Pennylynn wrote:
I read the article and it seems to be missing something, like motive. What would a Russian assassin gain and who paid them? Also, it is still unknown how wikileaks got the emails. The article is a good opinion piece, but it is rather slim on evidence. This article would have me believe that Russia decided on 16 July 2016 to murder a DNC "low ranking" staffer, office boy. Somehow it does not make sense to me, unless you or the article believes this would ruin killary's bid for president. If that were the case, there are another 30-odd murders that have been connected to the Clintons over the years, and according to the media, she was a shoe in for the election..... one more or less murder would not change the minds of those who still think she is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Can you perhaps fill the gigantic holes in article's theory?
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WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad of assassins working for Hillary Clinton, giving rise to a notorious conspiracy theory that captivated conservative activists and was later promoted from inside President Trump’s White House, a Yahoo News investigation has found.
Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, first circulated a phony “bulletin” — disguised to read as a real intelligence report —about the alleged murder of the former DNC staffer on July 13, 2016, according to the U.S. federal prosecutor who was in charge of the Rich case. That was just three days after Rich, 27, was killed in what police believed was a botched robbery while walking home to his group house in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C., about 30 blocks north of the Capitol.
The purported details in the SVR account seemed improbable on their face: that Rich, a data director in the DNC’s voter protection division, was on his way to alert the FBI to corrupt dealings by Clinton when he was slain in the early hours of a Sunday morning by the former secretary of state’s hit squad.
Yet in a graphic example of how fake news infects the internet, those precise details popped up the same day on an obscure website, whatdoesitmean.com, that is a frequent vehicle for Russian propaganda. The website’s article, which attributed its claims to “Russian intelligence,” was the first known instance of Rich’s murder being publicly linked to a political conspiracy.
“To me, having a foreign intelligence agency set up one of my decedents with lies and planting false stories, to me that’s pretty outrageous,” said Deborah Sines, the former assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the Rich case until her retirement last year. “Maybe other people don’t think it’s that outrageous. I did ... once it became clear to me that this was coming from the SVR, then that triggers a lot of very serious [questions about] ‘What do I do with this?’”
The previously unreported role of Russian intelligence in creating and fostering one of the most insidious conspiracy theories to arise out of the 2016 election is disclosed in “Yahoo News presents: Conspiracyland,” a six-part series by the news organization’s podcast “Skullduggery” that debuts this week on the third anniversary of Rich’s murder.
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There is the beginning of the article, I wanted to do the entirety of the article but it wouldn't fit. That doesn't matter, I have read the whole article twice now and nowhere in that article does it say that the Russians killed Seth. I pointed out with bold text and in one spot, colored text, the pertinent facts that show that the story IS NOT claiming the Russians KILLED seth, merely that they jumped on the opportunity of his death to smear Hillary. Please feel free to direct me to any portion of the article, short form or long form, that proves my reading of this article was inadequate and that the article DOES say that the Russians actually killed him.