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.
It was stored with Lois Lerner’s hard drives.
Yep. And he bragged about it on camera. The Left didn’t care. Ordinary Democrats were more than willing to know and give it a pass ... even the same ones who were howling against Trump because he dared ask the case be reopened.
They’ll do no such thing. The FBI is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the democrat party. They take their orders from them, not from no stinking judges.
Agree, all points.
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...
The FBI considers themselves above any judge. They will not release anything that will incriminate themselves, the democrats, or the deepstate. Also, all the Epstein files they have that they are now using to blackmail the rich and powerful. They’ll never give that up.
There was a drive by shooting between two vehicles that ended up on the road going up to the US Capitol building— an access road. This happened shortly after Seth Rich’s murder by firearm.
US Capitol police engaged the shooters and shut down the altercation, seizing firearms. One of the firearms the ballistics reported (unofficially)at the time— rounds from one of the firearms matched the rounds that killed Seth Rich.
The important point: the investigation by the US Capitol Police was taken over by the FBI— specifically Andrew McCabe. Believe this was in the WaPo or WA Examiner. And was quickly buried. McCabe being part of the hitlery derp state machine— interesting linkage to the murder of the person who downloaded massive amounts of data to a flash drive (this proven by NSA expert Binney- it could not have been downloaded off the internet- it was several flash drives), data from the servers run by Ukrainian based CrowdStrike.
The DNC told the FBI they didn’t need to look at CrowdStrikes servers— and so... the didn’t! Amazing since the DNC claimed they had been hacked. Answer: they knew who did it... and they got rid of him. So goes the narrative.
Agree- my post below is from memory of the shootout on the Capitol Building mall days after Rich murder. Capitol Police investigation taken over by FBI— head of the FBI invest— Andrew McCabe. Try as might— cannot find the DC media that covered the shootout— which did happen. It got scrubbed.
Automatic weapons and semi-autos two ganger cars. One of the perps was from Baltimore— a known ganger hit man back then.
Ballistics on his weapon matched the rounds in Rich’s body.
And it was Donna Brazile who said on national tv that she was frightened and is keeping her curtains closed. She said this in relation to Rich being killed. Can’t make this up— and Podesta is a skinny pimp thug. Just the type to make threats and have them acted on- “on the street”.
Sounds like the PTB had Seth killed, then killed the killer.
But that would never happen. /s
Don’t tell me. They lost it and don’t know where it might be.
Or fed them disinformation that made them believe that any investigation would lead to embarrassing things coming out that would hurt their sons' image.
I lived in the region for a couple of years.
If you plot the bar (assuming he left and walked a straight path to his apartment area), there’s around 50 minutes of extra time. I’ve always thought that he started off in the wrong direction (being drunk) and walked in circles for that 50-odd minutes.
I would add...just in general, from midnight to 5 AM, I wouldn’t be walking anywhere in the eastern side of DC. It’s just not safe.
Makes you wonder...
These people make Nixon’s “dirty tricks” look like child’s
play.
I was going to mention that I don’t recall hearing he was heavily intoxicated before, but you beat me to it.
Maybe this detail is a planted seed for some new cover story.
Reminds me of that cybersecurity guy during the Bush admin who was walking around impaired and disoriented before turning up dead and tossed in a dumpster. One of the guys who had to do with the Vietnam Wall Memorial.
It is about time. Seth Rich was murdered by either the DNC or by a Deep State government agency.
The most telling fact is that Donna Brazil who took over the DNC shortly afterwards, publicly stated she was afraid for her life.
Again, I hope that Republicans control the House of Representatives and start investigating and changing the FBI and DOJ, along with the NSA.
There is a lot of corruption and murder that has been hidden to protect Democrats.
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