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."
Comment: The taxpayer is being saddled with debt it will never be able to be repay all because its officials have chosen to submit to the US in its proxy-war on Russia; the same US which rightly stands accused of literally blowing up Germany's best chance for making it through the burgeoning crisis:
Although, it seems that Britain will be indebting its citizens the most: