AT LEAST SO FAR, U.S. Attorney John Durham has been unresponsive to attorneys’ request to preserve evidence in the Seth Rich case. Rich was the Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in Washington, D.C. back in the summer of 2016. The evidence was slated to be destroyed by April 28th the attorneys learned on April 6th, according to a report by the Gateway Pundit, despite them having requested months ago it be preserved.
Meanwhile, John Durham is refusing to respond to their request.
Attorney Ty Clevenger sent a letter to Durham reiterating the request. It read:
“On October 12, 2020, I sent a letter to you and then-Attorney General William Barr about the need to preserve evidence related to the origins of the “Russian collusion” investigation. Neither you nor anyone else at the Department of Justice responded to the letter.
“Yesterday I learned that the evidence is due to be destroyed not later than April 28, 2021 pursuant to a protective order. I urge you again to take steps to secure the evidence and prevent its destruction, in no small part because I believe the public has a right to know what it reveals. I cannot discuss the exact nature of the evidence, however, because of the restrictions in the protective order.
”If another lawyer informed me about the evidence that was relevant to one of my cases, I cannot imagine sticking my head in the sand the way you have. Like President Trump, I’ve come to suspect that you and Mr. Barr were acting in bad faith, and that you appeased President Trump with the pretense of a legitimate investigation even as you were ‘running out the clock.’ That said, please feel free to prove me wrong.”
Perhaps Durham is honoring this legitimate request and just hasn’t confirmed it with Clevenger, but at the glacial pace Durham is known to work, destroyed evidence could very well become a fait d’accompli, to the detriment of the Rich case. And given the lackadaisical attitude of today’s federal judiciary, one cannot expect anything more than a toothless scolding of the offending bar member.
And yes, the feds have oodles of evidence in the case. Clevenger has already shown this. It’s thought that Rich leaked D.N.C. emails to WikiLeaks and was murdered for it. This murder was then labeled a robbery, even though nothing at all appeared stolen.
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