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INTERVIEWER:· · · · So, you've also done interviews
20· as to -- switching channels slightly, but I'm sure it'll tie
21· back together -- the death of Seth Rich --
22· · · · · · INTERVIEWEE:· · · · Uh-huh.
23· · · · · · INTERVIEWER:· · · · -- and Rod Rosenstein was
24· witting in this -- in this operation as well, I believe.
25· Correct?
1· · · · · · INTERVIEWEE:· · · · Yes.· (Coughs, drinks water)·
2· Okay.· Sorry.· He was for their reasons, for the illegal·
3· reasons, but also to cover himself.
·4· · · · · · When Seth Rich had gone in the first time, I just·
5· don't have much information on it other than what I was told,·
6· but not what I had seen personally.·
7· · · · · · His first contact with WikiLeaks, I just don't·
8· know.· I do know that when he went to him the second time and·
9· came back, WikiLeaks had directed him on how to get further
10· information, and they wanted specific things, "Look here,
11· look here, here," because when he went in for the break-in he
12· grabbed a lot of information, just downloaded everything he
13· could that exposed a lot.· They were worried about the
14· exposure.
15· · · · · · The DNC -- Hillary and Bowser, Abrams -- not Abrams
16· -- excuse me -- Bowser and Brazile -- excuse me -- they were
17· all very worried about it, but Rod was personally worried
18· about it as well because he had been authoring stuff to
19· affect Hillary Clinton and he didn't want that to come out
20· because he would be out of it, he would be done, he would not
21· be appointed to anything, and he had a personal interest in
22· that one.
23· · · · · · So, when it got dumped in his lap to handle the
24· problem, he hired -- tapped people who he'd already worked
25· with for years who were dirty and he controlled.
1· · · · · · They owed their continued federal careers to him.·
2· He had saved them before, looked over things, allowed them to
·3· continue their career.· And he (inaudible) people all around
·4· him in one small circle in Baltimore.
·5· · · · · · INTERVIEWER:· · · · So, was it intended to be an
·6· assassination of Seth Rich or was it more intended to be a·
7· robbery, or do you know?
·8· · · · · · INTERVIEWEE:· · · · Intended to be a robbery, rough
·9· him up.· All they wanted was the thumb drive that he
10· routinely carried on him, the information he was going to
11· pass to WikiLeaks, what he had uncovered, and the more
12· focused information that WikiLeaks had requested.
13· · · · · · That's what they wanted.· He did not leave it at
14· home.· He always carried it because he had people living with
15· him.· And, again, Rod was very upset that this could expose
16· everything and wreck his plans.· He would've been done.
17· · · · · · It was a fairly tenuous relationship, you know, him
18· being a Republican and things, but he had proved himself to
19· be really dirty like they were and willing to give access to
20· everything he was doing for them.
21· · · · · · So, he had to recover it, and they didn't care --
22· he did not care how it was done except for it was supposed to
23· be robbed.· They had to recover it, did not care.· But Rod
24· put -- the additional thing on it was "Get it, no matter
25· how."
1· · · · · · He hired -- tapped his agent friend from DEA who he
·2· had covered for many, many times -- and he's dirty -- in
·3· Baltimore and other places throughout Maryland and then put
·4· him in charge of it.
·5· · · · · · He recruited someone else, and then they went down
·6· -- and this particular DEA agent is the gang specialist for
·7· the DEA, and specializes further in MS-13.
·8· · · · · · He was the one who went outside the local people
·9· and hired -- (inaudible) found the two MS-13 people down
10· south and brought them up -- or met them, actually.· They
11· came up and met him and he brought them into the city.· And
12· things went poorly beyond that
.13· · · · · · They were supposed to rob him.· Then the two guys
14· went ahead and killed him -- shot him, he died later.· They
15· recovered the thumb drive, which was then switched for one
16· that Rod had provided, the one that Shaun had loaded up for
17· him previously.
