Posted on 11/29/2023 8:28:07 AM PST by Red Badger
A judge has ordered the FBI to turn over the laptop of murdered Democrat staffer Seth Rich.
Texas Judge Amos L. Mazzant ordered "a timeline for the disclosure of information on Seth Rich's personal laptop, Seth Rich's work laptop, the DVD and tape drive within 14 days following issuance of this Memorandum of Opinion and Order" on Wednesday morning.
Rich, who worked for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was killed on July 10, 2016, while making his way home from a night out in Washington, D.C. The 27-year-old was speaking to his girlfriend on the phone when shots were heard.
His death has, in the years since, been used by right-wing activists to fuel far-reaching theories about Democrats. While a killer has not been found, police have said evidence indicates he was the victim of a botched robbery.
The ruling is the latest in a long-running freedom of information battle between the FBI and Ty Clevenger, an attorney representing the plaintiff, Texas-based Brian Huddleston.
Huddleston first submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI on September 1, 2017, requesting information relating to his investigation into Rich's potential involvement in DNC email leaks in June 2016,RadarOnline reported last year.
Although the FBI responded to Huddleston's request two weeks later saying they were "unable to locate any responsive main files," it was later unveiled that the FBI had over 20,000 pages of potentially relevant material, according to RadarOnline.
Of these, 1,596 pages were directly related to Rich. Another 1,496 of the pages were withheld due to a series of FOIA exemptions.
In September 2022, the court entered a Prior Order requiring the FBI and the Department of Justice to produce the information it possessed related to Seth Rich's laptop and responsive to the plaintiff's FOIA requests.
The FBI filed a Motion for Clarification in September 2022, which has now been denied. The bureau is also required to "produce a Vaughn index addressing the information it possesses on the compact disk containing images of Seth Rich's personal laptop that is responsive to plaintiff's FOIA requests."
Newsweek reached out to the FBI via email for comment.
Rich's death sparked a wave of now-debunked conspiracy theories claiming he was responsible for publicly leaking thousands of DNC emails relating to the involvement of Russian hackers in the election of Donald Trump. Far-right figures alleged he was killed as part of a cover-up.
After his death, Rich was proven to not be the source of any email leaks, with the Mueller Report—also known as the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election—finding Russian hackers responsible.
Update 11/29/23, 9:55 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
It was cleaned long ago.
Like with a cloth?...................😉🤦♂️
Isn’t he one of the pedos too....? Like he’s the “Seth Rich” that Isaac Kappy was talking about just before he murd- ah, committed suicide....?
The cover up continues. Hillery Clinton is evil.
Hillary was able to live free the past 7 years because of this cover-up. There aren’t too many years before Hillary goes to the old communists home anyway. And much of the public has not only forgotten about how the Dims rigged their own primary, the Dim voters have gotten used to vote rigging and even embrace it.
MAGNETS!!!
If anything was on it I doubt it’s still there
“now debunked”
Debunked by nobody.
The government is evil, too.
They’ll be shocked and outraged if the primaries are not rigged and a serious contest ensues.
> It was cleaned long ago. <
Yep. Cleaned and replaced with what the FBI wants you to see.
I’m waiting for the 51 top US intelligence dupes to sign a statement contending that the Seth Rich computer is a fake.
Assange made it very plain that Seth was his source.
Assange has been confined 10 years now without charge. I suppose it has kept him from being arkancided.
Any person or organization that ceases to be accountable for its actions (i.e., becomes above the law) will abuse that privilege increasingly over time.
The author is a good little apparatchik.
“Far right”, “conspiracy theory”, “debunked”.
Well, there you go
The US Ministry of Propaganda says everything you think about Seth Rich is all fake.
Who debunked it? When? Where’s the evidence debunking it?
Damned if someone didn’t “accidentally” format the hard drive! Sorry about that.
Aliss’s grammar stinks, just like this article.
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