The Seth Rich Assassination: "It doesn't matter how...We need to win this MoFo"

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 5:24am

I am hopeful that I can finish the Seth Rich part in one essay before moving on the other prong of this story, which is about the Awan brothers. I suggest that you revisit my earlier essays for background, even though some of this will be repeated here.

1. More reasons to love Debbie Wasserman Schultz

2. Seth Rich and the Awan brothers—Democratic rope-a-dope

3. Prologue: DWS, DNC, and the intersection of two colliding investigations.

As illustrated in the third essay, there is one point of intersection between the Seth Rich assassination and the Awan brothers spy ring: Debbie Wassermann Schultz (DWS). Of course none of this would have happened except for Hillary Clinton (HRC). However that latter connection between DWS and HRC, although obvious, still needs to be elucidated, hopefully in courts of law (plural intended).

This cast of characters reads like the DC phone book. I will try to place facts with the various names.

The title quote comes from Scott Foval, a political operative formerly with People for the American Way (PFAW), subsequently for Americans United for Change (AUFC). In turn, Scott Foval reported to
Robert Creamer

Robert Creamer is an unsavory character, once convicted of fraud for which he served a brief sentence, hence is a felon. Many details of the Creamer directed Democratic primary rigging, performed in conjunction with the DNC, and apparently with the enthusiastic support of HRC, are revealed in a set of videos made by James O'Keefe of Project Veritas. Project Veritas is a RW oriented organization which investigated voter and election fraud by the DNC/HRC.

Here are three pertinent videos by O'Keefe's group:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs&t=104s

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEQvsK5w-jY

Some of you are saying: "Yuck, Project Veritas" or, gasp "James O'Keefe, you can't be serious?" How can you deign to cite these crazies? Think about two things before making any judgements. The first point is an analogy. During the War Crimes trial Nuremberg, dozens of unsavory individual testimonies were elicited, usually self-serving but with some truth. Not only were these testimonies heard--not censored--but were used to convict other war criminals. [Think for a minute about a known War Criminal, HRC, before dismissing the source]. The second point is the results of the Project Veritas videos. If they were so phony, why was Scott Foval fired within a week? Why did Robert Creamer, a man who had been to the WH and had more than 30 meetings with Barack Hussain Obama (BHO) resign within two weeks of the video? You think it was the result of "insane" propagandistic hit pieces? That is the mindset of those #alwaysHillary robots.

This prelude, involving Creamer, Foval et. al. is to set the stage for a vicious political campaign that has left many dead in its wake and is continuing to do so. Death, indeed is the central theme here.

The murder of Seth Rich is dealt with in a Wikipedia article. For those who have delved into this matter, one can see the admixture of basic facts, like place of birth and employment, with denunciation of assassination as "conspiracy theory" (CT). Many untruths abound in this entry, which should be excised for being markedly biased and dishonest. [One case in point is about Rod Wheeler, private investigator, backtracking his original story about the assassination. The full Rod Wheeler interview with George Webb and Jason Goodman is cited in another following essay.

Rich grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.[18][19][20] He graduated from Omaha Central High School in 2007,[21] and he earned a degree in political science from Creighton University in 2011.[22] He moved to Washington, D.C. to work for pollster, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner.[23] In 2014 he began working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) as the Voter Expansion Data Director. One of his tasks at the DNC was the development of a computer application to help voters locate polling stations.[2][24][25]

This position involved developing software for later use by the DNC belies a position so often stated by Hillaryites that Seth Rich was too low in the hierarchy to have access to such "high level" material which were published by Wikileaks. Yet Rich was tasked with producing the very software and related files which were later uploaded to Wikileaks. This is yet another disproven falsehood propagated by the DNC and its allies.

Seth Rich told police that he was a political target. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Du6DGNcLs (4:55).

Brief timeline by George Webb of Seth Rich up to last hours before death (3:08)

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipufl_-2rVA]

A more complete Seth Rich timeline (48:56) is included in the following video

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFrCCXKfWXo]

Readers, you may have noticed that we haven't gotten to the actual shooting and consequences yet. We need some more background.

Why did those whole ugly mess come about in the first place? Hillary-centric of course.

First we have to remember the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative which was actually born BEFORE the DNC nominating convention. Plans for this actually began in June 2016.

Many may recall the video of process server Shawn Lucas, in the lobby of the DNC headquarters serving a subpoena for records of both the DNC and DWS. Shawn Lucas died in August.
This alleged death by drug overdose, by voluntary self-administration consisted of 3 drugs: Kratom, a non-prescription pharmaceutical which contains a very weak opioid and is commonly used for pain; cyclobenzaprine, which a prescription-only pharmaceutical used as a muscle relaxant*; and Fentanyl, an opioid about 100 times more powerful than morphine. This is an unusual "cocktail" for a seasoned drug abuser to use. *In my 38+ years of medical practice I have never seen one case of recreational cyclobenzaprine use. An interesting question arises about how those drugs were supplied.

Where are the prescription bottles of these three drugs if Lucas had access to them, and who was the prescribing physician, if there even was one? Additionally, what are the odds Shawn Lucas would take all three? He seems like a very sharp guy, it appears illogical for the mentioned cause of death and no further investigation, especially in light of his being a witness.

