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 records on JFK’ asdasination were only deep sized for 75 years
Then a separate House committee can investigate Seth Rich's death and subpoena the FBI records, NSA record, DOJ records, CIA records, an President Obama Administration records involving the Death of Seth R. Should be a fun shit show of Democrats trying to throw each other under the bus.
I get it. You’re not a fan - that’s fine.
Knock yourself out.
66 years = bigly cover up
Granny walking across the capitol lawn can be located in seconds and have a full heavily armed SWAT patrol locking her up sans trial or bail.
Man killed in “random” attack or planted pipe bombs. “We know nothing.”
How about...
F... the
Bureau of
Idiots
HELL NO!
Release it yesterday!
They are still attempting to cover up the fact that Seth Rich was murdered for releasing information about democrats in general and hillary in specific.
Everyone who cares already knows, but as long as they don't actually admit it in court or other proceedings, they are allowed by the idiotic 'rules' of the District of Criminals denzions to pretend that it isn't true.
They are basically playing a game. They can pretend whatever they want to as long as they want as long as it is not formally adjudicated somehow. This childish crap is what passes as 'reality' to the U.S. government, which is the largest and most deadly such organization on the planet.
The capture of the FBI preceeds Obama by decades. It hasn't been legitimate since way before Kennedy, if it ever was.
IMHO, Rudy Guiliani should be America’s next Attorney General.
Truth, Justice and The American Way will follow.
Some people on this site and elsewhere take their trump worship quite a bit farther than is healthy. Because someone may criticize some of Trump's personnel decisions, that doesn't make them anti-Trump or anti-MAGA. Personally, I think some of his decision regarding appointments sucked big time. Wray and Barr were two big such mistakes. I think their vileness should be obvious to anyone at this point. He let Sessions stay on far too long as well when it past obvious that he hadn't the fortitude to stand up to the swamp.
I think the reason for this is because Trump is too willing to give the benefit of the doubt for too long. That is both a good quality, in that it means he stands behind people for longer than the average politician does, but it is also bad in that he tends to let people continue to do damage for fa too long.
It is actually possible to support the man and his policies (i.e., MAGA), without displaying slavish devotion.
cc to my previous post.
Some people find a hook and just never let go of it.
Well, we know that there is damning evidence on that laptop that the USStasi does not want public. RELEASE IT TOMORROW!
Since you are addressing me, and since I have never worshiped or slavishly devoted myself to President Trump, please do me the courtesy of presenting a rational case, rather than tossing out a string of insulting straw man fallacies.
Of course, no one should be worshipping or slavishly devoting themselves to President Trump - that goes without saying.
As far as I know, nobody on FR has ever once suggested we should worship President Trump. Yet for some reason, his detractors here constantly feel the need to warn us against it! Why is that?
Just state what you consider to be his failings, concede what you think are his strengths, and let’s discuss a course of action like rational people. No need for insulting straw man epitaphs.
Nothing to see here, move along citizens.
No, not a coverup, not at all!
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