The timing fueled the conspiracy theory that Rich had given the DNC documents to WikiLeaks, and that the DNC, Democratic Party and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have had him killed as retribution. There is no evidence to support those claims, but Farenthold alluded to them on CNN anyway. “There’s stuff circulating on the internet,” he said when CNN’s hosts pressed him for evidence. “Yet the D.C. police nor no federal investigator has had a look at the DNC computer. ... To me, we need to let the feds look at it.”

Source: Huffington Post May 24, 2017 16:18 UTC