‘Like a Slave:’ Three Muslim Women, At Least One Of Them Bloodied, Called Police on Imran Awan

Multiple women in relationships with Imran Awan, the indicted former IT aide for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have recently called Virginia law enforcement and alleged being abused by him, police reports obtained under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act show.

Officers found one of the women bloodied and she told them she “just wanted to leave,” while the second said she felt like a “slave,” according to Fairfax County Police reports obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. A third woman claimed she was being kept “in captivity.”

The third woman is Awan’s stepmother, Samina Gilani, who said in court documents that Awan invoked his authority as a congressional employee to intimidate immigrant women, in part by telling them he had the power to have people kidnapped.

Related, haven't seen this posted before:

WJLA7 ABC: Following House IT staffer's arrest, experts call for more vetting, better cybersecurity Monday, July 31st 2017

Congressional IT staffers do undergo background checks, but if another member wants to hire the same employee—as was the case with Awan and his relatives—they can just sign a form accepting the first member’s screening.
“Somebody has got to do a background check and not have everybody sign a form saying they already had one when no one got them,” Gohmert said

Two House Democrats who did not employ Awan or his relatives acknowledged Thursday that no hiring system is infallible, but each member is responsible for screening their own staff in their own way.
“It’s like 535 separate princely courts, so everyone has their own system,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. “There’s no central system for vetting staff and over the years it’s by and large mostly worked well.”

According to Mark Strand, president of the Congressional Institute and a former longtime Capitol Hill staffer, there are no examinations, qualifications, or certifications required to ensure that technology aides are properly trained.
“A member of Congress can hire someone because they like them or they have a good feeling about them,” he said.
By design, each member is independent and operates their own staff. They also decide for themselves how strictly they secure data.
“The security of information starts with the member themselves and how seriously they take protection of information,” Strand said.

James Scott, a senior fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, said the ?potential for damage to national security and access to compromising information is high with poorly-vetted IT staff.
“Any contractor, staffer, IT technician, remote administrator, or anyone else with prolonged and/or unrestricted access to Congressional systems can: install malicious programs (custom malware, RATs, keyloggers, etc.); alter sensitive security settings such as remote access or firewall rules; connect unapproved devices or drives; laterally access confidential systems or networks; or exfiltrate valuable data such as emails, schedules, notes, etc.,” he explained in an email. Any unapproved offsite storage or removal of sensitive information poses a security threat, according to Scott.
“The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data must be secured according to its value, wherever that information is stored, whenever it is transmitted, and however it is processed,” he said. “Any lesser precaution is dangerously irresponsible and could be criminally negligent.”

Uh oh. A centrally vetted system won’t work either- the Dems would make sure they are the “experts” and everyone else suggested would be labeled science deniers. Then they would filter out any conservatives and the Republicans would cave and go along with it, only hiring people whom the leftwingers’s experts approve of.

What we have here isn’t a bad system- it works just fine for elected officials who vet their staff... the flaw is the Democrat politicians who deliberately hired people no sane honest person would hire and retained them when no sane honest person would. They’ll corrupt any new system too because Democrats are never held accountable.

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