Seth Rich is in the news again...

As you are surely aware Seth Rich has made the headlines again. As a reminder, Seth Rich was the DNC staffer that was murdered last year and many people believe that he was the source for the DNC leak. The case has completely stalled and there hasn't been much development since last May, when Sean Hannity was pushing the case hard.

The story had faded into the background but exploded again today. An NPR report shows that one of the bit players in the drama, Rod Wheeler, a PI hired by the Rich family is suing Fox News for putting words into his mouth. The lawsuit though is largely irrelevant. If anything it doesn't disprove the idea that Rich was the leaker or the idea that he was murdered because of that fact. It does make both Rod Wheeler and Fox News look like tools, but mostly it's just a run of the mill case of a guy getting pissed that words were being put into his mouth and that he wasn't getting the attention he feels he deserves.

The media frenzy over the NPR report has largely overshadowed by other developments. Two audio tapes were leaked. The first one was of Rod Wheeler discussing the Seth Rich case and he claimed that the FBI had proof that Seth Rich had e-mailed Wikileaks. In the second one, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh claiming that Rich was the source of the DNC Leaks.

Normally those two unsourced audio clips wouldn't mean much at all. But here is the thing. Wikileaks itself has tweeted out both of those videos.

Tape recording of private investigator Rod Wheeler discussing Seth Rich investigation https://t.co/Htnqi5fHHI h/t @CassandraRules

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 1, 2017

Audio tape of Seymour Hersh discussing WikiLeaks DNC leaks and Seth Rich https://t.co/STp9u7Vtbn h/t @CassandraRules

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 1, 2017

I have always said that without Wikileaks pushing the story, nobody would think that Seth Rich was the DNC leaker. But this is only the latest example of Wikileaks pushing the theory. Almost a year ago Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information on the murder of Seth Rich.  There is also this clip where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange all but admitted, unprompted, that Seth Rich was his source.

None of this is proof that Seth Rich was the DNC leaker. But it is proof that Wikileaks either thinks he was or is trying to make everyone think that he was. In my original post on the subject, I speculated that Assange was either trying to protect a source, was mistaken about who is source actually was or that Rich was their source and they want to get to the bottom of the murder. 

What do I think? I think there is a fair chance that Rich really was the leaker. That doesn't mean that he was killed for it. Indeed, there is some evidence that goes against the hitman theory, most notably that Rich died in the hospital and not on the street. Any hitman worth his salt would have made sure that he was dead before leaving the scene, unless he has been sacred off. 

Still, I base that mostly on the fact that Wikileaks is pushing the story. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Wikileaks will not clamp down on the speculation either way. All they need to do is confirm or deny that Rich was their source. Doing so would either prove the Seth Rich case to be a conspiracy theory or a true story. I call on them to release that information as soon as possible. I know that they have a policy of never revealing sources, but in this case there really needs to be an exception.