Attorney Ty Clevenger identifies HUGE blunder by FBI which he hopes will mandate discovery in Seth Rich case. Someone please get this to FBI Director Kash Patel.
Attorney Ty Clevenger has been working on the Seth Rich case for a decade. The Deep State actors running the government continue to stall and defy court orders, and Clevenger continues to demand justice.
It is believed that Seth Rich is a pivotal key to the Russia Collusion coup attempt of the first Trump Administration.
The Deep State DOJ and FBI have gone through extreme efforts to cover up any information they have on Seth Rich. Rich is who many believe transferred DNC emails to WikiLeaks during the 2016 election. He was a Bernie fan who worked in the DNC at that time. He was reportedly upset with what the DNC was doing to Bernie. On July 10, 2016, Rich was found shot in the back due to what law enforcement labeled a burglary, and yet his wallet, phone, and watch were left on his person. This is at the time WikiLeaks began dropping damaging DNC emails that showed the inner workings of the Hillary campaign.
It is believed that Seth Rich forwarded emails from Podesta to WikiLeaks.
We all know without a doubt that it is a lie to claim that the Russians were involved in the transfer of these emails. There is simply no evidence that Russia was involved, and there never has been evidence that Russia was involved.
Hillary wanted to deflect attention from her email scandal and the contents of her emails. She also wanted to punish whoever sent those emails to WikiLeaks. This is why many believe Seth Rich was murdered.
Attorney Ty Clevenger, for years, has doggedly gone after information held by the Deep State FBI and DOJ that they refuse to release related to Seth Rich’s murder. It is the law that documents related to Seth Rich be released per Clevenger’s requests, but the Deep State DOJ keeps hiding these documents from the public.
The DOJ, under new management, is still withholding these documents – but Clevenger reports that the FBI made a huge blunder.
Here is Clevenger’s update today:
The FBI may have a big problem on its hands with the Seth Rich case (Huddleston v. FBI). Last week I wrote about how the feds are trying to quash our discovery requests, but there’s a silver lining. If I’m right about the law, the FBI may soon have to release a lot of damning documents and answer a lot of really embarrassing questions (whether @FBIDirectorKash wants to or not).
By way of background, the courts generally prohibit discovery in FOIA cases, but there are exceptions. I was banking on those exceptions when I submitted the FOIA requests, and I was expecting the FBI to fight me tooth and nail. The feds lived up to those expectations, but they also made a really big blunder that I didn’t notice at first: they put all of their eggs in one basket, and that basket has some really big holes in it.
Several court opinions have distinguished between FOIA cases that seek specific records versus FOIA cases that seek injunctive relief for a “pattern or practice” of FOIA violations. Discovery is typically restricted in the former type of case but not the latter. Our case has both types of claims, but our discovery is ONLY targeted at the latter claims, i.e., the type of claims where discovery is normally permitted.
The FBI’s only argument for resisting discovery is that discovery should be prohibited in all FOIA cases, regardless of the circumstances. That’s a weak argument and the case law is against them, but there’s a much bigger problem. A party resisting discovery must specifically object to each and every discovery request, giving specific reasons for each objection.
The FBI didn’t do that, and the law is very clear that failure to do so results in waiver of all the objections. In other words, the law says the FBI should be ordered to fully answer each and every question – and produce each and every requested document – because it failed to make specific objections. It asserted only one general objection, and even that objection is a turd.
So why does this matter? Our discovery requests are a rectal exam for the FBI, demanding documents and answers about every dirty scheme the FBI has ever employed to hide information from the public and from Congress. This is stuff that Senator @ChuckGrassley has been trying to get his hands on for years.
I’ve posted the discovery requests below. I’ve also posted our motion to compel the FBI to comply with discovery, and I encourage my colleagues to grade my homework and let me know whether they think my analysis is right.
Finally, a few words about @Kash_Patel. People who know him tell me he’s a great guy, and I believe them. I’d probably enjoy hanging out with him and we would probably be friends, but here’s the problem: I have a lot of friends who don’t need to be director of the FBI. It’s painfully clear that Kash is in over his head and he’s not getting the job done. I’ve been fighting the FBI’s dirty tricks for nine years (in multiple lawsuits), and you know what has changed since Kash took over? Not very much. The FBI is still playing dirty, and the deep state is just biding its time until the Democrats regain power. Kash had his chance, and now it’s time for a change.
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Response to FBI’s motion for a protective order:
http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026.04.09-Response-to-motion-for-protective-order-stamped.pdf
Discovery requests to the FBI:
http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026.03.02-Discovery-requests.pdf
Will someone please tell Kash Patel what is going on? Will the FBI finally release the information they are required to release? It took years to find out that the FBI had not one, but two of Seth Rich’s laptops.
