The FBI is undermining the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by shielding items that should be disclosed to the public under nebulous categories such as digital evidence, according to a lawyer working on a high-profile FBI records case.
“The FBI can say anything is digital evidence and they don’t enter it into their index systems and nobody ever knows about it, or nobody ever finds it,”  Ty Clevenger, the lawyer, told The Epoch Times.
The bureau, in response to a FOIA request from Clevenger, stated that it found no records regarding deceased Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich after searching its Central Records System. In court filings and affidavits, bureau officials and Department of Justice lawyers insisted that if there were records on Rich, they would be uncovered through such a search….