SETH RICH CASE: STILL UNDER BUREAUCRATIC EMBARGO

In the nation’s favorite civic hobby—file-stomping, court-order-dodging, and then calling it “process”—the Seth Rich case has apparently become a nine-year exercise in administrative origami, with attorney Ty Clevenger still trying to pry loose records while the FBI, now under Kash Patel, reportedly acts like the whole thing is a noisy box in the basement nobody wants to label. The story says the bureau has been defying a court order, the DOJ is still withholding documents, and the usual grand theater of “nothing to see here” continues to play in matinee and evening performances, even as Clevenger insists the FBI has long known Rich was the source of the DNC emails rather than the endlessly convenient Russian boogeyman. Rich was found shot on July 10, 2016, with his wallet, phone, and watch still on him, which is a funny sort of burglary if the burglars were only stealing a man’s life and leaving the accessories. Meanwhile, the whole thing sits there like a bureaucratic soufflé: puffed up with secrecy, somehow still collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, and always, always demanding just a little more trust from the public it keeps treating like an unsecured email attachment.