Was Congressional Info Compromised by five I.T. Workers?

https://sharylattkisson.com/ ^ | 4/27/2018 | sharyl attkisson

[bitt]

Some know it as the Awan Brothers scandal. It refers to five Pakistani-American computer experts who worked for 42 members of Congress. The House Inspector General flagged the IT workers’ behavior as suspicious but said Democrats and Republicans blocked her from doing a thorough investigation. An attorney for one of the brothers says it’s been proven that they did nothing wrong. We dig into the case on this week’s Full Measure.

An alleged cybersecurity threat strikes Congress…is it the most important investigation of its kind that you’ve never heard of?

[bitt]

great video of an overview of the Awans, from the start to 11:40..

it is disappointing that Sheryl gave too much leeway to Imran's lawyer to lie and spin..

[bitt]

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[logi_cal869]

I lost faith in Sharyl. She should have been all over this last year, not a year later.

[UCANSEE2]

“An attorney for one of the brothers says it’s been proven that they did nothing wrong. “

Really ? When was the trial ?

[Liz]

'Straight Out of James Bond': Reporter Explains New Details in Dem IT Staffer Scandal
foxnews.com ^ | 4/24/2018 | FoxNews / FRPosted on 5/1/2018, 12:26:00 PM by bitt

A new report could prove that President Trump was right when he tweeted about a so-called "Pakistani mystery man" who kept Democratic National Committee documents and servers out of the hands of investigators.

The report, by The Daily Caller's Luke Rosiak, says that Imran Awan -- the IT aide of former DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) -- took a laptop with him in 2017 after being banned from the House computer network for “unauthorized access to data.” The report also says that Awan left the laptop, which had the username "RepDWS," "in a phone booth with a letter to prosecutors" in April 2017.

"This is like straight out of James Bond," Rosiak said on "Fox & Friends First" Tuesday.

Rosiak wrote: Let that sink in. A Pakistani IT aide, who had just been fired by all his other employers for being a suspected hacker, left a laptop with the username RepDWS in a phone booth. The laptop was placed next to a letter to prosecutors. What it said is not publicly known. The cache of documents also included copies of Awan’s ID (which assured that police tied the laptop to a criminal suspect and seized it as evidence rather than returning it as lost property) and a note that said “attorney client privilege,” which put the laptop into legal limbo.

The president tweeted on Friday that the administration wants access to documents "held by the Pakistani mystery man." Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails.

Awan has been enrolled in a High Intensity Supervision Program with curfew restrictions after his July 2017 arrest on charges of bank fraud. He is awaiting trial in the case after pleading not guilty, with numerous hearings having to be postponed. Rosiak, who has traveled to Pakistan for his reporting, said he sees the case as "everything the Russia collusion story was supposed to be."

Wasserman Schultz blamed the “right-wing media circus fringe” for drawing attention to Awan, denying any wrongdoing. She faced criticism for keeping Awan on the payroll for months, even after a criminal investigation was revealed and he was barred from the House IT network, Fox News reported last year. Watch more from "Fox & Friends First" above. (Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...

[Liz]

Sen Grassley glommed onto this.......the Pakis could be sucking up tax dollars as we type, over and above the gargantuan salaries said to total $5 million tax dollars Debbie W/S engineered for the spy clan.

<><>could be pocketing tax dollars using multiple identities.

<><> could have claimed “asylum”——that scam triggers hefty monthly SS payments.

<><> also enables them to travel back and forth to Pakistan on the taxpayers’ dime (THIS IS IMMIGRATION LAW, PEOPLE)

<><> One recent federal criminal complaint detailed the 20-year saga of a Jordanian refugee family (A) sucking up taxpayer disability assistance funds on SSI....(B) claiming bogus “fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms,” and “affective disorders” (C) while secreting real estate, (D) vehicles and (E) cash in US and foreign bank accounts.

The latter sounds a lot like the Awan’s modus operandi.

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These conniving foreigners know exactly what to say: claiming “asylum” is a relic of WW11 when people were fleeing Europe. b/c it triggers hefty monthly SS checks. The invaders cant wait to get their greedy hands on freebies from the US taxpayer in the form of:

Universal Program for Subsidized Phones for Low Income (ObamaPhones),

EBT Food Stamps (SNAP),

ObamaCare Subsidies for Immigrants,

ObamaCare Subsidies for Low Income, Medicaid,

TANF Welfare,

Energy Assistance, EITC,

General Assistance Cash,

Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),

Assets for Independence,

School Lunch Block Grant,

Job Assistance,

Job Training,

Minority Job Assistance,

Job Relocation,

Woman Infants and Children’s Program,

Hispanic Jobs Program,

Needy Families Cash Assistance,

Migrant Education,

Title One Grants to Local Education Authorities,

Social Security for Refugees,

and anything else they can scam.

