Given the FBI’s deliberately created information vacuum, it’s reasonable to ask whether Rich [was] murdered to conceal the actual source of the DNC server hack, which harmed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Did Rich remove these emails from the DNC server and deliver them to Julian Assange of Wikileaks, who subsequently published them? The FBI and others wove the DNC hack into the Russian narrative and blamed the Russians. If Rich was the source of the DNC leak, he could expose and destroy the Russian narrative.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/the_fbi_again_tries_to_block_seth_richs_laptop_from_public_view.html