Current Events > Murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks

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So our sources are a Fox News contributor and an anonymous unnamed bureaucrat?

Great one.

It's utterly despicable that this family is being put through this simply because the conservative media would rather use their son's death to distract than report the actual news.
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Doom_Art posted...

So our sources are a Fox News contributor and an anonymous unnamed bureaucrat?

Great one.

It's utterly despicable that this family is being put through this simply because the conservative media would rather use their son's death to distract than report the actual news.

As opposed to accepting that he was killed in a robbery attempt by a "robber" who left $2000 worth of belongings on him.

I don't get why the family would hire a private investigator if they're just going to dismiss his findings. Clearly they weren't satisfied with the official investigation, so they should expect evidence that goes against that.

Doom_Art posted...

So our sources are a Fox News contributor and an anonymous unnamed bureaucrat?

Great one.

It's utterly despicable that this family is being put through this simply because the conservative media would rather use their son's death to distract than report the actual news.

Boy, you really got this backwards.

It's a shame, really. Both sincere Democrats and Republicans think what they believe in is right for this country. That's what many people refuse to accept. Nobody is trying to be evil, here. In my view: I believe a lot of the mainstream media journalists actually believe they are doing the right thing. To me, they're brainwashed.
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More blood on Wasserman Shultz hands
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Caution999 posted...

To me, they're brainwashed

Lol irony.


Anyway again waiting to hear from FBI officials if they believe this was a killing related to Wikileaks and who they think did it

Caution999 posted...

Doom_Art posted...

So our sources are a Fox News contributor and an anonymous unnamed bureaucrat?

Great one.

It's utterly despicable that this family is being put through this simply because the conservative media would rather use their son's death to distract than report the actual news.

Boy, you really got this backwards.

It's a shame, really. Both sincere Democrats and Republicans think what they believe in is right for this country. That's what many people refuse to accept. Nobody is trying to be evil, here. In my view: I believe a lot of the mainstream media journalists actually believe they are doing the right thing. To me, they're brainwashed.

FROM MY POINT OF VIEW THE BERNIEBROS ARE EVIL
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CruelBuffalo posted...

Caution999 posted...

To me, they're brainwashed

Lol irony.


Anyway again waiting to hear from FBI officials if they believe this was a killing related to Wikileaks and who they think did it

Lol that was the whole point.

Like, I'm saying I can appreciate the people on this board who BELIEVE they are doing the right thing. At least our hearts in the right places, ffs
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It's amazing to me that people think politicians don't have the capacity for murder
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So let's put some pieces together here.

Podesta's e-mail about "wetworks" and Scalia dies.

Podesta's e-mail about "teaching leakers a lesson" and Seth dies.

Podesta joins Washington Post. The day before THIS story breaks, we get a BS story about Trump "leaking classified information to the Russians" and that's all anybody wants to talk about.

HMMM. Really gets the neurons firing.
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Suchomimus posted...

It's amazing to me that people think politicians don't have the capacity for murder

Well the Clintons definitely do. Bush's, too.
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Caution999 posted...

Suchomimus posted...

It's amazing to me that people think politicians don't have the capacity for murder

Well the Clintons definitely do. Bush's, too.

People just want to keep their head buried in the sand when it comes to the Clintons.
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Suchomimus posted...

The day before THIS story breaks, we get a BS story about Trump "leaking classified information to the Russians" and that's all anybody wants to talk about.

The Washington Post's Trump article was actually published minutes after the Tweet about Rich's investigation, afaik.

Also, idk how much you researched that Scalia situation, but it has more depth to it. Ever heard of "Inez Comes to America?"

To say the least, there's A LOT of crap on the Clintons from WikiLeaks. I really don't know how anyone can say "Omg how could you have voted for Trump!?" after reading all that crap about Hillary.
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Caution999 posted...

To say the least, there's A LOT of crap on the Clintons from WikiLeaks. I really don't know how anyone can say "Omg how could you have voted for Trump!?" after reading all that crap about Hillary.

wikileaks is fake russian propaganda
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Caution999 posted...

To say the least, there's A LOT of crap on the Clintons from WikiLeaks. I really don't know how anyone can say "Omg how could you have voted for Trump!?" after reading all that crap about Hillary.

Have you seen what's happened since January?
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This has been known for months, but good to see more people learning about it.

And Rich wasn't murdered-- he was assassinated.

This is probably true, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Doesn't invalidate the Russia at all though.
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RIP Wheeler

So I chose to look up Rod Wheeler, to see if there was anything on the guy.

The only other thing I can find from him is from 2007...when he was on the O'Reilly show, discussing an "epidemic" of lesbian gangs.

