A judge in a Texas court ordered the FBI to hand over two laptops owned by Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic National Committee (DNC) employee whose 2016 murder in D.C. led to speculation that he had been involved in the leak of a cache of DNC emails dumped by WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.
“It is … [ordered] that the Government … shall recommend to the court a timeline for the disclosure of information on Seth Rich’s personal laptop, [and] Seth Rich’s work laptop,” among other pieces of evidence, ruled U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant on Monday.
The ruling came in response to a Freedom of Information Act case between the FBI and a Texas plaintiff, Brian Huddleston.
In September 2022, the court
ruled in favor of Huddleston, saying that the FBI had to produce any information it had related to Rich’s laptop. However, the FBI delayed, asking for clarification.
Some conspiracy theorists speculated that Rich’s laptops and emails might contain information related to the WikiLeaks dump of the DNC emails.
Hillary Clinton and her allies claimed that the dump had come from a Russia-linked hack of her files, but some conservatives and hardcore conspiracy theorists claim that the information on Rich’s laptop, who they believe downloaded the files, would disprove the Russia argument. And that the Clintons had him killed as vengeance.
Rich’s parents wrote a 2017 column in the
Washington Post where they said there wasn’t any credence to the idea he’d been involved in the DNC hack.
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