[Liz]

Then-Cong Xavier Becerra headed the House Congressional Democrat Caucus. Becerra gave the Paki spies free reign over all US intel.

<><> The Awans had access to all the Democrats Congressional data including Democrats emails. Imran Awan is the walking example of an insider threat, a criminal actor who had access to everything.” “They were using Xavier Becerra’s House Democratic Caucus as their central service warehouse. The data was completely out of the members’ possession. Does it mean it was sold to the Russians?

<><> Imran’s wife Hina Alvi was the only IT officially authorized to use Xavier Becerra's House Democratic Caucus computer equipment. She is on record as logging on about 300 times......as the rest of the Awan crew were accessing intel on Becerra's computer thousands of times using Becerra's passwords and codes.

Becerra was looking the other way (snort).

Becerra---now Cali's top lawman----refuses to answer questions about this.

<><>The Awan family was logging in to Xavier Becerra’s House Democratic Caucus server with 17 different accounts belonging to Congressional offices whose data should have had no connection to the caucus, according to the House investigative report. The patterns were consistent with data being funneled onto Becerra’s server from other members of Congress, but the members said Becerra never alerted them of any aberrations. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

[KSCITYBOY]

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[Liz]

APRIL 2016 THE PAKI SCAM IS UNVEILED---Alarm bells went off when House computer security officials reported “irregularities” in computer equipment purchasing......specifically, the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in US government property. The initial evidence pointed to (a) five Paki IT staffers, and, (b) Congressional Democrats that employed them.

The Paki scam quickly exploded into:

<><> (A) multiple charges of conspiracy against the United States of America,

<><>(B) double-billing Congress,

<><> (C) placing ghost employees on the govt payroll,

<><> (D) stealing govt issue electronics,

<><>(E) submitting falsified documents to the US govt,

<><> (F) mortgage scams,

<><>(G) shady wire transfers to Pakistan, and,

<><>(H) Congressional bank fraud.

Democrats hired this bunch to boost their “diversity” credentials....sucking up for votes is never far from their small minds.

DEMOCRAT DIRTY THIRTY----ALL EMPLOYED THE IMRAN CLAN
Interactive at Daily Caller web site.

[VTenigma]

Were’s the bear pic.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Sounds like the Counterintellegence Unit of the FBI should be all over it.

Oh wait...must be part of Magoo’s eleventy-D chess thing. Secret indictments will soon be revealed!

Pray!
Fight!
You have The Power!
Trust THE PLAN!
Trust Magoo!

[Mr. K]

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....I dunno

[Robert357]

The answer is yes it was compromised. In fact, the reason is not a big story is because it was such a huge blow to national security that it can’t be made public without more damage being done to the intelligence community and high ranking elected officials. This is full Deep State protection mode.

[hal ogen]

The question posed by the article recieves today’s NSS (No S*** Sherlock) Award. It will be presented later this afternoon by Captain Obvious.

[thinden]

Bttt

[DrDude]

This has been known for over 1 1/2 years. Nothing done at all. Even if sessions indicts them all it is too late. they are still stealing from us. All parties are ignoring this because of the 30 + Politicians involved.

[Liz]

Congressmen Repeatedly Failed To Supervise IT Aides In Their Employ Officials Say
Daily Caller ^ | 4/16/2018 | luke rosiak / FR Posted on 4/18/2018, 12:39:24 AM by bitt

Only one IT aide currently working directly for members of Congress has ever completed a background check, members’ data have been improperly mixed with other members’ data, and members provided almost no supervision, officials revealed Thursday in a House hearing spurred by “egregious” violations by former IT aide Imran Awan.

Members of Congress threw “$10 million” in additional funding to the [chief administrative officer (CAO)] in order to enhance their cyber-security program” in June 2017. The move followed repeated cyber-security threats against members of Congress, including the detection of what an IG report called “unauthorized access” by Awan. They also had the CAO and others propose how best to clamp down on vulnerabilities.

