The DNC is not a governmental organization.

Would you like your business laptop subject to FOIA just because the FBI investigated a crime against you?

I would be 100% ok with it. I have never put anything on a business laptop that would be embarrassing. My company might care, but why would I?

What if it's your startup?

What if the FBI seized a personal laptop of yours? Should that be subject to FOIA requests by anyone who wants it?

The Fourth Amendment rights against government seizure of your property should also extend to giving that property to random yahoos who can fill a form out.

at the risk of tying my horse to the epoch times (which I am not trying to do), I think it should be pointed out that the DNC and RNC being in a separate category of scrutiny from government agencies is utter horseshit.

If we lived in a world where a third party had a fighting chance, fine, but these institutions are literally deciding who we get to vote for.

If you wanna make a "the RNC and DNC are subject to FOIA" rule, fine. This isn't how you accomplish it. It wasn't an investigation of the DNC; it was an investigation of Rich's murder, of which there's zero evidence of DNC involvement.

A standard of "if you're the victim of a crime, your personal info is fair game to anyone who wants it" would be a very, very dangerous precedent to set.