Just How Far Will THIS Clinton Issue Go?

Somewhere about 477th in the scroll of news items on Yahoo, far after how Kim Kardashian's kid "North" looks or acts like his father; far after 206 separate items about how President Trump should be impeached, was a link to an interesting little tidbit about a late Democratic National Committee staffer's death.

That would be Seth Rich, the Nebraska native who was working on the Clinton campaign, creating an application for voters to find polling places, or some related assignment.  Last July, after being in a bar in DC one night, he was walking home when he was shot and killed in what the DC police called a "botched robbery", although no one took his wallet, or his phone, or his expensive necklace, and he was shot from behind.

Other than that, it sure looked like a robbery, except that it apparently wasn't.

A couple weeks later, Wikileaks put out a ton of emails that had been leaked to them, which had been within the DNC offices.  Many of them showed that the DNC, far from being impartial, had put its collective thumb on the scales to ensure that Hillary Clinton was nominated and Bernie Sanders wasn't.

That thumb, by the way, was a pretty bloody heavy thumb, maybe with an anvil underneath it.  The fact that Sanders got as close to the nomination as he did was a message to the DNC in itself, but the messages that were most relevant were the emails themselves, inside the DNC.  As leaked by Wikileaks, they showed a pretty comprehensive conspiracy to ensure that Hillary was nominated, all else be darned.

So where did those emails come from?  Of course, the Democrats have been shouting "RussiaRussiaRussiaRussia" for months and month, and are even trying to connect the Trump campaign, ludicrously, to what they themselves did.

Julian Assange, the house-arrested head of Wikileaks, hiding in an embassy in London, has insisted all along that, while he will not reveal the source, that it was not a "state actor", and not, therefore, Russia.  Now, Assange is not exactly the lord of credibility, but he doesn't really have a reason to say that, when he could have just said nothing.

But now we come to find out that the investigation into the murder of Seth Rich was quashed by the DC Police Department.  It's still an unsolved case, but no one is doing anything about it.  And, as if you hadn't guessed, evidence is appearing that Rich may be the one who leaked the emails to Wikileaks in the first place.

We are discovering that he indeed communicated with Wikileaks, and that his computer is stashed away in the DC police headquarters somewhere, with evidence that would or would not show that the murder of Seth Rich was a hit, not a robbery.

Rod Wheeler, a former cop and private investigator with heavy contacts in police forces in several cities, has been investigating the case and has been told that an effective "stand down" order was given to DC cops working the case.  Gee, why might that have been?  The murder of a young DNC staffer who might have been leaking incriminating information embarrassing to the DNC and the Clintons, that shouldn't rise to the top of the "We got to solve this" list?

Seth Rich was a young kid, not even thirty years old.  Why, if he did so, he chose to dump emails to Wikileaks is unclear.  I don't know if he was a Sanders sympathizer who needed to get the word out.  I don't know if he was just an idealist trying to be open and sharing like, you know, Hillary Clinton.  I don't know if he did nothing at all.

But he is dead.  He is heavily linked to Wikileaks.  Hillary lost the election.  And there is a "Clinton way", which was documented in the recent book on the 2016 Campaign, "Shattered", that involves a knee-jerk reaction to hurt your opponent.  And, apparently, to cover up the murder of those who might have been trouble by shutting down the DC Police investigation?

This is so much an FBI case to explore that we could scream.  There is plenty of circumstantial evidence and some physical evidence, to the effect that his murder could have been related to his work on the DNC and possible revenge or a silencing action.

Someone is dead, and it sure wasn't a robbery.  Let's get this one going.  Special prosecutor?

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