On July 10, 2016, one Seth Rich, who was active in defending voting rights, died in what police consider a botched robbery. In an apparent a clear effort to cover his collaboration with Russian Federation hackers, Julian Assange has used a conspiracy theory first cooked up by a website which specializes in such theories to artfully hint to brazenly claim that Seth Rich was his actual source and was killed as a result.

I have found sufficient good journalism to expose Assange’s artful dodge disgusting opportunism so that I can simply aggregate the fruits of these efforts. Behold:

Fox News interviewing Assange

Snopes on the job

Right meets left

Four deeper stories, well-researched, well-written

An early story from the Washington Post

Exploring the Russian angle

The right–wing roots of this rumor–mongering, picked up later by Wikileaks

Even the Inquisitor, which is strongly pro-Green Party, is disgusted.