18· · · · · · So, he did -- he was able to recover, keep his
19· involvement in altering emails, breaking into Hillary
20· Clinton's server, things like that, and he kept --
21· · · · · · INTERVIEWER:· · · · (Interposing) So, they switched
22· a thumb drive that was on the body for a thumb drive that Rod
23· had prepared to be left behind as a -
24· · · · · · INTERVIEWEE:· · · · Right.
25· · · · · · INTERVIEWER:· · · · Okay.
1· · · · · · INTERVIEWEE:· · · · One that would be convincing
·2· but not expose him.
·3· · · · · · INTERVIEWER:· · · · Understood.·
4· · · · · · INTERVIEWEE:· · · · A lot of it was the same
·5· information, but not -- because they knew where they breaches
·6· had occurred, so a lot of it was the same thing, just void of
·7· anything that would point towards them or Rod specifically
.·8· · · · · · And things rapidly went downhill because they
·9· couldn't break into it.· It was encrypted.· They got it to a
10· couple different people.· They couldn't get into it and they
11· decided to clean up the mess, and one DEA agent went down the
12· following day, called out, took his wife's car and drove down
13· and killed them, things like that.
14· · · · · · So, it went bad quickly once he died.· It's
15· supposed to be a robbery, and the next thing they hear is --
16· you know, Donna Brazile and Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C.,
17· were at the hospital before he was even brought in, and they
18· did have people at the crime scene as well, and they were
19· there to recover it.
20· · · · · · As I said, it was supposed to be a robbery, he was
21· supposed to be, you know, beat up, unconscious, bad shape,
22· and they wanted to recover the thumb drive.· That’s why they
23· were there.
24· · · · · · INTERVIEWER:· · · · So, back to Rod Rosenstein for
25· a moment, what can you tell us about his involvement with
1· foreign nations with any type of intelligence transfer to·
2· groups outside of the country?·
3· · · · · · INTERVIEWEE:· · · · This goes back to the FBI·
4· operation called Ghost Stories.· It was very successful.
·5· They just kept heavy surveillance on known Russian assets
·6· within the U.S., everything they were doing, whatever they
·7· found, you know, what they were communicating back.
·8· · · · · · It was just surveillance.· But if you knew what
·9· they were sending back, then it would go the other way, you
10· could tell what they were accessing and what they had access
11· to.· Thoroughly good operation.· It was supposedly very
12· successful.
13· · · · · · It was Obama and Biden who did the Russian Reset,
14· along with Secretary Clinton, and they didn't want any
15· problems with the Russians (inaudible) so they told them to
16· cancel it.· Well, they didn't.· They kept their communication
17· open with them, it just changed.
18· · · · · · Instead of just surveillance, they started
19· communicating, they started providing information, and
20· initially it was wrong, but then they started giving it to
21· them in an exchange type of situation.
22· · · · · · Then they started altering the information, giving
23· them information, giving them inaccurate information.· They
24· were working them from the other side.
25· · · · · · Rod was aware of this.· He was part of it at this
1· time, because once it was shut down it became under the
·2· heading of the DOJ in Maryland and D.C., so he was part of
·3· it.· And then they were giving us this information.
·4· · · · · · They tried to pay him and he didn't take it.· He
·5· got -- he was like "Oh, no, no, no, no," because they were
·6· coming towards 2015, 2016 at the time and he was angling for
·7· a big position -- Attorney General, Supreme Court, then
·8· hopefully Vice President -- so he didn't want anything like
·9· that to pop up.
10· · · · · · Well, Shaun Bridges was actually taking the money
11· they were offering -- he was laundering it through bitcoin
12· around the world -- and Rod was hyper-pissed when he found
13· out.· It's one of the reasons he went after Shaun and put him
14· in jail.· He's still there.
15· · · · · · And so the deal was "You get six years, keep your
16· mouth shut or we'll go after you for everything and get 40."
17· But he started talking, had too much access when he was in
18· Terre Haute, and they brought him out to Virginia, where he's
19· at now, just to keep an eye on him.
20· · · · · · INTERVIEWER:· · · · Okay.
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