Mueller Report: Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians
Julian Assange repeatedly blamed Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer, for Russias leaks. The Mueller report shows that Assange was lying from the start.
Julian Assange not only knew that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer wasnt his source for thousands of hacked party emails, he was in active contact with his real sources in Russias GRU months after Seth Richs death. At the same time he was publicly working to shift blame onto the slain staffer to obscure the source of the materials he was releasing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller asserts in his final report on Russias role in the 2016 presidential election.
After the U.S. intelligence community publicly announced its assessment that Russia was behind the hacking operation, Assange continued to deny that the Clinton materials released by WikiLeaks had come from Russian hacking, the report reads. According to media reports, Assange told a U.S. congressman that the DNC hack was an inside job, and purported to have physical proof that Russians did not give materials to Assange.
Thursdays long-anticipated release adds new details about Assanges interactions with the officers in Russias Main Intelligence Directorate. Still, it leaves one question unanswered: Why was Assange so determined to exonerate the Russian intelligence agents who gave him the material?
As laid out by Mueller, Assanges involvement in Russias election interference began with a June 14, 2016 direct message to WikiLeaks Twitter account from DC Leaks, one of the false fronts created by the Russians to launder their hacked material.
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