Is Fox News about to dump Sean Hannity for pursuing the Seth Rich/Kim Dotcom story?

(National SentinelMedia: Once the ratings king of prime-time cable news, Fox News has been shedding viewers – and ratings – since the sons of Rupert Murdoch began cleaning out the network’s long-time stable of talent, for various reasons, some of which allegedly had to do with sexual allegations against the man who built the network, the late Roger Ailes.

Greta van Sustren. Bill O’Reilly. Megan Kelly. And now, it seems, Sean Hannity.

As reported by Media Equalizer, Hannity may be the next victim at the network because he has been doggedly pursuing the Seth Rich/Kim Dotcom/DNC story we have also covered, because, well, it’s a story. Whether or not it turns out that the murdered Rich and Dotcom were in cahoots to leak damaging emails pertaining to high-ranking figures within the crooked Democratic National Committee (instead of “the Russians”), it’s still a story and should be pursued, in the public’s interest. A crime was committed; elements of the crime don’t add up; Dotcom has made public statements regarding his alleged involvement; in December, the UK’s Daily Mail also reported that the Russians were not responsible for hacking the DNC’s servers – that someone from the inside leaked the materials to WikiLeaks; and so on.

Fox News actually set off the latest bombshell revelations with a report it has now taken offline and retracted, apparently, though the initial report stated very clearly, based on sources, that Rich had sent thousands of emails to WikiLeaks, whose founder, Julian Assange, has also repeatedly stated Russia was NOT the source of the leaked emails that incriminated former DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other ranking officials in colluding to deny Sen. Bernie Sanders the party’s nomination – chicanery that has sparked a class-action lawsuit by supporters of Sanders (which the “mainstream media” is flat-out refusing to report).

So clearly, Hannity – like the rest of us – is on to something. And now, it appears that the idiot Murdoch brothers who are running day-to-day operations at Fox News – and who have lost the network’s ratings machine to MSNBC and CNN, if you can believe that – are set to sabotage their father’s once-mega-money-generating network by slashing Hannity.

Media Equalizer notes:

After a two decade run, is the end of Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel program near?

Based on unusually strong hints from the host himself, the answer appears to be yes.

Under internal pressure over his pursuit of the truth behind the Seth Rich story, network suits are apparently closing in on one of the network’s remaining conservative holdouts.

In his opening segment tonight, Hannity told viewers, “I promise that I will continue to tell the truth. As for my future at Fox News, Media Matters is attacking. The Left is organizing an advertising boycott. I will continue to do my job to the best of my ability. I serve at the pleasure of Fox News.”

More ominously, he concluded at 11pm by saying, “hopefully, I will see you again tomorrow night.”

#StandWithSean, an effort led by StopTheScalpings Co-founder Melanie Morgan, is continuing its efforts to stand by Hannity while he is under fire, the site noted.

“Sean Hannity is one smart, wily, fierce fighter. He needs our support even more now. There is turmoil and dissension at Fox News,” she said, as Media Equalizer reported.

But clearly the story is gaining traction anyway. In another exclusive, the UK Daily Mail reported that the family of Seth Rich, which has been critical of the Fox News and subsequent reporting, is demanding that the D.C. Police release whatever information they have on their son’s murder – which the cops have written off, essentially, as a “botched robbery,” despite the fact that nothing was taken from Rich, who was shot and killed just a very short distance from his Washington residence. In the middle of the night. As he walked home from a bar.

The Daily Mail:

The family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich is calling on the Washington, D.C. police department to go public with details of the murder investigation, after ten months of near-silence from law enforcement officials and as theories continue to spread about the mysterious circumstances of Rich’s shooting death last July.

‘The family has full confidence in the Metropolitan Police Department’s ability to proceed with this investigation. But given the large amount of hearsay and conspiracy theories surrounding the case, maybe it’s time for the police department to be more forthcoming with information regarding the investigation and to update the people of Washington, D.C. on the status of the case,’ said Brad Bauman, a spokesperson for Rich’s family.

Bauman’s statement follows renewed interest in the murder investigation, amid claims that Rich may have been the source who leaked thousands of DNC emails to Wikileaks last summer.

