A lot has happened since this story from Raimondo was posted, on 17 May... First, FOX News retracted the story. Second, Wheeler admitted he has never seen the laptop referenced; and third, the "Third Party who hired Wheeler"; a Republican Lobbyist; has said that their previous investigation shows that the laptop (and subsequently Seth Rich) had no viable evidence of or connection to WikiLeaks.
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:54 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > May 17, 2017 > > *Did Seth Rich Contact WikiLeaks? * > *There’s convincing evidence he did *by Justin Raimondo > > Two stories are now dominating the headlines: one is something the > Establishment wants you to pay attention to, and the other is something > they want to bury. First off, to the former: > > The Washington Beltway is in an uproar over the latest Deep State attempt > to tar the President of the United States as a Russian agent: they’re > claiming > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_trumpintel-0504pm%3Aho> > Trump gave super-duper Top Secret information – provided, it turns out, by > the Israelis > <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0> > – to the Russians during a meeting with the Kremlin’s Foreign Minister and > their ambassador at the White House. > > There are two problems with this story: if the anonymous former and > currently serving “intelligence officials” cited by the *Washington Post* > were really concerned about the damage done to our “sources and methods,” > they would never have leaked this story in the first place. Secondly, > everyone in the room at the time, including National Security Advisor H. > R. McMaster, denies it. > > Far from proving Trump is either the Manchurian candidate and/or is > playing fast and loose with our national security, it merely shows – once > again – that the “intelligence community” is out to depose him by any means > necessary. Add to this Israel’s amen corner, which is now screeching that > Trump “betrayed” Israel. > > The other story, however, is something our spooks don’t want you to even > know about. Fox News reported > <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-investigator-says.html> > earlier today [Wednesday] that the private investigator hired by the family > of Seth Rich – but paid for by a third party – is now saying there’s solid > evidence that Rich – a former DNC employee, embedded in their computer > operations – was in contact with WikiLeaks. > > Rich was murdered in the wee hours of July 10, 2016. His wallet, his > watch, and valuables were still on him, despite claims it was a botched > robbery. Days later, WikiLeaks published the DNC emails. WikiLeaks founder > Julian Assange has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the > capture of his murderers. > > Fox News is reporting that Rich’s computer shows > <https://twitter.com/abasedlife/status/864520242952892416> “44,053 emails > and 17,761 attachments between DNC leaders” passed between Rich and > WikiLeaks. They cite not only Rod Wheeler > <https://twitter.com/FightForTrump/status/864437731283406848>, a former > Washington DC homicide detective hired by the Rich family to solve the > case, but also a “federal investigator” who corroborates Wheeler’s claims: > > > > > > *“An FBI forensic report of Rich’s computer – generated within 96 hours > after Rich’s murder – showed he made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin > MacFadyen, a now-deceased American investigative reporter, documentary > filmmaker, and director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time, > the federal source told Fox News. “’I have seen and read the emails between > Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,’ the federal investigator told Fox News, > confirming the MacFadyen connection. He said the emails are in possession > of the FBI, while the stalled case is in the hands of the Washington Police > Department.” *Speaking of WikiLeaks: a largely overlooked email > <https://twitter.com/LionelMedia/status/864435542360043524> from John > Podesta’s leaked account has him saying: “I am definitely for making an > example of a suspected leaker.” It kind of makes you think, doesn’t it? > > I’ve said from the beginning that 1) There is no convincing evidence that > the Russians hacked the DNC, or fooled John Podesta into giving out his > email account password, and 2) It was most likely an inside job. While it > may be an overstatement to say that this latest story confirms it, it > certainly calls the Russian conspiracy theory into serious question. > > Yet both the House and the Senate have launched investigations designed to > prove “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin – to say > nothing of the FBI probe. Will the same attention be paid to the > Rich-MacFayden correspondence? > > Of course not. > > The Rich family is denying that there’s any evidence their son was in > contact with WikiLeaks: but their official spokesman – yes, they have one – > is one Brad Bauman > <https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/763852003093217280>, a > self-described “ crisis consultant > <https://twitter.com/TsarKastik/status/864476837887569920>” for the > Democrats. Which is very appropriate, since these new revelations do indeed > constitute a crisis for the Democrats, who have based their entire > post-election strategy on a flimsy > <https://theintercept.com/2016/12/14/heres-the-public-evidence-russia-hacked-the-dnc-its-not-enough/> > conspiracy theory that has been debunked > <https://medium.com/@jeffreycarr/can-facts-slow-the-dnc-breach-runaway-train-lets-try-14040ac68a55> > by cyber-security experts (the ones who aren’t > <http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article140461978.html> > in the pay of the DNC, that is).. > > Wheeler says that a local police officer in Washington "looked me straight > in the eye" and told him they had been ordered to "stand down" on Rich’s > case. As for the “mainstream” media, they don’t have to be told to stand > down – they’re doing it instinctively. > > > *Postscrip*t: By the way, the Fox News story on the Seth Rich-Wikileaks > connection, by reporter Malia Zimmerman, went through several interesting > iterations since its original publication. See here > <http://archive.is/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-investigator-says.html> > . > > http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/05/16/did-seth- > rich-contact-wikileaks/ > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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