I have looked on Julian Assange’s arrest today from
Ecuadorian Embassy in London with mixed feelings. In one case Assange via
Wikileaks exposed Classified and sensitive information related to U.S. National
Security. On the other hand Assange’s release of hacked (or perhaps purloined)
Crooked Hillary campaign emails might just contribute to exposing some of worst
treasonous acts among American leadership since Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr.
Justin Smith examines the Wikileaks Classified material dump
with quite correct anger at America’s betrayal.
Julian Assange 4/11/19 arrested Ecuadorian Embassy
London
If you think you’re having a rough morning . . . at least
you’re not Julian Assange.
“Police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London Thursday morning,
arresting Assange and bringing the Wikileaks founder’s seven-year stint there
to a dramatic close,” reports CNN [CNN
has since updated original quote. Here is the same quote from wfsb.com
– Eyewitness News 3 Hartford CT].
“Metropolitan Police said in a
statement that he was ‘further arrested’ on his arrival at a London police
station on behalf of United States authorities, who have issued an extradition
warrant.
“Officers
made the move after Ecuador withdrew Assange’s asylum and invited authorities
into the embassy, citing the Australian’s bad behavior.”
Some people see Julian Assange as some sort of
"hero" for joining Bradley Manning in espionage and the release of
Department of Defense documents --- thousands of documents -- THAT COST THE LIVES OF AMERICANS SERVING
OVERSEAS.
Even if Manning's and Assange's criminal hacking and
espionage actions didn't result in anyone's death, that does not render them
forgivable or harmless. If one sets his car in neutral and lets it glide down a
hill toward a playground as he walks away in the other direction, he isn't
blameless by any stretch of logic simply because no one was killed. Moreover,
Manning violated several tenets of the basic military oath, such as his vow to
adhere to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which governs the handling of
classified information. Think of all those military folks you have ever known,
who you may have served with yourself, and consider how our good and decent
young men and women, all military personnel, could have been -- or actually
were -- exposed by Manning and Assange. Most patriots will find themselves grow
angry as they reflect on these actions and those institutions that celebrate
Manning's and Assange's criminal actions as "whistleblowing".
Consider if you published something controversial on the
Internet and started getting death threats. How would you like being “doxed”?
In other words, what would your reaction be if someone who didn’t like you
tweeted out to the world your home address? And your phone number? And your
photo? And photos of your children? And the address of their school? And
information about when you left the house each day, the license-plate number of
your car, and the location where it was parked?
Would you call someone who published this information a
“whistleblower”? Let’s say the same person simultaneously published accurate
information about wrongdoing by your neighbors or colleagues. Would that make
you feel any better?
Picture such an information dump on a massive scale. That’s
roughly what then-Bradley Manning did when he threw hundreds of thousands of
secret military and diplomatic documents into the public square. Manning made
no effort to filter out information that didn’t show evidence of wrongdoing. He
indiscriminately stole as many classified documents as he dared and sent them
off for publication on the Internet.
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. Remember him? The one you blame
for working with the Russians to subvert democracy? He doesn’t necessarily have
America’s best interests at heart, does he? He never did. Assange an enemy of
democracy not just for publishing stolen political gossip, but for aiding and
enabling Manning's espionage against the United States, in what far too many
call an act of a "whistleblower"; Manning helped Assange publish far
more sensitive, far more important, indeed life-endangering material? Among the
documents Manning turned over to Assange were war logs that contained the names of
hundreds of civilians who cooperated with U.S. forces. Assange
threw all caution to the wind and indiscriminately published those logs en masse,
without redacting the names of civilians involved, placing those fighting for
freedom in their countries in great peril.
Whether or not Americans received some other disturbing news
that revealed government misconduct is beside the point. What he did was still
a crime against America, in more regards than any that were
"beneficial" to America.
Just as Americans have a wealth of information each
individual keeps private, like Social Security numbers or bank account numbers
or certain unknown events that occurred in their lives that revive hurtful
memories and pain -- information they wouldn't want just anyone to have --
there is an abundance of information in government files that the average U.S.
citizen doesn't have any real right to view, except and until they have gone
through proper channels and/or a court process or FOIA requests. We have agreed
to such channels, as citizens, to certain processes and oversights in matters
of government.
