Heraclitus ~ You can never step into the same river twice

The water in the river in front of you is not the same as 10 seconds before. But sometimes you must dive in. It is time to do that.

Caveat ~ whenever truth is suppressed, conspiracy theories flourish (AE)

Background information: Please consult my prior essays relating to this subject:

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

The Seth Rich Assassination: “It doesn’t matter how…We need to win this MoFo”

Seth Rich: the Official Conspiracy Story so far

Note: for sake of clarity the Awan brothers' spy ring is not discussed in this essay.

The long view:

Seen from afar, we see a galaxy brightly illuminated by perhaps millions of stars. Stars are born and die, just like animate objects, although the time scale is so immense that, except for supernovae, this process is rarely visible.

Let's try to put this enormous structure into a little clearer focus, with which to discern its many parts, for only by so doing can we learn more about the smaller aspects, which although smaller, remain enormously important.

If the modern cosmologists are to be believed, then the universe was born in a Big Bang. Without debating that point, what proceeded the Big Bang? Scaling down hundreds of orders of magnitude, we arrive at a somewhat similar position with regard to human events. This essay centers on the Seth Rich murder. Analogies with the foregoing cosmology are somewhat appropriate.

Big Bang: Seth Rich dies

Antecedents: unlike the Big Bang theory which conflates physics and theology, in human events there are always antecedents. In this case, many facts are known with certainty. Seth Rich was born in Omaha where he was educated. He then moved to Washington where he became involved in politics. His employment was at the DNC, in charge of voter acquisition software, although this might not be an accurate title. His responsibility was to develop software with which to aid the DNC in locating potential Democratic voters. He was very dedicated to his job.The following video from 2015 has emerged in which he addresses the Federal Election Commission (FEC)

Mr. Rich then is appointed to the Hillary Clinton campaign as a staffer, a mere 4 days before he is murdered. On all the foregoing there is no dispute. But the crucial dispute here is whether Seth Rich leaked DNC documents to Wikileaks showing the primary was rigged even before it started. This issue is still not settled, although I believe a growing number of people familiar with this case do believe that he was a leaker--although there may have been more, such as Eric Braverman who worked for Clinton Foundation but had access to more information than did Mr. Rich--another story for another day.

Safety in the neighborhood or lack of safety in the neighborhood

Residents of Bloomingdale, which is about 20 blocks north of D.C.’s Union Station, had long been complaining about a surge in crime. One area resident tells Newsweek her house had been burgled a few years ago while she and her husband were inside. Two other residents who would volunteer only their first names, Jonathan and Kevin, say there were “definitely a lot of muggings and robberies” in the area. Another resident complained on the neighborhood blog about “a small group of guys with a silver handgun terrorizing this neighborhood for weeks with minimal response from public officials.” Residents were particularly incensed about a deterioration in security over the past two years related to a massive D.C. water department tunnel construction project just steps from where Rich was slain. High fences around it left the street occluded, with “hiding places for criminals and [no] sight lines for neighbors,” one resident wrote.

The same Newsweek article goes on to quote DNC sources, unnamed as usual, who stated this "leak was a hack instead":

Meanwhile, sources involved with the DNC’s investigation of a foreign hack of its files last year rule out the notion that Seth Rich had any role in the affair. “There was no indication that any insider was involved in this,” says one source, demanding anonymity in exchange for discussing the sensitive and ongoing investigation. “Every indication is this was a remote attack from a foreign government—the Russians. There is no indication that…there was any nefarious action taken by any employees in that environment.”

Here's DC Mayor Muriel Bowser addressing the issuance of police bodycams to MPD police. Please notice the presence of former MPD police chief Cathy Lanier. Since Lanier resigned one month AFTER Seth Rich was murdered, this video was almost certainly was filmed BEFORE the Seth Rich murder. The announcement of releasing body cam footage in two murders preceding the Rich murder. Also mentioned are the proliferation of CCTV in the Bloomingdale neighborhood as necessitated by the high crime rate, also detailed on this video.

So where is the body cam footage? Ask Liz Lyons:

Coincidence?

For those whose screen resolution isn't up to this fuzzy image: This is a John Podesta email, posted on Wikileaks, stating that the leaker, whomever that might be, even if not correct, needs to be made an example.

