[Peace-discuss] Pay no attention to the little (wo)men behind the curtain...

[C G Estabrook]

The political establishment & MSM are hysterical about suppressing the questions about the murder of Seth Rich - notably, was it done to prevent his authoritatively refuting the starting point of the Mueller report - that the Russians leaked the DNC emails [because he did it himself]?) As Queen Gertrude observes, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." 

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From: Charlie at thebulwark.com
Morning Shots

I know it’s fashionable in some circles to shrug off that whole Russia-thing, but you need to read this remarkable and disturbing piece from Yahoo News.  
 
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad of assassins working for Hillary Clinton, giving rise to a notorious conspiracy theory that captivated conservative activists and was later promoted from inside President Trump’s White House, a Yahoo News investigation has found.

Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, first circulated a phony “bulletin” — disguised to read as a real intelligence report —about the alleged murder of the former DNC staffer on July 13, 2016, according to the U.S. federal prosecutor who was in charge of the Rich case. That was just three days after Rich, 27, was killed in what police believed was a botched robbery while walking home to his group house in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C., about 30 blocks north of the Capitol.

What the Russians began, Sean Hannity & Co. spread with alacrity and malice.
 
The conspiracy claims reached their zenith in May 2017 — the same week as Mueller’s appointment as special counsel in the Russia probe — when Fox News’ website posted a sensational story claiming that an FBI forensic report had discovered evidence on Rich’s laptop that he had been in communication with WikiLeaks prior to his death. Sean Hannity, the network’s primetime star, treated the account as major news on his nightly broadcast, calling it “explosive” and proclaiming it “might expose the single biggest fraud, lies, perpetrated on the American people by the media and the Democrats in our history.”

Exit take: The Yahoo story is a reminder that we have not yet come to grips with the enormity of the Russian attack… which is why Bob Mueller’s testimony next week will be a big f’ing deal.
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