Imran Awan

[bernorange 8363]

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More evidence has surfaced about the disturbing political coverup of grave national security violations committed by the Pakistani who ran House Democrats’ information technology. His name is Imran Awan and last year he was arrested on bank-fraud charges at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C.  while trying to flee to his native Pakistan. Even after getting fired by some members of Congress for stealing computers and data systems, Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, kept him and let him have access to her emails and files as well as the password to the electronic device she used for DNC business. At one point, Awan had access to the computers of dozens of members of Congress, including those on the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees. Judicial Watch has launched an investigation and is pursuing public records.

The government’s bizarre failure to prosecute Awan for the national security violations he appears to have committed points to a political coverup that’s dangerous, craven and borders on traitorous. A House Office of Inspector General investigation determined earlier this year that Awan and his relatives committed numerous violations of House security policies, including logging into the House Democratic Caucus server thousands of times without authorization. The same news agency that reported that story published alarming new revelations in the case this month, concluding that “Democrats appear to want to keep the case out of court” because “a trial could expose their reckless IT practices.” It turns out that, not only has Capitol Police failed to make any arrests, it inadvertently gave evidence to defense attorneys that was supposed to go to prosecutors. It gets better; prosecutors appear to be sharing information with someone on Capitol Hill who in turn is leaking it to Awan’s lawyer.

Here is an excerpt from the news article published just a few days ago: “The Capitol Police turned over a trove of evidence in the alleged Imran Awan House cyberbreach and theft case to the defense attorneys when they were supposed to deliver it to prosecutors instead, according to court documents and a source.” Someone inside government apparently tipped off Awan’s lawyer, Chris Gowen, that a reporter was digging around for information on the Capitol Police’s suspicious mistake involving the mishandling of evidence. Gowen, a former public defender in Miami Florida, worked for Bill Clinton and on Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential campaign. The exchange of information (known as discovery) in a federal criminal case occurs between prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and defense lawyers by either registered mail or a third-party copy service. Law enforcement is never involved, according to federal law enforcement sources contacted by Judicial Watch.

Legal experts and veteran federal agents contacted by Judicial Watch say something smells rotten in this case. The so-called inadvertent disclosure to Awan’s defense team by Capitol Police was intentional for one of two reasons, the experts assert. Perhaps the prosecution is alerting the defense of particular facts of the case to generate cooperation and further the probe into political figures. “This is possible because prosecutors are always gun shy when it comes to prosecuting political figures, especially the figures who may be culpable in the case,” said a longtime Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official who has worked on similar cases. “They do not want to go to trial for a number of reasons, so they are showing their hand to induce a plea with cooperation.”

The second reason, according to Judicial Watch’s sources, is that there is corruption and the inadvertent disclosure was purposeful to help bolster the defense without being obvious and backing down in court. “Either way, something is up,” a longtime federal agent told Judicial Watch. “I have never heard of anyone at the federal level inadvertently handing over documents to the defense en mass like this, never happens.” Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch’s Director of Investigations and Research, maintains that “the Awan case has all the characteristics of a major national security crime, specifically, 18 USC Sec 793(f),” which carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison. A former military intelligence officer specializing in counterintelligence and human intelligence, Farrell added that treating the Awan case as anything less than a major national security crime is either negligence or complicity. “The bungled handling of evidence is disgraceful and amateurish,” Farrell said, adding that “the effort to bury, constrain and minimize the Awan case is deeply disturbing, and points to the need for a legitimate, full investigation by a competent law enforcement agency with substantial experience in counterintelligence and cyber-crime arenas.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/05/evidence-political-coverup-dem-security-scandal/

It really seems that political interests trump the law.  <tongue firmly in cheek now>

 

[TwiceHorn 31536]

I have always thought that this would be an extremely logical source for the DNC "hack"/leak.  That is, the rooskies didn't hack the DNC, per se, they bought logins from Awan, who apparently had them.

[Mojo Hand 4580]

The whole thing is weird, but the DOJ and FBI are run by Republican Trump appointees.  If there's something more there, why aren't they all over this? 

[Tuco 5077]

It's probably because neither Judicial Watch nor the Daily Signal should be taken seriously, except as milestones on our journey to idiocracy. 

Yeah, Imran is dirty, and has been charged bank fraud.  The Daily Signal is working overtime on making it something more.

And now the President of the United States is weighing in on it.  "Political interests trumps the law" indeed.

Trump tweet from yesterday:

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Our Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see today. They want to make a “plea deal” to hide what is on their Server. Where is Server? Really bad!

 

[Grandioso 2592]

About a year ago on Shaggy I tried to figure out what this scandal was all about and why it was such a BIG DEAL. I'm no closer today.

[bernorange 8363]

Well, if Anwan did not have security clearance and was given access to secure data systems (such as the computer systems " of dozens of members of Congress, including those on the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees"), that's a problem regardless of what he did with such access.  Worst case, if Anwan was dirty, he could have engaged in espionage.

[Tuco 5077]

Worst case is that he is actually is an alien who is spreading a small-pox type virus to infants.  But I'm not going to get too spun up over it until there is some credible evidence supporting it. 

[ScottishHorn 172]

I guess it depends who you are whether evidence is considered credible

23 minutes ago, Tuco said:

Worst case is that he is actually is an alien who is spreading a small-pox type virus to infants.  But I'm not going to get too spun up over it until there is some credible evidence supporting it. 

 

[Tuco 5077]

16 minutes ago, ScottishHorn said:

I guess it depends who you are whether evidence is considered credible

 

Well, yeah.  And the guy who the DOJ reports to thinks it has something to do with a missing server.  Because he's a fucking idiot.

This is the NYPost article on it.

https://nypost.com/2017/08/05/what-the-house-it-scandal-was-really-about/

[Sawbonz 27589]

So far awayeeyay 

[Bill Clinton 73]

 

[HenryJames 66171]

[Grandioso 2592]

21 minutes ago, Bill Clinton said:

 

I made it to 4:54. 

These are really lean times for Republicans looking for BOMBSHELL DEMOCRAT WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ MUSLIM SCANDALZ! 

Edit: I forgot to add the DEEPSTATE angle. 

Edited June 8, 2018 by Grandioso

[Ted Lange 16143]

Awan killed Seth Rich in a pizza parlor with acid used to wash Hillary’s emails.  It completed his induction into the Muslim Brotherhood.

[hayden_horn 11365]

judicialwatch lulz

[Zavala 1384]

woe

 

[TwiceHorn 31536]

Whoa?

[DDD Dad 14351]

7 minutes ago, Zavala said:

woe

 

This is so unintentionally entertaining.