‘Radioactive as any topic I’ve ever seen’: Hundreds of documents on Seth Rich murder found in FBI hidden room, mixed with burn bags ‘designated for destruction’ * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs
DNC staffer Seth Rch was on the phone with his girlfriend when he was shot (Photo: Joel Rich)
An attorney probing the mysterious murder of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee worker shot and killed as he walked to his Washington, D.C., home in 2016, is revealing an astounding development in the case.
On Monday evening, Ty Clevenger posted on X that hundreds of pages of documents related to Rich were stashed in a SCIF, or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility for handling U.S. national secrets, that were mixed with burn bags “designated for destruction.”
“SETH RICH UPDATE: Today an attorney for the government told me that I would soon be getting confirmation that several hundred pages of documents related to Seth Rich were found in a previously-hidden room at FBI headquarters. You may recall that on July 30, 2025, Fox News Digital reported that newly-installed FBI Director Kash Patel and his leadership team had located an unmapped / sealed area within the J. Edgar Hoover Building’s SCIF.
Last year’s Fox report described “burn bags” that contained thousands of pages of classified files intended for destruction, and those files were linked back to the 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation. Now it appears the Seth Rich records were among the files designated for destruction.
Mind you, I don’t have anything in hand yet. I don’t even know whether the FBI will agree to release a single page of what it found. Nonetheless, any confirmation that the files were in the secret SCIF raises a lot of questions. At the very least, some very high-level people had something to hide.
The FBI originally told me in 2017 that it had no records whatsoever about Seth Rich because it was not involved in the investigation of his death. We were told he died in a “botched robbery” and only the local police were investigating it.
Since that time, the FBI has gradually admitted to possession of several thousand pages of documents about Seth, his work laptop, an image of his personal laptop, and another DVD. Nonetheless, on June 15, 2026, I had to file yet another motion (http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.06.15-Plaintiff-MSJ-stamped.pdf) explaining how the FBI is withholding records in violation of court orders.
If the FBI is still fighting transparency so hard on other fronts (and it is), then why would it acknowledge that records about Seth had been hidden in the SCIF? I don’t know. Maybe Joe DiGenova’s grand jury investigation in Miami is putting some heat on the players in DC?
I can tell you this much for sure: nobody on Capitol Hill has been willing to touch this subject with a ten-foot pole. The murder of Seth Rich – and the resulting cover-up – is as radioactive as any topic I’ve ever seen. I hope that changes soon, and I’ll post updates as soon as I know more.
BTW, I’m not suicidal. I feel great.
SETH RICH UPDATE: Today an attorney for the government told me that I would soon be getting confirmation that several hundred pages of documents related to Seth Rich were found in a previously-hidden room at FBI headquarters. You may recall that on July 30, 2025, Fox News Digital… pic.twitter.com/rgS7XIwt8r
— Ty Clevenger (@Ty_Clevenger) July 6, 2026
Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit noted: “This is the same FBI that originally told Clevenger back in 2017 it had zero records on Seth Rich because the bureau ‘was not involved’ in the investigation of his death. They claimed it was nothing more than a ‘botched robbery’ handled solely by local D.C. police.”
“The corrupt Deep State is crumbling, and the truth they desperately tried to burn is finally clawing its way to the light.”
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WorldNetDaily columnist Jack Cashill has documented that it just may have been Rich who downloaded DNC details to give to Julian Assange to post at WikiLeaks on the internet at the time.
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