Article snippet: Posted at 11:55 pm on August 2, 2017 by Susan Wright Drip, drip, drip… A former employee of a Russian propaganda outfit, Sputnik, is saying his employers asked him to bring up the Seth Rich story in a press briefing, in order to distract from all the eyes peering at Russia. This particular detail is coming to light, right on the tail of a lawsuit by a former Fox News contributor and private investigator, Rod Wheeler, who is suing Fox News for allegedly adding details to his report on information gathered on the Rich case. Wheeler also alleges that the wealthy Trump supporter who hired him to work the case, Ed Butowsky, had mentioned that Trump was leaning on them to get the report out. Fox’s Sean Hannity pushed the Seth Rich case for weeks, openly admitting that if it could be proven that Rich was the source of the leaks of Democratic National Committee emails to Wikileaks, a move many thought damaged Hillary Clinton’s chance at the presidency, then that would prove motive for Rich’s murder (by Clinton operatives) and would also stop the Russia probe. The U.S. Intelligence community, across the board, agrees that Russia was behind the release of those emails. After Rich’s family pushed against the story being spread by Fox, the network eventually retracted the story, saying it did not meet their “journalistic standards.” Hannity, however, continued to push the story for days after. Speaking of days after: If even a word of this is accurate, it becomes a new t... Link to the full article to read more