John R. Houk
© July 10, 2018
Seth Rich was murdered
on the streets of Washington DC under mysterious circumstances.
Rich’s death brought forth theories ranging from random robbery gone bad to
Rich was assassinated under the belief he released sensitive DNC emails that
the Dems still claim was the result of a Russian hack. The latter adds fuel to
the oft discredited but all too plausible Clinton
Body Count theory (SEE ALSO HERE).
Today a news conference took place under the auspices of a private
investigation in which a witness is revealed that two suspects were involved in
the murder. You could have watched the presser live on Youtube. Here is an hour and 40-minute version
of that presser.
You can watch a shorter six and half minute video reporting on
the press release subject matter:
Posted by SLATEST
CONSPIRACY THEORIES NEW 2.0
Published on Jul 10, 2018
Below is the Gateway Pundit report talking about the
then future press conference followed by a WND piece adding more detail.
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Report: Witness Prepared to
Identify Two Killers of Seth Rich
By Alicia Powe
July 9, 2018
Disclaimer: This shocking information was given
to The Gateway Pundit this weekend. We decided to report this news and will
post an update following Tuesday’s press conference. [Blog Editor: as of
typing this post Gateway Pundit hasn’t posted an update.]
The Washington, D.C. lobbyist who has been on the hunt for
Seth Rich’s killer found a “credible” witness who will identify the two men he
believes murdered the DNC staffer.
Jack Burkman, a Washington-based attorney and lobbyist who
has worked with a private investigative team to solve the Seth Rich murder
mystery, told The Gateway Pundit that the witness has
conclusive evidence that will bring Rich’s killers to justice within a month.
“We believe that we have reached the beginning of the end of
the Seth Rich murder investigation,” Burkman told The Gateway Pundit in
an exclusive interview Sunday. “After two long hard years of work, we
have a witness who is prepared to identify the two killers of Seth Rich. One is
reportedly a current DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) agent, the other is
reportedly a current ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives) agent”
The witness, who “fears for his life,” will be accompanied
by armed guards and disguise his identity as he details how two employees of
the United States government killed Seth in a press conference slated for
Tuesday.
All press should attend my press conference TUESDAY at 1:00PM at the HOLIDAY INN Rosslyn Key Bridge. We will present a witness who brings us close to resolution in the Seth Rich case. #SethRich— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) July 8, 2018
Frank Whalen, a retired NYPD Detective Sergeant NYPD who
served as the head of NYPD Homicide for 23 years, found the witness, Burkman
explained.
“We found him through working with a retired New York City
detective, who found him and brought him to us. We have thoroughly vetted this
witness and we believe in this witness,” he said. “He has evidence that
substantiates his claims but it will be revealed slowly. This witness is in
great fear of his life – that’s why we are going with disguising him,
disguising his voice and everything about him.”
Burkman, who has viewed surveillance footage from the night
Rich was killed, says the witness’ testimony confirms two men involved in the
shooting.
“What the witness says matches what the police say and
matches what we know from the surveillance videos,” he said. “The police let me
see the video. The police said the video clearly identifies the pant legs of
two men. So, there were two men involved in the killing that night. I now
believe that in the next 3 to 4 weeks the entire matter will be resolved. It’s
the beginning of the end.”
Rich, 27, was a DNC voter expansion data director for two
years and had accepted a position with Hillary Clinton’s campaign. He was
murdered in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2016, near his apartment in an
affluent neighborhood. Rich was shot twice in the back with a handgun, and
his wallet, credit cards, watch and phone were left in his
possession. The Metropolitan Police Department has described it as a
“botched robbery.”
Private investigators have claimed there is evidence
Rich was the source who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of bombshell
emails that rocked the Democratic National Committee in the summer of
2016 just ahead of its convention and the 2016 election. WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange has also insinuated Rich
was the source WikiLeaks used to obtain the emails.
VIDEO: Julian
Assange on Seth Rich
Published on Aug 9, 2016
The emails indicated the Democrat Party was manipulating the
primary race in favor of Hillary Clinton and sabotaged the Bernie Sanders
campaign, led to the resignation of then-DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman
Schultz. On July 22, just 12 days after Rich’s death and days before the
Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia, WikiLeaks released 20,000 emails
from DNC officials.
