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Found murdered with gunshot wound to the back. Police claimed it was robbery yet his wallet, cellphone, creditcards, and laptop weren't taken.

> The only evidence that he was involved in something, that I'm aware of, is a cryptic comment from Asange.

Well, that and basic commonsense. If it wasn't Seth Rich who leaked the e-mails, who was it? It's far more plausible that it was Seth Rich than the russia boogeyman thrown out by the media (without evidence, mind you).

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US Intelligence as well as several independent cyber security firms concluded the DNC e-mails were leaked after an attack by Guccifer 2.0. This was followed up by several indictments issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller which would have to be tried in a federal courtroom were they ever to occur.

That seems to be a fair bit of evidence. Is everything a conspiracy now?

It’s quite clear Russia meddled in the 2016 elections, and they’ll probably do it again in 2020 (if they didn’t already do it again in 2018).

US intelligence never examined the physical server, the cyber security firm was a client of the DNC, intel community simply accepted the findings without verification.

Do you have a source? Here’s just one my sources[1]. According to most of stuff I’ve read the Dutch hacked Cozy Bear and were able to see they were hacking the DNC and State Department in real time.

Much better Dutch article here[2]. It even mentions Muller.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...

[2] https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-...

> But on one occasion (...) Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company. (...) Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-gucc...

seems like intel community did plenty of their own investigations into this.

I think you have the relationship backwards. The DNC was a client of the cyber security firm. That cyber security firm also has the NRCC as a client.

> It's far more plausible that it was Seth Rich than the russia boogeyman thrown out by the media (without evidence, mind you).

Well, plus the giant multi-year investigation into it by multiple intelligence agencies which all came to the same conclusion. They even published some reports, maybe you read one of them? Also indicted a lot of people.

> If it wasn't Seth Rich who leaked the e-mails, who was it?

can't explain something, picks favorite conspiracy theory to explain it. makes sense.

What if chemtrails are really the leaked emails?!

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