I want to attempt to clarify the matter of the material Wikileaks put out concerning Podesta and the DNC. The Podesta emails tie directly to Pizzagate. The DNC emails are connected but not directly The hacking of the Podesta emails that was then put out by wikileaks is not attributed to Seth Rich. It was these e-mails that brought Pizzagate into focus with all the code words for pedophilia included in many of the emails. A hack is "use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system." It has been reported that it was a phishing email that made the hack into his emails possible. http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/310234-typo-may-have-caused-podesta-email-hack Some credit Guccifer 2.0 https://thinkprogress.org/robert-stone-exchanged-messages-guccifer-2-0-f9e75f15d1aa who some maintain is a front for THE RUSSIANS The DNC emails are presumed to be leaked by an insider not hacked. A leak is "an intentional disclosure of secret information." A leak comes from someone on the inside and the evidence points strongly to Seth Rich. The intent seems to be to expose how the Hillary campaign used the DNC to defeat Bernie Sanders. I think the two get conflated and rightly so because we are looking at some of the same bad actors with John Podesta being the main link between the two.
But I don't think anyone has suggested that Seth Rich was the one who gave the Podesta emails to Wikileaks, just the DNC emails. Nonetheless he may have known about the pedophilia that seems so rampant in Washington and that may have played a part in his decision to leak the DNC emails. The MSM of course is all about who did the leaking and ignoring the content of both Wikileaks releases. They are both damning and John Podesta seems to be key in both, the machinations that got Hillary the nomination and the horrible web of pedophile behavior that binds influential people together and keeps them in line.