Trump to be able to survive in these shark filled waters but he is definitely not safe from those in the shadow govt.that would love to see him gone.
The democrats elevated American politics to the status of being a blood sport ,since back in 63 when Lyndon B. had John F.shot its been continual and its been mostly their own who they take out.It takes a man like Trump to be able to survive in these shark filled waters but he is definitely not safe from those in the shadow govt.that would love to see him gone.
You mean Hillary had him murdered? I’m shocked,SHOCKED I tell you.
This is a message for Seth Rich’s murderer and evil conspirators.
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.” Genesis 9:6. Dictated to Noah after the flood which destroyed all of the people who gave their lives over to the devil, which was pretty much like whole populations, much like today.
Yeah, we’ve known that for months. it’s why Clinton had him murdered.
WITHOUT A DOUBT. Seth Rich was murdered and we all know where the finger points. You can’t trust the Washington Police – especially the Washington police department….look who and what heads that up. GUILTY!
WITHOUT A DOUBT. Seth Rich was murdered and we all know where the finger points. You can’t trust the Washington Police – especially the Washington police department….look who and what heads that up. GUILTY!
It is a logical conclusion – based upon what has been written in this article. Prior to this article and aware Seth Rich had info on the Clintons, when shot in the back with no valuables taken – it wasn’t a robbery gone bad. This was a deliberate assassination. imho
It may be a bit simplistic, but I’ll say it to keep the reply short. The American citizens have been ‘trained’ to be a bit stupid for quite a while now, at least to the point that specific pacifiers like I-phones and football occupy so much of many people’s day they are oblivious to much of what matters outside their own limited sphere. But that does not mean we are ALL stupid. Un- or Under- informed, maybe… But at some point, with the aid of foreign reporting and multiple viewpoints available now on nearly every subject – those who wish to will be informed enough to decide for ourselves on several subjects to render opinions that SHOULD be directing this country. We recognize and resent any bravo sierra we see thrown out in the media any more in the name of ‘news’ , and any intelligent person witnessing what is available will eventually decide that with so much propaganda and misrepresentation of things (iin the pursuit to sell media by ‘making news happen’) that, eventually the truth is somewhere ‘in the middle’ of it all. and eventually we will decide that it is not being done in the best interest of anyone except a select group, who basically have decided the american citizen is little more than a goose waiting to be plucked with as little flapping as possible, and otherwise will be left to stand in the muck, looking skyward, flapping and wishing to fly. We are sick of that treatment. We eventually will become the ‘Sleeping Giant’ Yamamoto and others feared, unless we take advantage of Article V of the US constitution, close the doors for a while and clean our own house up – we will soon be of little value to any of the other countries in this world we purport to support. We will be so divided, so filled with angst and vengance, so willing to dice one another into little pieces, we will easily be overrun by any country that chooses to try. Tell me, right now, what EXACTLY does this country stand for? We can no longer truly define the singular difference between this country and many others, and until we again can do so, we are heading into an ugly decline. We see it, we don’t like it, and we loathe those who try via sophistry and legalese to make it seem like happy days are here again… how they have the ‘singular’ answer, if we will just ‘believe them’. That is not how the country was founded; this country has wandered too far from its representative form of guidance, the people will eventually unite and issue a course correction, either because they are ready, or because it is forced upon them..
It may be a bit simplistic, but I’ll say it to keep the reply short. The American citizens have been ‘trained’ to be a bit stupid for quite a while now, at least to the point that specific pacifiers like I-phones and football occupy so much of many people’s day they are oblivious to much of what matters outside their own limited sphere. But that does not mean we are ALL stupid. Un- or Under- informed, maybe… But at some point, with the aid of foreign reporting and multiple viewpoints available now on nearly every subject – those who wish to will be informed enough to decide for ourselves on several subjects to render opinions that SHOULD be directing this country. We recognize and resent any bravo sierra we see thrown out in the media any more in the name of ‘news’ , and any intelligent person witnessing what is available will eventually decide that with so much propaganda and misrepresentation of things (iin the pursuit to sell media by ‘making news happen’) that, eventually the truth is somewhere ‘in the middle’ of it all. and eventually we will decide that it is not being done in the best interest of anyone except a select group, who basically have decided the american citizen is little more than a goose waiting to be plucked with as little flapping as possible, and otherwise will be left to stand in the muck, looking skyward, flapping and wishing to fly. We are sick of that treatment. We eventually will become the ‘Sleeping Giant’ Yamamoto and others feared, unless we take advantage of Article V of the US constitution, close the doors for a while and clean our own house up – we will soon be of little value to any of the other countries in this world we purport to support. We will be so divided, so filled with angst and vengance, so willing to dice one another into little pieces, we will easily be overrun by any country that chooses to try. Tell me, right now, what EXACTLY does this country stand for? We can no longer truly define the singular difference between this country and many others, and until we again can do so, we are heading into an ugly decline. We see it, we don’t like it, and we loathe those who try via sophistry and legalese to make it seem like happy days are here again… how they have the ‘singular’ answer, if we will just ‘believe them’. That is not how the country was founded; this country has wandered too far from its representative form of guidance, the people will eventually unite and issue a course correction, either because they are ready, or because it is forced upon them..
