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An Alleged Muslim Spy Ring in the State Department - Is This Why Rex Tillerson Cleaned House?
Zero Hedge ^ | 02/12/2017 | Submitted by Duan via Free Market Shooter blog,

Posted on 02/12/2017 4:10:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Submitted by Duan via Free Market Shooter blog,

Shortly after Trump took office, and before Rex Tillerson was even confirmed as Secretary of State, a slew of State Department officials were removed from their positions (or were forced to resign) as part of an effort to “clean house” at the State Department.  The whole affair was haphazardly covered by the media, especially by Jeff Bezos’s blog, which insinuated that the departures were “an ongoing mass exodus of senior Foreign Service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.”

Further analysis revealed that the officials were actually removed from their positions shortly after Tillerson visited the State Department office in Foggy Bottom prior to his confirmation:

“Any implication that that these four people quit is wrong,” one senior State Department official said. “These people are loyal to the secretary, the President and to the State Department. There is just not any attempt here to dis the President. People are not quitting and running away in disgust. This is the White House cleaning house.”

And, just a few weeks after the fact, it appears we know why Tillerson was so quick to purge existing staffers: he just didn’t trust them.  It also appears his mistrust was more than justified.

On January 29th, United States Special Forces executed an operation inside Yemen, against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), with the aim of gathering intelligence and killing leaders of the group.  The raid was planned under the Obama administration, but the decision to execute the raid was “punted” to Trump, using the pretext of waiting for a “low loom” (moonless) night to execute the raid with maximum secrecy:

While the operation had been proposed, it was never green-lighted. Kahl said Obama felt going the mission would mark a “significant escalation” in Yemen and should be left to the next administration to decide.

 

“Obama … believed this represented a significant escalation of U.S. involvement in Yemen, and therefore … thought the next administration should take a careful look and run a careful process,” he told the WSJ.

In addition, defense officials expected the Trump administration to be more willing to approve dangerous missions, something that was almost certainly known by any remaining personnel who stayed on after Obama left office:

While seemingly indicative of a more aggressive stance by Trump, one official described the raid and new proposal as an outgrowth of earlier Obama-era operations that have pushed al-Qaida militants from their sanctuaries into areas and provided more opportunities for U.S. strikes.

 

“We expect an easier approval cycle [for operations] under this administration,” another defense official said.


Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens

Though the Trump administration attempted to push the raid as a success, at very best, the mission was anything but, resulting in the death of Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens, as well as injuries to three other servicemen. While the commandos did everything necessary to maintain the element of surprise, it appears as though AQAP adversaries on the ground had advance warning of the attack:

“Initial reports are always wrong, but it doesn’t appear to be a failure of planning or intelligence,” said the former special forces officer.

 

Almost immediately, the raiding force on the ground took intense fire, according to the briefing paper and a senior military official. Occupants of the targeted house and its compound, along with their guard force, moved to a separate cluster of houses nearby where families, including women and children, were staying. Armed women fired on the U.S. and Emirati forces.

 

“There were a lot of female combatants who were part of this,” said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, on Monday. “We saw during this operation, as it was taking place, that female fighters ran to pre-established positions — as though they had trained to be ready, and trained to be combatants — and engaged with us.”

While most know about the Yemen raid, most do not know about the dismissal of the three Aman brothers, Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan.  On February 2nd, they were abruptly removed from their positions of managing information technology for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  Though they were initially suspected merely of stealing equipment, a connection with the previously-hacked computers of Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) revealed something far more sinister:

Three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation’s most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism.

As Mad World News reported, the Aman brothers were hired by the Obama administration, and access to top secret information regarding military operationsThe committees they allegedly worked for had access to “the most sensitive and secretive government intelligence, including covert anti-terrorism activity… including the Yemen operation”:


The House Oversight Committee

The brothers were assigned access to three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs along with dozens of congressmen who employed the suspects on a shared basis.  This gave them direct access to our military secrets, like missions carried out by Navy SEAL Team Six.

 

They retained their jobs after Obama left, which is not unheard of since their positions were not seen as political appointments.  However, they were fired by Trump’s administration within hours after Navy SEAL William Ryan Owens was killed in Yemen during the top secret raid on Al-Qaeda operatives. 

So, in case you’ve gotten lost, here’s a recap of the timeline of events:

As Mad World News previously stated,

“…it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots.  The firing of the Awan brothers is linked to the Yemen raid where al-Qaeda knew we were coming, and it tragically ended with Navy SEAL Owens being killed in action.” 

The mainstream media seemed far more interested in obfuscating the details regarding the Tillerson terminations than they were in covering what could be one of the most dangerous intelligence leaks in years, of which there has been but a peep out of any major news outlet.  Captain Joseph R. John (Navy-Ret.) has stated that he believes the Muslim Brotherhood “fifth column” has “infiltrated U.S. Government,” and if he is correct, the Awan brothers could very well be a part of this infiltration.

