Re: Seth Rich Conspiracy Pushed By Russian Intelligence, Trump Administration, New Investigation Reveals
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Date: July 09, 2019 01:56PM
A new report reveals the extent of Russian involvement in spreading the conspiracy theory that slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was assassinated on the order of Hillary Clinton because he was the source of stolen DNC emails sent to Wikileaks.
The conspiracy theory — which started online and eventually spread to Fox News, including Fox & Friends and Sean Hannity’s primetime show — has been repeatedly debunked by U.S. authorities, including Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who found that Russian hackers were the source of the emails given to Wikileaks.
In an attempt to obscure the source of the leaked emails, Wikileaks, Russian intelligence, pro-Trump media and even one member of the president’s administration pushed the conspiracy theory that 27-year-old Rich was murdered for stealing the information. (Police believe he was killed in a botched robbery). A new report from Yahoo News correspondent Michael Isikoff reveals the extent to which Russian intelligence sought to plant the conspiracy theory, and how successful they were in spreading it.
Per Isikoff:
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.