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[–]DffrntDrmmr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Mueller Report finds Seth Rich murder conspiracy theory disinformation campaign by Julian Assange

WASHINGTON -- The Russian government was the source of stolen emails published by WikiLeaks, not murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to the Mueller Report.

The report finds that conspiracy theories about Rich's murder on the streets of Washington, D.C. July 10, 2016 were intentionally planted by indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Assange's lies suggesting Rich was the source of the thousands of stolen Democratic National Committee emails and that he was murdered by a mystery Democratic party operative were "designed to obscure the source of the materials that WikiLeaks was releasing" the report said.

The Mueller team said evidence directly linking the thefts to the Russian intelligence agency GRU are proof Rich was not the source.

"The file-transfer evidence described above and other information uncovered during the investigation discredit WikiLeaks's claims about the source of material that it posted," the Mueller team wrote.

The report adds: "After the U.S. intelligence community publicly announced its assessment that Russia was behind the hacking operation, Assange continued to deny that the Clinton materials released by WikiLeaks had come from Russian hacking."

Meuller's team described the Seth Rich conspiracy theory promoted by Assange as intentional "dissembling about the source of Stolen materials," to hide Assange's sources in Russian intelligence.

Assange went as far as offering a fake reward for information in the Rich case.

“This is incontrovertible proof that there was nothing that Seth said or did," Brad Bauman, a former spokesman for Rich's family, said. “This affair was nothing but a disgusting attempt to hide the Russian involvement at the expense of Seth Rich’s tortured family.”

"Robert Mueller’s report gives Seth Rich’s family final absolution in their quest to let the American people know that their son had nothing to do with the DNC email leaks,” Bauman said. "Assange did untold damage to a grieving family in order to try and hide his work with Russian intelligence to destabilize American democracy. In the process he misled hundreds of thousands of Americans who are just trying to make sense of our country in difficult and complicated times. Yesterday’s report proved he is a monster, not a journalist, and I hope that’s not lost in the ongoing debate around his recent arrest.”

[–]go1dfish 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Obscuring sources is consistent with WikiLeaks' stated goals. Assange still refers to Manning as an "alleged" source despite there being very little doubt on his involvement in earlier leaks.

Nobody has suggested that the 2016 leaks are false. The veracity of the information is far more important than the source that acquired it.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Inexcusable. Assange's lies and slander of a murder victim were nothing but a disgusting attempt to try and hide his work with Russian intelligence to destabilize American democracy.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

An additional thought: So you favor exposing American intelligence operations but hiding Russia's? You support Russian intelligence attacks on America?

I hope you're not an American. This country deserves better.

[–]go1dfish 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t favor hiding Russia’s intelligence operations.

I favor pitting States against each other this way to the extent that the information revealed is true and verifiable.

And I support WikiLeaks’ model more generally, of offering to expose verifiable information while keeping the source secret regardless of who that source is.