The paper, like most other mainstream media outlets, was sure to mention that Dotcom faces racketeering charges in the U.S, and is facing extradition from New Zealand over those charges (he lays out his case here).

Also, there is this. A pair of private investigators working on the case for the Seth Rich family have said they don’t think Seth’s shooting was related to any robbery.

We’ll continue to cover this story where it leads, because that’s what our readers expect us to do. If it turns out to be bogus – or goes in another direction – we’ll report that, too.

Stay tuned.

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Kim Dotcom bombshell: “It was Seth Rich” who gave DNC data to WikiLeaks, NOT the Russians

(National SentinelPolitical Intrigue: In a follow up to Monday’s incredible admission that he was involved with murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, famous hacker and Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom on Tuesday proclaimed definitively that it was Rich, and not the Russians, who provided thousands of sensitive DNC emails to whistleblower site WikiLeaks during last year’s presidential election campaigns.

On his website, kim.com, Dotcom stated emphatically: “I know that Seth Rich was involved in the DNC leak.”

He went on to say:

I know this because in late 2014 a person contacted me about helping me to start a branch of the Internet Party in the United States. He called himself Panda. I now know that Panda was Seth Rich.

Panda advised me that he was working on voter analytics tools and other technologies that the Internet Party may find helpful.

I communicated with Panda on a number of topics including corruption and the influence of corporate money in politics.

“He wanted to change that from the inside.”

I was referring to what I knew when I did an interview with Bloomberg in New Zealand in May 2015. In that interview I hinted that Julian Assange and Wikileaks would release information about Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.

The Rich family has reached out to me to ask that I be sensitive to their loss in my public comments. That request is entirely reasonable.

I have consulted with my lawyers. I accept that my full statement should be provided to the authorities and I am prepared to do that so that there can be a full investigation. My lawyers will speak with the authorities regarding the proper process.

If my evidence is required to be given in the United States I would be prepared to do so if appropriate arrangements are made. I would need a guarantee from Special Counsel Mueller, on behalf of the United States, of safe passage from New Zealand to the United States and back. In the coming days we will be communicating with the appropriate authorities to make the necessary arrangements. In the meantime, I will make no further comment.

Dotcom’s Tuesday statement follows earlier reporting by Fox News, which also said that, based on interviews with sources familiar with Rich’s case, that the late DNC staffer sent thousands of emails to WikiLeaks. Those emails were ultimately released by the whistleblower site and implicated DNC officials including then-chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in rigging their party’s nomination process to ace out Sen. Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. A class-action lawsuit against the DNC over the alleged rigging is currently underway.

Interestingly, a week after the Fox News report was posted, it was taken down, though a snippet of the original report remains online.

In addition to Dotcom’s initial claims over the weekend, an anonymous post to 4Chan/pol/ sub channel also claimed that the Democratic Party hierarchy is “scared” about the new revelations, which is why they are backing away from serious calls for President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment.

The anonymous post noted:

Anons, I work in D.C.

I know for certain that the Seth Rich case has scared the shit out of certain high ranking current and former Democratic Party officials.

This is the reason why they have backed away from impeachment talk. They know the smoking gun is out there, and they’re terrified you will find it, because when you do it will bring down the entire DNC, along with a couple of very big name politicians.

It appears that certain DNC thugs were not thorough enough when it came time to cover their tracks. [Former Clinton campaign manager John] Podesta saying he wanted to “make an example of the leaker” is a huge smoking gun.

There’s more to suggest that Rich — or someone from within the DNC — leaked the organization’s documents to WikiLeaks and not the Russians. In December a report noted that a disgruntled supporter of Sanders leaked the emails to the whistleblower site via Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who personally met the leaker in a wooded area near American University.

The leaker was motivated by “disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders,” The Daily Mail reported.

The question now is whether or not official Washington — via the appropriate congressional committees or, better yet the Justice Department — will take a look at what Dotcom has to offer and, if warranted, launch an investigation into what really happened, and who was involved.

Rich’s murder has been officially labeled a “botched robbery attempt” by the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. It remains unsolved.

The “robbers” shot Rich multiple times in the back. They didn’t take a thing — not a watch, cell phone, money or wallet.

This story was originally published at NewsTarget.com.

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