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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Wed May 24, 2017, 01:27 PM May 2017

Kim Dotcom tried to hack Seth Rich's email. This week.

This is what the Deplorables have become--virtual grave robbers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/the-life-and-death-of-the-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory/2017/05/23/aba640c4-3ff3-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.630b440c3fe8


When Seth Rich’s Gmail account received an alert this week from Mega.com, attempting to start a new account on a website created by the New Zealand-based Internet businessman and convicted hacker Kim Dotcom, his family knew that something was off.

Over seven frenzied days, Dotcom had become a leading purveyor of the theory that Rich, a staffer at the Democratic National Committee who was shot dead near his home in Northeast Washington last summer, had supplied DNC documents to WikiLeaks and was killed as a result. Multiple security analysts and an FBI investigation have tied the release to hackers with ties to Russia. D.C. police have said repeatedly that they think Rich was slain in a random robbery attempt.

According to experts and Rich’s family, the emailed invitation from welcome@mega.nz appeared to be an attempt to gain access to Rich’s email. Joel Rich, who maintains his late son’s Gmail account, did not click the link. Meanwhile, Dotcom was promising on Twitter to prove that the younger Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks — and Fox News host Sean Hannity was telling his 2.37 million Twitter followers to be ready for a revelation.

Hannity had invited Dotcom to appear on his show for what he said on Twitter would be a “#GameChanger” interview. The implication: that Dotcom would finally offer evidence of his claim that Rich had sent internal DNC documents to WikiLeaks before his death.

All that began to unravel Tuesday afternoon, when Fox News retracted a story that had claimed the same Rich-WikiLeaks connection, telling readers that the article was “not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting.” Fox News did not respond to a request for comment, but Dotcom wrote on his website that he would not speak further about his allegations.


The Deplorables really are at the bottom of the moral abyss. Anyone peddling this nonsense is crazy, evil or both.

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Kim Dotcom tried to hack Seth Rich's email. This week. (Original Post) geek tragedy May 2017 OP
crazy, evil, or both??? we are talking insane hannity and co here, yes? answer is obvious. niyad May 2017 #1
I'm guessing the Rich family lawyers threatened justiceischeap May 2017 #2
K&R Qutzupalotl May 2017 #3
Degenerates, call'em as I see'em!!! FreeStateDemocrat May 2017 #4
Hannity is a piece of shit. nt. NCTraveler May 2017 #5
K&R Scurrilous May 2017 #6
So Kim Dotcom rusty fender May 2017 #7
Doesn't that make Hannity a potential accomplice to an attempted criminal act? Warren DeMontague May 2017 #8

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
2. I'm guessing the Rich family lawyers threatened
Wed May 24, 2017, 01:37 PM
May 2017

lawsuits against Fox, Hannity and Dotcom--hence their sudden silence.

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
7. So Kim Dotcom
Thu May 25, 2017, 12:37 AM
May 2017

was trying to hack Seth Rich's email account in order to plant evidence that would prove his allegations. Total unmitigated scumbag

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
8. Doesn't that make Hannity a potential accomplice to an attempted criminal act?
Thu May 25, 2017, 03:44 AM
May 2017

What did Sean know, and when did he know it?

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