The group's co-founder Julian Assange suggested on Dutch television that if Rich is the source of the 20,000 emails exposing the party's sabotage of the Bernie Sanders campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton, he may have been killed over it.
However, when asked if Rich was a Wikileaks source, Assange refused to comment, merely saying they were investigating the circumstances surrounding his murder.
Wikileaks tweeted about the reward on Tuesday for information leading to the "conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich."
Rich worked as voter expansion data director at the DNC before he was shot twice on his way home on July 10. He died later in hospital.
"If it was a robbery — it failed because he still has his watch, he still has his money — he still has his credit cards, still had his phone so it was a wasted effort except we lost a life," his father Joel Rich told local TV station KMTV.
Assange made his comments on Dutch television show Nieuwsuur. When asked why he was commenting on Rich's murder, he said, "Because we have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States."
Wikileaks offers a secure upload submission option in which no identifying data about a source is recorded, according to the whistleblowing website.
Under these circumstances, Assange and Wikileaks staff would not know who sent them the DNC emails.
Last month's leaks revealed a fractured Democratic party with a pro-Hillary Clinton agenda, while her progressive opponent Bernie Sanders was still in the race for the party's nomination.
Wikileaks also claimed on Tuesday that Ecuador were being pressured to end Assange's asylum in their London embassy over fears the leak could damage the country's reputation with the US.
Social media ignited in reaction to the Wikileaks tweet with a range of jokes and conspiracy theories.
Reader Comments
Who gives a shit who leaked the e-mails. That's not what's important or matters. The contents of the e-mails should be the issue because it's more evidence of corruption, war crimes, crimes against humanity and much more. God damn it people, wake up.
Assange is a player.
Snowden is a player.
These people making the news are all players.
Just go home, DO SOMETHING GOOD and stop watching and taking in the game.
But wait!
While you were away and watching and taking in 'the game', your house was auctioned off and your food supply and the rest of your vital necessities were removed from your possession--they just simply disappeared. Your neighbors throats were slit. Your wife was raped and murdered. Your children were sent to a pedophile-run, government foster home. Your social life is now in -uhhh-disarray.
You are now under their control.
But you still have your automobile and your cell phone and your -uhhh- job.
You can still play.
Cheers!
ned,
OUT
You should examine your own thinking, or lack of it, and feel ashamed. If you could effect 1/1000th the good that these two have done, you would far exceed your present worth. We get tired of hear the whining of impotent naysayers.
Here is what Ed Snowden had to say about Clapper.
"When Edward Snowden was asked during his January 26, 2014 TV interview in Moscow what the decisive moment was or why he blew the whistle, he replied: "Sort of the breaking point was seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress. … Seeing that really meant for me there was no going back."[30] [Link]
I didn't like his story, to Hollywood, and what he goes from special forces to security guard to hacker? Lol
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When it comes to Mr/ Snowden, as I’ve talked about before, we have no direct involvement in this issue.
He ended up on our territory, based on what I see is the unprofessionalism of the CIA who tried to catch him.
I’m ex-KGB too, you know?
Why did they scare the whole world around this issue?
If they can forecefully ground an airplane with a president onboard, then surely they can ground an airplane with Mr Snowden onboard anywhere in the world.
But they scaremongered all countries about Mr Snowden, he arrived into our transit zone, and it turns out that nobody is willing to accept him…
Do you see the situation? If the CIA didn’t scaremonger other countries, Snowden would have flown away, they could have grounded the aircraft and he would now be rotting in a zindan (Central Asian dark room / prison)
But instead they notified everybody about him, and he remained in our transit zone. And what are we supposed to do ?
Russia is not the kind of country that expels fighters for human rights…
Thank you for your reaction, but jokes aside…. This is the truth, it’s not irony. Mr Snowden defines himself as a fighter for human rights.
This is what he has chosen for his life.
I don’t even know how he will continue- he’s only a young guy, right?
Jokes aside, how will he continue to live his life?
He’s in Russia for the time being, but then what?
But he chose this destiny himself. All we did was allow him asylum.
He’s no agent of ours, he hasn’t told us any secrets…
Actually, he really should tell us some secrets, that bandit, we gave him asylum! But he doesn’t talk!
He transmits only through some channels, known only to himself, And that’s it.
Comment: Update: Sort of confirming they were behind the hit, Killary's team now wants to add Assange to the Clinton Body Count: