Former DNC Staffer Seth Rich

The Crime: In the early morning hours on July 10, 2016 Seth Rich, a DNC staffer who specialized in computer voting was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds to his back. He was reportedly found a block and a half from his home he shared with friends. Nothing was taken from him to indicate it was a mugging. It has been suggested by Police that this was a ‘botched robbery’ yet there is nothing to indicate this was the case.

Immediately people online started suggesting Hillary or her campaign had something to do with the murder. There was not much to go on however for those who suggested this other than it did not appear to be a mugging as suggested, and the DNC had a massive leak. You might have heard about it under the trending hashtag #DNCLeaks. Not too long after the leak Seth Rich was shot dead less than two blocks from his home. Sometime after it seemed the story about Seth Rich might die down Wikileaks posted a reward in the amount of $20,000 for information on the Seth Rich murder.

Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame was questioned about the reward being offered and would not confirm or comment on the source of the DNC Leaks material as is their tradition to protect sources. Even if a source dies they will never confirm the deceased was the source. Some, including family members of Mr. Rich, have suggested that WikiLeaks offered this reward as a publicity stunt and was using this man’s tragic death. I doubt however that would be the case, there is no name in whistleblowing bigger than Julian and his creation WikiLeaks. They do not need publicity, everyone who is anyone in politics, government, and mainstream news knows full well who Julian is and what WikiLeaks is.

Short of the reward that was offered the only other thing that caught my eye in regards to the DNC Leaks and Julian is during his interview with Sean Hannity. It seemed that Hannity tripped up Julian into unwittingly admitting the source of the material was from a leak within the DNC and was physically handed off via a flash drive or other portable storage. Julian also was audibly perturbed about an associate giving out this information against WikiLeaks and Julian’s policy on not commenting about sources:

WikiLeak’s Associate Claims DNC Leaks Came From A Disgruntled DNC Staffer

After that transpired it appeared that the Seth Rich rumors would be destined to down again. In April 2017 I came across what were allegedly screen shots of a conversation between Guccifer 2.0 and Robbin Young who is an Actress, model, and author according to her twitter profile. In which Guccifer 2.0 tells her in no uncertain terms that his source was named Seth and that he was assassinated:

Guccifer Says That Seth Was His Whistleblower

The screen captures I have seen that includes most of their conversation all appear to be authentic. After they surfaced I did reach out to the Guccifer 2.0 account in a Direct Message to no avail. That did not surprise me as he has not been active since Jan. 2017 on either his twitter or his website/blogsite.

He according to some reports is also wanted by multiple agencies. The guy at this point could be dead, he could have been arrested, or he could even have been renditioned for all we know.

The screen captures of this conversation surprisingly have received very little attention. I have seen a few small stories about it, but for the most part had less effect than I would have thought.

After screen captures of DMs from twitter surfaced and provided what appeared to be the answer to the question on the originator of the DNC Leaks everything seemed to die back down regarding answers to Mr. Rich’s death. That is until this week when an ex-detective working as a Private Investigator came forward to say that there is evidence that Mr. Rich had correspondence with WikiLeaks. That in the possession of the Police Dept. or the FBI is a laptop that belonged to Mr. Rich and it will prove that Mr. Rich had correspondence with WikiLeaks. According to this private detective there is an active cover up and a source within the Police Dept. admitted as much to him:

Another interesting caveat to this story is the family of Seth Rich is once coming out to discredit, this time to discredit the guy they hired to investigate their son’s death. I find this very odd. This has to be the strangest case of party loyalty I have ever seen or there is no connection between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks. However why would his family immediately dismiss evidence? I myself am a father.

I know that I would be in favor of all evidence no matter how relevant or irrelevant it appears at first. We know that in murder investigations especially some very small detail that at the time seems like nothing, might actually lead to the solving of a murder. It could be a sound, it could be a receipt, it could be a computer, even a text message or a phone call. In this case we are talking about a computer that very well may have data relevant to how their son died. Why on earth would they immediately rush to discredit the guy?