There are men and women in place to provide oversight over
government. And the problems we find too often today have resulted when those
providing the oversight we less than trustworthy. If these people were immoral
and untrustworthy, one doesn't simply throw open the vault and release
everything, especially when it may reveal CIA operatives in foreign countries,
resulting in their murders, or troop positions and capabilities, resulting in
unnecessary U.S. casualties.
The failure is with Us as a society, in that so many men and
women elected today are immoral and untrustworthy and they appoint people to
positions of similar character. Nothing will change in the halls of government
until things change in America and Her people return to the God and the
principles that founded America.
Governments need to keep secrets, too. We can argue about
just how many secrets it should keep, and there’s a strong argument that the
U.S. government over-classifies a lot of information that could be released to
the public without harm. But besides all the aspects of national security that
need to be kept secret — where our forces are, what they’re vulnerable to, what
we know about hostile states and terrorist groups, what we don’t know, the
identities of agents, case officers, and covert operators, and so on — our
government needs to be able to assess and evaluate these issues in secrecy. The
public also needs to be informed of at least the general contours of the
national-security issues that concern the government, which is why the House
and Senate intelligence committees usually hold both public and private
hearings.
Countries also need to be able to communicate with each
other discreetly. Sometimes a foreign government will privately agree with a
U.S. policy and be willing to cooperate but cannot acknowledge their stance
publicly because of preexisting public attitudes. For example, in 2010, the
United States wanted to launch drone strikes against operatives of al-Qaeda on
the Arabian Peninsula. Because allowing U.S. airstrikes on Yemeni soil would
irritate the Yemeni people, president Ali Abdullah Saleh told General David Petraeus, “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours,
not yours.” This was one of the secrets revealed in the diplomatic cables
released by WikiLeaks. The choice to reveal that conversation indicates that
WikiLeaks finds the secrecy about the American bombing efforts more troubling
that what those al-Qaeda members were doing.
Those of us who paid attention figured out early on that
Julian Assange always seemed more interested in releasing information that
harmed United States vital interests and national security than he was in
helping the American people uncover the Traitors in their midst. Assange always
seemed particularly angry with the American and Western European governments,
and never all that bothered by the world’s indisputably brutal and despotic
regimes, in Russia, Iran, Cuba, China, North Korea, Venezuela and Syria.
Some of us never discovered a newfound appreciation for
Assange once he started leaking information from the DNC and John Podesta, and saw the same guy we always did -- as a
SPY and an ENEMY to America.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in
1953 on slim evidence and for a whole lot less than the crimes
committed by Julian Assange. Assange should be extradited to the U.S. and
charged, prosecuted and executed.
By Justin O Smith
ADDENDUM: The
Taliban and Al Qaeda both poured over these documents, sorting and sifting, to
discover who was working with the U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even
more troubling, it placed U.S. tactics, strategic plans and military strength
and positions all in the hands of the enemy.
___________________
Edited by John R. Houk
Text enclosed by brackets and source links are by the
Editor.
Another nail in the coffin of the Mueller Investigation
trying to frame President Trump for working with the Russians to win Election
2016. Dems are lying AGAIN.
This should reawaken the rumors that murdered Seth Rich
stole the DNC files to expose Dem corruption. Here are some past titles from SlantRight 2.0 on Seth Rich exposing
Crooked Hillary/Dem corruption:
The DNC emails published by Wikileaks in 2016 were not
obtained via a Russian hack, cyber-security and intelligence experts William
Binney and Larry Johnson claim.
According to forensic evidence, the files taken from the DNC
between 23 and 25 May 2016, were copied onto a file storage device.
Thegatewaypundit.com reports:
If the Russians actually had conducted an internet based hack of the DNC
computer network then the evidence of such an attack would have been collected
and stored by the National Security Agency.
The technical systems to accomplish this task have been in
place since 2002. The NSA had an opportunity to make it clear that there was
irrefutable proof of Russian meddling, particularly with regard to the DNC
hack, when it signed on to the January 2017 “Intelligence Community
Assessment,” regarding Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election:
“We also assess Putin and the
Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances
when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her
unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI
have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.”
