Posted on 10/10/2022 8:02:18 PM PDT by bitt
Court was "not persuaded" by FBI's claims of family privacy.
A judge has ordered the FBI to release information it has in connection to the laptop of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee staffer who was fatally shot in Washington in 2016.
Rich's 2016 death sparked conspiracy theories that he had participated in the DNC's infamous email leak that same year; that data breach has been linked to Russian hackers who were hoping to influence that year's presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.
In a Sept. 29 ruling, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant ruled partially in favor of Brian Huddleston, a Texas resident who in both 2017 and 2020 filed repeated Freedom of Information Act requests with the FBI related to its investigations into Rich's murder.
The court found that, though the FBI had broad latitude to withhold many documents from its FOIA response, the bureau had "improperly withheld" information "with regard to Seth Rich's laptop" in its possession.
Mazzant in the ruling ordered the FBI to "produce the information it possesses related to Seth Rich’s laptop and responsive to [Huddleston's] FOIA requests within 14 days of this Order."
The bureau has until Thursday, Oct. 13, to respond to the ruling.
Mazzant further noted in the ruling that though the FBI had conducted a technically "adequate" search for Huddleston's records requests, it was nevertheless "far from perfect."
"Had it not been for Huddleston’s persistence, it is likely that the Government’s failure to locate over 20,000 pages of potentially responsive records would have gone unnoticed," the judge wrote.
Authorities say Rich—who was reportedly heavily intoxicated at the time of his death—was likely killed in a burglary gone wrong outside of his D.C. house in the early morning hours.
Like Tulane co-eds get so stumbling drunk on Friday nights that homeowners regularly find them passed out in their shrubbery or on their front porches on Saturday morning.
You jest. Look how the gopers handled the Waco investigation.
Scotland Yard eFit profile
Pretty amazing how it looks like those two
Women and hedges? It is a phenomenon in my neighborhood.
FBI claims about preserving “family privacy” are specious on the surface. The FBI has been singularly lacking in such preservation when organizing raids on political “enemies of the state”. inviting CNN in as the “propagandists of record” when making these raids, and sweeping legal counsel aside while making unjustified searches and seizures.
They have no credibility left.
I don’t know why they would report on this, and I don’t know why I haven’t seen it before. Feels weird
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apparently he spent a lot of time on the phone with his girlfriend as he walked home and it was she who said he sounded very drunk...
New and improved data‼️
He leaked data and was killed because of it.
Arkancide transplanted to DC.
Wonder if there’s anything left of the original files?
Yup
Why would the corrupt feds still have this intact after all this time?
I cant imagine it wasn’t destroyed long ago.
At the very least, wiped thoroughly… with a cloth…
Sheesh! It's right there on the shelf between Anthony Weiner's and Hunter's.
Oops. It fell into a vat of acid by accident.
That was John Wheeler. And he may not have been drunk, but rather drugged, as Seth Rich might have been before the hit. We never found out about who killed John Wheeler because the Delaware Attorney General shut down the investigation after a few months. Beau Biden was the Delaware Attorney General at the time.
This is big news.
Squirrel....
The FBI won’t do it because it is a criminal enterprise completely controlled by leftist ideology. They will delay, obfuscate, litigate and eventually ignore that judge.
Data goooooood question.
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