Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
This report has now been updated to August 6th:<\/span><\/p>\n During the later portion of a phone-call, by the world\u2019s greatest investigative journalist<\/span><\/a>, Seymour Hersh, Hersh has now presented \u201ca narrative [from his investigation] of how that whole fucking thing began,\u201d including who actually is behind the \u2018RussiaGate\u2019 lies, and of why they are spreading these lies.<\/span><\/p>\n In a youtube video upload-dated August 1st<\/span><\/a>, he reveals from his inside FBI and Washington DC Police Department sources \u2014 now, long before the Justice Department\u2019s Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be presenting his official \u2018findings\u2019 to the nation \u2014 that the charges that Russia had anything to do with the leaks from the DNC and Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign to Wikileaks, that those charges spread by the press, were a CIA-planted lie, and that what Wikileaks had gotten was only leaks (including at least one from the murdered DNC-staffer Seth Rich), and were not from any outsider (including \u2019the Russians\u2019), but that Rich didn\u2019t get killed for that, but was instead shot in the back during a brutal robbery, which occurred in the high-crime DC neighborhood where he lived. Here is the video<\/span><\/a>, and here is the transcript of it:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ll tell you what I know:<\/span><\/p>\n (Mumble) comes off an FBI report, don\u2019t ask me how, I can figure out, I\u2019ve been around long enough:<\/span><\/p>\n The kid gets \u2014 I don\u2019t think he was murdered [because of this] I don\u2019t think he was murdered because of what he knew, the kid was a nice boy, 27, he was not an ITS person, he learned stuff, he was a data-programmer, but he learned stuff, and so he was living on one street, somewhere, he was living in a very rough neighborhood, and in the exact area where he lived, there had been about, I am sure you know, there had been about 8 or 9 or 10, violent robberies, most of them with somebody brandishing a gun [here<\/span><\/a> are the neighborhood\u2019s crime-statistics as \u201cColombia Heights,\u201d and here<\/span><\/a> as \u201cBloomingdale,\u201d which is nearby; and in the latter neighborhood, there had been, for examples, robberies using a gun on June 17, 19, and 21, of 2017], and I am sure you know, his [the kid\u2019s] hands were marked up, the cops concluded [HERSH HAD OBTAINED ACCESS TO THE POLICE REPORT] he fought off the people, he tried to run, and they shot him twice in the back with a 22, small-caliber, and then the kid that did it ran, he got scared. So, the cops do this, here\u2019s what nobody knows, what I am telling you, now maybe you do know something about it: When you have a death like that, DC cops, as you\u2019re [dealing now with a person who is] dead, you generally don\u2019t zip and go, yep I know, what\u2019s the motive, what\u2019s going on, you have to get to the kid\u2019s apartment and see what you can find. If he\u2019s dead, you don\u2019t need a warrant, but most cops get a warrant because they don\u2019t know if the guy has a roommate, so they get a warrant, I\u2019m just telling you, there is such a thing. They go in and can\u2019t do much with his computer, [to find the] password, the cops don\u2019t know much about it, so the cops have a cyber unit in DC, and they\u2019re more sophisticated, they come in and look at it. The idea is maybe he has had a series of exchanges with somebody who said \u2018I am going to kill you motherfucker\u2019 over a girl, and they can\u2019t get in, the cyber guys are a little better, but they can\u2019t make sense of it, so they call the FBI cyber unit. The DC unit, the Russian[-monitoring] and field office is a hot-shit unit. The guy running the Washington field office, he\u2019s like a three-star at an army-base, he\u2019s ready [mumble], you know what I mean, he\u2019s going to do a top job. There\u2019s a cyber unit there that\u2019s excellent. What you get in a warrant, the public information you get in a warrant doesn\u2019t include the affidavits underlying why you are going in, what the reason was. That\u2019s almost never available, I can tell you that \u2014 the thesis of a warrant as a public document 99% of the time. So they call in the feds, the feds get through, and here\u2019s what they find [HERSH HAD OBTAINED ACCESS TO THE FBI REPORT]. This is according to the FBI report. What they find is, first of all you have to know some basic facts, one of the basic facts is there is no DNC or protected email that exists beyond May 22nd, the last email from either one of those groups. So, what the report says, is:<\/span><\/p>\n (2:50-) At some time in late spring, which we\u2019re talking about in June 21st, I don\u2019t know, just late spring early summer, he makes contact with Wikileaks<\/b>, that\u2019s in his computer, and he makes contact. Now, I have to be careful because I met Julian [Assange] in Europe ten twelve years [ago], I stay the fuck away from people like that. He has invited me and when I am in London, I always get a message, ‘come see me at the Ecuadorean’ [Embassy], and I am fucking not going there. I have enough trouble without getting photographed. He\u2019s under total surveillance by everybody.