The phrase, “moderate confidence” is intelligence speak for
“we have no hard evidence.” Thanks to the leaks by Edward Snowden, we know with
certainty that the NSA had the capability to examine and analyze the DNC
emails. NSA routinely “vacuumed up” email traffic transiting the U.S. using
robust collection systems (whether or not anyone in the NSA chose to look for
this data is another question). If those emails had been hijacked over the
internet then NSA also would have been able to track the electronic path they
traveled over the internet. This kind of data would allow the NSA to declare
without reservation or caveat that the Russians were guilty. The NSA could
admit to such a fact in an unclassified assessment without compromising sources
and methods. Instead, the NSA only claimed to have moderate confidence in the
judgement regarding Russian meddling. If the NSA had hard intelligence to
support the judgement the conclusion would have been stated as “full
confidence.”
We believe that Special Counsel Robert Mueller faces major
embarrassment if he decides to pursue the indictment he filed–which accuses 12
Russian GRU military personnel and an entity identified as, Guccifer 2.0, for
the DNC hack—because the available forensic evidence indicates the emails were
copied onto a storage device.
According to a DOJ
press releaseon the indictment of the Russians, Mueller
declares that the emails were obtained via a “spearphishing” attack:
“In 2016, officials in Unit
26165 began spearphishing volunteers and employees of the presidential campaign
of Hillary Clinton, including the campaign’s chairman. Through that process,
officials in this unit were able to steal the usernames and passwords for
numerous individuals and use those credentials to steal email content and hack
into other computers. They also were able to hack into the computer networks of
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) through these spearphishing techniques to steal emails
and documents, covertly monitor the computer activity of dozens of employees,
and implant hundreds of files of malicious computer code to steal passwords and
maintain access to these networks.
The officials in Unit 26165
coordinated with officials in Unit 74455 to plan the release of the stolen
documents for the purpose of interfering with the 2016 presidential election.
Defendants registered the domain DCLeaks.com and later
staged the release of thousands of stolen emails and documents through that
website. On the website, defendants claimed to be “American hacktivists” and
used Facebook accounts with fictitious names and Twitter accounts to promote
the website. After public accusations that the Russian government was behind
the hacking of DNC and DCCC computers, defendants created the fictitious
persona Guccifer 2.0. On the evening of June 15, 2016 between 4:19PM and
4:56PM, defendants used their Moscow-based server to search for a series of
English words and phrases that later appeared in Guccifer 2.0’s first blog post
falsely claiming to be a lone Romanian hacker responsible for the hacks in the
hopes of undermining the allegations of Russian involvement.”
Notwithstanding the DOJ press release, an examination of the
Wikileaks DNC files do not support the claim that the emails were obtained via
spearphishing. Instead, the evidence clearly shows that the emails posted on the
Wikileaks site were copied onto an electronic media, such as a CD-ROM or thumb drive
before they were posted at Wikileaks. The emails posted on Wikileaks were saved
using the File Allocation Table (aka FAT) computer file system architecture.
An examination of the Wikileaks DNC files shows they were created
on 23, 25 and 26 May respectively. The fact that they appear in a FAT system
format indicates the data was transferred to a storage device, such as a thumb
drive.
How do we know? The truth lies in the “last modified” time
stamps on the Wikileaks files. Every single one of these time stamps end in
even numbers. If you are not familiar with the FAT file system, you need to
understand that when a date is stored under this system the data rounds the
time to the nearest even numbered second.
We have examined 500 DNC email files stored on Wikileaks and
all 500 files end in an even number—2, 4, 6, 8 or 0. If a system other than FAT
had been used, there would have been an equal probability of the time stamp
ending with an odd number. But that is not the case with the data stored on the
Wikileaks site. All end with an even number.
The DNC emails are in 3 batches (times are GMT).
Date Count Min Time Max Time FAT Min Id Max Id
2016-05-23 10520 02:12:38 02:45:42 x 3800 14319
2016-05-25 11936 05:21:30 06:04:36 x 1 22456
2016-08-26 13357 14:11:36 20:06:04 x 22457 44053
The random probability that FAT was not used is 1 chance in
2 to the 500th power or approximately 1 chance in 10 to the 150th power – in
other words, an infinitely high order.