As Gateway Pundit reported, Burkman was
shot at and run over by the former U.S. Marine Kevin Doherty on March 13 who he
hired to help him get to the bottom of the case. Doherty – who claims he
worked as a special agent and criminal
investigator in the intelligence community – was subsequently
arrested by Arlington County police on charges of malicious wounding and use of
a firearm in commission of a felony.
There has been an arrest made in the attacks on me. Thank... https://t.co/ooii7WWL5K— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) March 20, 2018
The witness informed Burkman that Doherty was well
acquainted with the two government employees that killed Rich, but he was
unaware Doherty worked as Burkman’s lead investigator and tried to kill him
earlier in the year.
“The witness himself didn’t know that I had been shot by
Kevin Doherty. Before we even told him that, he told us that Doherty was
friends and palled around with the ATF agent and the DEA agent who shot Seth.
That’s why we think the witness is credible,” he said. “There wasn’t much
coverage of my shooting. The witness didn’t see the coverage and didn’t know.
We didn’t tell him, he told us before we told him.”
Kevin Doherty (Courtesy: Arlington
Co. Police Department)
“We believe that Kevin Doherty may have been a plant in my
organization, to kill me and stop my investigation,” he added. “He was
carefully playing the role.”
Despite nearly getting killed while investigating the Rich
case, Burkman says he doesn’t “live in fear” and neither should the witness.
“I now have armed guards all the time. And we will have even
more armed guards at the press conference the place will be surrounded with
private armed security,” he said. “But once we start living in fear we might as
well have Adolph Hitler in power. Once you live in fear, there’s no reason to
have won World War II.”
Following the press conference, Burkman will hold a
candlelight march to the spot where Rich was killed.
“I promised the Rich family that I would find their son’s
murderer. Their son was a great patriot and a great young man and it is for
that reason that I want to solve this murder,” Burkman said. “His heart was in
the right place and I want to honor him. We are one big political fraternity.
This could have happened to any of the young people who work for me, Republican
or Democrat, I employ both. This could happen to anyone of those young people.”
Burkman has created, paid for and erected billboards in the
neighborhood where Rich lived and died; built the website WhoKilledSeth.com and
canvassed the neighborhood with Seth Rich’s parents. Last year, he sued the Democratic National Committee for
the release of the hacked DNC server he claimed will reveal key information in
solving the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
The DC-based attorney has also offered a $130,000 reward of
his personal money for information leading to the arrest of Rich’s killer.
WikiLeaks is offering $20,000, One America News Network $100,000, the D.C.
Metropolitan Police Department $25,000 and Businessman and investor Martin
Shkreli $100,000.
The DNC has yet to offer a reward for information leading to
the arrest of the murderer of its own young staffer. The DNC honored its
murdered employee by dedicating a bike rack outside its headquarters to Rich’s
memory.
The press conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn
@ Key Bridge Hotel in Virginia at 1:00PM est. Attendees of the candlelight
march will meet in the lobby of the hotel at 6pm est.
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BOMBSHELL: HUNT FOR SETH RICH'S
MURDERER TURNS UP 'WITNESS'
'Prepared to identify the 2 killers'
July 9, 2018
Murdered DNC staffer Seth
Rich (Photo:
GoFundMe)
The convoluted case of the murder in Washington, D.C.,
of Democratic operative Seth Rich has taken another turn, with a lobbyist who
has been investigating the case claiming a “credible” witness has been found.
Jack Burkman, a Washington-based lawyer and lobbyist, told
the Gateway Pundit blog: “We believe that we have reached the
beginning of the end of the Seth Rich murder investigation. After two long hard
years of work, we have a witness who is prepared to identify the two killers of
Seth Rich.”
Burkman told the blog in an exclusive interview on
Sunday that one of the culprits identified by the witness is an
agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration and the other is an agent
for the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Burkman said the witness has conclusive evidence that
will bring the killers to justice.
As WND has reported, Rich, 27, the DNC’s voter
expansion data director, had accepted a position with Democratic Party nominee
Hillary Clinton’s campaign just before his death.
On July 10, 2016, he was fatally shot in the back in
Washington, D.C., near his apartment in an affluent
neighborhood. Rich had been working for the DNC at a time when
emails from the organization were provided to WikiLeaks for publication.
The Metropolitan Police Department and Washington Mayor
Muriel Bowers insist Rich was randomly killed during a “botched robbery.” But
others are doubtful because he was found with his wallet, credit cards and
other valuables.
The new Gateway Pundit report said the witness fears for his
life, and plans to have armed guards and a disguise to protect him.