Furthermore, it has been published that Shawn Lucas was not a drug user.

Another video provides more information about Shawn Lucas and his employer. (16:15)

Here is the video "You got served!"

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3FMgZruOXE]

After Shawn Lucas's drug overdose, the DNC filed a motion to dismiss the DNC fraud suit over improper service of subpoena. That, the first motion to dismiss, fortunately was quashed, even though the process servicer "coincidentally" died.

In this essay, the murder of Seth Rich has only been mentioned tangentially. So much background information needed to be disclosed that would make the essay far longer than it is already, when we begin to discuss the actual night of the murder and subsequent events.

See you next time.

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Submitted by dkmich on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 7:54am

I watched a part of the Wheeler interview....

He isn't backtracking. He is under a gag order. Despite it, he makes it perfectly clear there is a cover up going on, and he believes that the Seth Rich murder is related to his job.

Sane Progressive tied in the Intercept leaker. She thinks "the hack" of the machines has to do with Arizona and the primary. The point she makes, and it makes total sense, is that Hillary was always the one to benefit from Russia's cheating. She admits she's speculating, but she says she smells a rat. I'd like to know how it is that "THE" Intercept outed a leaker? Assange is asking Greenwald WTF? And Greenwald has "no further comment at this time".

Even crazier, a right wing militia has stepped up to protect Jared Beck and his wife. A coalition of sorts is developing between the right and left over this issue. Russia and the right cannot be trusted, but then, neither can the US and Hill/Obamabots. If the two opposing factions ever join forces on common ground, it would be the end of the duopoly. They must be crazy at this turn of events.

I am amazed at the citizen and investigative journalism pouring out of UTube. It is hard to know who has a guy with a butterfly net waiting for them, but all of them cannot be dismissed out of hand. A Reddit group did investigate and uncover the Clinton ties had by the company slandering Bernie during the campaign. The main stream media is NOT going to turn over any rocks.

Last but not least, this story is so long, convuluted, and full of details that it makes the crash of 2008 look like Dick and Jane.

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Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 8:17am

Have they overplayed their hand?

@dkmich

Even crazier, a right wing militia has stepped up to protect Jared Beck and his wife. A coalition of sorts is developing between the right and left over this issue. Russia and the right cannot be trusted, but then, neither can the US and Hill/Obamabots. If the two opposing factions ever join forces on common ground, it would be the end of the duopoly. They must be crazy at this turn of events.

For too long, Republicans and Democrats in power have been playing on the same team. Social issues are kept to the forefront to keep us divided and to give the impression of a difference between the parties, but behind that, the differences are few, if any. If the left and right can see past the diversions, I think you're absolutely correct. They won't give up with out bloodshed though. I'm afraid things are going to get a lot worse...

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Submitted by Wink on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 12:10pm

The "Village Police,"

@Dr. John Carpenter
(if there even is any such thing) Will Not arrest any Villagers. Sure, there might be "Hearings," but we know where they go. The only Villagers to ever fall on their swords are the low lying fruit, the Village flunkies. DWS et al are too well protected (and they know it), so, yeah, could come to bloodshed. The "revolution" is a brewing despite the efforts of "Resist" to stop it.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 12:22am

They say Resist but mean Collaborate — with the Deep State. n/t

@Wink

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 1:13pm

Your observations are accurate but I didn't mention it

@dkmich for reasons of coherence and brevity. The variety of sources coming from both left and right shows that that the duopoly has definitely gone too far. Too many bodies. Too many blatant lies. Not only will this story take down the DemonRATic party, which hasn't got far to go anyway, but McCain and Graham. The "bases" of both right and left are disgusted. Their is an ongoing revolt--not just between Trump and the Deep State but between the people and their alleged leaders. There may be blood--especially if Soros has anything to do with it.

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 8:57am

"Project Veritas" is work of racist, Breitbart con-man, O'Keefe

Again, it's whether the message is good, reliable, prudent and trustworthy, before killing the messenger I suppose. And I confess I haven't had time to keep up with all the twists and turns here as much as I'd like.

But James O'Keefe, of Project Veritas, is a former Breitbart, racist, RW extremist bigot, smear artist.

To wit, from Alternet.

O’Keefe became a right-wing darling in 2009, after his phony sting on ACORN, a community organization and voter registration group doing the kind of good work for poor people that infuriates Republicans. The resulting footage, deceptively edited to make it look as if ACORN workers were engaging in unethical and illegal activities, resulted in a media firestorm, which led to the group being defunded and wiped out of existence. In the months that followed, it became clear that the video was hamfistedly cut together to present an altogether different picture than the truth. In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and offer a public apology to a former ACORN employee.

Frankly I don't have the time right now. But anyone can simply find a litany of abuses and fraud from this pathetic, lame POS. He's got ties to Bannon even.

6 Manufactured News Scandals Produced and Promoted by Breitbart News and New Trump Campaign Chief Bannon

Remember what this odious clown/faux journalist did to Shirley Sherrod, Civil Rights activist who co-founded a collective farm in Southwest Georgia and helped develop Community Land Trusts throughout the U.S and whose father was murdered by a racist farmer?

From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), "Sherrod Hoax Exposed, but Breitbart’s ACORN Fraud Lives On."

