FBI Defies Legal Ruling, Refuses to Hand Over Seth Rich Laptop

[Geee]

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Remember Seth Rich, the DNC staffer who perished under highly questionable circumstances several years ago, whom many have speculated may have been the Wikileaks source for the DNC email hack of 2016?

After years of denying they had anything related to Seth Rich, the FBI and DOJ were caught lying over and over again.  In September 2023, a judge finally demanded the FBI and DOJ provide all they had regarding Seth Rich to Attorney Clevenger. The FBI responded requesting another 66 years before releasing the information. They wanted it moved out like the JFK assassination reports.

Then in late November, a Federal Judge ruled the FBI must hand over evidence regarding former DNC employee Seth Rich’s murder to Ty Clevenger…

It’s now been over 40 days since this ruling came down and the lawless Chris Wray FBI has defied the court order.

[Valin]

8 minutes ago, Geee said:

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Then in late November, a Federal Judge ruled the FBI must hand over evidence regarding former DNC employee Seth Rich’s murder to Ty Clevenger…

It’s now been over 40 days since this ruling came down and the lawless Chris Wray FBI has defied the court order.

Ty Clevenger

@Ty_Clevenger

 

Just when I think the FBI can't get any more arrogant or lawless, there's this from the Seth Rich case. Can MSM reporters like

@oliverdarcy, @AndyKroll, & @Isikoff finally admit that none of this passes the smell test?

That maybe they got duped? http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024.01.11-Response-to-court-order-stamped.pdf

 

10:10 PM · Jan 11, 2024

 

 

Rule Of law. Wow What A Concept!

[SDwaters]

1 hour ago, Geee said:

It’s now been over 40 days since this ruling came down and the lawless Chris Wray FBI has defied the court order.

Two tier justice at its finest. 

[Geee]

@SDwaters @Valin And just what could be soooo sensitive to be on a DNC employee's computer to have to keep it secret for 66 years???? This just stinks to high heaven!!!

[Valin]

6 minutes ago, Geee said:

@SDwaters @Valin *And just what could be soooo sensitive to be on a DNC employee's computer to have to keep it secret for 66 years???? This just stinks to high heaven!!!

 

* I'd tell you, but then I'd  have to kill  you .

[Valin]

17 minutes ago, Geee said:

@SDwaters @Valin And just what could be soooo sensitive to be on a DNC employee's computer to have to keep it secret for 66 years???? This just stinks to high heaven!!!

Thing is, the same thing could be said about The RNC. At the risk of sounding like some tin foil hat nutter, there is stuff that  Both parties have done and do, that  are not exactly legal..moral.

 

[Geee]

1 hour ago, Valin said:

there is stuff that  Both parties have done and do, that  are not exactly legal..moral.

And quite a bit of it has become known over the years and people re-elect them anyway. Don't let anything get in the way of MY gimmees.

[Valin]

35 minutes ago, Geee said:

gimmees.

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[Geee]

1 hour ago, Valin said:

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Government handouts

[Geee]

The FBI Again Tries To Block Seth Rich’s Laptop From Public View

 

 

 

Not surprisingly, our media have ignored the Rich story. As I sat at Starbucks, I showed twelve random people a recent news photograph of FBI Director Christopher Wray. Most were under thirty and primarily female. None could identify Wray by name or position. I blame our media for the absence of objective reporting, censoring information, and publishing propaganda without question, i.e., false war porn and casualty counts of Hamas. Small wonder, then, that so many people don’t know about Seth Rich and his sad death, yet continuous trickles of new information make it increasingly clear that the FBI is hiding something.

Most American Thinker readers are familiar with the fact that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee employee, was murdered on D.C.’s streets in 2016. Inconsistencies in reports about his death, combined with its timing vis-à-vis the Russia Hoax, have made it easy to believe that this was no mere street crime. What’s been most suspicious is the FBI’s desperate efforts to keep secret information about its investigation into Rich’s death, and it’s the FBI’s conduct that is the subject of this post.

(For those new to this story, please read the earlier AT article, “Who is Seth Rich? Who Murdered Him? And What’s The Deep State Hiding?”)

The FBI apparently obtained Rich’s laptop after his murder. However, the FBI has refused to comply with FOIA requests asking for it to release the laptop’s contents. This refusal continues even though a federal district court twice ordered it to do so. The first court order was on September 29, 2022 (Order and Opinion), and, more recently, on November 28, 2023 (Memorandum Opinion and Order). See Epoch Times, “FBI Seeks Another Delay in Seth Rich Case as Plaintiff Urges Production Before 2024 Election.” See the FBI response dated January 11, 2024 (Response to Nov 28, 2023, Memorandum and Opinion).

I’ve read the most recent filings in the FOIA case, Brian Huddleston vs. Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Department of Justice (PACER Case 4:20-cv-00447-ALM), and can share their contents here. Huddleston has tried to get information from Rich’s computer since 2017. The FBI initially claimed it had no responsive records but, “little by little the FBI was forced to admit that it had thousands of pages of responsive documents…[including] his [Rich’s] work laptop, a copy of his personal laptop contents.”