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House IT Aides Fear Suspects In Hill Breach Are Blackmailing Members With Their Own Data (Awan)
Daily Caller ^ | May 21 2017 | Luke Rosiak

Posted on 05/23/2017 6:11:17 AM PDT by Whenifhow

Congressional technology aides are baffled that data-theft allegations against four former House IT workers — who were banned from the congressional network — have largely been ignored, and they fear the integrity of sensitive high-level information.

Imran Awan and three relatives were colleagues until police banned them from computer networks at the House of Representatives after suspicion the brothers accessed congressional computers without permission.

Five Capitol Hill technology aides told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group that members of Congress have displayed an inexplicable and intense loyalty towards the suspects who police say victimized them. The baffled aides wonder if the suspects are blackmailing representatives based on the contents of their emails and files, to which they had full access.

“I don’t know what they have, but they have something on someone. It’s been months at this point” with no arrests, said Pat Sowers, who has managed IT for several House offices for 12 years. “Something is rotten in Denmark.”

A manager at a tech-services company that works with Democratic House offices said he approached congressional offices, offering their services at one-fourth the price of Awan and his Pakistani brothers, but the members declined. At the time, he couldn’t understand why his offers were rejected but now he suspects the Awans exerted some type of leverage over members.

“There’s no question about it: If I was accused of a tenth of what these guys are accused of, they’d take me out in handcuffs that same day, and I’d never work again,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: awan; awanbrothers; classifiedintel; democrats; govtabuse; hacking; itgate
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1 posted on 05/23/2017 6:11:17 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3554295/posts

And so...the net begins to tighten!


2 posted on 05/23/2017 6:13:12 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Whenifhow

It may be that Pizzagate isn’t true.

But there is something bad that is held over the head of a lot of powerful people in Washington. Something widespread. Something shared by the people in power. Something they fear will come out into the open.

These powerful people are owned by someone.


3 posted on 05/23/2017 6:17:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Agreed.

They could have been drugged and found themselves in bed with little children or a dead person.

Or it could be $$$$$$$ that’s shown up in their accounts.

Or conviction records that have shown up in their legal records.

But it’s something. They’re owned.


4 posted on 05/23/2017 6:20:04 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: Whenifhow

“Something is rotten in Denmark.”

***********

There’s a lot that’s rotten on Capitol Hill, that’s for sure.


5 posted on 05/23/2017 6:20:14 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ClearCase_guy

taking from the devil (Soros) gets you owned


6 posted on 05/23/2017 6:20:16 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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at 4:19 on the video George explains the specific info in this article and how it pertains to national security.

Two paragraphs he outlines:
Politico reported the Awan crew is “accused of stealing equipment from members’ offices without their knowledge and committing serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network.”
A House IT employee who requested anonymity said tech workers who have taken over some of those offices found that computers in some — but not all — offices were “thin clients” that sent all data to an offsite server in violation of House policies. Additionally, staffers’ iPhones were all linked to a single non-government iTunes account.

15:42 Minutes
Day 211.1. Hillary’s Leakers and Hackers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__LFtcyk1Mg

Published on May 22, 2017
Five IT Staffers Report Awan Server and “thin clients” - BlackBerry Sync Again?

Read more under the video


7 posted on 05/23/2017 6:20:45 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Whenifhow

Does this sound like democrat collusion with terrorists/ from middle eastern countries?


8 posted on 05/23/2017 6:21:13 AM PDT by Rapscallion (The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, not Sharia, not Congress not the President.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You’ll recall that Senate/Congressional servers were breached a couple of years ago. Someone I know told me some time later that at least 40 Senators started deleting files and shredding like crazy when that happened.


9 posted on 05/23/2017 6:22:09 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: Rapscallion

Pizza-gate is a more likely area—just because we have existing documents (Podesta emails) as a baseline.


10 posted on 05/23/2017 6:24:05 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Whenifhow

Blackmail + the perps are members of a protected group. Essentially they’re untouchable. Even more so now that they are in Pakistan.


11 posted on 05/23/2017 6:24:36 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: pocat

ping


12 posted on 05/23/2017 6:24:53 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Whenifhow

outrageous news


13 posted on 05/23/2017 6:25:17 AM PDT by thinden
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To: Rapscallion

Does this sound like democrat collusion with terrorists/ from middle eastern countries?


Hey, it’s downright patriotic when Democrats collude because....Diversity!


14 posted on 05/23/2017 6:25:50 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Rapscallion; Liz; Hostage

[Does this sound like democrat collusion with terrorists/ from middle eastern countries?]

See the video in post #7 from 4:19 min mark - especially around 7:57 min mark when George says: “This should be a Benghazi type investigation”


15 posted on 05/23/2017 6:25:52 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Rapscallion

I think so and I also think this is the tip of the iceberg...We have really BIG problems.


16 posted on 05/23/2017 6:32:45 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump.)
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To: Whenifhow

Of course Ryan is all over this. Not. The MSM is covering it in detail. Not.
Soon they will all be back in Pokistan.


17 posted on 05/23/2017 6:35:31 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Whenifhow

Maybe Tucker Carlson is getting close to blowing this story wide open!


18 posted on 05/23/2017 6:36:23 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Whenifhow

Can you say Chaffetz?


19 posted on 05/23/2017 6:37:59 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS; Liz; Hostage

[Can you say Chaffetz?]

Chaffetz knows the water is getting hot!

Also on the video in post #7, George says that Iram Awan is threatening to fire congressional staffers (9:20 min mark) That’s a lot of power the DW Schultz has given her special aide.

and at 11:15 George talks about the blackberry’s and the laptops (sync) endangering troops, a national security issue.

Other thread:
Democratic Aide Suspected Of Major Security Breach Under Government Protection In Pakistan [AWAN]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3554454/posts


20 posted on 05/23/2017 6:46:46 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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