Re:Chelsea Manning released from prison
by hackunomatter on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:01PM
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You can keep finding tenuous connections, but in the end, there's no proof. It's all speculation, with assumptions, biased interpretations, etc.
When you don't want to accept the obvious, it's easy to just keep scratching away until you think you find something (look up pareidolia).
If he's being paid by someone closely affiliated with the Democratic Party - and I don't know that he is, I'm building an air castle here - then distancing the Rich family from WikiLeaks would be in his best interest.
This seems likely to me, as per the CNN article you linked:
> Wheeler was put in touch with the Rich family through Dallas businessman Ed Butowsky, who told CNN he had offered to pay any bills associated with the investigation.
> "You have a family who can't afford a PI. Their son was killed. So I offered to help out," Butowsky said.
If they truly couldn't afford a PI, then I doubt they could afford a top-tier PR professional to speak on their behalf.