Eric Alterman in The Nation, "Journalism's Age of Shame"

In the now infamous case of Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart deployed doctored video again to falsely accuse Sherrod of discriminating against whites as a federal employee, pretending that a story about overcoming racism was really one endorsing it. When that lie was exposed, he insisted that his real target had been the NAACP, for allegedly cheering on Sherrod’s alleged racism. This too was a lie. There was no applause in the undoctored video for any racist statements. Nothing Breitbart said about the story checked out once the full video became available.

And the MSM machers? Well, they can’t help but notice that they got taken this time, but they prefer to chalk it up to "ideology." "There’s been this proliferation of partisan media—whether it’s MSNBC and Fox at night, or it’s Breitbart on the right or Huffington Post on the left," complains Politico executive editor James VandeHei, and it makes honest folk like MSM reporters "overreact." Writing with Politico editor in chief John Harris, VandeHei pronounces the dawning of an "Age of Rage," equating Breitbart and company’s perversion of the truth with the fact that some liberal journalists and academics participated in occasionally less than polite discussions about conservatives (and one another).The private discussions of this listserv, called "Journolist"—discussed in my previous column—were either hacked by or leaked to Tucker Carlson’s right-wing website, The Daily Caller, and, as with the Sherrod tape, edited for the purposes of deception and false accusation. In the careless reasoning of the Politico honchos, these discussions deserved equation with Breitbart’s nefarious techniques because both "featured sharp personal attacks against political opponents. Both revolved around indignant claims from people claiming to be victims of bias and the corrupt ideological agendas of their opponents—all the while stoking and profiting from the bias and conspiratorial instincts of partisans on their own side." As a result, they worry, "Responsible people in power and in the mainstream media are only beginning to grapple with this new environment—in which facts hardly matter except as they can be used as weapon or shield in a nonstop ideological war."

There's just too much really ugly stuff on this asshole.

I don't believe he's ever been in search of truth, for the common good, or speaking truth to power. He's just another dupe who has a warped RW-media poisoned worldview that commie, black-lovin' libruls wanna take our guns, Bible and flags away and is out to get "them."

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 9:40am

Agreed.

@Mark from Queens
O'Keefe is a known liar, confidence artist, and criminal, who has been caught falsifying evidence more than once. He's also a deeply damaged individual on a personal level, as shown by the extremely weird case involving a female journalist on his boat.

Giving any credence to anything produced by O'Keefe or anyone who willingly associates with him makes even less sense than giving credence to something produced by the NSA -- and they are professional liars by executive mandate.

Again, it's whether the message is good, reliable, prudent and trustworthy, before killing the messenger I suppose. And I confess I haven't had time to keep up with all the twists and turns here as much as I'd like. But James O'Keefe, of Project Veritas, is a former Breitbart, racist, RW extremist bigot, smear artist. To wit, from Alternet. O’Keefe became a right-wing darling in 2009, after his phony sting on ACORN, a community organization and voter registration group doing the kind of good work for poor people that infuriates Republicans. The resulting footage, deceptively edited to make it look as if ACORN workers were engaging in unethical and illegal activities, resulted in a media firestorm, which led to the group being defunded and wiped out of existence. In the months that followed, it became clear that the video was hamfistedly cut together to present an altogether different picture than the truth. In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and offer a public apology to a former ACORN employee. Frankly I don't have the time right now. But anyone can simply find a litany of abuses and fraud from this pathetic, lame POS. He's got ties to Bannon even. 6 Manufactured News Scandals Produced and Promoted by Breitbart News and New Trump Campaign Chief Bannon Remember what this odious clown/faux journalist did to Shirley Sherrod, Civil Rights activist who co-founded a collective farm in Southwest Georgia and helped develop Community Land Trusts throughout the U.S and whose father was murdered by a racist farmer? From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), "Sherrod Hoax Exposed, but Breitbart’s ACORN Fraud Lives On." Eric Alterman in The Nation, "Journalism's Age of Shame" In the now infamous case of Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart deployed doctored video again to falsely accuse Sherrod of discriminating against whites as a federal employee, pretending that a story about overcoming racism was really one endorsing it. When that lie was exposed, he insisted that his real target had been the NAACP, for allegedly cheering on Sherrod’s alleged racism. This too was a lie. There was no applause in the undoctored video for any racist statements. Nothing Breitbart said about the story checked out once the full video became available. And the MSM machers? Well, they can’t help but notice that they got taken this time, but they prefer to chalk it up to "ideology." "There’s been this proliferation of partisan media—whether it’s MSNBC and Fox at night, or it’s Breitbart on the right or Huffington Post on the left," complains Politico executive editor James VandeHei, and it makes honest folk like MSM reporters "overreact." Writing with Politico editor in chief John Harris, VandeHei pronounces the dawning of an "Age of Rage," equating Breitbart and company’s perversion of the truth with the fact that some liberal journalists and academics participated in occasionally less than polite discussions about conservatives (and one another).The private discussions of this listserv, called "Journolist"—discussed in my previous column—were either hacked by or leaked to Tucker Carlson’s right-wing website, The Daily Caller, and, as with the Sherrod tape, edited for the purposes of deception and false accusation. In the careless reasoning of the Politico honchos, these discussions deserved equation with Breitbart’s nefarious techniques because both "featured sharp personal attacks against political opponents. Both revolved around indignant claims from people claiming to be victims of bias and the corrupt ideological agendas of their opponents—all the while stoking and profiting from the bias and conspiratorial instincts of partisans on their own side." As a result, they worry, "Responsible people in power and in the mainstream media are only beginning to grapple with this new environment—in which facts hardly matter except as they can be used as weapon or shield in a nonstop ideological war." There's just too much really ugly stuff on this asshole. I don't believe he's ever been in search of truth, for the common good, or speaking truth to power. He's just another dupe who has a warped RW-media poisoned worldview that commie, black-lovin' libruls wanna take our guns, Bible and flags away and is out to get "them."

