Is there any evidence suggesting this Seth Rich story is believable? There's certainly ample evidence suggesting it is not. The (FOX) article that peddled this story has been retracted and Seth Rich's family is suing the network over it.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180802/07182740351/as-dn...
(Not with you but with the likes of Seth Rich-conspiracy-theory spreading idiots).
You’re getting this data from a third party. One that may well have used a USB stick to copy the data AFTER exfiltrating it using some other method, but BEFORE handing it to wiki leaks.
Some shoddy timestamp correlations don’t mean that the data was stolen via USB in any way. They are inherently mutable and could well have been modified by an adversary to spread FUD.
But the evidence certainly seems to indicate a local copy done by somebody who wasn't trying to cover their tracks:
https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/guccifer-2-ngp-van-met...
The only evidence pointing to Russians is the CIA says so. The NSA gave it about a 50% chance before joining the other agencies to parrot what the CIA said.
Or, you know, this data was copied to a USB by Wikileaks at some point before publishing.
What does it make sense is the evil DNC murdering one of their own employees on US soil after a very public data breach.
If only we could think of a country that would profit from promoting this conspiracy theory! Then we might get closer to the truth.
Here we have an email recently obtained via FOIA, from Peter Strzok, showing he "squashed" the investigation:
That adds to the pile of suspicion. Seth had the means and the motive. Random killings are not so likely, even in DC. The attacker didn't take anything of value.
Podesta's emails also have very chilling comments about dealing with leakers.