NSFW stuff in the link following.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2007/rod-wheeler-claims-o%E2%80%99reilly-factor-lesbian-gangs-are-raping-young-girls

This is raising several more questions than are being answered now...
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LMAO, you know how Doom_Art and lilORANG were saying "the family refuted this?" The quote they were referring to came directly from their spokesman, Brad Bauman, not from the family. Bauman, by the way, is a professional "Crisis Communicator" for Democratic candidates:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradbauman

It almost looks like the guy is doing damage control for the DNC. Almost.

"Russian collusion is all fake news but our insane rambling Hillary conspiracies are super legit"
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"Continuous evidence involving the administration and Russia is totally a conspiracy but this is completely legit"

Fucking lol

EDIT: God damnit Rebel

"But Trump"

But Russia"
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Axiom posted...

"Continuous evidence involving the administration and Russia is totally a conspiracy but this is completely legit"

Fucking lol

EDIT: God damnit Rebel

got em
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CowboyDan posted...

This is probably true, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Doesn't invalidate the Russia at all though.

Or unicorns.
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This and the Trump/Russia thing aren't mutually exclusive. I don't think anyone ITT said anything about the Russia investigation other than that the media might have pushed a non-story of Trump not breaking laws to take attention away from this.

Vertania posted...

the media might have pushed a non-story of Trump not breaking laws to take attention away from this.

Lmao fuck off.
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So we've got an anonymous source and an ex-cop who rambles about an epidemic of lesbian paedo gangs, who claims to have been hired by the deceased's family (who strongly deny they hired him).

And before anyone goes "but anonymous statements about Trump are believable?), Trump usually confirms that he did the dumb thing the next day. See: firing Comey over Russia, leaking info about ISIS to Russia
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But Trump made an impolite comment on twitter!!!
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The level of delusion by the Trumpers ITT would be kinda funny if it wasn't so pathetic
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Didn't this happen around the same time that assassin tried to break into the embassy to get to Assange?
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The DNC took out a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
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It may surprise you to learn that there's nothing to this story
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth-rich-family-response-claims-of-wikileaks-contact/index.html

It took only hours for one of the biggest stories in conservative media this week, which some outlets had chosen to focus on over news that President Trump disclosed classified information to senior Russian officials, to fall apart.
On Monday night, Rod Wheeler, a private investigator and Fox News contributor, put things in motion during an interview with WTTG-TV, a Fox affiliate in Washington.
Wheeler, who was under contract with the family of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was fatally shot in July, told WTTG-TV evidence existed that proved Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks before his death.
For months, right-wing media outlets have floated unproven theories that Rich was the person who provided Wikileaks thousands of internal DNC emails, and that his death might have been connected with the supposed leak. No real evidence has been provided to support such claims and Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, which continues to investigate the murder, says there is evidence to suggest he may have been the victim of a botched robbery.
Nevertheless, a handful of right-wing media outlets have latched on to the theory -- and Wheeler's remarks on Monday allowed the narrative to once again ricochet throughout the conservative media universe.
"NOT RUSSIA, BUT AN INSIDE JOB?" asked Breitbart, the far-right website previously led by White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, which said that "if proven, the report has the potential to be one of the biggest cover-ups in American political history, dispelling the widespread claim that the Russians were behind hacks on the DNC."
"DEAD DNC STAFFER 'HAD CONTACT' WITH WIKILEAKS," declared the headline of the Drudge Report, the highly-trafficked conservative news destination.
Fox News on Tuesday morning joined in the chorus, publishing a lead story on its website about the "DC MURDER MYSTERY." The story said Wheeler had made the claim Wikileaks had been in contact with Rich. It added that a federal investigator, who it said had spoken on the condition of anonymity, corroborated it.
But Tuesday afternoon, Wheeler told CNN he had no evidence to suggest Rich had contacted Wikileaks before his death.
Wheeler instead said he only learned about the possible existence of such evidence through the reporter he spoke to for the FoxNews.com story. He explained that the comments he made to WTTG-TV were intended to simply preview Fox News' Tuesday story. The WTTG-TV news director did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
"I only got that [information] from the reporter at Fox News," Wheeler told CNN.
Asked about a quote attributed to him in the Fox News story in which he said his "investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and Wikileaks," Wheeler said he was referring to information that had already been reported in the media.
A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.
Earlier Tuesday, Brad Bauman, a spokesman for the Rich family, released a statement in which he said the family had "seen no evidence" to suggest Seth Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks.
Bauman told CNN the outlets that had run with the story "have shown over and over again that they are willing to lie and manipulate the facts" to further "their own political end."

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inb4CNNisfakenews
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