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( Click Here). The supplementary "circumstantial" evidence that Mr. Henry adduced to blame Russia could not pass a smell test by anyone with a nose in working order.
But House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff did not release Henry's testimony until May 7, 2020. Establishment media picked up where Schiff left off and have been hiding Henry's testimony since May 7.
Seth Rich
By almost all accounts, Seth Rich had excellent access to DNC computers. But the possibility that he played a role in leaking the DNC emails to WikiLeaks, and then paid for it with his life, proved too much for Official Washington to handle. Besides, the "Russian hack" canard was not only a handy way to attribute Mrs. Clinton's loss to Russian interference and to prove Donald Trump wrong on Russia.
It also proved a convenient way to divert attention from the fate that befell Rich. What would happen to the Russia-did-it story that media hacks were pushing, if it became widely known that there was a simpler way to explain how the DNC emails got to WikiLeaks. (Julian Assange had denied strongly that any state actor was involved.)
Oddly, President Obama himself was not fully persuaded by the rump, misnomered "Intelligence Community Assessment" (written by "hand-picked" analysts from FBI, CIA, and NSA), that pinned the "hack" on Russia. At his last press conference, less than two weeks after being fully briefed on the Assessment's "high-confidence" findings, Obama pointed out that one of its conclusions how the DNC emails reached WikiLeaks was "inconclusive". ( See: Click Here).
As to the killing of Rich, there was no official investigation worthy of the name despite a host of anomalies and unanswered questions. Those who did try to look into it, and were willing to raise speculative hypotheses anathema to the official narrative, were branded "conspiracy theorists". The same thing happened to highly experienced scientists who applied the principles of physics and took advantage of highly relevant information revealed by Edward Snowden. Here's one telling example of swords drawn by pundit mercenaries enlisted to promote the Establishment narrative the (Democratic) party line, if you will, on Russia's 2016 "hack."
Risen on "Rising"
Erstwhile investigative journalist James Risen, now apparently a self-styled expert on the forensics of hacking, brought up Seth Rich during an interview on "Rising" on Aug. 5, 2019. Risen charged that VIPS's widely respected former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney (primary author of the Dec. 12, 2016 VIPS Memo) had gone into "conspiracy theory mode."
The charitable explanation is that Risen had not performed due diligence by doing his homework before the interview. Had he taken the trouble to read the December 12, 2016 VIPS Memo (with its revealing embedded charts from Edward Snowden), Risen would have known that it is not a matter of what Binney and the other NSA alumni in VIPS believe, it is what they -- proved in writing four years ago -- proved, as in QED. (See: Click Here)
(The relevant part of Risen's remarks runs from minutes 2:34 to 4:00.) Risen, by the way, is still at it ( See: Click Here AND Click Here ).
Question Most Awkward: If It Wasn't the Russians ...
By late last year, Seth Rich's family was suing just about anyone who wrote or implied that Seth might have played a role in leaking the DNC emails. As VIPS kept reporting new technical evidence that the culprit was not Russia, the avoid-at-any-cost, awkward question kept raising its ugly head. "If it wasn't the Russians, then who gave those emails to WikiLeaks?" There was only one known insider candidate, but mentioning his name could get you sued by a family with seemingly unlimited funds to pay lawyers close to the Democratic party.
There were even -- dare I say conspiracy theorists? -- like an erstwhile British investigative reporter in the mold of the latter-day James Risen, who implied that we were whether witting, or duped agents of the Kremlin. And so began a witch hunt into the computers of those VIPS members most directly involved. In the fall of 2019, several VIPS members were served highly intrusive subpoenas on the Russian hacking issue.
I shall confess that, for a couple of months I had a touch of subpoena envy. Then, alas, I was served not once but twice. In my initial response last December to the first subpoena, I took some pains to lay out, as concisely as I could, what VIPS had proven and why. And I added enough links to help anyone seriously interested in learning the longer story. Readers may wish to skim through my response to the first subpoena. (See: here.)
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