This data alone does not prove that the emails were copied
at the DNC headquarters. But it does show that the data/emails posted by
Wikileaks did go through a storage device, like a thumb drive, before Wikileaks
posted the emails on the World Wide Web.
This fact alone is enough to raise reasonable doubts about
Mueller’s indictment accusing 12 Russian soldiers as the culprits for the leak
of the DNC emails to Wikileaks. A savvy defense attorney will argue, and
rightly so, that someone copied the DNC files to a storage device (E.g., USB
thumb drive) and transferred that to Wikileaks.
We also tested the hypothesis that Wikileaks could have
manipulated the files to produce the FAT result by comparing the DNC email
files with the Podesta emails (aka Larter file) that was released on 21
September 2016. The FAT file format is NOT present in the Podesta files. If
Wikileaks employed a standard protocol for handling data/emails received from
unknown sources we should expect the File structure of the DNC emails to match
the file structure of the Podesta emails. The evidence shows otherwise.
There is further compelling technical evidence that
undermines the claim that the DNC emails were downloaded over the internet as a
result of a spearphishing attack. Bill Binney, a former Technical Director of
the National Security Agency, along with other former intelligence community
experts, examined emails posted by Guccifer 2.0 and discovered that those
emails could not have been downloaded over the internet as a result of a spearphishing
attack. It is a simple matter of mathematics and physics.
Shortly after Wikileaks announced it had the DNC
emails, Guccifer 2.0 emerged on
the public stage, claiming that “he” hacked the DNC and that he had the DNC
emails. Guccifer 2.0 began in late June 2016 to publish documents as proof that
“he” had hacked from the DNC.
Taking Guccifer 2.0 at face value—i.e., that his documents
were obtained via an internet attack—Bill Binney conducted a forensic
examination of the metadata contained in the posted documents based on internet
connection speeds in the United States. This analysis showed that the highest
transfer rate was 49.1 megabytes per second, which is much faster than possible
from a remote online connection. The 49.1 megabytes speed coincides with
the download rate for a thumb drive.
Binney, assisted by other colleagues with technical
expertise, extended the examination and ran various tests forensic from the
Netherlands, Albania, Belgrade and the UK. The fastest rate obtained — from a
data center in New Jersey to a data center in the UK–was 12 megabytes per
second, which is less than a fourth of the rate necessary to transfer the data,
as it was listed from Guccifer 2.
The findings from the examination of the Guccifer 2.0 data
and the Wikileaks data does not prove who copied the information to a thumb drive,
but it does provide and empirical alternative explanation that undermines the
Special Counsel’s claim that the DNC was hacked. According to the forensic
evidence for the Guccifer 2.0 data, the DNC emails were not taken by an
internet spearphishing attack. The data breach was local. It was copied from the
network.
There is other circumstantial evidence that buttresses the
conclusion that the data breach was a local effort that copied data.
First there is the Top Secret information leaked by Edward
Snowden. If the DNC emails had been hacked via spearphishing (as alleged by
Mueller) then the data would have been captured by the NSA by means of the
Upstream program (Fairview, Stormbrew, Blarney, Oakstar) and the forensic
evidence would not modify times – the data would be presented as sent.
Second, we have the public reporting on the DNC and
Crowdstrike, which provide a bizarre timeline for the alleged Russian hacking.
According to CrowdStrike founder, Dimitri Alperovitch, his
company first detected the Russians mucking around inside the DNC server on 6
May 2016. A CrowdStrike intelligence analyst reportedly
told Alperovitch that:
“Falcon had identified not one
but two Russian intruders: Cozy Bear, a group CrowdStrike’s experts believed
was affiliated with the FSB, Russia’s answer to the CIA; and Fancy Bear, which
they had linked to the GRU, Russian military intelligence.”
And what did CrowdStrike do about this? Nothing. According
to Michael Isikoff, CrowdStrike claimed their inactivity was a deliberate plan
to avoid alerting the Russians that they had been “discovered.” This is
nonsense. If a security company detected a thief breaking into a house and stealing
its contents, what sane company would counsel the client to do nothing in order
to avoid alerting the thief? Utter nonsense.
We know from examining the Wikileaks data that the last
message copied from the DNC network is dated Wed, 25 May 2016 08:48:35. No DNC
emails were taken and released to Wikileaks after that date.
