About Seth Rich

The unsolved, no-leads murder of a young political operative in a safe area of D.C. last July is an issue that’s been largely ignored by the dominant media after its initial reporting.

However, the heart-felt plea by the parents of Seth Rich in the Thursday, May 25, Monitor to dampen down unseemly speculation in a few spots in the fever swamp of the right contains an error. By calling the notion that their son was murdered in retaliation for being the source of the trove of DNC emails to Wikileaks “discredited,” Mary and Joel Rich, writing for the increasingly left-of-center Washington Post, republished in the Monitor, could have come up with a more accurate adjective.

Discredited by whom?

The possibility that Seth Rich, an ardent Bernie Sanders supporter, secretly forwarded the information to damage Hillary Clinton – and not any unproved Russian hacking – is too compelling to ignore.

For example, the Wikileaks founder has already stated that information was not obtained by the Russians.

Diana West’s Twitter page has a recent timeline that makes such a seemingly far-fetched idea plausible.

I won’t hold my breath to wait for the partisan Washington Post to give it credence, though. Not with its constant drum beat of demonizing Russia.

Brent Anderson

Moultonboro