Yet, there as been but a peep of information about the Awan brothers from nearly all major news outlets.  Are they in jail?  What are they accused of?  Does the Trump administration suspect them of leaking details about military operations to terrorist organizations?  And most importantly, if so, did these three men directly or indirectly contribute to the death of Owens during the Yemen raid?

One thing is for certain – as Politico seemed to take delight in stating, “Trying to nail down who the leakers are is like trying to count the cockroaches under the couch.”  However, it seems most of the “leaks” are coming from Obama holdovers.  Which makes Tillerson’s “cleaning house” look like not just the correct move, it leaves you wondering if he did enough cleaning house.

Just don’t expect to hear that from the mainstream media anytime soon.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 5thcolumn; amanbrothers; fakenews; hinaalvi; itgate; jihad; muslims; rextillerson; speculation; spy; statedepartment
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To: SeekAndFind
While most know about the Yemen raid, most do not know about the dismissal of the three Aman brothers, Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan...

The raid was planned under the Obama administration, but the decision to execute the raid was “punted” to Trump, using the pretext of waiting for a “low loom” (moonless) night to execute the raid with maximum secrecy:...

the Aman brothers were hired by the Obama administration, and access to top secret information regarding military operations. The committees they allegedly worked for had access to “the most sensitive and secretive government intelligence, including covert anti-terrorism activity… including the Yemen operation”:

Almost immediately, the raiding force on the ground took intense fire, according to the briefing paper and a senior military official. Occupants of the targeted house and its compound, along with their guard force, moved to a separate cluster of houses nearby where families, including women and children, were staying. Armed women fired on the U.S. and Emirati forces.

If there is any probability that the Obama regime organized a procedural military ambush for the incoming Trump team with the possibility of battlefield deaths, that would certainly define treason, directly aiding the enemy.
Clearly, naively, on Trump's military team's part not dumping Obama military plans in their entirety was a huge mistake. Not having the Aman (Awan?) brothers under arrest for suspicion of espionage and being enemy foreign agents may be the second monumental Trump mistake.

Treason certainly qualifies as high crimes and misdemeanors, under which Barack Obama may be impeached. I would consider it humorous that treason might be protected by statutes of limitation.

21 posted on 02/12/2017 5:14:29 PM PST by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: marktwain

But to claim that this sort of operational information is ordinarily available to congresscritters has not been true in the past.

***
I am sure there was a lot going on during the Obamanation that was not standard practice in other administrations.


22 posted on 02/12/2017 5:15:58 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: exit82

Good points.


23 posted on 02/12/2017 5:16:51 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: SeekAndFind

Abid, Imran, and Jamal

Has anybody here seen my old friend Abid?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He spilled a lot of secrets,
And it seems the good are caught young,
I just looked around and he's gone.

Has anybody here seen my old friend Imran?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He helped kill a lot of infidels,
But it seems the good are martyred young,
I just looked around and he's gone.

Has anybody here seen my old friend Jamal?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He helped ISIL kill a lot of Infidels,
But it seems he might have been found out,
I just looked around and he's gone.

Has anybody here seen my old friend Valarie?
Can you tell me where she's gone?
I thought I saw her walkin'
Up over the hill,
With Abid, Imran, and Jamal.


24 posted on 02/12/2017 5:20:29 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Iron Munro

LOL!!!! Very well done!!!


25 posted on 02/12/2017 5:24:47 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: XRdsRev

Under the criminal 0bummer & Klintoon Regime, it doesn’t surprise me.


26 posted on 02/12/2017 5:25:08 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: reasonisfaith
BEARS REPEATING...

One of the Trump lines that really got me behind him “We have really stupid [treasonous] people running our country.”

How thoroughly were the Awan brothers vetted by the Obama incompetent or enemy regime? Warrants a Congressional investigation, assuming Obama kept records as required by law.

So much for embracing Muslim Mass Murdering killers in his administration!

27 posted on 02/12/2017 5:26:45 PM PST by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: XRdsRev

They were contractors.


28 posted on 02/12/2017 5:29:47 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: exit82

Yeah I remember G.Gordan Liddy saying on his radio show yrs ago that the State Dept is filled with Arab suppporters.


29 posted on 02/12/2017 5:31:04 PM PST by Karoo
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To: marktwain

Perhaps we are learning that there was no security

Given the email leaks at the DNC we know if there was security it was lose.

Personally, I think Malia leaked dinner table talk


30 posted on 02/12/2017 5:36:12 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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To: SeekAndFind

b:/c of muslim obama, there are muslim spy groups in all major govt agencies.


