Posted on 02/21/2017 6:07:18 AM PST by Helicondelta
Rogue congressional staffers took $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator-level access to the House of Representatives’ computer network, according to court documents examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
The money was a loan from Dr. Ali al-Attar, an Iraqi political figure, and was funneled through a company with “impossible”-to-decipher financial transactions that the congressional information technology (IT) staffers controlled.
Imran Awan, ringleader of the group that includes his brothers Abid and Jamal, has provided IT services since 2005 for Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman.
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Ping.
This Iraqi, it appears, is a first-generation Iraqi with a family from Iran and Hezbollah ties who had been promoted by the neocon Wolfowitz:
“Dr. Ali A. Al-Attar fled the United States after the indictment to avoid arrest and imprisonment. Late in 2012 he was observed in Beirut, Lebanon conversing with a Hezbollah official. It turns out that al-Attar is only a first generation Iraqi. He was born in Baghdad, but his parents were both from Iran.
It would be possible to merely observe that it was just another day in the hubristic lives of power brokers inside the Beltway if Wolfowitz’s meetings had not contributed to a war that broke the back of the United States. Wolfowitz was rewarded by George W. Bush for his dismantlement of Iraq with the position of President of the World Bank. His poor judgment quickly came to the fore yet again when he was forced to resign that post over an “inappropriate relationship” with a female employee. He now holds a senior position at the neocon American Enterprise Institute.
Given his less than glorious track record vis-à-vis Iraq, one might reasonably ask Paul Wolfowitz how he discovered Dr. al-Attar. It would also be interesting to learn about the extent to which Wolfowitz checked out the backgrounds of the people he was talking to in his haste to overthrow Saddam. One might also ponder why the United States spends tens of billions of dollars on intelligence gathering if it is still necessary to assemble ad hoc and secretive groups of foreign-born residents of questionable loyalties to determine what is going on overseas. Given al-Attar’s national origin and his friends in Lebanon, it might also be intriguing to speculate whether the upper levels of the Bush administration were the gullible victims of a conspiracy orchestrated by Tehran to entice the United States into destroying the one Arab state that truly threatened the regional dominance of the Islamic Republic of Iran. That would be quite a story.”
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/paul-wolfowitzs-iran-connection/
It will be fun to hear what the President does with this.
Certainly there’s an innocent explanation for all of this.
Are these traitors/terrorists arrested, in the USA in custody or what? Where are they?
You best my post by a minute!
Seemed like an important story though.
Destroys the Russian narrative.
“Given al-Attar’s national origin and his friends in Lebanon, it might also be intriguing to speculate whether the upper levels of the Bush administration were the gullible victims of a conspiracy orchestrated by Tehran to entice the United States into destroying the one Arab state that truly threatened the regional dominance of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Not as far fetched as some may view your comment.
Are the Awans and Alvi in custody?
“Rogue congressional staffers” = 4 jihadis (3 guys and 1 wife).
Does anyone know where these spies are right now?
That is what I have been wondering. I am willing to bet they fled the country — with assistance from the Rat politicians — weeks ago.
Biggest bill is a 25,000 dinar. That is worth $20.
So that was roughly 5000 bills of funny money.
The eight Democrat members issued a letter to then DNC-Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Democrat Congressmen demanded that their staffers be granted access to top secret classified information.
The signatories to the letter were Democrat Congressmen (a) Andre Carson, (b) Luis Guiterez, (c) Jim Himes, (d) Terri Sewell, (e) Jackie Speier, (f) Mike Quigley, (g) Eric Swalwell, and, (h) Patrick Murphy.
Some of the named Democrats had a history of attempting to undermine national security. Two Democrats have been linked to an emerging security breach.
The office of Andre Carson, the second Muslim in Congress, employed IT’er Imran Awan. As did the offices of Jackie Speier and Cong Debbie Wasserman Schultz (then DNC Chair).
