Seth Rich conspiracy was a Russian military operation: Yahoo News

The Seth Rich conspiracy traces back to an SVR operation, reports Yahoo News today. Huge if true, and possibly the Russian military's biggest coup yet, not counting the one that landed Trump in the White House.

Russias foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, first circulated a phony bulletin disguised to read as a real intelligence report about the alleged murder of the former DNC staffer on July 13, 2016, according to the U.S. federal prosecutor who was in charge of the Rich case. That was just three days after Rich, 27, was killed in what police believed was a botched robbery while walking home to his group house in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C., about 30 blocks north of the Capitol., writes Michael Isikoff for Yahoo News:

The purported details in the SVR account seemed improbable on their face: that Rich, a data director in the DNCs voter protection division, was on his way to alert the FBI to corrupt dealings by Clinton when he was slain in the early hours of a Sunday morning by the former secretary of states hit squad.

Yet in a graphic example of how fake news infects the internet, those precise details popped up the same day on an obscure website, whatdoesitmean.com, that is a frequent vehicle for Russian propaganda. The websites article, which attributed its claims to Russian intelligence, was the first known instance of Richs murder being publicly linked to a political conspiracy.

(...) The Russian effort to exploit Richs tragic death didnt stop with the fake SVR bulletin.