Attorney Ty Clevenger fired off a blistering letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel back in April, accusing the FBI of flagrantly concealing critical records about the late DNC staffer Seth Rich and the now-discredited Russia collusion narrative.
Seth Rich was murdered in the summer of 2016 before the release of the Hillary Clinton emails. His death has never been explained. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange suggested it was Rich who provided the Hillary-DNC emails to his organization and NOT Russia.
In February 2024, Clevenger demanded that the FBI hand over the Seth Rich documents that they continue to conceal from the public.
The FBI’s refusal follows a pattern of obfuscation. For years, the agency denied even possessing Seth Rich’s laptop—until Clevenger’s legal efforts forced the FBI to admit they had it all along. Yet, the agency still refuses to disclose any metadata from Seth Rich’s electronic devices.
Even more damning, Clevenger has already uncovered proof that the FBI improperly withheld pages from the CrowdStrike report related to the alleged 2016 DNC hack—an event that conveniently became a political weapon against President Donald Trump.
In April, Attorney Ty Clevenger filed a motion in federal court to hold the FBI in contempt for what he calls a “deliberate and willful defiance” of a court order mandating the release of key information related to murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.
The letter obtained by The Gateway Pundit implicated former DOJ and intelligence officials in what Clevenger describes as a systemic cover-up designed to protect the Obama-era deep state operatives and their media allies.
Clevenger, representing plaintiff Brian Huddleston in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the FBI (Huddleston v. Federal Bureau of Investigation), claims the agency is withholding documents that could unravel the official narrative surrounding Rich’s 2016 murder and the so-called ‘Russian hacking’ of DNC emails.
The attorney argues that the FBI’s refusal to release records, including those from Rich’s work laptop, is not only a violation of FOIA but also an attempt to shield evidence that could exonerate Russia and point to an inside job at the DNC.
Earlier this week, Attorney Ty Clevenger sent a scathing letter to James Gillingham, the attorney representing the FBI in the Seth Rich FOIA case.
Clevenger added information on how former FBI Director James Comey would deliberately misspell names (e.g., for Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, and Anthony Weiner) so that his emails would not be discovered during keyword searches.
James Comey was using a private email account under a fake name in order to hide his communications, and the recipient of Comey’s emails was using a non-FBI account even though he was an FBI special employee.
James,
I’ve attached an email that was produced by the government in the criminal case against former FBI director James Comey, and I believe it has relevance to the Huddleston case. As many observers have pointed out, Comey appears to have deliberately misspelled names (e.g., for Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, and Anthony Weiner) so that his email would not be discovered during key word searches. More importantly, Comey was using a private email account under a fake name in order to hide his communications, and the recipient of Comey’s emails was using a non-FBI account even though he was an FBI special employee. That’s proof of deliberate intent to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (among other laws).
Comey was the FBI director at the time the Seth Rich (“SR”) matter arose, and the indictment accuses Comey of corruptly endeavoring to influence, obstruct, or impede the Senate committee’s oversight investigation into the FBI’s handling of the 2016 Russia election interference probe and related matters. We know there is a connection between SR and the Russian election interference probe because the FBI is presently citing the Netyksho indictments as a basis for withhold SR records.
Thus we have an FBI director who deliberately tried to hide his written communications about matters related to the 2016 Presidential election, and we know that the Russia hoax was part of the overall scandal. The government’s 11/3/25 filing in the Comey case (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.138.0_3.pdf) further indicates that FBI personnel put some of Comey’s handwritten notes in “burn bags” shortly before the January 20, 2025 inauguration, apparently with the intention of hiding / destroying those documents. Thus nearly eight years after Comey was fired from the FBI, his “deep state” allies inside the FBI were still trying to hide / destroy documents about the 2016 Presidential election.
Even if there were no connections among SR, the Russia hoax, and the 2016 election, the behavior of Comey and his cronies would demonstrate a culture of bad faith. But there are connections, and that makes the recent revelations acutely relevant to the Huddleston case.
The filings in the Comey case are judicial admissions, and the evidence of bad faith is now overwhelming, so the government cannot plausibly argue that its Sentinel search was sufficient. The FBI has previously admitted that emails / documents are not indexed into the Sentinel database unless an FBI employee decides to do so manually. Insofar as Comey was using private email accounts and misspelled names in order to hide his communications about the 2016 Presidential election, there is no chance that Comey (or anyone else) would have manually indexed those emails into Sentinel. And we already know that Peter Strzok’s email about “squashing” a Seth Rich inquiry was not entered into Sentinel even though that email plainly included the words “Seth Rich.”
In light of the latest revelations, I propose the following:
(1) Interrogatories to Comey, former acting director Andrew McCabe, and former director Christopher Wray asking them to disclose:
(a) All email or messaging systems that they used to communicate about FBI matters while serving as director or deputy director;
(b) Any misspellings or pseudonyms that they used for Seth Rich; and
(c) Any and all efforts to hide records about Seth Rich (i.e., who, what, when, where, and how);
(2) Interrogatories to all current and former FBI personnel involved in gathering evidence (e.g. laptops) or conducting interviews related to Seth Rich asking them to disclose:
(a) All email or messaging systems that they used to communicate about Seth Rich or related matters;
(b) Any misspellings or pseudonyms that they used for Seth Rich or others affiliated with Seth Rich; and
(c) Any and all efforts to hide records about Seth Rich.
(3) That the FBI search all of the foregoing email or messaging systems using any misspelled names, pseudonyms, or codenames assigned to Seth Rich or those affiliated with him.
If the FBI is unwilling to expand its search, then I intend to raise these issues with Judge Mazzant. Thanks for your consideration.
Ty
Below is a copy of a letter Clevenger sent to AG Pam Bondi and FBI Chief Kash Patel in April demanding answers.
Clevenger has yet to hear back on these requests.
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