Reposted from prior essay because this is important: FBI vehicle broken into and weapons stolen hours before Seth Rich shooting. Really!

Do we know anything for certain? Here's the Washington Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) incident report:

There are several interesting things about this report.
1. It was written at 7:10 AM
2. Time of the shooting is about 4:19 AM
3. Patient reportedly expired around 5:37 AM
4. He was coherent and conversing when police discovered him within less than 20 minutes post-shooting
5. Several policemen were wearing body cameras (bodycams)

What this incident does not report, and perhaps this extra information was not considered necessary for such an information report is
1. Witness (Rich) statements
2. Mode of transport to hospital and by what agency
3. Destination hospital.

To report the beginning (time of shooting) and the end (death) but not reporting the intervening facts, is to say the least, disconcerting.

But we have to back track a bit. Some of the following information may have been presented in my previous essays, for which I apologize.

Where was Seth Rich earlier in the AM? All accounts agree he was in Lou's City Bar (of which location maps have been previously posted. The manager of that bar was Joseph P. "Joe" Capone. Interesting things of note are worthy of mention.

1. Mr. Capone made a White House (WH) visit just before and after the shooting. This, while curious, is not evidence of anything:

2. Mr. Capone stated he was never interviewed by police on the days after the shooting.

3. Mr. Capone says that on the night of the shooting,Seth Rich was sadder than usual

This claim is refuted by Seth's girlfriend Kelsey Mulka in an interview with Crime Watch Daily. She was talking to him on the phone until about 2 minutes before Seth was shot.

4. Capone says he was on vacation hours after the shooting.

Joe Capone was the last person to see Seth on the night of July 10th, 2016. Joe oddly enough was at the White House just days before the night Seth was shot in the back twice. Joe was then seen on vacation just hours after Seth was shot.

Two timelines are included here, with general details of activities related to Seth Rich murder, but which do not contain specifics of the actual events. They are an interesting overview--but not detailed in regard to the actual shooting:

1. World News Daily, the publication for which Liz Crokin works. This timeline deals also with unanswered questions.

2. Reddit timeline which mentions Joe Capone.

After the shooting there are conflicting reports of what happened next. An alleged neighbor and eyewitness stated Seth Rich didn't even know he was shot.

Another neighbor commented on the frequency of local armed robberies in the neighborhood.

And here is a

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz issued a statement on Monday mourning the death of Rich, who worked as voter expansion data director.

“Our hearts are broken with the loss of one of our DNC family members over the weekend. Seth Rich was a dedicated, selfless public servant who worked tirelessly to protect the most sacred right we share as Americans – the right to vote," she said. "He saw the great potential of our nation and believed that, together, we can make the world a better place."
(Source: 27-Year-Old DNC Staffer Seth Rich Shot, Killed in Northwest DC | NBC4 Washington http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Northwest-DC-...)

Here's a video showing Debbie Washerwoman Schultz at the crime scene.

But DWS was inconsistent about knowing Rich:

Here is a picture of DWS at the Seth Rich crime scene (note: I did not caption the picture)

Now comes the Dishonest Donna Brazile connection:

Then, "Distressed Donna" does something peculiar regarding her former colleague: she warned off detective Rod Wheeler from further investigation.

Other DNC affiliates get involved in the case. One of these is Brad Bauman, a DNC/Democratic "crisis manager".

How did Brad Bauman, DNC crisis manager insert himself as intermediary between the Rich family and the general public? Here is an interview, only the audio, with Bauman by Neil Wolfe, reporter:https://steemit.com/sethrich/@thelightreports/tlr-exclusive-telephone-interview-with-seth-rich-family-pr-man-brad-bauman

Another interview with Jared Beck also contains a further interview with Bauman This includes quoting Joe Capone stating Joe was not at the bar the night Seth Rich was there, immediately followed by a contradictory video of Capone asserting he was at the bar on the fatal night. 560 cameras in the vicinity. This is an excerpt which starts at about 8:50. The prior link contains the entire Bauman interview.