31 posted on 02/12/2017 5:39:10 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: publius911

This thread is a lot of interesting speculation. There is certainly a lot of smoke; we don’t have hard evidence of the fire just yet.


32 posted on 02/12/2017 5:48:53 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please tell us the Aman brothers are in custody and undergoing enhanced interrogation...


33 posted on 02/12/2017 6:11:41 PM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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The brothers are currently being described as three sketchy, rogue intel staffers that compromised House Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs Committee Members.:

Abid Awan, Imran Awan and Jamal Awan, are three brothers, foreign nationals who worked within the IT department for members of the House Permanent Intelligence Committee and have been fired during probe of security breach on Capitol Hill.

There is a fourth member and his Muslim wife involved in sensitive political IT....all share a house.

TAXPAYERS DEMAND THIS INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY:

<><> names of the three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs ho were among the dozens of elected members who employed the suspects 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 brother get officially qualified to handle national-security-level data?

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

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

<><> Do the three brothers have sufficient security clearance to handle this type of intel?

<><> What were the 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?

<><> Describe any incidents reported such as DOS attack, hacking, etc. How were they resolved?

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

<><> Are the House Permanent Intelligence Committee computers in functioning condition at this time?

<><> Describe the activities 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, was there a disaster recovery location? Where is that?

<><> Describe the House Permanent Intelligence Committee plan if the intel equipment failed or found to have been compromised?

<><> How many other foreign nationals (from countries President Obama identified as terrorist countries) are employed on Capitol Hill?

<><> List foreign nationals by name and country who currently have access to US intel and are using govt computers?

34 posted on 02/12/2017 6:17:59 PM PST by Liz (Coulters Law: the MSM's delay inreporting a perp means the less likely it's a white Christian)
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To: Ann Archy

No, he needs to:
1. Keep everyone for an unspecified period.
2. Give some amnesty to a few trusted people, if any.
3. Prosecute as many as possible.
4. After all witness are no longer need, fire the employees that are not convicted or tried, keeping the trustworthy, if any.
5. Rebuild whatever needs to be rebuilt.


35 posted on 02/12/2017 6:18:53 PM PST by matthew fuller (The first amendment does NOT legalize the right to riot.)
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To: publius911

Last year, eight members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a demand by letter that their staffers be granted access to top secret classified information.

The signatories to the letter were all Democrats:

<><> Andre Carson,

<><>Luis Guiterez,

<><>Jim Himes,

<><>Terri Sewell,

<><>Jackie Speier,

<><>Mike Quigley,

<><> Eric Swalwell

<><> Patrick Murphy.

Some signatories had a history of attempting to undermine national security. Two of them have been linked to another emerging security breach.

Brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Imran’s wife, each made $160,000 a year as information technology workers for the House.

Their salaries and time were shared among dozens of Democratic members, including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida to whom the demand for accesss as addressed.

The brothers are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members’ computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress.

Jamal handled IT for Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat who serves on both the intelligence and foreign affairs panels. “As of 2/2, his employment with our office has been terminated,” Castro spokeswoman Erin Hatch told TheDCNF Friday.

Jamal also worked for Louisiana Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is on the Committee on Homeland Security.

Imran worked for Reps. Andre Carson, an Indiana Democrat, and Jackie Speier, a California Democrat. Both are members of the intelligence committee, and their spokesmen did not respond to requests for comment. Imran also worked for the House office of Wasserman Schultz.

Then-Rep. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, employed Abid for IT work in 2016. She was a member of House committees dealing with the armed services, oversight, and Benghazi. Duckworth was elected to the Senate in November, 2016.

Abid has a prior criminal record and a bankruptcy. Abid also worked for Rep. Lois Frankel, a Florida Democrat who is member of the foreign affairs committee. The three men are “shared employees,” meaning they are hired by multiple offices, which split their salaries and use them as needed for IT services.

It is up to each member to fire them.

(hat tip Daniel Greenfield)


36 posted on 02/12/2017 6:24:29 PM PST by Liz (Coulters Law: the MSM's delay inreporting a perp means the less likely it's a white Christian)
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To: SeekAndFind
We seem to be losing the best of us in the last 15 years.
37 posted on 02/12/2017 6:31:50 PM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: BigEdLB

Hopefully they are free with implants.


38 posted on 02/12/2017 6:43:06 PM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: Chickensoup; carriage_hill

Evil is one of the fruits of stupidity.


39 posted on 02/12/2017 7:43:58 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

“One of the Trump lines that really got me behind him “We have really stupid people running our country.””

True. But we also have a really stupid segment of the electorate voting in idiots like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell...


40 posted on 02/12/2017 7:44:38 PM PST by Amish with an attitude
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