The Seth Rich story isn’t going away any time soon. As a matter of fact, it’s heating up with some new information.
An attorney by the name of Ty Clevenger believes that the NSA intercepted communications between Seth Rich and Wikileaks, and he’s asking acting Intel Cheif Richard Grenell to investigate, declassify, and release them.
As you know, Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has maintained that his contact was not “Russian.” And while he won’t give up the name of the person publicly, what he has said was that it was an inside DNC job.
Seth Rich was shot to death at 4:19 a.m. on Sunday, July 10, 2016, on the streets of D.C. in what authorities say was an “attempted robbery,” although nothing was taken.
His mother said that there must have been a struggle because she observed that her son’s hands, knees, and face were “bruised.”
The case has never been solved.
So, who is this attorney named Ty Clevenger and why does he care so much about what happened to Seth Rich and the NSA?
Well, for starters he’s representing a man named Ed Butowsky – who is a high-profile author who had the nerve to actually ask questions about the Seth Rich case and was subsequently sued for it.
The bloggers over at American Thinker have written up a very good piece on this turn of events and what propelled author Ed Butowsky to start digging into the Seth Rich case and why he and his attorney believe the NSA is the key to solving this mystery.
Butowsky was much more curious. The woman who stirred his curiosity was Ellen Ratner, a veteran TV news analyst. On the day after the 2016 presidential election, Ratner participated in a videotaped panel discussion at Embry-Riddle University.
“I spent three hours with Julian Assange on Saturday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,” said Ratner with a curious lack of emphasis. “One thing he did say was the leaks were not from, they were not from the Russians. They were an internal source from the Hillary campaign.”
As Ratner should have known, this was a major revelation, and she was a credible source. An open supporter of Hillary Clinton with access to Assange through her late brother and Assange attorney, Michael Ratner, she had no reason to make this up.
Ratner was referring to emails from inside the DNC and the Hillary campaign that the media, the Democrats and the deep state insisted had been hacked from the DNC computers by the Russians. She should have been shouting this contrary news from the rooftops, but she did little more than share it with colleague Butowsky.
According to Butowsky’s multi-party suit, Ratner repeated to him a more detailed claim by Assange, namely that “Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to WikiLeaks.” Following up on this claim got Butowsky into a world of a trouble. He is one several would-be investigators, Fox News included, who have been sued into silence.
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Butowsky was basically propelled down the “Seth Rich rabbit hole” by a woman named Ellen Ratner, who is a veteran TV analyst. She says that she spent several hours with Assange, at which time he admitted to her that the sources were “Hillary Campaign” related.
“I spent three hours with Julian Assange on Saturday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,” said Ratner with a curious lack of emphasis. “One thing he did say was the leaks were not from, they were not from the Russians. They were an internal source from the Hillary campaign.”It’s fair to note that Ratner is an avid Hillary Clinton supporter and she’d likely have no reason to lie.
Clevenger also cites a troubling August 2016 FBI email chain unearthed by Judicial Watch. The exchange began with a note from an FBI public-affairs official, name redacted, noting Assange’s recently televised suggestion that Rich was involved in the DNC hack. The official wanted to know “what involvement the Bureau has in the investigation.”
An unidentified agent passed the email along to the FBI’s notorious Peter Strzok with the notation, “Just FYSA [for your situational awareness]. I squashed this with [redacted].” Strzok, in turn, forwarded this email to his lover and co-conspirator, Lisa Page.
Clevenger reports too that former NSA officials Bill Binney, Ed Loomis, and Kirk Wiebe “are prepared to testify that the DNC emails published by Wikileaks could not have been obtained via hacking.”
Clevenger’s evidence that the NSA captured exchanges between Rich and Assange is largely circumstantial but credible. According to Clevenger, the NSA refused to produce 32 pages of records about Seth Rich due to their classified nature.
Butowsky’s claims that Ratner told him Assange said Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to WikiLeaks – and that is precisely what landed him in a legal tangle, and why he was eventually “sued into silence.”
As the piece goes on, it claims that Ty Clevenger (Butowski’s attorney) has secured several NSA officials who are willing to testify that the DNC emails published by Wikileaks could not have been obtained via hacking.
Clevenger also states that the NSA refused to produce records about Seth Rich, claiming they’re “classified.”
Clevenger’s staff was also reportedly informed that the NSA possessed “additional communications between Mr. Rich and Wikileaks.”
“I believe the NSA is trying to conceal wrongdoing that occurred during the Obama Administration,” Clevenger concludes his letter to Grennell. “I respectfully request that you de-classify the NSA’s records about Seth Rich.”
Here is a link to read the letter from Clevenger to Mr. Grenell. You can also read the entire piece here at American Thinker.
This piece was written by Missy Crane on May 11, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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