Dave, expand the thinking. The DNC would have asked Comey to find the leaker. Like a good soldier, Comey would have used the resources of the FBI to uncover Seth Rich and inform either Podesta or Huma. The word of the leaker would have circulated at the highest levels in the DNC & the Clinton campaign, and the 'next step' would have been a group decision. To keep their alibis clean, the matter would have gone to somewhere higher in the deep state hierarchy, where a hasty knee-jerk emotional and angry decision was made and paid for by this very connected and powerful person who also had the power to have the media bury the story, and the FBI to bury the evidence. Very few people can do this. But killing Seth was a mistake because too many people would have been in the loop in the campaign and in the DNC. Sooner or later somebody is going to spill the beans to save their own skin. Watch for the deep state to possibly create an event like a market crash to divert the attention of the world while the deep state works in the background to clean this mess up, but the one person they dare not touch is Comey...