Kit Knightly

Last month Seth Rich, a data analyst who worked for the DNC, was shot near his home in Washington DC. He was on the phone to his girlfriend when it happened. Police were called to the scene and discovered the young man’s body at roughly 4.20am. It was reported that Rich was “covered in bruises”, shot “several times” and “at least once in the back”.

The New York Daily News reported:

…police have found little information to explain his death. At this time, there are no suspects, no motive and no witnesses in Rich’s murder.

While initial theories were that the killing was robbery or mugging gone wrong, the Washington Post said:

There is no immediate indication that robbery was a motive in the attack…but it has not been ruled out as a possibility.”

Rich’s family have also reported that nothing was taken:

[Rich’s] hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything.”

On August 9th Julian Assange gave an interview on Dutch television in which he seemed to imply that Rich’s death was politically motivated, and perhaps suggest he had been a source for the DNC e-mail leak:

That same day wikileaks tweeted that they were offering a $20,000 dollar reward for information on the killing of Mr Rich.

ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks has decided to issue a US$20k reward for information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 9, 2016

These are the facts of the case, so far. And they are undisputed.

I’m not going to take a position on the motive for Mr Rich’s killing or possible suspects. But I do want to point out the general level of media silence. Take these facts and change the names – imagine Trump’s email had been hacked, and then a staffer with possible ties to WikiLeaks was inexplicably shot dead.

Imagine this poor young man had been a Kremlin whistleblower, or a Chinese hacker, or an Iranian blogger.

If this, as yet unsolved, murder had ties to anyone other than Hillary Clinton, would it be being so ritually and rigourously ignored by the MSM?