<\/span><\/p>\n They found, what he had done, he [Seth Rich] had submitted a series of documents, emails from DNC \u2014 and, by the way, all this shit about the DNC, you know, was it a \u2018hack’ or wasn\u2019t it a \u2018hack\u2019 \u2014 whatever happened, it was the Democrats themselves wrote this shit, you know what I mean? All I know is that, he offered a sample<\/b>, he sends a sample, you know, I am sure dozens of emails, and said \u2018I want money\u2019<\/b>. Later Wikileaks did get the password [SETH RICH DID SELL WIKILEAKS ACCESS INTO HIS COMPUTER.] He had a drop-box, a [password-]protected drop-box, which isn\u2019t hard to do. I mean you don\u2019t have to be a whiz at IT [information technology], he was not a dumb kid. They got access to the drop-box. This is all from the FBI report<\/b>. He also let people know with whom he was dealing, I don\u2019t know how he dealt, I\u2019ll tell you all about Wikileaks in a second, with Wikileaks the mechanism, but according to the FBI report, he shared his box with a couple of friends, so \u2018If anything happens to me, it\u2019s not going to solve your problem\u2019, okay? I don\u2019t know what that means. But, anyway, Wikileaks got access. And, before he was killed, I can tell you right now, [Obama\u2019s CIA Director John] Brennan\u2019s an asshole. I\u2019ve known all these people for years, Clapper is sort of a better guy but no rocket-scientist, the NSA guys are fuckin\u2019 morons, and the trouble with all those guys is, the only way they\u2019ll get hired by SAIC, is if they\u2019ll deliver some [government] contracts, it\u2019s the only reason they stayed in. With Trump, they\u2019re gone, they\u2019re going to live on their pension, they\u2019re not going to make it [to great wealth]. I\u2019ve gotta to tell you, guys in that job, they don\u2019t want to live on their pension. They want to be on [corporate] boards like their [mumble] thousand bucks [cut]. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I have somebody on the inside, you know I\u2019ve been around a long time, somebody who will go and read a file for me, who, this person is unbelievably accurate and careful, he\u2019s a very high-level guy, he\u2019ll do a favor, you\u2019re just going to have to trust me, I have what they call in my business, long-form journalism, I have a narrative, of how that whole fucking thing began.<\/span><\/p>\n (5:50-) It’s a Brennan operation. It was an American disinformation, and the fucking President, at one point when they even started telling the press \u2014 they were back[ground]-briefing the press, the head of the NSA was going and telling the press, the fucking cocksucker Rogers, telling the press that we [they] even know who in the Russian military intelligence service leaked it. All bullshit. They were telling. I worked at the New York Times those fucking years, they\u2019re smart guys, but they\u2019re totally beholden on [to] sources. If the President or the head of the CIA tells them something, they actually believe it. I retired at the Times at the end of the Vietnam War 1972, because they were just locked-in. So that\u2019s what the Times is, these guys run the fuckin\u2019 Times, and Trump\u2019s not wrong, I wish he would calm down, get a better press secretary, you know, not be so \u2014 Trump\u2019s not wrong to think they all fucking lied about him.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The media-coverage of this matter is focusing on allegations that Seth Rich was murdered in order to silence him. All such media-coverage ignores much of what Hersh said on the phone (where Hersh makes clear that Rich was, indeed, murdered in a regular robbery), and therefore should be viewed as an example of what the Washington Post<\/i> and others in the mainstream press call \u2018fake news\u2019, but which actually applies to themselves, on both the left and right, above all. <\/span><\/p>\n The purpose of those distorting \u2018news\u2019 stories might be a desire, on the part of both the Democratic Party aristocrats and the Republican Party aristocrats, to distract the public\u2019s attention away from the far deeper understanding that drives the \u201cnarrative\u201d that Hersh, in that clip, is describing: rot by the U.S. aristocracy, which controls both of America\u2019s political Parties, to deceive the American public<\/span><\/a>. The objective is to protect the aristocracy. That\u2019s not publishable; it is American samizdat. Corruption rules America. The public do not. This fact is what Hersh is describing in his \u201cnarrative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n But there is more: There wasn\u2019t only the leak from the DNC computer<\/span><\/a> (which Hersh was talking about); there was also the leak from John Podesta\u2019s computer<\/span><\/a>, and this was published by Wikileaks later. <\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse This report has now been updated to August 6th: During the later portion of a phone-call, by the world\u2019s greatest investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, Hersh has now presented \u201ca narrative [from his investigation] of how that whole fucking thing began,\u201d including who actually is behind the \u2018RussiaGate\u2019 lies, and of why they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":319958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[115,30,32,96,1035,3604,535,542,522,526,524,6257],"class_list":{"0":"post-319957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-daily-news","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-lies","16":"tag-obama","17":"tag-propaganda","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}