I have seen some weird things last election, some of the strangest things have been justified in the name of party loyalty. I have seen out and out racism on minorities justified and rationalized in the name of party loyalty. If Mr. Rich’s parents were as actively involved in politics as he was there is a chance they are heavy democrat supporters. I do not know or presume to know their party affiliation but if this is why they don’t even want to accept the new evidence and what their private investigator reported to them then that is just ridiculous. Every bit of data you find in an investigation should be taken at face value with an unbiased approach. Everything you find is ‘potential’ evidence, if you start dismissing things out of hand because of some sense of loyalty to a person, party, or organization in a murder investigation there is a good chance it will not be solved. There are times these kinds crimes are committed by someone you would least suspect.

There are a lot of things to consider as well when it comes to the DNC. For a while since at least 2015 the DNC has had a major problem with leaks. It was to the point that Podesta and others within the DNC have suggested they punish and make an example out of leakers even if there is no evidence that the person was guilty. Just to prove a point and that was for a very minor leak in comparison to DNC Leaks that WikiLeaks published (March 2015):

In another email in from February 2015 someone emails John Podesta that they “have to make examples of people who have violated the trust” and there needs to be “stiff consequencies for leaking”:

To which John Podesta responded the he agreed with that sentiment:

Mind you we are talking about minor leaks leading to minor stories at the Hillary Clinton fan club known as the Washington Post. What kind of panic, anger, resentment, or condemnation do you think a dump of emails that prove the Democrat primary election was a sham? What about fundraising violations? What about missing money donated to the campaign being redirected to a supposedly separate entity called “Correct the record” that would troll stories online to put a pro Hillary Clinton spin in comment sections? I’d imagine the anger and possibility of criminal investigations would be motive enough. Especially if the election is 4 months away and you want to make sure this individual does not come forward to the media.

Power and the pursuit of it, especially when it comes to holding power within the White House, is a pretty strong motivating force. It wouldn’t be the first time or the last time. If Seth Rich was in fact the leaker of the DNC emails he would be crossing people with a thirst for power that also display a penchant to make references to organized crime/mafia from time to time. It seems they idealize the idea of organized crime/mafia:

Mr. Mook From Hillary’s Campaign Referred To His Close Allies As “The Mook Mafia”

John Podesta Uses A Mob Term That Means Murder For Hire

People close to them even used mob oriented references when talking about get togethers for loved ones:

I’m simply asking questions. I make no assumptions. I find it an interesting mystery that needs solved. At present I am leaning one way more than the other, but that happens when evidence starts to pile up on one side but not the other.

Let’s also not forget when the DNC claimed to have been hacked they did not allow the FBI to inspect their servers. Why would they do that? Instead they had a third party by the name of Crowdstrike that may or may not have been in fraud previously, and may or may not have an axe to grind with Putin. The FBI shouldn’t have taken no for an answer when investigating a crime and a potential murder. If I claimed to have been hacked and the FBI came knocking on my door to confiscate my computers I can take a pretty good guess they would keep me company until they had a warrant to do so. Yet more curious decisions by the FBI and by the DNC.

I have to admit, I did imagine what John Podesta’s reaction would be if he went to the Drudge Report website to see this front and center:

Drudges Center Story Early 5/16/17

I imagined his face looked sort of like this:

If I was forced to take a guess as to what happened based on all the information I have seen thus for this is what I would guess. Seth Rich was upset that the DNC wasn’t running a true primary. They picked their candidate Hillary as the nominee based on what was being said in email exchanges. Being upset that the primary was a farce he backed up all the data. Rich then contacts WikiLeaks via email to tell them what he has and he would like them to cover it but doesn’t want to provide the data electronically. Either because there was just too much of it, or he was worried about being caught. In a few exchanges WikiLeaks sets up a way for Mr. Rich to provide it in the form of a drive. That person then hands it off to the other WikiLeaks associate that came out later.

Only time will tell and I certainly do hope his family do find justice. It is a tragedy no one should have to ever go through. I did reach out to the Metropolitan Police Department for comment on the Rich case and about the missing computer/laptop. This was their response to me:

Response I received Earlier Today (5/16/17)

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