Bauman claims that detective Wheeler is passing on false information about an active police investigation. Bauman doesn't give information about which hospital to which Rich was taken. Bauman deferred the request to the MPD because the investigation is active. He claims he is "duty-bound" not to insert any information about the shooting, insinuating it would pervert the investigation. He would not even confirm that Rich was alive when he received by the police. But Bauman asserted the DC police examined Seth Rich's laptop, after which the computer was returned to the family; moreover, the FBI never had access to the computer.

As mentioned in a prior essay, the ambulance or police vehicle record of transporting Rich from the crime scene has never been released. Furthermore, the receiving hospital's name was originally withheld. It turns out that Rich was taken to Washington's MedStar hospital, owned and operated by the SEI union. The physician in charge of the case was Dr. Jack Sava. Dr. Sava has interesting connections:

Dr. Sava has been notoriously closed-mouthed about any issues concerning Seth Rich, even including whether he even treated him. Nevertheless Dr. Sava had no difficulty spilling his guts about every aspect of the Representative Steve Scalise investigation: here is the suddenly loquacious Dr. Sava.

Black Hole: The Washington MPD "investigation"

Facts about the investigation into Rich’s murder continue to raise concerns about the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s efforts to identify Seth Rich’s killers. The public incident report filed after Rich’s death shows that several officers who responded to the scene of the crime were wearing body cameras. But the Metropolitan Police claimed the footage was “lost” when met with requests to release the videos, which might have provided important clues. A May 21st, 2017 report by World Net Daily has also established that police failed to speak with staff at Lou’s City Bar (where Rich was last seen alive) to enquire about whether they had any pertinent evidence.

Even stranger, police chief Cathy Lanier resigned just a month after Rich’s death. Her replacement, Peter Newsham, has been plagued by past allegations of alcoholism and domestic violence. Newsham was also accused of severely mishandling a rape case after the family of an 11 year old girl alleged that he allowed the victim to be charged with filing a false report despite several medical accounts detailing her sexual injuries and genetic evidence indicating that she had been abused by multiple assailants.

It is also not clear why police would seize Rich’s laptop for an investigation into what was supposed to be a robbery gone bad. The Washington Post claimed that neither the FBI nor the police were in possession of Rich’s laptop. But this claim contradicts a report by the Washington Examiner which cited a former law enforcement official who stated that the laptop was examined during the investigation.

http://disobedientmedia.com/2017/05/dnc-affiliates-increase-involvement-...

New Stars are born

There have been numerous investigations, all done despite MPD obstruction. Pride of place belongs to former DC homicide detective Rod Wheeler. The following links discuss Mr. Wheeler's efforts so far, his investigation halted so far by a cease-and-desist allegedly at the request of the Rich Family (wanna buy a bridge if you believe that?)

G. Webb and J. Goodman interview with det. Wheeler.

Jamarl Thomas's 1 hour interview with detective Wheeler.

Hard Bastard 27:42) summary of Jamarl Thomas's interview.

Into the asteroid belt

Is Seth Rich really dead? His survival is plausible as described in this video. The YouTube video touches on other subjects but the main thrust deals with unknowns.
1. Where is the death certificate?
2. What happened at the funeral? Was there really a body in the casket?
3. Where are the hospital records?
4. What does attending physician Dr. Sava have to say? (detailed above)
5. Why did none of the CCTVs record anything, even including the Flagler market, across the street from the shooting site which had 3 cameras?

Another investigator Stranahan doubts that anything can be proven.

One last article comes from an off-orbit comet about Seth Rich being a victim of a serial killer! Yeah, right, a journalism class with neither knowledge of forensics nor forensic evidence brainstormed their way into this bizarre conclusion. They considered very little contextual material, which is described above.
1. Inept MPD investigation
2. Blatant interference of DWS, Brazile, Bauman
3. Absence of body cam footage
4. Absence of CCTV footage
5. Absence of hospital records and attending surgeon's records

This so-called theoretical conclusion is actual bullshit.

Nebulas and space dust

This essay, like the universe is expanding continually. But now the essay has possibly surpassed manageable length, so best to terminate it here. I will have to post a "clean-up" essay filled with assorted information and disinformation. For those brave enough to withstand a meteor shower, I will later present various tidbits with little associated comment.