…so 911 never happened?…and all the other atrocities committed by those peace-loving muslims didn’t happen? and saddam insane…the non-threatening secular saddam hussein…he didn’t tell us that he had nuclear capability, and that he wasn’t afraid to use it?…and all the evidence of the mass tortures in the soccer stadiums by him and his demented spawn…all wrong?… and for the life of me I cannot remember even ONE of the fake news outlets EVER supporting ANYthing that President Bush said or did…as I remember it…the abu graib rubbish was front page news for weeks…as was Me Lai…as I remember it the abu graib story, true or fake, was used by communist/fascist/muslim-brotherhood sympathizers to undermine a Republican president…the Me Lai incident, was similarly used as communist propaganda to rile the already volatile anti-war pro-communist mobs and cause chaos and bring the country to a standstill…
Thank you for this historical lesson – many question I had with no answers you brought to the forefront. I shall hopefully – copy, paste and study all of your essay. A fount of knowledge.
Thank you for this historical lesson – many question I had with no answers you brought to the forefront. I shall hopefully – copy, paste and study all of your essay. A fount of knowledge.
Seymour Hersh is only respected if he reports the “right” truths. When he reports the “wrong” truths, he is marginalized and ignored. The dominant state media in the US (i include all major outlets, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, NYT, Wash. Post, LA Times, etc, all of them) promote dominant state policy of the past 7 decades and they always have. They restrict their reporting to what is consistent with the US state, in foreign policy, neoliberal, neo conservatives, militarists, they have been the dominant ruling faction in the US at least since the early 50s. They gave us Vietnam, an atrocity which wasted and damaged countless innocent lives, based on lies to the US public to get their compliance and to encourage draftees to accept their canon fodder role as a noble one, fear mongering, demonization, disinformation, propaganda, they are using it on Russia now, and they are hitting Trump hard because he wants to make a change in this decades old wasteful destructive brutal shameful policy.
Seymour Hersh not only exposed Abu Gahraib, but the MeLai massacre, both of which got attention not immediately, there was media resistance, but only after photos and testimony became public, and then the media had to jump on board, to distinguish themselves (falsely, there really is no distinction) from the policy makers. They did the exact same thing with the 2003 Iraq war, all the major media outlets propagandizing and selling that war to the public, which as late as February 2003 was polling strongly against it. So the global expansionists brought out the big guns, needed to persuade liberals and independents who didn’t truth Bush, on board—the respected moderate, Colin Powell, and the respected liberal, Bill Clinton, both made very public their role in selling the war so that it could be started, which it was by late March. The media cheered the brutal attack on a nonthreatening secular government, and people, who had no terrorism problem, no al Qaida, because of the domestic strictness of the Iraq government on terrorist rebellion. The US demolished the Iraq that was secular and repressive of violent Islamic extremism, both Sunni and Shi’a. A country where Christian and other minorities were not just safe but were supported, llke the other peaceful and industrious groups in the society. The US government and its state media, having tricked the US public into supporting this atrocity with demonizing fear mongering, a favorite tactic they often use, and are using agianst Trump now, as he is seen as an alien regime that is an obstacle to global expansion–some months into the Iraq war when the “evidence” published by the media on page 1 and blared by CNN all day long, was shown to be false and fake, and never supported by any real evidence, the NYT which had published this “evidence” even though they knew better, and because they knew better, and the NYT(and its many imitator media outlets) buried the story about how Bush’s claim that “we have proof” that Iraq was importing uranium yellow cake from “africa,” was based on a crude forgery, that was buried on page 34.
