The bureau seeks to delay the release of information from the laptop of murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich for 66 years.
United States District Judge Amos Mazzant on September 29 issued a 53-page ruling ordering the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over information from the laptop computer of Seth Rich to a Texas man who had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Mazzant, an Obama appointee, gave the FBI 14 days to hand over the information, but the bureau failed to comply. As the Epoch Times reported last week, the FBI wants the court to reverse the order. If the court declines, the FBI wants 66 years to produce the data, which the bureau previously denied it possessed.
Seth Rich was a digital campaigner with the Democratic National Committee. On July 10, 2016, the 27-year-old DNC staffer was gunned down in Washington, D.C. Police called it a street robbery gone wrong, but the shooters did not take Rich’s wallet, watch, or phone. Weeks after the murder, as the BBC reported, “Wikileaks published 20,000 emails obtained from Democratic National Committee computers via an anonymous source.”