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Submitted by dkmich on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 11:49am

O'Keefe is an obvious no go.

@UntimelyRippd

It is easy to discard anything coming out of his mouth. Problem is, there are so many "new" players that it is hard to know who is credible and who is not.

According to the DNC lawsuit attorney, he and everyone associated with the law suit is being seriously intimidated and threatened. People investigating Seth Rich's role and all of the related story are also reporting threats, hacking, and crowd strikes against their emails and social media accounts. Are all of the threats false too? If the lawsuit was dropped and they all shut up tomorrow, the only winners would be the DNC, Democrats, DWS, and Hillary. Add in the Dems who are dropping out of their elections because of threats to their lives, and the incredibly inept and suspicious Intercept leak, and something really screwy is going on.

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Submitted by Wink on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 12:18pm

yep. How is it that

@UntimelyRippd
this fucktard pos is not in jail?

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 1:35pm

Yes and why are HRC and DWS not in jail?

@Wink @Wink The fait meted out by our so-called justice system is not right. Hillary should have had a noose around her neck rather than enjoying her fraudulently acquired loot. Does the fact she is not in prison any more of a validation that she is correct, than the fact that O'Keefe is not in prison for his political reporting. The key issue is are we going to disagree with our lying eyes because we don't like the cinematographer? Are you going to argue with pictures of Nazi atrocities because they were taken by SS men? Use logic and proof, not emotion, to evaluate the findings.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 2:15pm

@Alligator Ed Same reason. They

@Alligator Ed Same reason. They all work for the system. It's a big club and...etc.

Anybody who can be connected back to Bushes or Clintons gets a get-out-of-jail-free card. Unless the Bushes or Clintons need to throw them to the wolves.

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Submitted by mimi on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 9:53am

thanks, Mark of Queens,

@Mark from Queens
I always need such clear worded explanations. Too much for me to look through all that. Glad you posted this.

Again, it's whether the message is good, reliable, prudent and trustworthy, before killing the messenger I suppose. And I confess I haven't had time to keep up with all the twists and turns here as much as I'd like. But James O'Keefe, of Project Veritas, is a former Breitbart, racist, RW extremist bigot, smear artist. To wit, from Alternet. O’Keefe became a right-wing darling in 2009, after his phony sting on ACORN, a community organization and voter registration group doing the kind of good work for poor people that infuriates Republicans. The resulting footage, deceptively edited to make it look as if ACORN workers were engaging in unethical and illegal activities, resulted in a media firestorm, which led to the group being defunded and wiped out of existence. In the months that followed, it became clear that the video was hamfistedly cut together to present an altogether different picture than the truth. In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and offer a public apology to a former ACORN employee. Frankly I don't have the time right now. But anyone can simply find a litany of abuses and fraud from this pathetic, lame POS. He's got ties to Bannon even. 6 Manufactured News Scandals Produced and Promoted by Breitbart News and New Trump Campaign Chief Bannon Remember what this odious clown/faux journalist did to Shirley Sherrod, Civil Rights activist who co-founded a collective farm in Southwest Georgia and helped develop Community Land Trusts throughout the U.S and whose father was murdered by a racist farmer? From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), "Sherrod Hoax Exposed, but Breitbart’s ACORN Fraud Lives On." Eric Alterman in The Nation, "Journalism's Age of Shame" In the now infamous case of Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart deployed doctored video again to falsely accuse Sherrod of discriminating against whites as a federal employee, pretending that a story about overcoming racism was really one endorsing it. When that lie was exposed, he insisted that his real target had been the NAACP, for allegedly cheering on Sherrod’s alleged racism. This too was a lie. There was no applause in the undoctored video for any racist statements. Nothing Breitbart said about the story checked out once the full video became available. And the MSM machers? Well, they can’t help but notice that they got taken this time, but they prefer to chalk it up to "ideology." "There’s been this proliferation of partisan media—whether it’s MSNBC and Fox at night, or it’s Breitbart on the right or Huffington Post on the left," complains Politico executive editor James VandeHei, and it makes honest folk like MSM reporters "overreact." Writing with Politico editor in chief John Harris, VandeHei pronounces the dawning of an "Age of Rage," equating Breitbart and company’s perversion of the truth with the fact that some liberal journalists and academics participated in occasionally less than polite discussions about conservatives (and one another).The private discussions of this listserv, called "Journolist"—discussed in my previous column—were either hacked by or leaked to Tucker Carlson’s right-wing website, The Daily Caller, and, as with the Sherrod tape, edited for the purposes of deception and false accusation. In the careless reasoning of the Politico honchos, these discussions deserved equation with Breitbart’s nefarious techniques because both "featured sharp personal attacks against political opponents. Both revolved around indignant claims from people claiming to be victims of bias and the corrupt ideological agendas of their opponents—all the while stoking and profiting from the bias and conspiratorial instincts of partisans on their own side." As a result, they worry, "Responsible people in power and in the mainstream media are only beginning to grapple with this new environment—in which facts hardly matter except as they can be used as weapon or shield in a nonstop ideological war." There's just too much really ugly stuff on this asshole. I don't believe he's ever been in search of truth, for the common good, or speaking truth to power. He's just another dupe who has a warped RW-media poisoned worldview that commie, black-lovin' libruls wanna take our guns, Bible and flags away and is out to get "them."