The Democrats letter demanding intel access had been addressed to then-DNC Chair Cong Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
They likely flew the coop an hour after they were fired. Trump needs to have a little talk with whomever it was that hired them and who recommended them.
They took money from an enemy state. They provided government and military email and documents for this money. Thus, they are spies and need to be given a cigarette and a blind fold while they stand in front of a firing squad.
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Pittsburgh FBI field office's Cyber-security Unit is trying to identify those behind breaches of the DNC's computer systems. The 2015 and early 2016 breaches exposed the internal communications of Democrat party officials as the convention got underway........
The Muslim brothers apparently compromised House Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs Committee members: Abi Awan, Imran Awan and Jamal Awan, are said to be Pakistani foreign nationals. They worked within the IT department for Democrats exclusively---members of the House Permanent Intelligence Committee, including Cong Debbie Wasserman Schultz----onetime DNC chair.
There is a fourth brother and his Muslim wife involved in sensitive political IT exclusively for Democrats....all share a residence.
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CONGRESS AND THE FBI NEED TO DETERMINE:
<><> Extent of Wassermann-Schultz and the DNC's assistance to the three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs who were among the dozens of elected members employing the suspects on a shared basis.
<><>Were govt intel computers ever transported off-premises?
<><>Did the FBI and/or Secret Service accompany and supervise the transport of the server?
<><> Did the three brothers have an active email account?
<><> Was there continuity of intel computer activity or did the intel computers ever go off-line?
<><> Who received govt intel?
<><>Did the three brother get officially qualified by Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to handle national-security-level data?
<><> Did the three brothers ever “upgrade, manage, and secure” the DNC server.
<><> What - specifically - did they do?
<><> Did Wasserman Schultz and the DNC vet the three brothers security clearance to handle this type of intel?
<><> What were the DNC firewall protocols in place at the time?
<><>Who, by name, had access to intel computers, and the administrative authorization to do so?
<><>When was that authorization given?
<><>Did the three brothers ever remove all data from the intel computers?
<><> Was malware or antivirus also on the server?
<><> Was the inherent firewall, virus protection, or operating system “upgraded, managed, and secured” by the brothers?
<><> Did Wasserman Schultz at the DNC report any incidents, such as DOS attack, hacking, etc. How were they resolved?
<><> Did the three brothers maintain the DNC intel computer?
<><> Does Wasserman Schultz and the DNC know if the House Permanent Intelligence Committee computers in functioning condition at this time?
<><> Does Wasserman Schultz and the DNC have the work schedule of the brothers just prior to being outed for security breaches?
<><> Were normal and regular backup procedures executed on the server?
<><> Where are the back-ups kept?
<><> If no backups were taken, does the DNC have a disaster recovery location? Where is that?
<><> Did the DNC have a backup plan if the House Permanent Intelligence Committee plan intel equipment failed or was found to have been compromised?
<><> Does Wasserman Schultz and the DNC have a list of other foreign nationals (from countries President Obama identified as terrorist countries) Democrats employed on Capitol Hill?
<><> The DNC should list foreign nationals by name and country on Democrats' payrolls, who currently have access to US intel and are using govt computers.
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It's odd that a Capitol Hill staffer gets that close to a bigshot Clinton.
Perhaps the Muslim Brothers gave the Clintons data off the Democrats' Congressional computers?
Perhaps the Clintons had need for the data coming off the DNC computers?
PING!!!
Investigators found that congressional information was being copied to an off-site server and they suspect the brothers of improperly accessing information and stealing congressional property. Chiefs of staff for the employing Democrats were notified Feb. 2.
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By 2009, the family was simultaneously managing a full-time car dealership in Virginia, with Abid running day-to-day operations after contributing $250,000 in startup cash. It was called Cars International A, LLC, referred to as “CIA” in court documents.
Article and comments, esp #3 and #14
Thanks, Helicondelta
I doubt if it was secret. Knowing how Democrats operate, you can rest well assured that they got their cut.
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