Fed probe into House technology worker Imran Awan yields intrigue, no evidence of espionage

Washington Post ^ | September 16, 2017 | Shawn Boburg

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• Federal probe into House technology worker Imran Awan yields intrigue, no evidence of espionage

  

  Imran Awan, a technology worker in Congress for 13 years, is the subject of a federal investigation that has become a lightning rod for some conservatives. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)

  In late September 2016, leaders in the House of Representatives met behind closed doors for briefings on a closely held investigation into a group of computer technicians working on Capitol Hill.

  Investigators with the Inspector General’s Office had been quietly tracking the five IT workers’ digital footprints for months. They were alarmed by what they saw. The employees appeared to be accessing congressional servers without authorization, an indication that they “could be reading and/or removing information,” according to documents distributed at the previously unreported private briefings.

  For some who listened to the findings, the fact that the employees were born in Pakistan set off alarms about national security, according to two participants who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Others thought it more likely that the IT workers, naturalized U.S. citizens, were bending rules on network access to share job duties — violations of House protocol, perhaps, but not espionage.

[Truth29]

"Jeff Bezos' blog"

That is so great a description. If only some conservative billionaire could do the same and buy something like the NYT.

[rbg81]

So in simple analysis, the Media Party will report on scandals that did not exist but not do so on ones that do exist.

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Bingo. The non-existent collusion with Russia to hack the election will be investigated to the hilt. But there is obviously nothing to see in the Awan case—time to move on.

[Enchante]

terabytes of data sent to a secret off-site server, and WaPo morons don’t have any idea what may have been done with it all, therefore “no evidence of espionage”.....

What a relief, there is no reason for concern!! Go back to your video games and Netflix, people!!

[Texas Fossil]

“though it is my opinion they are probably part and parcel of Pakistani Intelligence.”

I’d agree.

[rlmorel]

Exactly. How I despise liberalism, and the liberal media that aids and abets them.

They have been looking for probably under a month now, and are determining (according to the WaPo) that there was no espionage?

Like you inferred, if there were republicans involved, they would insist after years of digging, that not enough digging was done.

Look at the left’s defense of Alger Hiss. It was eminently clear from his trial that he was a Soviet agent, borne out by every passing year and even more damning and 100% conclusive information, but there are liberals that continue to insist after all this time that his conviction on perjury was a miscarriage of justice.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[ptsal]

Remember....California's chief law enforcement officer and his assistant are in this mess up to their eyeballs.

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[]Time for Xavier Becerra and Sean McCluskie to fess-up.

[]Disbar Becerra and McCluskie

[rockrr]

Willful ignorance - and from a supposed news agency. Utterly despicable.

[rlmorel]

Exactly. We will be hearing about Trump’s “collusion with Russia” until (and after) the Washington Post and NYT go bankrupt and out of business, but it will be carried on as long has liberals have breath to spew speech from their pie-holes.

But this? The Liberal Media are busily trying to get dirt shoveled over it. And entities like Google are likely altering their search engine to only show that no evidence of espionage was found, or to scrub it completely.

It really, really bothers me that professionally, I am being forced to use Google cloud applications and mail. I hate having anything to do with them, and am being forced to.

[ptsal]

Contact Xavier Becerra and Sean McCluskie in Sacramento.

Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov

[Texas Fossil]

Really ugly, very fast.

[stylin19a]

Hey WAPO !!! ...welcome to the party, pal.
Others have done months of digging to include having an inside source and you now throw your 2 cents worth of conjecture and provide cover for House Rats and the Awans ?

and BTW...you fail to mention Natalia Sova, so there are 6 not 5 involved here.

[Texas Fossil]

“Since taking office in January, California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra has remade the executive staff of the state Department of Justice, bringing in a large number of new staffers from Washington with legal expertise to reflect his special interest in immigration, civil justice reform and the environment.”

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-atty-gen-xavier-becerra-remakes-1494007465-htmlstory.html

“Just” promoting the ComDem Agenda?

The state of CA is milking the federal teet, they have a huge agenda to protect. If the truth about the reality of CA politics is ever fully exposed, there could be a sea change in the state. Lots of POLs in prison.

[Texas Fossil]

Awans loaded House intel onto secret server; masked it with phony evidence (45 Democrats involved)

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3586524/posts

Incredible. Now CA AG is wasted deep in this.

Smoke em all out.

[wtd]

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[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Oldexpat]

The Compost plays the Islamaphobia card. A feeble attempt to coverup this espionage while the Perps escape to Pakistan.

[ptsal]

Did Becerra and McCluskie have the clandestine server in the congressman’s private water closet?

[GOPJ]

The Washington Post is incapable of seeing ‘wrong doing’ if it’s done by democrats. Period.

[Texas Fossil]

Clearly no espionage there. /sarcasm

[Mr. Jeeves]

Yeah, but if they are using a goat as a symbol of intelligence we probably have nothing to worry about. :)