This same media that was responsible for the change int he public opinion polls to support for the war, as soon as the lies of the ‘evidence’ they had earnestly reported as fact, as soon as Bush was exposed for misleading the public, NYT turned on Bush, wanting to make it seem like, the narrative has been, “Bush made a serious mistake, he believed intelligence that was wrong, and then he mislead all of us, into a bad war.” The NYT and its cohorts turned around and pretended they had no role in making that war happen. They had a stronger role in making it happen than Bush did. He wasn’t trusted by a majority. NYT was respected by a large number of Americans who are not political aware, or who share the same agenda.
When the CD showing the photos at Abu Gahraib was first sent by a soldier to Donald Rumsfeld, to action the soldier thought the government would want to take, it was sent back to him dismissively. The attitude was “who cares,” and the solders was very troubled, i don’t mention his name because his life has been harmed by being treated and portrayed as a traitor, too bad he didn’t use wikileaks and remain anonymous, it was pretty new then, and the soldier believed the US government would want to know about this torture of prisoners going on in the US run and staffed prison. They didn’t want to know. There as a long difficult struggle to get that information published.
The same thing happened with Chelsea Manning when she persistently tried to get the collateral murder video out to the public, NYT and others downplayed it, before Manning went to wikileaks with it. the media still downloaded it. Hersh’s publication of Abu Gahraib was a struggle, Hersh, like other people of principle, pursued it, despite risk to his career, because many in the US government are absolutely sociopathic about their wars. “Don’t bother me with morality, this is our right, we can make war anywhere we want, we don’t need to be moral, we define what is moral and what is now.” it’s been going on at least for going on 70 years.
When Hersh reported, or tried to report, that the evidence claimed by the CIA supposedly proving that Syria’s Assad “gassed his own people,” was not supported by objective forensic UN commissioned investigation by MIT scientists who found that the calculations of the CIA could not be accurate (about missile tracjectory, wind conditions, and ability of the missiles in question to reach the target from Syrian government locations. The other gas attack earlier that year, blamed on the Syrian government, was investigated by the UN at the time, under Carla Del Ponte, and to her own surprise because she comes from the disinformation bubble of the west, she said her investigators were told by every victim they interviewed that it was the rebels, not the government, that attacked. Del Ponte was shut down quickly, after talking openly to media, suddenly when questioned she said, “i can’t comment on that.” that was the end of that investigation.
Hersh’e efforts to inform the US public about the questionable and doubtful nature of the US government and its media claiming that the Assad government committed the gas attack, were blocked and silenced by the major media. Hersh not so popular anymore. He never really was. He was too honest and too principled.
The rejection doesn’t stop him. Now he is reporting about Rich, real facts that journalism is supposed to present to the public, but they are NOT journalists, they are propagandists and they obviously want regime change in the US. Hillary was supposed to win, allowing their militarist global expansion to continue.
Someone got to Fox and Sean Hannity also, Hannity was ontop of the Rich murder until Fox threatened him with dismissal if he didnt stop digging into the Rich case.
I had always thought Rod Wheeler was a stand up guy, now since his lawsuit makes one wonder who got to him.
I had always thought Rod Wheeler was a stand up guy, now since his lawsuit makes one wonder who got to him.
O Gee I was really hoping the legendary journalist might have been Bob Woodward.
Don’t forget that Crooked Little Debbie’s brother – Steven Wasserman is an assistant district attorney in the Washington D.C. District Attorney’s office – coincidence? Maybe that’s why Seth Rich’s murder investigation has gone no where – they don’t need to look they know who is responsible – they work for them.
Don’t forget that Crooked Little Debbie’s brother – Steven Wasserman is an assistant district attorney in the Washington D.C. District Attorney’s office – coincidence? Maybe that’s why Seth Rich’s murder investigation has gone no where – they don’t need to look they know who is responsible – they work for them.
Because Hillary Clowntwat was responsible for this it will never be “solved”. Between the DemoRats and the RINO’s no one wants to stir the pot to the point where something actually has to be done about any of this. Just like the HUGE story of Debbie Wusserman Schultz’s IT guy getting arrested b the FBI, none of any of this will go anywhere.
I thought Seth looked Russian. That leak is plugged now.
I thought Seth looked Russian. That leak is plugged now.
Come on! It does note take a genius to figure out that this was a “HIT!” And It was intentionally done withing the Jurisdiction of the Capital Police who are controlled by Democrats! REMEMBER THE VINCE FOSTER? WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE WITH A NON WORKING GUN?
Why hasn’t the FBI spoken to the ER staff, he was alive for over an hour and conscious?