Legal professional Ty Clevenger is popping up the warmth on the FBI—and he’s naming names.
Clevenger has unleashed a scathing rebuke of the FBI’s ongoing stonewalling within the Seth Wealthy case, accusing the bureau of peddling “extremely weak excuses” to cover hundreds of vital paperwork that might blow the lid off the Russia collusion hoax and the mysterious 2016 homicide of DNC staffer Seth Wealthy.
The FBI’s refusal follows a pattern of obfuscation. For years, the company denied even possessing Seth Wealthy’s laptop computer—till Clevenger’s authorized efforts compelled the FBI to admit they had it all along. But, the company nonetheless refuses to reveal any metadata from Seth Wealthy’s digital units.
Final month, Clevenger filed a movement in federal court docket to hold the FBI in contempt for what he calls a “deliberate and willful defiance” of a court docket order mandating the discharge of key info associated to murdered DNC staffer Seth Wealthy.
After being met with silence, Clevenger fired off a blistering letter to Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, torching the Bureau for what he says is a calculated and ongoing effort to hide vital data about Seth Wealthy and bury the reality concerning the discredited Russia narrative.
Clevenger took to X on Tuesday, writing, “The FBI filed a response to our contempt movement within the Seth Wealthy case, and it raises extra questions than it solutions. The response gives some extremely weak excuses for hundreds of lacking paperwork, and it contradicts a number of the earlier admissions by the FBI.”
The legal professional’s April 18, 2025, letter to Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, first reported by The Gateway Pundit, laid naked the FBI’s possession of vital proof, together with Seth Wealthy’s work laptop computer, a private laptop computer picture, a DVD, and a tape drive—gadgets the bureau initially denied having.
Regardless of court docket orders to evaluate these units, the FBI has stonewalled, providing flimsy justifications for withholding hundreds of paperwork. Clevenger argues it is a calculated effort to guard the discredited narrative that Russian hackers, not Wealthy, leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks in 2016.
“Per my April 18, 2025, letter to FBI Director Kash Patel and AG Pam Bondi (see https://thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breaking-attorney-ty-clevenger-exposes-fbis-role-hiding/…), these things goes to the center of the Russia Hoax. It seems that the notorious Michael G. Seidel, chief of the FBI’s FOIA part, might have been compelled out in April. If Patel and Bondi did that, then good for them,” Clevenger wrote on X.
The legal professional praised Bondi and Patel for probably forcing out Michael G. Seidel, the previous chief of the FBI’s FOIA part, in April. Nevertheless, he slammed the duo for permitting the FBI to proceed its “sample of obfuscation and delay.”
Clevenger singled out Assistant U.S. Legal professional Michael Spence, who stays in control of the Seth Wealthy case, as “a part of the issue.”
He urged U.S. Legal professional Ed Martin to take away Spence and change your complete workforce dealing with the case.
“This has dragged on far too lengthy,” Clevenger wrote, calling on congressional heavyweights Rep. James Comer, Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Chuck Grassley , and Sen. Ron Johnson to demand the discharge of all data and haul the FBI into public hearings.
The @FBI filed a response to our contempt movement within the Seth Wealthy case, and it raises extra questions than it solutions. I’ve posted the response and two displays beneath.
The response gives some extremely weak excuses for hundreds of lacking paperwork, and it contradicts a few of…
— Ty Clevenger (@Ty_Clevenger) May 7, 2025
FBI’s Response to Legal professional Ty Clevenger’s Contempt Movement
The FBI has responded to allegations that it’s obstructing the discharge of essential paperwork.
In a newly filed court response obtained by The Gateway Pundit, the FBI claims it has “considerably complied” with court docket orders and accuses plaintiff Brian Huddleston of creating baseless, inflammatory claims to push a story of presidency concealment.
Huddleston, represented by legal professional Ty Clevenger, beforehand filed a movement demanding the FBI be held in contempt of court docket for allegedly failing to comply with a decide’s specific directions to evaluate and launch materials from Seth Wealthy’s work and private laptops—units believed by many to carry the important thing to unraveling the DNC electronic mail leak scandal and its ties to the now-debunked Russia collusion hoax.
However in its response, the FBI insists that it did what was required after which some, asserting that it carried out a “document-by-document evaluate” of the information, produced the court-ordered Vaughn indexes, and even addressed metadata from each laptops—regardless of the court docket solely mandating metadata from the work system.
The Bureau’s submitting downplays the significance of the information, claiming that the laptops merely “got here into the federal government’s possession following Seth Wealthy’s homicide” and that they don’t comprise official authorities data.
The FBI even argued that lots of the information had been too corrupted to be opened, suggesting that the company has no obligation to “restore” or reconstruct the data.
The FBI wrote of their response, “The laptop computer and the data discovered thereon belong to a person, a homicide-victim, that occurred to land within the authorities’s possession. Defendant has no obligation to revive a pc to its authentic situation when it didn’t obtain the Private Laptop computer in its authentic situation. The information had been corrupted on the time the federal government first tried to evaluate them. What Plaintiff is requesting is, basically, that the Defendant create new data that it by no means possessed—uncorrupted information from murder sufferer’s private pc—however this exceeds the federal government’s obligations beneath the FOIA.”
Most telling, nevertheless, is the Bureau’s accusation that Huddleston has “lack standing” to pursue the contempt declare, pointing to a previous submitting indicating he “transferred his curiosity” within the case.
“It’s undisputed that Plaintiff Huddleston has “transferred his curiosity on this case.” ECF No. 164. As a result of Mr. Huddleston lacks any cognizable curiosity within the case, he not has standing to pursue reduction. Due to this fact, he lacks standing to hunt to carry Defendant in contempt for violating any court docket order.”
Learn the FBI’s response here.
FBI Hiding Explosive Seth Wealthy Laptop computer Particulars Underneath Guise of “Lively Investigation”
Assistant U.S. Legal professional Michael P. Spence and Appearing FBI Part Chief Shannon R. Hammer have successfully admitted that the Bureau is withholding the contents of murdered DNC staffer Seth Wealthy’s work laptop computer, private laptop computer, DVD, and tape drive—citing imprecise claims of “ongoing investigations” and “nationwide safety considerations.”
In keeping with the Bureau, releasing the knowledge may “undermine the regulation enforcement pursuits” and “reveal details about the character, scope, focus, and conduct of energetic, ongoing investigations.”
In keeping with Hammer, “To explain the particular contents of the Private Laptop computer and the Work Laptop computer at a document-by-document stage, may reveal info that Exemption 7(A) protects from disclosure. Such a disclosure may fairly be anticipated to hurt the continued murder investigation led by the USAO-DC, in addition to the pending enforcement proceedings and spin-off nationwide safety investigations derived from the Particular Counsel’s Workplace. These harms embrace, as mentioned extra absolutely within the Eighth Declaration of Michael Seidel (ECF No. 148-1), allowing targets, witnesses, or topics of the continued investigations to estimate the scope of the investigations, and permitting these individuals to discern investigative methods and make use of countermeasures to thwart them.
Learn Shannon Hammer’s declaration here.
Learn Michael Spence’s declaration here.
