FBI forced to release secrets from Seth Rich computer
Was Assange right? Did Seth Rich steal the DNC emails and give them to Assange instead of some unknown and still undiscovered entities working for Trump or Russia? That seems the most likely. Podesta had threatened the life of anyone if he ever caught the person stealing info from the DNC. Seth Rich worked at the DNC and he despised the way Hillary and gang were unjustly forcing Sanders out of the competition in the 2016 presidential race. Rich was shot days after Adsanged revealed he had copies of DNC emails. Rich was murdered in the street in the middle of the night in a case the FBI and DC police claim was an unsolved robbery.
The problem arises when the FBI came into possession of Rich's laptop. How did they get that, raid his home after the murder? Why did the FBI claim for years that they did not have the computer? Why is the FBI still refusing to allow investigators to see what is on that computer? Maybe now the FBI will be forced to tell the truth and release some hidden facts from Rich's computer now that a court judge has ordered them to do so.
Judge Orders FBI to Produce Information From Seth Rich’s Laptop (theepochtimes.com)
Law enforcement officers walk out of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington on Jan. 28, 2019. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Judge Orders FBI to Produce Information From Seth Rich’s Laptop
By Zachary Stieber
September 29, 2022 Updated: September 29, 2022
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The FBI must produce information from Seth Rich’s laptop computer to a Texas man, a federal judge ruled on Sept. 29.
The bureau improperly withheld the information from Brian Huddleston, the Texas man, according to a 53-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant.
Seth Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered around 4:20 a.m. in July 2016 in Washington. Officials have claimed the killing was done as part of a botched robbery.
The FBI has acknowledged it has files from Seth Rich’s computer but tried withholding them from Huddleston, citing a portion of federal law that enables agencies to withhold information that would be a clear invasion of privacy interests when the interests are not outweighed by the public interest.
The bureau said that Rich’s family members have a privacy interest in preventing the release of the information that outweighs the public interest, but Mazzant, an Obama appointee, rejected the argument.
“The Court is not persuaded by the FBI’s argument that Seth Rich’s survivors have a privacy interest in withholding the entirety of the information contained on Seth Rich’s laptop,” he said.
“Pointedly, the FBI cites to no case law for the proposition that survivors of the deceased have a privacy interest in information related to the deceased’s favorite music or relationship history,” he added.
Previous rulings in other cases have found that loved ones of dead people have a substantial privacy interest in preventing the disclosure of autopsies, death scene photographs, and other materials from a person’s final moments. Those rulings don’t apply to this case, Mazzant said.
He ordered the FBI to produce the information to Huddleston within 14 days.
Seth Rich. (LinkedIn)
‘Major Victory’
Ty Clevenger, a lawyer representing Huddleston, said the ruling was a victory.
“The FBI has fought tooth and nail to conceal evidence about Seth Rich, so Judge Mazzant’s order is a major victory for us,” Clevenger told The Epoch Times via email.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Queries sent to lawyers who represented Rich’s parents in a different matter were not immediately returned.
Clevenger said any files not of a personal nature will be posted online after Huddleston receives them.
“As soon as we can get it ready to post I’ll put it up on my blog for everybody to look at,” he said.
False Claims
The bureau falsely told Clevenger when he asked for information on Seth Rich that it didn’t possess any. Emails disclosed in a separate case proved the FBI wrong. The bureau identified some potentially responsive 20,000 files in response to Huddleston’s requests, later narrowing it down to 1,563 pages.
The FBI has only produced 75 pages to date, while withholding hundreds of others.
During the litigation, the FBI admitted for the first time that it had come into possession of files from Rich’s laptop.
But Michael Seidel, an FBI official, said in a declaration that the FBI was provided “information and material extracted from Seth Rich’s personal laptop.” He also said, “since the FBI had no involvement in the extraction of the data from Seth Rich’s personal laptop, there is no way to know with certainty if the information provided by the source and maintained by the FBI in the Special Counsel’s Office record collection, accurately depicts the contents of the information contained on Seth Rich’s personal laptop at the time of his death.”