Burkman told the blog Frank Whalen, a retired NYPD detective
sergeant, found the witness.
“We found him through working with a retired New York City
detective, who found him and brought him to us. We have thoroughly vetted this
witness and we believe in this witness,” Burkman said. “He has evidence that
substantiates his claims but it will be revealed slowly. This witness is in
great fear of his life – that’s why we are going with disguising him,
disguising his voice and everything about him.”
WND
has reported on the case since its outset, reporting just weeks ago the
Department of Justice was refusing to release any records
related to the murder, according to a lawyer who has been investigating the
unsolved case.
The lawyer, Ty Clevenger, reported on LawFlog he
received the news from the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.
“Actually, they have refused to release any records about
Seth Rich at all, e.g., whether he had a security clearance or a background
check.”
But he pointed out the “same office originally refused to
even search for records related to Seth Rich, but it was
overruled on October 2, 2017, after I appealed to DOJ’s Office of Information
Policy.’
WND
reported last fall when Clevenger started his hunt for the
Rich records.
After his FOIA request for records or correspondence about
the murder or its investigation was rejected, the DOJ at that time told the
U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington, D.C., to hunt for records.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office originally put off Clevenger’s
FOIA request, demanding he submit a death certificate to prove that Rich was
dead.
“Since you have not furnished a release, death certificate,
or public justification for release, the release of records concerning a third
party would result in an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy and would be
in violation of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C.§ 552a,” the office said.
But Clevenger appealed. And Sean R. O’Neil, the chief of
administrative appeals at DOJ’s Office of Information Policy, directed the
executive office for U.S. attorneys to search for and produce any records
covered in Clevenger’s FOIA request.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hinted that Rich, and
not Russian agents, may have been the source of the Democratic National
Committee emails he published online.
The
case has caused considerable distress for Democrats. WND
reported last year when former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile appeared incoherent
and agitated when WND approached her at a book signing to ask her questions
about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.
Brazile said in her new book, which is dedicated to Rich,
that she was deeply concerned about Rich’s mysterious murder and had
discussed it in a phone call with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton after Clinton’s election loss.
She wrote that she asked Clinton to contribute to a reward
fund to help find the slain DNC staffer’s murderer, but Clinton ended the phone
call.
The following is an excerpt from Brazile’s book “Hacks: The
Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White
House”:
I knew the campaign had over $3
million set aside in a legal fund. Could she help me get this lawsuit started?
And don’t forget the murder of Seth Rich, I told her. Did she want to
contribute to Seth’s reward fund? We still hadn’t found the person responsible
for the tragic murder of this bright young DNC staffer.
You’re right, she said. We’re
going to get to that. But she really had to go. She had made the call and
checked it off her list, and I accepted after we said our good-byes that I
might never hear from her again.
WND attended Brazile’s Dec. 12 book signing at the National
Press Club in Washington, D.C., and asked her why she believes Clinton seemed
unconcerned about Rich’s murder and unwilling to allocate campaign money as a
reward to find Rich’s killers.
But Brazile contradicted statements in her book, flat-out
denying she even made them.
“You say in your book that you urged Hillary Clinton to use
campaign funds as reward to find Rich’s murderer(s). And Clinton briefly
responded by saying she really had to go,” WND stated, before Brazile
interjected.
“I – I never read – I never wrote that. No,” she said.
“We discussed – on Dec. 1 we offered – Jim Roosevelt
[co-chair of the DNC rules and bylaws committee] proposed that the DNC raise
money to help with the reward fund, and we urged members to provide resources.
But at no time did I tell Hillary – in the book, I said, ‘Don’t forget Seth
Rich.’ That’s what I said in the book,” she claimed.
[WND video Donna Brazille – no embed – go to article]
WND also pressed Brazile on why the DNC has offered no
reward money to help find Rich’s killers.
The former DNC chairwoman and CNN contributor then became
visibly angry and accused WND of trying to “smear” Rich and his family for mere
“sensationalism.”
“Once again, I would like to go on the record as saying that
the attempt to smear Seth Rich has caused enormous harm to his family,” she
charged. “Joel and Mary (Rich’s parents) deserve better than that kind of
salacious, sensational type of journalism.”
At some points, she appeared lost for words and made bizarre
and rambling statements:
[WND video Alicia Poe/Donna Brazille – no embed – go to article]
There’s no evidence whatsoever that Seth Rich computer, or
any of his personal electronic gadgets was penetrated or infiltrated by any of
those malware spyware. We had every computer, every cell phone, everything at
the DNC reviewed on multiple occasions because of the nature of the attack.
