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SR gave it to wiki
Maybe, but not according to this guy (Andrew Brown), and he's probably in a better position to know than I am. I think that's Internet lore...
Q: Mr. Brown, there have been, unfortunately, a number of conspiracy theories that have floated around about what really happened with the DNC hacks. And I just want to clarify, and hopefully dispel with one or two of those conspiracies.
In one case, there was a tragic murder of a former DNC staffer, and that murder -has been exploited to create a completely unsupported theory that that staffer was somehow the one who stole the DNC information. Have you heard of that theory?
A: I've heard of that theory.
Q: What do you make of that?
A: That theory is preposterous. So I knew Seth Rich very well. I worked closely with him in his capacity at the DNC. Seth's job at the DNC was to work on collecting information sets to provide to voters on where they could participate and vote.
Seth was not a hacker, so to speak. Like, he did not have the types of skills that would have been necessary to carry out these attacks. And Seth was a very patriotic person. Like, he would not have even thought about colluding with a foreign government to try and undermine the democratic process. So the idea that he was somehow involved in these attacks, to me, is a nonstarter. And then based on his personality. And then just knowing his skill set, it doesn't make any sense that he didn't have the skills to carry out these attacks.
And then beyond that, he would not have had access or privileges to be able to access the type of information that these conspiracy theories claim that he would have been leaking. So it was -- on all levels, the conspiracy theory just makes no sense.