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EXCLUSIVE: DWS IT Guy Was Banned From House After Trying To Hide Secret Server
The Daily Caller ^ | 9-13-17 | Luke Roziak

Posted on 09/13/2017 6:02:08 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

A secret server is behind the Capitol Police’s decision to ban a former IT aide to Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the House network.

Now-indicted former congressional IT aide Imran Awan allegedly routed data from numerous House Democrats to a secret server. Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of the server early this year, but they were provided with an elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations. The falsified image is what ultimately triggered their ban from the House network Feb. 2, according to a senior House official with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The secret server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, an organization chaired by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra. Police informed Becerra that the server was the subject of an investigation and requested a copy of it. Authorities considered the false image they received to be interference in a criminal investigation, the senior official said.

Data was also backed up to Dropbox in huge quantities, the official said. Congressional offices are prohibited from using Dropbox, so an unofficial account was used, meaning Awan could have still had access to the data even though he was banned from the congressional network.

Awan had access to all emails and office computer files of 45 members of Congress who are listed below. Fear among members that Awan could release embarrassing information if they cooperated with prosecutors could explain why the Democrats have refused to acknowledge the cybersecurity breach publicly or criticize the suspects.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: afraidfortherepublic

BKMK


41 posted on 09/13/2017 8:07:10 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Ms Mable
I also believe there is no way they aren’t blackmailing the RINO’s as well......

You CAN NOT BE BLACKMAILED unless you HAVE DONE WRONG. If you RINOS have done wrong, I want you GONE!

42 posted on 09/13/2017 8:09:00 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Liz
You're right Liz. This is sloppiness that's a byproduct of a supreme confidence of invincibility... I suspect Benghazi be will a similar easy nut to crack for the same reason.
43 posted on 09/13/2017 8:09:39 AM PDT by GOPJ ("$3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That's $1.2 Billion a year.")
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To: ptsal; Grampa Dave; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; TigersEye; Oynx; Marine_Uncle; ...

Thanks for the California connection....


44 posted on 09/13/2017 8:30:54 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: All
Imran's secret server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, chaired by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra.

The executive director of the Democratic Caucus was Sean McCluskie, who was Democrat Becerra’s chief of staff. McCluskie is now chief deputy attorney general of California alongside AG Becerra.

McCluskie has gone incommunicado---he failed to return The Daily Caller's repeated requests for comment on this monumental story.

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BACKSTORY---On Jan. 24, 2017, Democrat Becerra vacated his congressional seat to become California’s attorney general. “He wanted to wipe his server, and we brought to his attention it was under investigation. L/E asked for an image of the server. But Democrat Becerra apparently colluded and conspired w/ other actors, and deliberately turned over a fake server,” a knowledgeable senior official said.

Capitol Police considered the fake image a sign that the Awans knew exactly what they were doing and were going to great lengths to try to cover it up. The House Sergeant-at-Arms banned them from the network as a result.

For Democrat House members to say their intel data was not compromised is simply inaccurate. The Awan's had access to all of the Democrats' sensitive intel.....data that impacted the safety and security of Americans.......including all emails. "Imran Awan is the walking example of an insider threat, a criminal actor who had access to everything,” the senior official said.

Democrat Becerra as informed his server as the subject of an investigation and handed over a false image. Authorities considered the false image Democrat Becerra handed them to be Becerra's calculated interference in a criminal investigation, the senior official said.

Ex-Cong Becerra is now California's Atty General...... Cali's top L/E officer.

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Americans demand the US DOJ remove AG Xavier Becerra and Chief Deputy AG Sean McCluskie from office, ASAP.

CONTACT CONGRESS: Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414

FBI TIPS PAGE--https://tips.fbi.gov

45 posted on 09/13/2017 8:32:28 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

It is my *opinion* that there is a lot of serious perverted sexual activity going on with many of these “reticent” Democrats.

Up to and including sex with underage males and females and probably pedophilia.

Note that I said this is my opinion. But I’d use my wife’s hard earned money to bet on it.


46 posted on 09/13/2017 8:36:28 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

But the suspects were not russian so why would it matter.


47 posted on 09/13/2017 8:56:37 AM PDT by pas
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You are welcome.

There are so many problems in California, but the two-legged ones seem to be gathering in Sacramento.


48 posted on 09/13/2017 9:11:51 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You are welcome.

There are so many problems in California, but the two-legged ones seem to be gathering in Sacramento.


49 posted on 09/13/2017 9:14:41 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: hal ogen
Just why do the DIMs hate the United States?

Why not? It's not as if the GOP* has done anything to disuade them.

*...NB, no "e"

50 posted on 09/13/2017 10:14:37 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Roccus

S/B dissuade


51 posted on 09/13/2017 10:19:30 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: bert
Trump does not operate on your schedule nor direction

The return of the Super Secret, Super Genius plans, GW made so popular.

52 posted on 09/13/2017 10:28:44 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: itsahoot

sourer grapes were never posted


53 posted on 09/13/2017 10:32:02 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: GOPJ
If Clinton had been elected this would be swept under the carpet...

If Clinton lost the election and this will still be swept under the carpet...

54 posted on 09/13/2017 10:32:22 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: DrDude

Yep. All the information gathered by DWS and Awan was funneled, along with money to Hillary’s campaign and all Bernie’s donor information was also passed on to Hillary along with those donations. Blue.......


55 posted on 09/13/2017 10:59:30 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: b4its2late

This is becoming very easy to figure out. The “hacked DNC emails”, from what I recall, were all from Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Awans had all Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s emails, in addition to the emails of other House Democrats. And they copied them all to themselves using Dropbox, and DWS thinks this is fine, and says she uses Dropbox herself. So it is likely that the emails that appeared on Wikileaks did not come from the “hacked DNC servers”, they came from the Awans, who have been specifically and positively identified as having taken DWS’s emails and copied them to themselves using Dropbox. And the DNC denied the FBI access to the server which was supposedly hacked. Because there was no hack of the DNC server. DWS’s emails were already practically in the public domain.


56 posted on 09/13/2017 11:09:54 AM PDT by brookwood (He said you could keep your plan - now says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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To: brookwood

The DNC server was not hacked from the outside. It was an inside job. Files, emails, donor lists, etc copied to a thumb drive, gotten to wikileaks via courier. Crowd Strike was brought in by the DNC to wipe everything clean, all devices, over one weekend so that trail would not be found by the FBI. FBI intentionally left out of the loop. The russians are always trying to get into whatever they can get into so it was easy to blame them. FBI knows the russians are always trolling so it sounded plausible up front.


57 posted on 09/13/2017 11:17:31 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: brookwood

Yes, and that was how it all got to the Clintons server too.


58 posted on 09/13/2017 11:18:34 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: brookwood

This is so much larger, if you follow and believe just some of George Webb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfGaWXF9c5A


59 posted on 09/13/2017 11:44:17 AM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: WeWaWes
"WHAT the HELL is Jeff Sessions doing?"

Those are dark glasses he is wearing for watching the eclipse.

60 posted on 09/13/2017 12:29:43 PM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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