But the CAO revealed Thursday that members blocked the resulting proposal, which called for eliminating Awan’s job category, that of a floating IT aide accountable only to members. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

[Liz]

Wasserman Schultz's refusal to answer questions could "merit a request for her resignation". Taxpayers say that's not nearly enough for all the damage D/W/S has done.

CONGRESS, PRESIDENT TRUMP, AG SESSIONS AND THE FBI NEED TO DETERMINE:

<><> D/W/S was then in power----heading the DNC...riding in AF One with Obama. We demand to know the extent of DNC assistance to (A) the three House members of the House intelligence panel, and, (B) the five House members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs who were among the dozens of elected members the suspects IT'ed for on a shared basis.

<><>Were govt intel computers ever transported off-premises?

<><>Did the FBI and/or Secret Service accompany and supervise the transport of the server?

<><> Did the three brothers have an active email account?

<><> Was there continuity of intel computer activity or did the intel computers ever go off-line?

<><> Who received govt intel?

<><>Did the three brothers get officially qualified by the DNC to handle national-security-level data?

<><> Did the three brothers ever “upgrade, manage, and secure” the DNC server.

<><> What - specifically - did they do?

<><> Did the DNC vet the three brothers security clearance to handle this type of intel?

<><> What were the DNC firewall protocols in place at the time?

<><>Who, by name, had access to intel computers, and the administrative authorization to do so?

<><>When was that authorization given?

<><>Did the three brothers ever remove all data from the intel computers?

<><> Was malware or antivirus also on the server?

<><> Was the inherent firewall, virus protection, or operating system “upgraded, managed, and secured” by the brothers?

<><> Did the DNC report any incidents such as DOS attack, hacking, etc. How were they resolved?

<><> Did the three brothers maintain the DNC intel computer?

<><> Does the DNC know if the House Permanent Intelligence Committee computers in functioning condition at this time?

<><> Does the DNC have the work schedule of the brothers just prior to being outed for security breaches?

<><> Were normal and regular backup procedures executed on the server?

<><> Where are the back-ups kept?

<><> If no backups were taken, does the DNC have a disaster recovery location? Where is that?

<><> Did the DNC have a backup plan if the House Permanent Intelligence Committee plan intel equipment failed or was found to have been compromised?

<><> Does the DNC list other foreign nationals (from countries President Obama identified as terrorist countries) employed on Capitol Hill?

<><> The DNC must list foreign nationals by name and country who currently have access to US intel and are using govt computers.

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THE STANDOUT FACTS:

<><> The Awan clan had access to sensitive US intel from House Democrats' Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees..

<><> The clan did not work for companies currently vetted to do such work.

<><> They DID NOT HAVE.....and could not possibly have qualified for.....security clearances.

<><> Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller reported that Imran “was doing IT work on Democrats computers while living in Pakistan three-or-more months at a time annually."

NOTE Half of the Republican Congress has officially signed on to the US labeling Pakistan a terrorist country.

[Liz]

REASONS WHY DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ SHOULD BE
EJECTED FROM CONGRESS AND PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST.

ITEM--- Wasserman Schultz drags out the tired, smelly "Islamaphobia" excuse to explain her actions, after every other Dumbocrat----now scared s***-less----fired the shady Pakis.

ITEM---D/W/S stupidly blocked police from examining a hidden laptop tied to Imran-----braindead D/W/S failed to comprehend that she undercut her own explanation. If Wasserman Schultz really wanted the truth (other than Islamaphobia), she would not prevented L/E from obtaining evidence that would help prove her point.

ITEM----Wasserman Schultz was reckless to assume anti-Muslim bias was the only plausible explanation. She would have denied Awan access to her computers after House authorities banned Imran from the House network in early February.

ITEM--- Wasserman Scultz not only kept Awan on staff after the ban, but she employed no other IT person to administer her tech needs, according to payroll records........ suggesting that Awan might well have maintained access to Wasserman Schultz’s computers AFTER the ban.

ITEM---D/W/S said Imran Awan was working in an “advisory” role “providing her advice on technology issues.” She did not say who performed the office’s computer work after the ban.....if not Awan.

ITEM---Apparently, Wasserman Schultz planned to keep sending tax dollars to Awan in Pakistan for six months, until his scheduled return. He remained on D/W/S's payroll----sucking up tax dollars----- until his arrest.

[4integrity]

The Awan/Wasserman-Schultz ‘matter’ should have been thoroughly investigated and exposed a long time ago. It’s disgraceful that the media ignored or buried this story.