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 10:55am

@Mark from Queens Sometimes slimeballs tell

@Mark from Queens Sometimes slimeballs tell the truth. But for what motive? Perhaps so that others can then point at said slimeball and say "that's not the truth, it came from a slimeball!"

Or maybe it's simpler, and he just wants to attack anyone or anything affiliated w/the Democratic Party.

Either way, it would be better for us to go to other sources, since I believe Alligator Ed is on the right track here.

Again, it's whether the message is good, reliable, prudent and trustworthy, before killing the messenger I suppose. And I confess I haven't had time to keep up with all the twists and turns here as much as I'd like. But James O'Keefe, of Project Veritas, is a former Breitbart, racist, RW extremist bigot, smear artist. To wit, from Alternet. O’Keefe became a right-wing darling in 2009, after his phony sting on ACORN, a community organization and voter registration group doing the kind of good work for poor people that infuriates Republicans. The resulting footage, deceptively edited to make it look as if ACORN workers were engaging in unethical and illegal activities, resulted in a media firestorm, which led to the group being defunded and wiped out of existence. In the months that followed, it became clear that the video was hamfistedly cut together to present an altogether different picture than the truth. In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and offer a public apology to a former ACORN employee. Frankly I don't have the time right now. But anyone can simply find a litany of abuses and fraud from this pathetic, lame POS. He's got ties to Bannon even. 6 Manufactured News Scandals Produced and Promoted by Breitbart News and New Trump Campaign Chief Bannon Remember what this odious clown/faux journalist did to Shirley Sherrod, Civil Rights activist who co-founded a collective farm in Southwest Georgia and helped develop Community Land Trusts throughout the U.S and whose father was murdered by a racist farmer? From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), "Sherrod Hoax Exposed, but Breitbart’s ACORN Fraud Lives On." Eric Alterman in The Nation, "Journalism's Age of Shame" In the now infamous case of Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart deployed doctored video again to falsely accuse Sherrod of discriminating against whites as a federal employee, pretending that a story about overcoming racism was really one endorsing it. When that lie was exposed, he insisted that his real target had been the NAACP, for allegedly cheering on Sherrod’s alleged racism. This too was a lie. There was no applause in the undoctored video for any racist statements. Nothing Breitbart said about the story checked out once the full video became available. And the MSM machers? Well, they can’t help but notice that they got taken this time, but they prefer to chalk it up to "ideology." "There’s been this proliferation of partisan media—whether it’s MSNBC and Fox at night, or it’s Breitbart on the right or Huffington Post on the left," complains Politico executive editor James VandeHei, and it makes honest folk like MSM reporters "overreact." Writing with Politico editor in chief John Harris, VandeHei pronounces the dawning of an "Age of Rage," equating Breitbart and company’s perversion of the truth with the fact that some liberal journalists and academics participated in occasionally less than polite discussions about conservatives (and one another).The private discussions of this listserv, called "Journolist"—discussed in my previous column—were either hacked by or leaked to Tucker Carlson’s right-wing website, The Daily Caller, and, as with the Sherrod tape, edited for the purposes of deception and false accusation. In the careless reasoning of the Politico honchos, these discussions deserved equation with Breitbart’s nefarious techniques because both "featured sharp personal attacks against political opponents. Both revolved around indignant claims from people claiming to be victims of bias and the corrupt ideological agendas of their opponents—all the while stoking and profiting from the bias and conspiratorial instincts of partisans on their own side." As a result, they worry, "Responsible people in power and in the mainstream media are only beginning to grapple with this new environment—in which facts hardly matter except as they can be used as weapon or shield in a nonstop ideological war." There's just too much really ugly stuff on this asshole. I don't believe he's ever been in search of truth, for the common good, or speaking truth to power. He's just another dupe who has a warped RW-media poisoned worldview that commie, black-lovin' libruls wanna take our guns, Bible and flags away and is out to get "them."

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 1:23pm

Despite all the nasty stuff of which O'Keefe has been accused

@Mark from Queens you must evaluate the evidence presented. Are the videos doctored? Fine, discount them. If they are doctored, you have no logical basis to exclude them even though you dislike the cinematographer and what he stands for? I repeat: if these videos are phony Why Did Foval and Creamer lose their positions? Answer me that please?

