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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

The Clinton and DNC Stories Move On And It Gets Ever More Weird

Two big major stories in the last two months have been (1) the hacking of the DNC which led to the chair of the party Debbie Wasserman Schultz being sacked when it was disclosed that the DNC was working with the Clinton campaign to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and (2) Hillary  Clinton's use of a private unsecured email system while secretary of state.  Today, both stories took major turns.

Let's start with the hacking of the DNC.  After a huge batch of emails from the DNC were released by Wikileaks, the Democrats rushed to blame the Russians for hacking the system.  They also tried to tied the hack by the Russians to Donald Trump, although even they gave up on that effort because the claim was too ridiculous to gain traction.  Now, however, there is news that it may not have been the Russians at all who hacked the DNC.  The head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, indicated to a Dutch TV show that an insider at the DNC may have been the source for the emails.  That would mean that the "blame the Russians" effort by the Democrats was just a ploy to throw people off from the real source of the emails.  Then it gets strange.  The supposed source of the emails was a staff worker at the DNC, Seth Rich.  Rich was murdered in Washington on July 8th.  He was accosted on the street and shot.  He was not robbed; his wallet, watch and phone were left behind.  There has been no apparent motive for the murder which remains unsolved by DC police.  Not only did Assange indicate that Rich was the source of the emails, but he also announced that Wikileaks would pay a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Rich's killer.

No doubt we will soon hear from the Hillary campaign that Assange is just trying to throw investigators off the track of the Russian hackers.  The key here, however, is that the government has never blamed the Russians for the DNC hack.  The only statement from the government has been that it is not prepared at this point to blame the Russians.  That's hardly pointing the finger at Moscow.

Could a DNC staffer really have been murdered because he was leaking information to Wikileaks?  It does seem bizarre, but then again, we don't know what information (if any) Wikileaks still has left to disclose.  The first batch was enough to end the career of Wasserman Schultz.  Assange says that there is much more to come including things that are enough to indict Hillary Clinton.  That certainly sounds like a motive for murder.

So let's move to the second story, Hillary's emails.  Yesterday, the State Department was forced to release more of Hillary's emails.  These were emails that Hillary somehow did not turn over in that big batch of emails that she said included all her work related items.  These emails were found by searching the files of others like Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills where new Hillary emails turned up.

It's bad enough that there was yet another batch of emails that Hillary did not include among supposedly all her work related stuff.  Much worse, however, is what those emails show.  Clinton and her staff are revealed to have done favors for major donors to the Clinton Foundation.  You get the idea:  for a big contribution to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary gave the donor unparalleled access to the State Department and its people.  There's a major explanation of the entire mess at the New York Post which is worth reading in its entirety.

These latest emails are important further proof of just how corrupt Hillary Clinton really is.  If Seth Rich actually is the source of the Wikileaks email dump, then the dishonesty of Hillary Clinton gets another strong boost; she and her people rushed to blame the Russians without any basis to do so.  It would be just another lie.  If the murder of Seth Rich is connected to the Wikileaks dump, however, then things spiral to a new level.  It sounds like a conspiracy theory.  Sometimes, however, conspiracy theories turn out to be true.

No doubt the mainstream media will leave the Seth Rich story out of the news.  The American people cannot ignore it, however.

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