Court orders production of Seth Rich laptop

Today, a federal judge ordered the FBI to “produce the information it possesses related to Seth Rich’s laptop.”

This case involves a multi-year fight by attorney Ty Clevenger to obtain records relating to the FBI/DOJ investigation of Seth Rich, particularly whether Rich was involved in the hack of the DNC or had communicated with Wikileaks.

This fight dates back to 2017 and includes two FOIA lawsuit. In the first lawsuit, the FBI produced no responsive documents. The parties knew the FBI had something, and so this sparked a second lawsuit – where the FBI somehow found 20,000 pages of potentially responsive documents. The court explains:

Of those 20,000 pages, the government found 1,596 pages of responsive documents, of which the government withheld 1,469 pages under various FOIA exemptions (privacy, law enforcement exemption, etc.).

The FBI also withheld the contents of Seth Rich’s personal laptop, which it possesses, in its entirety, alleging the privacy of Rich’s family in “preventing the public release of this information” outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

The court rejected that argument, stating “the FBI has not satisfied its burden of showing more than a de minimis privacy interest that would justify withholding information from Seth Rich’s laptop.”

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2 Comments

D September 30, 2022 at 09:30

So…what happens when the FIB tells the judge, “Yeah, we aren’t gonna do that”. Anything? Cause it doesn’t seem to me, nor anyone else, that the judges are actually in control of the courts anymore. Either that, or they are in on it, and this “order” is in itself a kind of false flag, making it appear that the fed judges are “trying to get to the crux of the matter” when they, in fact, are in on it too. I just don’t know.
Chris September 30, 2022 at 23:23

😂😂 this is a GD Distraction.

ATF most likely has them. 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
Lets see who’s Old.😂

My call…
This disappears.

Or the drives will be completely wiped or Massive Unrecoverable DATA damage/Loss.