In the entirety of the book, I mention, I dedicate the book
to Seth Rich because Seth Rich belonged to, ah well, let me just say this. Seth
Rich was a member of the voting rights department. I was the vice chair for
civic engagement and voter participation. And when I wrote in the first
instance about Seth Rich, when I heard about his death, I talked about July
10th, when I got the news that Seth was murdered. Some of you might remember
during that period of time, it was following the shooting at Baton Rouge. And
the shooting, the incident in Dallas. And when I first received this
information that Seth was killed, the first thought in my head was, ‘Oh my god,
Seth was in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time.’
We live in Washington, D.C., and it bothered me. It bothered
me that Seth was murdered, of course, because he was, you know, he belonged to
the DNC. He was my kid, and I loved him. But it also bothered me that, uh, when
I heard about what happened. I just thought that this might have been a racial
incident. This was a period of heightened racial tension, not just in D.C. but
across the country. Black Lives Matter and the police department, all of the
protests across the country. That’s number one. So the context of me saying
that was the context of what was happening on July 10, 2016, and what happened
to Seth.
The context of who could have murdered Seth Rich, I don’t
know. But what I do know is that his murderer is still some – or the people
that murdered him – they have not been brought to justice. There’s a big reward
for Seth, to capture and to bring – to find information – to bring it to
justice. I know that Mayor [Muriel] Bowser and others are still concerned about
what happened to Seth Rich, and I hope that we can finally bring to justice
what happened.
Now, I know some people don’t understand anything about
cyber security and hacking and harassment. Has anybody here as a part of OPM
been harassed by the Chinese? Through the stealing of personnel files through the
Office of Personnel Management? And do you recall at that time you receive a
notice from OPM saying that you will have your information protected? And every
year, I know every month, every month, I get a protect my ID status, OK.
Well, when this happened to us at the DNC, the first thing,
because I had my information hacked through that illegal cyber-attack through
OPM. That experience is one where, you know, you try to go and get a car, you
try to go out and take out a loan, you know what that hacking caused you and
the discomfort and I hope you continue to protect your individual identity and
status. But when the Russian attack happened, this was one that no one provided
us with any kind of protection. And so it was the responsibility of the
Democratic National Committee – heh, who was broke – to provide protection.
Similar to what OPM was providing me with the Chinese hacking, I had to provide
that to the DNC, to the staff, to the donors and to others who had their
personal information. And this just wasn’t just a normal threat, “Hey Geoff,
you’re an X, hey Donna you’re a Y.” This was, this went beyond the
name-calling. This went to our physical infrastructure. This went to our
personhood. And I didn’t like it one bit; that’s why I changed our entire physical
landscape at the DNC.
We put cameras everywhere. We began to protect ourselves
because of the intrusion. Because of the way in which it came after our lives
individually and personally and institutionally. They wanted to send a message.
And for whatever reason why [Russian President Vladimir] Putin decided that he
wanted to destroy the – I kept saying to myself – I used to scream out at
night, “The Clinton campaign is – they, they got money – just leave us alone!”
But this harassment continued and continued, up until Oct. 21.
And so no, I don’t allude in my book. I don’t practice the
conspiracy theories that people have used to scar Seth’s memory, to hurt his
family. I have been to Omaha. I have been to his synagogue. I have cried
because of him. I love that boy. He was my child. I have dedicated a bike rack.
I have gone out to raise money to help his family. Seth Rich, Seth Rich was a
patriot. He was a great American, and he does not deserve to be, in anyway, he
does not deserve the kind of outrageous conspiracy theories. And, yes, I told
that to Sean Hannity. I’ll tell it to anyone else.
Seth was a patriot. He was a good patriot. He was a good
person. He worked very hard. His colleagues at the DNC miss him. His family,
Joel and Mary, they miss him. They are going through yet another Hanukkah
without their son tonight. And I loved him, and he was my child. And I will
always say good things about him. I get emotional about Seth. I love Seth. I
love all my kids at the DNC.
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2 Govt. Thugs Killed Seth
Rich?
John R. Houk
© July 10, 2018
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Report: Witness Prepared
to Identify Two Killers of Seth Rich
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BOMBSHELL: HUNT FOR SETH
RICH'S MURDERER TURNS UP 'WITNESS'
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