Again, it's whether the message is good, reliable, prudent and trustworthy, before killing the messenger I suppose. And I confess I haven't had time to keep up with all the twists and turns here as much as I'd like. But James O'Keefe, of Project Veritas, is a former Breitbart, racist, RW extremist bigot, smear artist. To wit, from Alternet. O’Keefe became a right-wing darling in 2009, after his phony sting on ACORN, a community organization and voter registration group doing the kind of good work for poor people that infuriates Republicans. The resulting footage, deceptively edited to make it look as if ACORN workers were engaging in unethical and illegal activities, resulted in a media firestorm, which led to the group being defunded and wiped out of existence. In the months that followed, it became clear that the video was hamfistedly cut together to present an altogether different picture than the truth. In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and offer a public apology to a former ACORN employee. Frankly I don't have the time right now. But anyone can simply find a litany of abuses and fraud from this pathetic, lame POS. He's got ties to Bannon even. 6 Manufactured News Scandals Produced and Promoted by Breitbart News and New Trump Campaign Chief Bannon Remember what this odious clown/faux journalist did to Shirley Sherrod, Civil Rights activist who co-founded a collective farm in Southwest Georgia and helped develop Community Land Trusts throughout the U.S and whose father was murdered by a racist farmer? From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), "Sherrod Hoax Exposed, but Breitbart’s ACORN Fraud Lives On." Eric Alterman in The Nation, "Journalism's Age of Shame" In the now infamous case of Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart deployed doctored video again to falsely accuse Sherrod of discriminating against whites as a federal employee, pretending that a story about overcoming racism was really one endorsing it. When that lie was exposed, he insisted that his real target had been the NAACP, for allegedly cheering on Sherrod’s alleged racism. This too was a lie. There was no applause in the undoctored video for any racist statements. Nothing Breitbart said about the story checked out once the full video became available. And the MSM machers? Well, they can’t help but notice that they got taken this time, but they prefer to chalk it up to "ideology." "There’s been this proliferation of partisan media—whether it’s MSNBC and Fox at night, or it’s Breitbart on the right or Huffington Post on the left," complains Politico executive editor James VandeHei, and it makes honest folk like MSM reporters "overreact." Writing with Politico editor in chief John Harris, VandeHei pronounces the dawning of an "Age of Rage," equating Breitbart and company’s perversion of the truth with the fact that some liberal journalists and academics participated in occasionally less than polite discussions about conservatives (and one another).The private discussions of this listserv, called "Journolist"—discussed in my previous column—were either hacked by or leaked to Tucker Carlson’s right-wing website, The Daily Caller, and, as with the Sherrod tape, edited for the purposes of deception and false accusation. In the careless reasoning of the Politico honchos, these discussions deserved equation with Breitbart’s nefarious techniques because both "featured sharp personal attacks against political opponents. Both revolved around indignant claims from people claiming to be victims of bias and the corrupt ideological agendas of their opponents—all the while stoking and profiting from the bias and conspiratorial instincts of partisans on their own side." As a result, they worry, "Responsible people in power and in the mainstream media are only beginning to grapple with this new environment—in which facts hardly matter except as they can be used as weapon or shield in a nonstop ideological war." There's just too much really ugly stuff on this asshole. I don't believe he's ever been in search of truth, for the common good, or speaking truth to power. He's just another dupe who has a warped RW-media poisoned worldview that commie, black-lovin' libruls wanna take our guns, Bible and flags away and is out to get "them."

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 2:13pm

@Alligator Ed They're talking about

@Alligator Ed They're talking about the films which were doctored in the attack on Acorn, I think. There was also a disgusting attack on Shirley Sherrod--and you know I'm not one of those who considers any opposition to Obama & his Admin to be racism.

He's participated in hit jobs before. That's the issue. That creates a deep distrust. It doesn't mean he's lying now. It means that it would be better if he handed off the job of publicizing whatever he's got to someone who isn't famous for engaging in baseless slander.

I believe your account, FWIW, but while I haven't got an automatic bias against relying on RW sources, this one is seriously untrustworthy. It would be better to use other sources.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by dervish on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 2:20pm

O'Keefe is problematic on many levels

@Mark from Queens But I think it's clear that Creamer and Foval are scumbags as well. He did us a service in pointing that out.

Creamer btw, is the husband of Jan Schakowsky (IL-9).

