Posted on 10/31/2022 9:52:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Last Updated on October 29, 2022
The FBI is asking a federal court to reverse its order that demanded the bureau to disclose information from a laptop belonging to Seth Rich. If the judge refuses, the FBI has asked for a delay of 66 years. Rich was working as a staffer for the Democratic National Committee when he was shot and killed on a Washington D.C. street in 2016. No arrests have ever been made in connection with the Rich killing.
U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant, an Obama appointee, ruled in September that the bureau must hand over information from the computer to Brian Huddleston, who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the information.
The FBI asserted that a release would violate the privacy of Rich’s family members. Their assertion that these privacy interests outweighed public interest in the Seth Rich murder was ultimately denied by Mazzant, who ordered disclosure. Mazzant stated that the bureau failed to cite any relevant case law in their request.
In a new filing, U.S. lawyers are arguing that FOIA exemptions for information that are compiled for law enforcement purposes and “could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,” should be withheld.
“Given the Court’s findings that except for the information related to Seth Rich’s laptop withheld pursuant to Exemptions 6 and 7(C) based on privacy interests, the FBI properly withheld or redacted all other information responsive to Huddleston’s requests, the production order seems inconsistent with the rest of the order,” the motion stated.
The FBI previously claimed that it was not in possession of Seth Rich’s laptop, or any information from it. Then, in 2020, the bureau admitted that it had several thousand files from the computer.
At that time, the FBI stated that it was “getting the files from Seth Rich’s personal laptop into a format to be reviewed.”
Files and other material extracted from the laptop were provided to the FBI from a source in 2018, FBI records officer Michael Seidel wrote in a filing.
In the latest filing, government attorneys have claimed that the FBI never extracted the data, saying it come from a different law enforcement agency. The filing stated that photos from the Seth Rich laptop are currently stored on a compact disc.
“The FBI did not open an investigation into the murder of Seth Rich, nor did it provide investigative or technical assistance to any investigation into the murder of Seth Rich. As a result, the FBI has never extracted the data from the compact disc and never processed the information contained on the disc,” government lawyers said.
In order to produce the information, the FBI would need to convert the data into pages, which would then be reviewed and redacted per FOIA, said lawyers for the bureau.
If Judge Mazzant opts to uphold the order, the FBI is asking for a whopping 67 years to process and disclose information from the laptop. “If the court overrules the FBI’s motion, the FBI wants to produce records at a rate of 500 pages per month. At that rate, it will take almost 67 years just to produce the documents, never mind the images and other files,” Ty Clevenger, a lawyer representing Huddleston, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“After dealing with the FBI for five years, I now assume that the FBI is lying to me unless and until it proves otherwise. The FBI is desperately trying to hide records about Seth Rich, and that begs the question of why.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suggested Rich leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) files to WikiLeaks. This has been denied by former FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who blamed the leak on Russian hackers.
The FBI has a crack team of monkeys producing the documents in printed form by pecking randomly on manual typewriters.
FBI and DOJ goons.
Goons.
Paid by us to destroy our country.
So long as the present, two wing UNIparty is existant...NEVER HAPPEN!!!
Judge we don’t have the laptop.... Again Judge we don’t have the laptop. Well Judge if we did possibly have said laptop we would be unable to release for 66 years..... 🧐
That seems reasonable
If we take back the White House in 2024 who should head up the FBI and the Justice Department?
In a new filing, U.S. lawyers are arguing that FOIA exemptions for information that are compiled for law enforcement purposes and “could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,” should be withheld.
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The go-to excuse of the corrupt FBI.
but they went thru the Trump papers 48hrs...
So President Trump didn’t fight hard enough for you?
That’s absurd. He fought as bravely as anyone could possibly fight - and he is still doing it.
In fact, he was such a threat to the deep state they impeached him twice, and when that didn’t work, they outright stole an election from him.
The way he fought the deep state it’s a miracle he is still alive - we are lucky he didn’t meet Seth Rich’s fate.
No, what we need is a President exactly like President Trump, but this time we all need to do a better job of having his back.
His own party was against him - heck, even a lot of FReepers are regularly stabbing him in the back.
Nothing to see, here......
Or, with Pfizer asking for 77 years.....right?
They don’t have the laptop from which they gleaned tens of thousands of files.
Prolly NeverTrumper retreads.
“ could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,””
Now that we know that the “confidential source”, such as Doroshenko, might be one of the criminals involved in what they are investigating, we have even less trust in our DOJ.
66 years from now, or 66 years from when the JFK assassination files are released?
How long are the Obama records sealed. College records, State Department passport files, etc. have all been sealed and I don’t recall any justification ever been given.
Didn’t Trump hire/appoint/nominate/support Barr, Pence, Mulvaney, Bolton, Wray, Milley, Fauci etc etc.? Deep staters all.
Try not to conflate your feelings with facts.
Why not 666 years?
The whole thing stinks. Bad.
I’m surprised that the FBI didn’t ask for 666 years.
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