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Government Corruption

FBI Should Have 14 Days, Not 66 Years, To Produce Seth Rich Information: Lawyer

2022-11-12

[ET via ZERO] After a U.S. judge ordered the FBI to produce the information, the bureau said that it should not be required to hand it over because of exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). And if the bureau still had to produce the information, government lawyers said it should have 66 years because it needs to review the information and redact certain information.

Ty Clevenger, the attorney representing Brian Huddleston, the Texas man who sued the FBI over the information, disagreed.

He told the judge in the new filing that the FBI failed to brief on the exemptions it is now claiming following the judge rejecting an attempt to shield the information because of privacy concerns for Rich’s relatives. That failure means the FBI cannot now rely on the exemptions, Clevenger said.

"Having failed to raise an issue or brief it in a motion for summary judgment, the movant may not then salvage the issue by raising it in a motion for reconsideration," he said, citing previous court cases. "In other words, the movant does not get a Mulligan on reconsideration, which is exactly what the FBI seeks here."

The bureau says that FOIA exemption 7(D)-3, which enables shielding identifying information of law enforcement personnel, and information provided by the personnel, enables it to keep withholding Rich’s laptop information from Huddleston.

"In short, the compact disc containing the images of Seth Rich’s personal computer were provided to the FBI by a local law enforcement agency under implied assurances of confidentiality, and thus the FBI properly withheld the compact disc in its entirety pursuant to Exemption 7(D)-3," government lawyers told the court.

Another exemption, 7(E)-6, lets the agency keep the information secret, the lawyers said. That exemption enables the withholding of information that would reveal methods law enforcement uses in investigations.

Clevenger, though, said that neither exemption applies.

The first doesn’t because the FBI has never provided evidence that the source of the information was given assurance of confidentiality, he said. The second doesn’t because the bureau claims it never reviewed the laptop information.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4 The FBI arguments are absurd; the organization obscene.

Posted by: Tarzan Grolump8219 2022-11-12 17:56

So the 'laptop' bottom line is, we may never be privy to the sordid details of the Epstein-Hunter connection ?

I nominate Wiki-Leaks Julian Assange and Seth Rich (posthumously) for the Literary Award, 'Scandalous Cartel Money Laundering, Narcotics, Sex Trafficking and Gun Running stories never told' category.

Posted by: Besoeker 2022-11-12 12:43

#2 I guess the FBI thinks all of Hillary’s inner circle will be dead in 66 years and there will be no one to charge?

This is strictly a rhetorical question

“What is the FBI doing wanting the evidence from a mugging gone wrong?”

We all know the answer

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-11-12 11:51

#1 They don’t obey the laws; they make them. Just like the Stasi.

Posted by: Super Hose 2022-11-12 08:22

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