The FBI is asking a U.S. court to reverse its order that it produce information from Seth Rich\u2019s laptop computer.<\/p>\n
If the court does not, the bureau wants 66 years to produce the information.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The FBI\u2019s assertion that the privacy interest Rich\u2019s family members hold outweighed the public interest was rejected by Mazzant, who noted the bureau cited no relevant case law supporting the argument.<\/p>\n
But the ruling was erroneous, U.S. lawyers said in a new filing.<\/p>\n
The bureau shouldn\u2019t have to produce the information because of FOIA exemptions for information that are compiled for law enforcement purposes and \u201ccould reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the Court\u2019s findings that except for the information related to Seth Rich\u2019s 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\u2019s requests, the production order seems inconsistent with the rest of the order,\u201d the motion stated.<\/p>\n
The FBI, after claiming it never possessed Rich\u2019s laptop or any information from it, acknowledged in 2020 that it had thousands of files from the computer.<\/p>\n
The bureau \u201cis currently working on getting the files from Seth Rich\u2019s personal laptop into a format to be reviewed,\u201d the government said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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