CrowdStrike waited until 10 June 2016 to take concrete steps
to clean up the DNC network. Alperovitch told Esquire’s Vicky Ward that:
“Ultimately, the teams decided it was necessary to
replace the software on every computer at the DNC. Until the network was clean,
secrecy was vital. On the afternoon of Friday, June 10, all DNC employees were
instructed to leave their laptops in the office.”
Why does a cyber security company wait 45 days after
allegedly uncovering a massive Russian attack on the DNC server to take
concrete steps to safeguard the integrity of the information held on the
server? This makes no sense.
A more plausible explanation is that it was discovered that
emails had been downloaded from the server and copied onto a device like a thumb
drive. But the culprit had not yet been identified. We know one thing for certain—CrowdStrike
did not take steps to shutdown and repair the DNC network until 18 days after
the last email was copied from the server.
The final curiosity is that the DNC never provided the FBI
access to its servers in order for qualified FBI technicians to conduct a
thorough forensic examination. If this had been a genuine internet hack, it
would be very easy for the NSA to identify when the information was taken and
the route it moved after being hacked from the server. The NSA had the
technical collection systems in place to enable analysts to know the date and
time of the messages. But that has not been done.
Taken together, these disparate data points combine to paint
a picture that exonerates alleged Russian hackers and implicates persons within
our law enforcement and intelligence community taking part in a campaign of
misinformation, deceit and incompetence. It is not a pretty picture.
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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:
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
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.
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.
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.”
“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.
+++++++++++++++++++++
BOMBSHELL: HUNT FOR SETH RICH'S
MURDERER TURNS UP 'WITNESS'
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.”
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.
It is my belief that Seth Rich’s murder is significant
enough to keep following. Rich’s murder suspiciously occurred after he was
suspected as being the secret whistleblower that released DNC emails to
Wikileaks (NOT the Russia Fake News) that demonstrated inherent
Democratic Party corruption ensuring Crooked Hillary won the Dem nomination
over Bernie Sanders.
Some insights about Seth Rich. He was a Bernie supporter
which means he was probably even more Marxist in ideology than Crooked Hillary.
That which makes Rich’s murder significant is the reputation of the Clintons in
destroying lives that threaten the Clinton image personally and legally.
Hence, when I run into a story about Seth Rich that adds
more narrative to the young man’s murder is something I run with. Alicia Powe
writing for WND is going with a story about Tim Canova running against Debbie
Wasserman Schultz within the Dem Party for her District nomination for
Congress.
The significance of the Canova-dethrone run against Schultz
is that she was exposed as being front and center in rigging the Crooked
Hillary nomination. AND Canova is focusing on the lack of a proper police
investigation by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of
Seth Rich’s murder.
If you primarily read, listen or watch Mainstream Media
(MSM); you may not be aware the MPD is pushing the theory that Rich met his
demise in a botched street robbery that had no witnesses and nothing – as in
no available valuables whatsoever – was taken. AND Seth Rich was taken
alive to a hospital reportedly on the road to recovery yet died mysteriously in
the hospital bed.
Does this sound like a botched robbery to you?
In full disclosure, Canova like murder victim Seth Rich was
a Bernie Sanders supporter. Meaning again he is another Dem that will lean way
to the Left of Crooked Hillary or Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Ergo, if
Canova overcomes the Leftist Dem Establishment and defeats Schultz, it will
still not be good for America for another Marxist-Socialist to beat out the
Republican nominee in the same Florida District.
NEVERTHELESS, any focus on exposing the truth behind Seth
Rich’s murder will be a good thing.
WASHINGTON – Any American who
cares about the rule of law should be demanding the truth about the mysterious
murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, says Tim Canova, a Democratic law
professor who is challenging former DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz for her congressional seat in 2018.
Canova has been slammed by
left-leaning media outlets for calling attention to the unusual circumstances
surrounding the July 10, 2016, murder of Rich, the DNC voter-expansion
data director who is rumored to have leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
“There should be a thorough
investigation of what happened,” Canova told WND. “I know millions of people
are asking the same question – they just want to know what happened in this
investigation. That’s really all I am guilty of, making that plea for a
thorough transparent investigation.”