Again, it's whether the message is good, reliable, prudent and trustworthy, before killing the messenger I suppose. And I confess I haven't had time to keep up with all the twists and turns here as much as I'd like. But James O'Keefe, of Project Veritas, is a former Breitbart, racist, RW extremist bigot, smear artist. To wit, from Alternet. O’Keefe became a right-wing darling in 2009, after his phony sting on ACORN, a community organization and voter registration group doing the kind of good work for poor people that infuriates Republicans. The resulting footage, deceptively edited to make it look as if ACORN workers were engaging in unethical and illegal activities, resulted in a media firestorm, which led to the group being defunded and wiped out of existence. In the months that followed, it became clear that the video was hamfistedly cut together to present an altogether different picture than the truth. In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and offer a public apology to a former ACORN employee. Frankly I don't have the time right now. But anyone can simply find a litany of abuses and fraud from this pathetic, lame POS. He's got ties to Bannon even. 6 Manufactured News Scandals Produced and Promoted by Breitbart News and New Trump Campaign Chief Bannon Remember what this odious clown/faux journalist did to Shirley Sherrod, Civil Rights activist who co-founded a collective farm in Southwest Georgia and helped develop Community Land Trusts throughout the U.S and whose father was murdered by a racist farmer? From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), "Sherrod Hoax Exposed, but Breitbart’s ACORN Fraud Lives On." Eric Alterman in The Nation, "Journalism's Age of Shame" In the now infamous case of Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart deployed doctored video again to falsely accuse Sherrod of discriminating against whites as a federal employee, pretending that a story about overcoming racism was really one endorsing it. When that lie was exposed, he insisted that his real target had been the NAACP, for allegedly cheering on Sherrod’s alleged racism. This too was a lie. There was no applause in the undoctored video for any racist statements. Nothing Breitbart said about the story checked out once the full video became available. And the MSM machers? Well, they can’t help but notice that they got taken this time, but they prefer to chalk it up to "ideology." "There’s been this proliferation of partisan media—whether it’s MSNBC and Fox at night, or it’s Breitbart on the right or Huffington Post on the left," complains Politico executive editor James VandeHei, and it makes honest folk like MSM reporters "overreact." Writing with Politico editor in chief John Harris, VandeHei pronounces the dawning of an "Age of Rage," equating Breitbart and company’s perversion of the truth with the fact that some liberal journalists and academics participated in occasionally less than polite discussions about conservatives (and one another).The private discussions of this listserv, called "Journolist"—discussed in my previous column—were either hacked by or leaked to Tucker Carlson’s right-wing website, The Daily Caller, and, as with the Sherrod tape, edited for the purposes of deception and false accusation. In the careless reasoning of the Politico honchos, these discussions deserved equation with Breitbart’s nefarious techniques because both "featured sharp personal attacks against political opponents. Both revolved around indignant claims from people claiming to be victims of bias and the corrupt ideological agendas of their opponents—all the while stoking and profiting from the bias and conspiratorial instincts of partisans on their own side." As a result, they worry, "Responsible people in power and in the mainstream media are only beginning to grapple with this new environment—in which facts hardly matter except as they can be used as weapon or shield in a nonstop ideological war." There's just too much really ugly stuff on this asshole. I don't believe he's ever been in search of truth, for the common good, or speaking truth to power. He's just another dupe who has a warped RW-media poisoned worldview that commie, black-lovin' libruls wanna take our guns, Bible and flags away and is out to get "them."

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by dance you monster on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 9:15am

Give credit where credit is due.

NO credit is due James O'Keefe, period. He has a long, long track record of fraudulent attacks. If you are citing him, you are reducing your argument to his pattern of fraud. Any consideration of his work (and I'm stretching that word's definition here) that lends him the slightest credibility insults those he has smeared before.

Just, no. We can find allies elsewhere.

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 1:33pm

Your comment is a logical fallacy

@dance you monster The fact that O'Keefe has maligned before does not mean that he has doctored these films cited. Where is your proof of film doctoring? Facts. Not emotion.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 2:47pm

O'Keefe may be sighting facts

@Alligator Ed
but those facts would be a lot easier to believe coming from a credible source as opposed to a known fraud.

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I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 3:10pm

The ease of believability

@Socialprogressive is subservient to the accuracy of the facts. Multiple historical examples exist which will be partially enumerated in this essay series. Would most Americans in the 50s, 60s believe that the CIA was a dangerous subversive organization? Now we know better. Once again: facts; not emotion.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 2:14pm

@dance you monster IMO, he's probably a liar

@dance you monster IMO, he's probably a liar that has gotten hold of some truth, and has too much ego to hand the job of publicizing it off to someone who would be believed.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 10:38am

I have been following this story

George Webb and Jason Goodman have done a ton of research on this. They also interviewed Rod Wheeler who was the private detective hired by the Rich family before the DNC got to them.

Rod Wheeler is very credible to me. Even though he is prevented by a cease and desist order from talking about specifics of the case, he still gave us a lot of good information about the investigative process and those facts already in the public domain. I highly recommend everyone watch his interview. Rod Wheeler and his attorneys reviewed the interview to ensure it met the conditions of the cease and desist order prior to it being published.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDI0AFOHuNI]

George Webb uses metadata and public information to establish time lines and linkages that he uses to formulate his conclusions. These guys are getting real close. By staying public, it provides a margin of safety for them, although what they are doing is very dangerous.

Also Bob Creamer is not only a very unsavory person, but he is also married (since 1980) to U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky. The rot is everywhere.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 1:37pm

Aced me again, gulfgal

@gulfgal98 The full Rod Wheeler interview will be posted in the second essay.

Submitted by Roy Blakeley on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 1:54pm

FWIW

@gulfgal98 Sibel Edmonds has a lot to say about Bob Creamer and Jan Schakowsky. Link to podcast and other info here:

https://www.newsbud.com/2015/09/30/probable-cause-with-sibel-edmonds-has...

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 5:43pm

Very interesting interview.