Still, the official said that the computer “may contain information of family (parents and siblings), friends or acquaintances (professional or personal), his favorite music and other material that would reveal details concerning both personal and sensitive relationships.” At the same time, he acknowledged that Seth Rich himself “has no privacy interests due to being deceased.”
Clevenger and Huddleston have an expert ready to analyze the information from the laptop to see whether it was tampered with after Rich’s death.
The problem arises when the FBI came into possession of Rich's laptop. How did they get that, raid his home after the murder? Why did the FBI claim for years that they did not have the computer? Why is the FBI still refusing to allow investigators to see what is on that computer? Maybe now the FBI will be forced to tell the truth and release some hidden facts from Rich's computer now that a court judge has ordered them to do so.
Judge Orders FBI to Produce Information From Seth Rich’s Laptop (theepochtimes.com)
Law enforcement officers walk out of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington on Jan. 28, 2019. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
US NEWS
Judge Orders FBI to Produce Information From Seth Rich’s Laptop
By Zachary Stieber
September 29, 2022 Updated: September 29, 2022
biggersmaller
The FBI must produce information from Seth Rich’s laptop computer to a Texas man, a federal judge ruled on Sept. 29.
The bureau improperly withheld the information from Brian Huddleston, the Texas man, according to a 53-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant.
Seth Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered around 4:20 a.m. in July 2016 in Washington. Officials have claimed the killing was done as part of a botched robbery.
The FBI has acknowledged it has files from Seth Rich’s computer but tried withholding them from Huddleston, citing a portion of federal law that enables agencies to withhold information that would be a clear invasion of privacy interests when the interests are not outweighed by the public interest.
The bureau said that Rich’s family members have a privacy interest in preventing the release of the information that outweighs the public interest, but Mazzant, an Obama appointee, rejected the argument.
“The Court is not persuaded by the FBI’s argument that Seth Rich’s survivors have a privacy interest in withholding the entirety of the information contained on Seth Rich’s laptop,” he said.
“Pointedly, the FBI cites to no case law for the proposition that survivors of the deceased have a privacy interest in information related to the deceased’s favorite music or relationship history,” he added.
Previous rulings in other cases have found that loved ones of dead people have a substantial privacy interest in preventing the disclosure of autopsies, death scene photographs, and other materials from a person’s final moments. Those rulings don’t apply to this case, Mazzant said.
He ordered the FBI to produce the information to Huddleston within 14 days.
Seth Rich. (LinkedIn)
‘Major Victory’
Ty Clevenger, a lawyer representing Huddleston, said the ruling was a victory.
“The FBI has fought tooth and nail to conceal evidence about Seth Rich, so Judge Mazzant’s order is a major victory for us,” Clevenger told The Epoch Times via email.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Queries sent to lawyers who represented Rich’s parents in a different matter were not immediately returned.
Clevenger said any files not of a personal nature will be posted online after Huddleston receives them.
“As soon as we can get it ready to post I’ll put it up on my blog for everybody to look at,” he said.
False Claims
The bureau falsely told Clevenger when he asked for information on Seth Rich that it didn’t possess any. Emails disclosed in a separate case proved the FBI wrong. The bureau identified some potentially responsive 20,000 files in response to Huddleston’s requests, later narrowing it down to 1,563 pages.
The FBI has only produced 75 pages to date, while withholding hundreds of others.
During the litigation, the FBI admitted for the first time that it had come into possession of files from Rich’s laptop.
But Michael Seidel, an FBI official, said in a declaration that the FBI was provided “information and material extracted from Seth Rich’s personal laptop.” He also said, “since the FBI had no involvement in the extraction of the data from Seth Rich’s personal laptop, there is no way to know with certainty if the information provided by the source and maintained by the FBI in the Special Counsel’s Office record collection, accurately depicts the contents of the information contained on Seth Rich’s personal laptop at the time of his death.”
Still, the official said that the computer “may contain information of family (parents and siblings), friends or acquaintances (professional or personal), his favorite music and other material that would reveal details concerning both personal and sensitive relationships.” At the same time, he acknowledged that Seth Rich himself “has no privacy interests due to being deceased.”
Clevenger and Huddleston have an expert ready to analyze the information from the laptop to see whether it was tampered with after Rich’s death.
