Posted on 07/24/2017 1:10:54 PM PDT by b4its2late
Reports of the FBI seizing computer hard drives form the home of the congressional IT director and aide of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are accurate, according to FBI sources: with the exception of one major detail. The computer hard drives were not damaged when they were confiscated, FBI sources said.
The FBI, who is working in some capacity to assist with the Capitol Police on the Awan investigation, confirm the hard drives and other computer equipment have been damaged but are pointing the finger at the Capitol Police’s chain of custody with the evidence. The FBI, they said, would not damage evidence and stressed if someone went to the trouble of destroying evidence before a seizure they normally would discard of it as well, federal sources said.
Capitol Police officials would not respond to requests for comment.
The computer drives and equipment are linked to the Awan Brothers and Wasserman herself, according to law enforcement sources and media reports.
From the Daily Caller:
Pakistani-born Imran Awan, long-time right-hand IT aide to the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman (Wasserman), has since desperately tried to get the hard drives back, the individual told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
A high-level congressional source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, confirmed that the FBI has joined what Politico previously described as a Capitol Police criminal probe into “serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network” by Imran and three of his relatives, who had access to the emails and files of the more than two dozen House Democrats who employed them on a part-time basis.
Capitol Police have also seized computer equipment tied to the Florida lawmaker.
Awan’s younger brothers, Abid and Jamal, his wife, Hina Alvi, and Rao Abbas, Imran’s best friend, are also under investigation. There have been no arrests in the case.
Journalist George Webb reported several weeks ago the Wasserman-linked computer hard drives had been seized as part of the Awan investigation. But there was never any mention the drives were physically altered. That would give additional credence to the FBI’s account that the drives were in good physical condition at the time of the seizure.
Smells like the Capitol Police are guilty of obstruction.
What?
Wow.
The Capital Police is not, and hasn’t really ever been, anything but an enforcement arm for the DNC.
Podesta has connection to D.C. Police, doesn’t he!
And who is in charge of the Seth Rich murder investigation?
Yep.
And yet another conspiracy. Democrats have really screwed up
Every LIB asshat is a potential criminal...be they police or others.
Do you know if this is the same police dept that was responsible for the Seth Rich murder investigation? Just wondring’.....
holy shit, what the heck?!?!?!?!
Drives? What drives? Did you hear that Trump Jr. colluded with the Russians!
Hell’s bells. On another thread I remarked in jest that under Comey’s FBI, the drives would be smashed by the FBI. Truth is stranger than fiction. The good guys are the bad guys.
Nah.
The Capitol Hill police are honest democrat racists.
/sarchasm - that gaping whole between a liberal and reality
One wonders if any of the data might be recoverable.
WHAT IN THE GD EFFING EFF IS GOING ON IN THE FBI????
We’ve been too easy on the Democrats.
Find out who did this and then hang them.
His ex wife is on some Board associated with them or some such thing.
These drives were smashed *once within* Capitol Police Custody??
That is unbelievable.
The Deep State is wide and all-encompassing.
You got it.
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