Just Human #302

In this episode, I take you back through articles concerning Iranian cyber ops and then to recent disclosures and reactions to the successful compromise of a Trump campaign staffer's email account and the theft of hundreds of pages of documents—a dossier even—and sent many of these documents to DC media, who then kept quiet about them until the Trump campaign announced to the world that they had been hacked. The whole thing is giving me an unshakeable spell of Steele Dossier déjà vu.

I also take you through some big news in the Seth Rich FOIA case. The judge has denied plaintiff Huddleston's request that the FBI expand it's search for FOIA'able documents outside of the Bureau, but he has also denied the FBI's attempt to hide all of the information contained on Seth Rich’s personal laptop, Seth Rich’s work laptop, the DVD, and the tape drive behind a categorical application of Exemption 7(A).

Furthermore, and this is the big news, he has ordered the FBI to conduct a document-by-document review of the information it possesses on the compact disk containing images of Seth Rich’s personal laptop, Seth Rich’s work laptop, the DVD, and the tape drive. He has also ordered the FBI to subsequently produce the Vaughn Index he ordered them to produce six months ago or file a motion for summary judgment, again, once the document-by-document review is complete. Either way, they have to do the review, which I believe will force them from the position of categorically withholding information behind Exemption 7(A) to eventually having to defend withholding individual documents.

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