The FBI has asked a US court to reverse its order that it produce evidence from Seth Rich’s laptop — and if the court does not reverse its order, the FBI is asking for 66 years to produce the information.
The FBI, after claiming it never possessed Rich’s laptop or any information from it, was finally forced to acknowledge in 2020 that it possesses thousands of files from Seth Rich’s laptop.
Seth Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in cold blood on a street in Washington in mid-2016. Despite carrying a wallet with cash, cell phone, and an expensive watch, the killers did not take any of his valuables. Nobody has ever been arrested in connection with the murder.
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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, a Texas man who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the info.
The FBI’s claim that the privacy interest Rich’s family members hold outweighed the public interest was rejected by the judge, who noted the bureau cited no relevant case law supporting the argument.
But the ruling was erroneous, U.S. lawyers said in a new filing.
The bureau shouldn’t have to produce the information because of FOIA exemptions for information that are compiled for law enforcement purposes and “could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,” the lawyers said in a motion for reconsideration. Another exemption, which enables agencies to withhold information that would disclose law enforcement techniques also applies, they said.
“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 bureau “is currently working on getting the files from Seth Rich’s personal laptop into a format to be reviewed,” the government said in 2020.
Epoch Times reports: Information and material extracted from the computer were provided by a source to an FBI agent during a meeting on March 15, 2018, FBI records officer Michael Seidel said in a declaration. He said the files included photographs and documents, among other material.
In the new filing, government lawyers said the FBI never extracted the data, which it revealed as originating with a law enforcement agency. They said the information is on a compact disc containing images of the laptop.
“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,” they said.
To produce the information, the FBI would have to convert information on the disc into pages and then review the pages to redact information per FOIA, according to the government.
If Mazzant upholds his order, the FBI wants a lengthy period of time to perform the work—66 years, or 500 pages a month.
“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, but special counsel Robert Mueller said the real source was Russian hackers. Still, Mueller’s finding conflicts with statements from CrowdStrike, the firm hired to investigate how the DNC files were released.
Baxter Dmitry
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They are organised crime Murderers drug dealers arms dealers human traffickers extortionists blackmailer thieves liars fraudsters deceivers. Always have been. People are just stupid.
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The FBI is the “Cover Up Bureau” knowing full well the Illegal Drug Kingpins and all the Mafia in the United States. This has been going on since the FBI’s very beginning.
Yes indeed. The lindberg baby murder was one of the biggest coverups early on. Then the kennedy assassination. The FBI and the CIA are weapons of the corrupt.
Exactly Both serving the Ukraine party now. Fapping arseholes big buddies.
Here we have Lyndon Johnson, who was in on the President Kennedy Murder living 200 feet from J. Edgar Hoover for 25 years; they walked their dogs together. J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI for 47 years, until poisoned to death, covered up Lyndon Johnson’s participation in the President Kennedy Murder.
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It’s way past time to disband the FBI as well as most other three-letter-agencies.
So what’s new this is a organization of criminals sanctioned by political prostitute’s, glad people are seeing it for what it’s always been. Seems to be working exactly as intended covert corrupt unregulated above the law just how commies like their operators.
Corrupt scumbag P0S FBLIE are modern day CHEKISTs and should be executed accordingly. Kudos to the father of two in Florida who shot five FBLIE thugs killing two of the bastards. Hint he used a RING camera to see the slime coming.
Were it to be revealed that the FBI itself killed him would anyone really be shocked? I would not. I suspect that to be the case.
Agreed. The FBI has been corrupt since its inception. Remember Hoover wss invovlved investigating the Lindberg baby “kidnapping” and murder? The feds pinned the crime on a poor German immigrant, but in fact someone in the Lindberg family murdered the baby. The FBI has always been a weapon of the rich and powerful. Especially washington d.c. politicians.
Yes they knew Hoover was a transvestite homosexual who had his sidekick Tolson as his lover so he was easily blackmailed and forced to be obedient.
FBI is private security for the kosher mafia. Its job is to keep things as they are…
There is a lot to unpack here. Why does the FBI have the laptop in the first place? There original explanation provides no answers. A murder does not automatically fall into FBI jurisdiction. What does fall into their jurisdiction is national security issues, Their recent explanation implies that there is national security issues associated with Seth Rich, yet there is no investigation. If there is no investigation, what right do they have to seize property? Why wasn’t it returned to the family without extracting information? Can you spell “cover-up” ?
The FBI is a powerful mafia family with close ties to the Clinton Crime families and others.
So glad that Epstein guilty zioTrumpy P0S arrested them…. Oh… Wait… That didn’t happen but he did install ALL swamp things like Sessions then Bill Epstein connected Barr. Shoot Trump next to them
Clinton came to power through working with the Bush family It’s all in the “boys on the track” murder case, Bill and George were working together smuggling drugs and maybe weapons All around the Iran contra era. Hilary is Hilary Rhodhan Clinton and its through the Rodhan connections that’s she’s immune against criminality. The Bush family were nazi supporters too through Prescott Bush and relations to the Windsors as descendants of the Scottish Stewart Royal family bloodline that connects to the French royalty too.
66 years? Hillary will be dead long before that. So who are you REALLY protecting?
If i were dah head of F i would ask4 666 years as that would b a long time
The FBI is telling us Seth Rich was killed by intelligence assts.