Attorney Struggling for Transparency Expresses Frustration with Trump’s DOJ

Ty Clevenger, a Texan attorney living in New York, has been fighting the deep state’s blockade of important information relating governmental spying on citizens for years. His struggle continues as the Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and federal intelligence agencies maintain their legacy of denial of requests for transparency.

Late last month, Clevenger posted on his X page an update on his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit demanding the names of US citizens who were the target of illegal surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA). He wrote that his effort was stalled by the federal agencies for four years under Joe Biden but nothing has changed since and he asked why Trump’s key federal officials – Pam Bondi (Attorney General), John Ratcliffe (CIA chief), and Tulsi Gabbard (intelligence chief) – are resisting transparency.

In his post, Clevenger wrote that earlier in August he had filed a motion urging the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to expedite his case that has been in limbo for years. But the DOJ has opposed that request by telling the court that “it is not necessary” because the court will get around to it “in due course.” Clevenger concluded:

“In other words, the Trump Administration is officially in favor of keeping the victims in the dark indefinitely.”

Clevenger has also been fighting on the legal front against the FBI to get important information related to the murder of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich in July 2016. His killing followed the leaks of emails that were considered damning to the DNC and Hillary Clinton, who at the time was the Democrat presidential candidate running against Donald Trump. The FBI and DOJ have since stalled Clevenger’s FOIA requests related to documents in Seth Rich’s murder case.

In 2022, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson published email correspondence between Clevenger and Biden’s DOJ in which Clevenger asked for information related to Seth Rich’s murder case and was denied such. In his detailed reply to the DOJ representative, Clevenger wrote:

“My client is trying to determine whether Mr. Mueller and the FBI whitewashed a murder for the sake of a partisan political agenda. Thus far, the FBI has bent itself over backwards to hide information about Seth Rich, with senior FBI personnel trying to deceive U.S. district courts in Texas and New York. The longer this chicanery continues, the greater the evidence that the FBI is indeed whitewashing a murder for the sake of politics.”

This week, The Gateway Pundit reported (September 3) that Clevenger called out Trump’s DOJ and FBI for continuing to withhold the Seth Rich documents. The story cited Clevenger as:

“If Pam Bondi doesn’t come clean, then we plan to ask the judge to order her to declare under oath whether Robert Mueller’s sham indictments of the Netyksho defendants are still being prosecuted in good faith.”

On Wednesday, Clevenger posted on X that the House Oversight Chairman James Comer should turn his attention to releasing records about Seth Rich and the Russia Collusion hoax that was orchestrated by the deep state to undermine Trump’s first term.