I haven’t posted on Ye Olde Lawflogge for three-and-a-half years, but it looks like the FBI is still playing as dirty as ever. On March 24, 2024 Chief Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ordered the FBI and the Justice Department to (1) produce affidavits regarding Seth Rich’s electronic devices and (2) answer questions that the government should have answered more than a year ago. This evening’s filing only raises more questions.
The FBI produced a “Notice of Compliance,” an affidavit from the FBI records section, an affidavit from an Assistant U.S. Attorney in DC, an affidavit from an FBI forensics supervisor, and a purported Vaughn index. In a Vaughn index, the government is supposed to explain what it withheld and why, but this Vaughn index isn’t much better than the last one. Kash Patel’s FBI is still operating just like Christopher Wray’s FBI, hiding records and thumbing its nose at court orders.
I have only begun to analyze what the FBI did and didn’t produce, but below I’ve posted an initial analysis from Claude AI. Other analyses are welcome, and feel free to send those observations to me on X at @Ty_Clevenger.