@gulfgal98

Thanks. Wheeler does come across as very credible.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 5:46pm

Heh, not a gag order, a cease and shut up order

@gulfgal98
You know that they are trying to cover things up when other news agencies start calling it a conspiracy theory. The one way to stifle conversation is label it as a conspiracy theory.
Box is going there with this article
The bonkers Seth Rich conspiracy theory
Thanks for posting this video, gulfgal.
Oh, good point. Why is the FBI involved with a routine robbery? Ah, because of his laptop.
Great video. Hopefully we will learn what happened to Seth and the others that have been killed during this corrupt election.
My biggest problem with Hillary winning the primary is the exit polls not lining up with the vote tallies. And there is a lawsuit or investigation about that.
How many investigations are going on and related to the primary? How anyone can say that Hillary won fair and square has to be deluded.
One question people aren't asking is, how many people who had their party affiliation changed or were kicked off the voting rolls weren't able to vote in the general election? If that happened to Hillary, I can't think of a better way for her to lose

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 3:15pm

What I find most disturbing in reaction to this essay

is the amount of vitriol unleashed by mention of James O'Keefe, to the exclusion of other, considerable evidence contained in this essay. I am surprised by the lack of attention being paid to the Shawn Lucas assassination prominently featured in this post.

Why has no one commented upon the biased and largely untrue narrative in Wikipedia about the Seth Rich murder?

Submitted by dervish on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 5:11pm

The Shawn Lucas information

@Alligator Ed was new to me, I missed that somehow. Anecdotally, I've heard of patients taking a glass of wine with flexoril for greater effect, but yeah, it's pretty low on the list of abused drugs. I can't see how or why he'd be on oral fentanyl, is that a street drug now?

We can expect these investigations to be DOA unless new information comes forth. I have little doubt that dark motives are behind these deaths, but how to prove that, when the wheels of justice are controlled by those in power?

I also don't understand the urge to shoot the messenger regarding O'Keefe. I know what his motives are, but couldn't care less, if the revealed information is accurate.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 6:37pm

I agree with you on the drug angle and also the fact angle

@dervish Facts are facts. We develop opinions concerning facts, which do not change the facts.

Fentanyl is available in IM and IV forms as well as cutaneous patches. It is not available in oral form, at least legally through FDA approved methods. IM Fentanyl injections could be revealed by careful forensic analysis. In the absence of a detailed autopsy report which examined possible injection sites, the Fentanyl patch, which has a slow onset but prolonged length of action (72 hours), could have been a source of overdose. But this surely would have been detected when Shawn's girlfriend found him on the bathroom floor. Surreptitious injection sites are numerous, including sublingual, buccal mucose, nasal mucosa, underneath fingernails or toe nails, the axillae, perianal. Were these sites examined?

Submitted by dervish on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 8:06pm

The only oral fentanyl we've ever given

@Alligator Ed is in the form of a lollipop, I doubt he got one of those. I imagine it would absorb just fine if taken orally, even if that's a less effective route. Is it possible someone gave him a Mickey?

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 3:01am

I forgot about the lollipops. Thanks for the reminder

@dervish [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kd-w7Xwd8]

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 10:31am

@dervish Because he has

@dervish Because he has previously shown himself willing to engage in smear campaigns for political motives. It would be like saying David Brock was reporting the truth about something. Yes, it might be the truth, but surely we could find someone other than David Brock to cite, right?

I agree that it's taken up too much time in this diary. Let's refocus.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 10:29am

@Alligator Ed I guess because I wasn't

@Alligator Ed I guess because I wasn't surprised. There are outlets online that are brave enough to try to keep telling the truth under these conditions; Wikipedia doesn't strike me as one of them.

So sad, but not surprised.

Do we want to try to fix the entry? My guess is we'd have to keep re-editing it over and over again.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 11:53am

Things we think we know two days ago are changing

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal Until this assassination case is solved, this essay would be in a constant state of rewrite. What I learned today 6/8 has changed my opinion about a number of things and so it's just as well that I didn't write the second Seth Rich assassination essay yet--but I will soon.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 12:34pm

@Alligator Ed I'm horrified by the

@Alligator Ed I'm horrified by the thought that he might have been killed in a hospital. Praying that he didn't know what was happening to him, if that turns out to be true.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 2:36pm

None of hospital records or autopsy report

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal released. Pretty stinky if you ask me. In fact the estimation hospital was not released until the 4th year surgery resident's letter.

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 12:32pm

Wikipedia is crowd-sourced.

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
ANYONE can post ANYTHING about ANYTHING, and it gets little or no vetting for accuracy. There have been a number of cases of editing wars, to the point where pages had to be locked to stop them.

If there are sources, follow them and see what they say. If there are no sources, caveat emptor.

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 12:37pm

@TheOtherMaven Correct, and

@TheOtherMaven Correct, and Wikipedia is unlikely to suddenly take an interest in vetting something now. When I said we'd have to re-edit it over and over it's because I'm fairly sure that there would be people, perhaps even paid people, who would come back over and over again to "fix" it.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 8:10pm

Sorry, Alligator Ed

I did not mean to step on you with my post. When I posted this, I was thinking you would be moving to the Awan brothers in your next essay. Even the info on them is in flux as of today. This stuff is moving very fast, much faster than most people realize.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 2:56am

Quite alright, gulfgal, sharing is great

@gulfgal98 This essay has barely scratched the actual murder or conclusions leading from it. I do intend to do an Awan brothers essay but will finish the Seth Rich story, as it exists so far, once I catch my breath.