Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The FBI is asking a U.S. court to reverse its order that it produce information from Seth Rich’s laptop computer.
If the court does not, the bureau wants 66 years to produce the information.
Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer when he was killed on a street in Washington in mid-2016. No person has ever been arrested in connection to the murder.
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 assertion that the privacy interest Rich’s family members hold outweighed the public interest was rejected by Mazzant, 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 FBI, after claiming it never possessed Rich’s laptop or any information from it, acknowledged in 2020 that it had thousands of files from the computer.
The bureau “is currently working on getting the files from Seth Rich’s personal laptop into a format to be reviewed,” the government said at the time.
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.
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or technical assistance to any other investigation of Seth Rich.
-FBI had no involvement in the extraction of data from Seth
Rich’s personal laptop
-And therefore, there was never a need for the FBI to access
the information contained on the compact disc for investigative— Aleksandar Starcevic (@Aleksandaraz) October 31, 2022
release all of this material, that the rate of production be limited to 500 pages per month.
— Aleksandar Starcevic (@Aleksandaraz) October 31, 2022
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Let’s make a deal dems. When DeSantis is elected President or Trump is re-elected, we will not have another Presidential election for 66 years or until you release the un-doctored Seth Rich laptop. Seems like a fair trade.
OR, 500 FBI agents/employees will be euthanized /month. A current list of FBI agents/employees must be produced immediately. In the event that 500/mo. exceeds the FBI’s capacity, Democrats, as the majority party occupying the Federal government positions, 500 will become forfeit/month.
If that capacity is depleted, then current and future applicants of Democrat affiliation within the Media, is forfeit.
In the event that that capacity is exceeded, then ten (10) Democrats of elected positions from each state, started with the highest elected positions selected first. These selected positions will be continued until exhaustion, at which time State Party Registrations will become the device of newer selections. or until 666 (typo) 66 years have passed.
The afore mentioned time allotment will expire on the 31st Day of September 2028, unless the release of the un-doctored Seth Rich laptop and all relevant documents before this court is gaveled closed today.
Going once….!
Machinist, you must be an attorney to write something that complicated. While your terms are quite good, writing that many clauses into an agreement just offers the slimy dems/FBI a bunch of potential loopholes to get out of the deal.
The deal needs to be simple. For example, 500 Democratic-register FBI agents euthanized monthly until the laptop is released.
Nope, not a shyster here, something about a bar miz-something.
Seems simple to me, since dems were the guilty party, just start at the “top” and go on down from there.
Did you see that I gave them all the way to Sept. 31st?
Obviously, start at the top of the FIB … which is the DoJ … where the Attorney General is honcho … and then work your way down …
HA HA HA! The Babylon Bee folks are a riot.
Wait, what?
The FBI only solves cases because their agents or informants are the perpetrators of crime. Revealing the contents might disclose the identity of Seth’s FBI killer.
I will say though a democrat Seth Rich was truly a American Patriot,tried to what was right for country though he knew would cost him his job(I doubt he thought he would be murdered).
Was Seth Rich a senior citizen?
How did he have more on his laptop than he, himself, could “process” in a (non-foreshortened) lifetime?
Astounding inconsistency by the FBI. J6 investigation-no stone is unturned to seek out grandparent type “insurrectionists” who were loitering/trespassing.
The murder of a DNC member who released info about DNC shady dealings and they need 66 plus years for full release?
The stench of blatant corruption is overwhelming.
FBI-federal bureau of criminals
Release the laptop data? Sure, right after they release the JFK assassination data.
There’s nothing coincidental about that number, 66.
They’re communicating a message.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who caught that. They just showed their Illuminati colors, didn’t they?
Enemy Mine.
The FBI is a criminal organization that needs to be abolished.
Not only abolished, the who lot need to have a scope run up their butts & investigated for treason/sedition.
now we know with certainty who killed Seth Rich.
Not 60 years.
Not even 65 years.
Why 66 years?
The current age of Full Retirement according to the Socialists Security Orifice?
Or is it now 66.6 ?
No one remembers how he died it seems.
Committed suicide while walking at 2 A.M. by the easy method of shooting himself in the back of the head.
TWICE with a .22!
Wild guess the pistol had a silencer.
Forgive my memory lapse … but was the weapon ever found? My recollection is that it was not …
But, hey … one thing in favor of the ‘suicide’ angle — both shots to the back of the head were the same caliber …
So … did the ballistics test show a match?
The enemy of the American people.
It a big Laptop and it has been misplaced and has not been “Cleaned” of suspected Viruses and tell me, again how Paul Pelosi break in happened, Oh how I love fiction, especially fiction that moves and changes as the fact show up.
“Commander Cody, the time has come. Execute Order 66.” – Darth Sidious