He continued: “Whether we are
talking about Seth Rich or anyone else, if you believe in the rule of law, you
should want to apprehend people who commit these types of crimes, and I say
that without speculating about who did it. I am grateful [WND] is looking into
it.”
As WND has reported, Rich, 27, had
accepted a position with Hillary Clinton’s campaign just before his death. He
was murdered in Washington, D.C., 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 the murder as a “botched robbery.”
Private investigators have
claimed there is evidence Rich was the source WikiLeaks used to obtain
thousands of Democratic National Committee emails released on the eve of
the party’s presidential nominating convention last July. The emails, indicating
the party was manipulating the primary race in favor of Hillary Clinton, led to
the resignation of 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.
Also as WND has reported, former detective Rod Wheeler was initially hired by
Rich’s parents through a third party to find their son’s killer. Wheeler
alleges former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazille contacted the Metropolitan
Police Department demanding to know why he was “snooping” after Wheeler began
investigating Rich’s murder. As a result, he said, law-enforcement authorities
are now refusing to provide him with more details about the case.
Wheeler and another source
also told WND that the family’s spokesman, Brad Bauman – a Democratic political
crisis consultant – was “assigned” to the family by the DNC. Bauman denies the
DNC hired him to represent the Rich family, calling the claim “patently 100
percent false.”
As WND reported, the total reward for solving Rich’s murder currently
stands at approximately a half-million dollars. However, the DNC has offered no
reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of its own
young staffer. Instead, the DNC honored its murdered employee by dedicating a
bike rack outside its headquarters to Rich’s memory.
Watch as WND asks locals
for their thoughts on Seth Rich murder and investigation:
Establishment media have ignored
recent revelations concerning Rich’s case. The little coverage of the
investigation has been devoted to dismissing speculation surrounding Rich’s
murder as “conspiracy.” And Canova has been ridiculed for speaking out about
the unsolved crime.
“I Facebook live-streamed
walking past his murder scene. I happened to be in Washington at the time,”
Canova told WND. “People objected. They thought I was trying to use his murder
for political reasons, that I was disregarding the feelings of Seth Rich’s
family. So I took down the video. It’s others, my opponents, who want to
politicize the Seth Rich murder.”
He continued: “I think the
criminal justice system has to be able to work without political interference.
I cross my fingers and hope that the Seth Rich family and others are pushing
for a complete investigation.”
“The mainstream media, they
are looking to divide the progressive left,” Canova said. “They are
looking to demonize and discredit. They try to discredit, and they engage in
their own conspiracy theorizing. I’m very unconcerned with what the mainstream
media are saying on any given day at this point. I am reaching the voters,
where the voters live and where the voters work, and we are talking to the
about real issues, the issues they care about.
“Ordinary people,”
he continued, “don’t really give a damn about what the mainstream media
are saying. There is a reason why the media are so low in digits in
approval ratings. They are lower than Congress at this point.”
Canova told WND he has
been a longtime supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
“In 2011, I was appointed by
Sen. Bernie Sanders to a select advisory committee on reforming the Federal
Reserve, so for years I had been doing a lot of work on the Federal Reserve and
other financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund,” he said. “My
politics were very aligned with Sanders.”
Sanders, then a
presidential candidate, endorsed Canova, stating in May 2016 that “[Canova’s]
views are much closer to mine than to Wasserman Schultz’s.”
Sanders told the Miami
Herald: “I have no idea about Tim Canova, I honestly don’t. I know nothing
about Tim Canova.”
Leading conservatives,
including Fox News host Sean Hannity and best-selling author Ann Coulter, argue
that Democrats’ ongoing probe of the Trump administration’s alleged collusion
with Russia, supposedly to rig the election by hacking DNC emails, will be
derailed completely if Rich is proven to have leaked the DNC emails.
Canova concurs with that
assessment, arguing that Democrats are hurting themselves by focusing on
Russia.
“I am not one to think that
the Russian focus is a productive one. I think it a very counterproductive one
for the Democratic Party,” he said. “A lot of folks want to see more hard
evidence if that’s what happened. Even taking their narrative as the truth, if
the Russians can hack into our election systems, anyone can hack into our
election system. And we need to focus a lot on election integrity.”
