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Isikoff: The true origins of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:20 am
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:20 am
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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.
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The Russian effort to exploit Rich’s tragic death didn’t stop with the fake SVR bulletin. Over the course of the next two and a half years, the Russian government-owned media organizations RT and Sputnik repeatedly played up stories that baselessly alleged that Rich, a relatively junior-level staffer, was the source of Democratic Party emails that had been leaked to WikiLeaks. It was an idea first floated by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who on Aug. 9, 2016, announced a $20,000 reward for information about Rich’s murder, saying — somewhat cryptically — that “our sources take risks.”
At the same time, online trolls working in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Internet Research Agency (IRA) — the same shadowy outfit that conducted the Russian social media operation during the 2016 election — aggressively boosted the conspiracy theories. IRA-created fake accounts, masquerading as those of American citizens or political groups, tweeted and retweeted more than 2,000 times about Rich, helping to keep the bogus claims about his death in the social media bloodstream, according to an analysis of a database of Russia troll accounts by Yahoo News.
Speaking publicly about the case for the first time, Sines, the former prosecutor, said that the Russian conspiracy-mongering vastly complicated her efforts to solve the murder by forcing her and the Washington, D.C., police department to investigate a blizzard of false allegations in order to make sure there was nothing to any of them. “To waste your time investigating BS is just horrible,” said Sines.
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In her efforts to better understand where the conspiracy theories were coming from, Sines used her security clearance to access copies of two SVR intelligence reports about Seth Rich that had been intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials. She later wrote a memo documenting the Russian role in fomenting the conspiracy theories that she sent to the Justice Department’s national security division, and personally briefed special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors on her findings.
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Why am I not surprised?
This post was edited on 7/9/19 at 9:21 am
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Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:22 am to Decatur
Anything that challenges the progressives will be labeled as Russian interference. It’s the perfect cover for them because the media won’t verify their claims.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:22 am to Decatur
Isikoff and you once again blaming Muh Russians. Why am I not surprised??
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:24 am to Decatur
Why would you even use the word surprised? I know why.. because No one on earth knew about some Russian bulletin about Rich, you dumbass.
Was it Russians who connected the Clinton's to the Jen Moore or Peter Smith deaths?
When you are a Clinton, with a sea of dead bodies in your wake, these types of conspiratorial connections become an extremely short leap for any semi-curious adult to make.
Oh, and frick Issikoff and his buddy Steele. They can both eat Drano.
Was it Russians who connected the Clinton's to the Jen Moore or Peter Smith deaths?
When you are a Clinton, with a sea of dead bodies in your wake, these types of conspiratorial connections become an extremely short leap for any semi-curious adult to make.
Oh, and frick Issikoff and his buddy Steele. They can both eat Drano.
This post was edited on 7/9/19 at 9:30 am
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:26 am to Decatur
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a Yahoo News investigation has found.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:27 am to Decatur
Muh Russians
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:27 am to Decatur
Isikoff is definitely trustworthy source
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:27 am to Decatur
Not sure why anyone... including you... would believe that story. Until Julian Assange can say what he knows am not going to see a story like this as anything more than totally unproven. If it turns out Wikileaks did receive info from Seth Rich then this story holds ZERO water for me.
Stop falling for shite like this.
Stop falling for shite like this.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:27 am to Decatur
It’s always the damn Russians
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:29 am to Decatur
Now were back to Russian trolls again?
Are we going to start hearing about Trump's tax returns next week?
Are we going to start hearing about Trump's tax returns next week?
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:30 am to Decatur
TLDR Version: One of the hundreds of Clinton killings was fake news.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:30 am to Decatur
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Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:30 am to Decatur
Yahoo News Shark: unjumped [JUMPED]
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:35 am to Decatur
I read a yahoo article on this this morning. I think it may be the same story copied and pasted. If so, this article tries to call out fake news but instead reads like fake news.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:39 am to Decatur
Like anyone is shocked the Q crowd is gullible as fuuuuuck
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:43 am to Decatur
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Isikoff
Zero credibility, didn't read.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:49 am to BamaAtl
I've never posted in a q thread, and ignore tf out of the subject entirely, so I'll address your ignorant post directly.
The toxic levels of bias it takes to blame a Russian memo for the Seth Rich conspiracy is likely deadly. See a doctor.
She has been linked to every death that had even minor connections to her or the party since they found Vince Foster's stiffened corpse in a Virginia park. Was that all the Russians too?
The toxic levels of bias it takes to blame a Russian memo for the Seth Rich conspiracy is likely deadly. See a doctor.
She has been linked to every death that had even minor connections to her or the party since they found Vince Foster's stiffened corpse in a Virginia park. Was that all the Russians too?
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:52 am to Decatur
Man, the Russians have been planning this Trump thing since the 1970s.
Well done, podrugee, well done.
Well done, podrugee, well done.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:53 am to Decatur
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Rich's mother told NBC's Washington affiliate WRC-TV, "There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything
Dude was beaten, shot in the back and left for dead with all his possessions still on him, yet "victim of armed robbery" is still the lead theory.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:55 am to Decatur
Decatur believes.
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