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Conspiracyland

S1E2: Episode 2: “The Russia connection”

Conspiracyland

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Medical Ailments, Biden, Conspiracy, Yahoo News, Investigative Journalism, Havana Syndrome, Conspiracyland, Michael Isikoff, Russian Intelligence, News, Vladimr Putin, Cuba, Obama, Trump, Conspiracy Theories

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Julian Assange fans the conspiracy flames, implying Rich could have been a source of the DNC leaked emails. Russia’s propaganda outlets and its notorious troll farm pump out the story, and “alt-right” websites latch onto it. Deborah Sines, the prosecutor in charge of the case, digs into where the conspiracy claims are coming from and makes a startling discovery: The original website report about Rich’s being assassinated by a Clinton hit squad was planted by the Russian SVR, the country’s version of the CIA, infecting social media with an operation that a former top CIA official calls a “100 percent continuation of active measures” — the term used to describe Soviet disinformation operations during the Cold War.

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0:00.0

From Sandy Hook to Orlando to Dallas and so many other places, these tragedies tear at our soul. And so do the end of the

0:16.5

July 12th 2016 and Hillary Clinton was paying homage to yet another victim of

0:21.3

gun violence.

0:23.0

Sunday, a young man Seth Rich, who worked for the Democratic National Committee to expand voting rights,

0:32.0

was shot and killed in his neighborhood in Washington.

0:36.0

He was just 27 years old.

0:39.0

Surely we can agree that weapons of war have no place on the streets of America.

0:47.0

Even as Seth Rich's death was being used to make a political point about gun control on the campaign trail,

0:56.0

the DC police had no leads on who killed him.

1:02.0

At this time, we do not have any witnesses in this case. We're urging the public's

1:07.1

assistance in this matter. We do know that there were several males seen in the

1:12.2

area in dark clothing prior to the time of the

1:15.0

homicide. Our description is very generic just young black males and

1:19.3

dark clothing too who were seen in the area.

1:22.0

Two weeks later the country was focused on events in Philadelphia

1:26.0

where the Democrats were gathering for their national convention.

1:29.0

Tonight a major snag on the road to party unity.

1:34.0

As Clinton prepared to accept her party's nomination, WikiLeaks dropped a bomb, releasing

1:38.8

nearly 20,000 internal Democratic National Committee emails dominating the headlines. Internal Sheik showed party efforts to undermine Bernie Sanders campaign and exacerbated divisions among the Democrats.

1:56.0

This really does not come as a shock to me or my supporters.

2:00.0

There is no question what the DNC was on Secretary Clinton's side from day one.

2:04.4

We all know that.

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