News Analysis
Recent revelations that the FBI is in possession of additional materials from the work computer of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer murdered in 2016, has prompted renewed speculation about whether the claim that Rich—not Russia—was the source of DNC files that WikiLeaks shared to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid is either a baseless conspiracy theory or a true story whose final chapter remains cloaked in secrecy.
The latest twist in the years-long saga over the theory that Rich’s computer was connected to a leak of DNC emails provided to WikiLeaks comes in the form of an admission made in a sworn declaration (pdf) by an FBI agent on Dec. 9….