‘Nobody on Capitol Hill has been willing to touch this subject with a ten-foot pole’
By Joe Kovacs
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.