The fight for transparency in the Seth Rich case has been going on in the shadows, and it just took a wild turn. New documents related to his personal and work laptops have finally been released, but as you’d likely expect, they’re heavily redacted. So, what we have now is a “Vaughn index”—in short, that’s a government-produced document that describes what records exist, what’s being withheld, and why. The “Vaughn index” is typically used in FOIA lawsuits when the government wants to keep information hidden:
I just received the Vaughn indexes for Seth Rich's personal and work laptops. Downloads may be slow because of limited bandwidth, but I'm distributing to other sources. I have not reviewed the files yet. More comments later.
Personal laptop: https://t.co/QtooiPxb0G
Work…
— Ty Clevenger (@Ty_Clevenger) March 11, 2025
Things that make you go hmmm… Sure, the government hiding things isn’t exactly shocking, but it definitely adds another layer to the mystery swirling around the Seth Rich murder.
And to make things even more suspicious, what’s buried in these files is raising even more questions.
There’s a new thread breaking down these docs, and it raises some serious red flags. The files reveal that Seth Rich—who was murdered in 2016 under highly suspicious circumstances—had access to “VoteBuilder,” the massive DNC voter database. His work laptop was used as evidence in the Russia investigation, and there are bizarre modification dates on key files—some even after his death. Evidence tampering, anyone? And to make it even stranger, his laptop contained logs, passwords, and access to something potentially tied to election data.