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Assange Hints DNC Staffer Rich Killed for Being Source in Mass Email Leak

© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Go to the mediabankA video link up with Julian Assange, journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, at the session, End of the Monopoly: The Open Information Age, held as part of the New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream international media forum at the Rossiya Segodnya International Multimedia Press Center
A video link up with Julian Assange, journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, at the session, End of the Monopoly: The Open Information Age, held as part of the New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream international media forum at the Rossiya Segodnya International Multimedia Press Center - Sputnik International
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hinted on Wednesday that the last month's murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich took place because he could have been a "source."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a copy of a U.N. ruling as he makes a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, in central London, Britain February 5, 2016. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, WikiLeaks offered a reward of $20,000 for leads on the unsolved murder of Rich who was gunned down last month. The 27-year-old DNC voter expansion data director was shot at several times a block away from his Washington, DC home on July 10. He was rumored to be behind the recent DNC email leak.

"Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just two weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington," Assange told Dutch TV.

The US police claimed the murder appeared to be an attempted robbery gone wrong, but Rich's family reportedly said that nothing had been stolen. Assange also ruled out a robbery scenario.

"No, there’s no finding… I’m suggesting that our sources take risks," he said, yet refusing to confirm directly that Rich was a WikiLeaks source. "We have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States. Our sources face serious risks. That’s why they come to us. So we can protect their anonymity."

In July, WikiLeaks published almost 20,000 pages of hacked emails that apparently showed how top DNC officials deliberately worked to obstruct Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders' campaign to favor Hillary Clinton's nomination bid.

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