Posted on 02/02/2020 11:16:04 AM PST by MAGAlady
Someone broke into investigative reporter John Solomon’s car parked near the White House the night before the senate impeachment trial began.
The thief stole John Solomon’s laptop which contained sensitive information on former Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine.
The break-in, which happened across from the White House’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building, was described as a “professional job” and authorities believe the individual(s) used a sophisticated electronic jamming device to open the car’s lock.
“It’s a pretty professional job,” John Solomon told RCI of the break-in, “but it’s probably just a coincidence.”
“It was probably just a street criminal searching for pass codes,” he added. “Or it could be someone searching for my Ukraine stuff, we don’t know at this point.”
It appears to be a targeted political hit because Solomon said nothing else was taken from his car, including cash.
Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigations reported:
On the night before the Senate impeachment trial began, someone broke into veteran Washington investigative journalist John Solomon’s car parked near the White House and stole his laptop, according to a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department report obtained by RealClearInvestigations.
The computer contained notes on Ukraine and former Vice President Joe Biden and other sensitive information, Solomon, 52, said in an interview. He said he was preparing to launch a new podcast and news site at the time.
Though the laptop has since been recovered, the investigation is still open. “The case has been assigned a detective and is under investigation,” MPD spokesman Sean Hickman told RCI.
The Secret Service is also involved in the matter, which appears suspicious. Break-ins are rare in the high-security area where the crime occurred, just outside the White House perimeter, and a sophisticated device appears to have been used to get into the vehicle.
The computer and bag, which also contained his U.S. Capitol press security badge, were discovered the next day nearly a block away from where his car had been parked. The contents of the bag had been dumped out on a picnic bench near the FDIC building. The location had no security cameras, so there is no known video surveillance footage that can be reviewed. Authorities described it as one of the few “dark spots” in the area.
Award-winning investigative reporter John Solomon has been targeted by Dem Rep. Adam Schiff for his explosive reporting on Ukraine and the Biden crime family.
In December, Schiff (illegally) obtained John Solomon’s phone records and published his call history in a report.
Schiff smeared Solomon as a reporter who published “conspiracy theories” to “push false narratives” about Ukraine’s interference in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton.
John Solomon said he is working with computer forensics to see whether his hard drive was scanned by the thief.
Ghost of Seth Rich
https://reslife.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/COPS_THEFT_Laptops-1.pdf
Computers are easily sold by petty thieves, but professional thieves actually look for computers of business folk to steal information: It's not just the business files: it also has your email, bank, etc. passwords and a lot of other personal stuff on it.
And why is all that information on the computer that he carries with him everywhere? Doesn't he use a backup thumb drive/external disk/cloud backup?
And doesn't he put a pass word to open these files?
I've always worked with very large graphics files going back to the early Mac days of the late 80's, and for a period of a few years a Zip drive was about the only thing going for portable external media to transport files to vendors. Yep, what a piece of crap. Remember the dreaded "tick tick tick" of a corrupted Zip disk? CD's were such a blessing by comparison.
Hopefully, he backed everything up.
Fake news.
WHO keeps their laptop, especially one with super dooper important info on it - IN THEIR CAR OVERNIGHT???
Come on now... pull the other one...
“It was probably just a street criminal searching for pass codes,” he added. “Or it could be someone searching for my Ukraine stuff, we don’t know at this point.”
It appears to be a targeted political hit because Solomon said nothing else was taken from his car, including cash.
Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigations reported:
Gibbs rule #39:
Gibbs' Rule 39, "There is no such thing as Coincidence!
I was working a contractual job in Annapolis MD, in a rather upscale area of town. We were doing a payroll implementation and I and some others on the project were put up in a hotel next door prior to go-live. I had my car parked in the parking garage of the building and when I went to get my suitcase out of the trunk after working a 15-hour day I noticed my glove box was open and papers were strewn all over the front seats. I didn’t see any damage to my car and actually may have accidently left it unlocked (yes – stupid I know). All they got was a few CD’s and fortunately didn’t pop the trunk and steal my luggage.
At the time I had lived in and worked in Baltimore City most of my life and sometimes had meetings in DC.
I learned you never leave anything visible, not even as much as couple of pennies in the console or even an umbrella, anything at all that some crack head might think worth smashing your window out to grab.
Rule 39? That should be more like rule 1!
John Solomon: dumb@$$.
Never. Never. Never leave a laptop in the car.
LOL. What were they thinking?
Info bookmarked.
What was wrong with them?
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DITTO.. hope it was a set up!
Dumb!
Exactly!!!!!!
“Rule 39? That should be more like rule 1!”
Whenever, the elite left wing thugs are involved, rule #1 would often be appropriate.
“A gun safe in the trunk would be a wise precaution for people like him.”
my gun safe is steel cabled under the driver’s seat in my car and i have one under the passenger’s seat in my wife’s car. Fortunately do not have to use them that often.
wonder if this was a variation of a canary trap?
He should’ve had a trunk monkey
Horribly unreliable. They would fail catastrophically and take all the data with them.
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