He continued: “I don’t have
the time to focus on any of this Russia stuff. I am running for office, and I
am focused on constituents, who are every day [working to] making ends meet,
and worried out of their minds about their job prospects, the job prospects of
their children, the health care for their aging parents. These are real issues
that real people care about.”
DNC and Wasserman
Schultz sued for election ‘rigging’
As WND reported, the DNC and Wasserman Schultz are currently facing a
class-action lawsuit filed by attorneys Elizabeth and Jared Beck on behalf of
Bernie Sanders supporters who claim they sought to rig the election.
On June 13, lawyers and
plaintiffs suing the DNC told the U.S. District Court in Florida
that they’re being harassed with threatening messages and “freaky”
encounters and they fear for their safety – particularly in the wake of the mysterious
and unsolved murder of Rich – but the court denied their request for
protection.
On June 1, the Becks filed a
motion in court claiming they received a voice-modulated phone call from a
number matching Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ office.
One of the plaintiffs, Angela
Monson, claimed in an affidavit to have awakened to her porch door open. She
said both of her computers had been moved and showed evidence of tampering.
Similarly, Canova, who lost
his 2016 Democratic primary bid against Wasserman Schultz, alleged June 17
in a now-deleted tweet that his computer was hacked and an electrical surge had
fried both of his computers, after he announced an official rematch against
her.
Canova
Tweet: Tonight I announced my 2018 candidacy
“Announced last night 8 p.m.
run vs. @DWSTweets again,” Canova wrote, implying the disgraced former DNC
chair may have been linked to the alleged attack. “At 2 a.m. my computer was
attacked & surge protector fried. Same happened last campaign.”
Wasserman Schultz ‘put
finger on the scale … to clear field for
Hillary’
As a longtime Sanders
supporter and an outspoken advocate of election integrity, Canova told WND he
was infuriated by the foul play that took place within the Democratic Party
during its primary.
“It became increasingly clear that as chair of the DNC,
[Wasserman Schultz] was putting her fingers on the scale to try to undermine
the Sanders campaign and to clear the field for Hillary Clinton,” he said.
“That aggravated me. I had already been a Bernie Sanders supporter from early
on when he got in the race. As it became increasingly clear that Wasserman
Schultz wasn’t just [failing to represent] her constituents but was really
doing an atrocious job as DNC chair, undermining democracy within the
Democratic Party, it made the urgency of challenging her that much more acute.”
Canova said Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s record of taking
hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations, while doing nothing to help
her constituents, compelled his candidacy.
“During the course of her career, she had taken millions of
dollars from big Wall Street banks, fossil fuels and other big corporate
interests.
“She took money from private prison corporations, and was
pushing for a private prison in our district. Their district has a lot of
problems, especially economic problems. Low income, out of work, under employed
– and it’s never been on her agenda. It’s been a very corporate agenda,” he
explained. “So we started to look around for someone who would challenge her.
No one else would, and I did. I am continuing to for those reasons. I think our
district needs representation.”
Canova said he’s disappointed not only in Wasserman Schultz,
but in the entire Democratic establishment.
“When I ran against Wasserman Schultz, I was running against
the entire establishment, the entire time,” he said. “My beef is not just a
personal one with Wasserman Schultz. My campaign is not just about replacing a
single congresswoman but the party’s politics. [I’m] hoping it’s … not too late to reform
this party.”
Canova said he believes he has a better chance of winning
the primary in 2018 now that Hillary Clinton is not running as the party’s
nominee for president.
To ensure Democratic Party establishment doesn’t rig the
election against him, as it’s accused of doing to Sanders,
Canova said he plans to pay for a recount, “no matter the election outcome.”
“Certainly, millions of Americans have concerns about the
fairness of elections and the way the ballots are counted,” he said. “Election
integrity is an enormous issue for my campaign. Really, it should be an
enormous issue nationwide right now.”
Canova argued that Wasserman Schultz is viewed as a
liability, even among party insiders, after being forced to resign as DNC
chair.
“This time, I am in early,” he said. “This time, she is not
going to be in a Clinton White House or cabinet. And I am not so sure she can
count on the same level of support even from the establishment. Nobody wants to
be seen standing next to her and campaigning for her. It’s a different race.”
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