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.
Get a l/t with an easily removable HD.
Or keep your stuff on a USB stick or two [b/u].
A friend visiting DC left her purse in a car as she made a brief stop to pick something up at a friends house near Adams Morgan/Cardozo area.
Someone smashed her car window and stole the purse within 5 minutes.
Anyone who lives in DC knows this.
Considering the information on the lap top-It should be protectected like the nuclear football.
OMG..... I had your almost exact thoughts.
My first thought was: FBI, then CIA, then Crowdstrike, mabe NSC. Maybe it’s all the same.
Think about that scenario.
White trash is everywhere. I live in more rural New Jersey now, and I live in the middle of nowhere and still have neighbors who get car break ins, one of my neighbors is a state trooper and his car always get broke into because his property abuts state land where ATV trails are. So he suspects its a dirt bag who rides in his ATV some evening and sneaks on his property and does a smash and grab.
My property has a half mile long driveway, I have a gate at the main road, and another gate going to my pole barn, some late night some crack head walks up the driveway, goes around my gates, and steals three old empty computer cases out my scrap metal bin and walks them back out to the road. I have IP cameras and I looked it up and this dirt bag is like juggling/dropping these things through my parking area and down the driveway. He literally stole 20 cents worth of scrap metal. These cases were empty, nothing inside them, not even circuit boards or hard drives or anything.
Or with a screw driver
I’m sure it’s password protected and the info is already in the cloud.
Agreed. Solomon is a pretty sharp guy, but he wasn't very sharp leaving a laptop in his car. Pretty dumb.
That was my first thought, too. Not logical for a professional journalist like John Solomon.
I don't trust much of what I read on Gateway Pundit. Are there any other news sources (ie Fox News, OANN) reporting this supposed theft? I just did some searches, and didn't see it anywhere else.
Re: 85 - we still have one of these kicking around. Never got rid of it!
The laptop and press badge were locked inside the car trunk out of sight.
If that is correct, things will get interesting.
It means that the person who stole it, or his boss, knew that the lap top was in the trunk.
He broke into the car electronically, took only the hidden lap top, left money and other things that were in the car......
But it was just some random street punk that just happened along?
I would not be surprised to learn that JS has a video of the thief and he is trolling him.
Ditto on not trusting Gateway Pundit.
He’s not as smart as I hoped.
That’s one way to create name recognition
Well, for one reason, if he was going to go into the White House, some electronics are not permitted. Similarly, if you are going into the gallery of the House or Senate, electronics are not permitted, not even a cellular phone. Where are you going to leave them?
I would not be surprised to learn that JS has a video of the thief and he is trolling him.
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Exactly. Maybe it wasn’t THE laptop and was just A laptop, the only valuable on which is Tetris and Centipede.
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