Wikileaks has announced that it will give $20,000 for information on the killer of Seth Rich, the DNC staffer who was killed in Washington, D.C. on July 10.
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Julian Assange seems to suggests on Dutch television program Nieuwsuur that Seth Rich was the source for the Wikileaks-exposed DNC emails and was murdered.
The slaying of the 27-year-old staffer, who was shot to death as he walked home in Northwest D.C. near Howard University Hospital, shocked the people who worked with him at the DNC, and the community at large.
WikiLeaks hasn’t publicly commented on its motivation for wanting the information, but the site certainly has not been a friend to the Democratic Party in recent months.
It was not immediately clear what motivated WikiLeaks to offer the reward money.
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Anchor: “But was he one of your sources then, I mean?” “We want to find who killed our son”, Mary Rich, his mother, said at the place where he was shot to death, according to DCist. A hacktivist named “Guccifer 2.0” has also claimed responsibility for the DNC hack. “What are you suggesting?” “Our sources, ah, our sources face serious risks, that’s why they come to us so we can protect, ah, their anonymity”. “That’s basically what you are doing”. Others suggested he was helping the Federal Bureau of Investigation expose wrongdoing in the presidential election, and that made him a target. We investigated to understand what happened in that situation, with Seth Rich. I think it is, uh, a concerning situation. There is not a conclusion yet.
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“We treat threats towards any suspected WikiLeaks sources with extreme gravity”, the statement says. “More importantly, a variety of WikiLeaks sources are concerned when that kind of thing happens”.
