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.
Being a member of the Capitol Police is probably very similar to being a member of the Security Department for an NBA team. You would spend an inordinate amount of time not only keeping members safe, but also saving them from themselves.
This is what a cover up looks like.
Who Killed Seth Rich For Leaking The DNC E-Mails?
Wasn’t there some deal where the FBI would take the intact drives, look for some limited range of information, then destroy the drives? There is so much BS flowing it’s difficult to track.
Washington DC has numerous police departments
Metropolitan DC Police answers to DC Mayor
Capitol Police - Fed
White House Uniformed Secret Service - Feds
Park Police - Feds.
And various others, lost track after the Patriot Act and coming of Homeland Security, a real furball.
The swamp is proving to be deeper and wider than even I thought. I knew it was bad but this bad?
As they're proving once again. Back in the early 90's when I was working in politics, the number of stories about them taking Teddy Kennedy home after a bender after pulling him over were almost limitless.
I think it is to be expected. The government is crooked.
Somebody wake Jeff Sessions so he can get right on it.
Looks like the demoncraps were getting things set up so that when Hitlary won they could continue their crime spree unabated. You know, get enough people into place so that $#!+ could be stopped before it hit the fan.
I reckon that there are good FBI agents that are extremely upset with it all.
The Queen B!tch did say that they would all hang from nooses "if that bastard wins."
It feels like we are in a slo-mo time stop waiting for it all to hit.
1. Confirm FBI Director Wray
2. Tell him to arrest everybody
We truly are a banana republic now. The corruption runs so deep. I fear my once great country is lost.
Sorry, he is still working on new signs for the homo bathrooms he is quite worried about.
Big time. BIG TIME.
Trump may replace Sessions with Rudy
What the hell?
Then both of them (I may have overcounted) should speak up.
>”Smashed” could mean anything.
Sure as s* doesn’t sound like they were treated as evidence.
Chain of custody, whom checked it what/when, whom (re)viewed....
Course, that’s presuming THOSE records aren’t ‘lost’ either
How ‘bout firing the whole incompetent lot, after finding/jailing the one that tampered w/ evidence??
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