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If you listen to the Mainstream Media (MSM) you probably are
little aware of Imran Awan, the Pakistani national who served as a House IT guy
for a lot of Dems including Debbie Wasserman-Schultz the former DNC Chairman (Chairwoman,
Chairperson or whatever politically correct terminology you feel comfortable
about) who fixed the Dem nomination for Crooked Hillary.
Apart from all the criminal enterprises Awan used to
self-aggrandize himself and his immediate family, it appears Awan snatched
terabits of data from the House Dems which went or was used for whatever is not
yet public. (For my fellow computer illiterates, I just learned there is a difference between a terabit and a terabyte.)
All this time the Dems and their legions in the MSM have
trying to paint President Donald Trump as the nemesis to the America that
elected him to Office. AND YET the Daily Caller and Circa have uncovered that
the Dems are attempting to pass the fake news that Awan’s much usage of
terabits of data from House servers is nothing to see here, just forget about
it and move on.
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Awan Funneling ‘Massive’ Data Off Congressional Server,
Dems Claim It’s Child’s HOMEWORK
By Luke Rosiak
September 26, 2017 7:20 PM
Democratic congressional aides made unauthorized access to a
House server 5,400 times and funneled “massive” amounts of data off of it. But
there’s nothing to see here, Democrats told The Washington Post: They were just
storing and then re-downloading homework assignments for Imran Awan’s
elementary-school aged kids and family pictures.
A congressional source with direct knowledge of the incident
contradicted the Post’s account, saying that now-indicted IT aide Imran Awan
and his associates “were moving terabytes off-site so they could quote ‘work on
the files'” and that they desperately tried to hide what was on the server when
caught, providing police with what law enforcement immediately recognized as
falsified evidence and an indication of criminal intent.
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former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in an ever-growing scandal.
The Post described the
amount of data improperly flowing out of the congressional network as
“massive.” One congressional source told Circa it was “terabits.”
A terabyte is a million megabytes; a terabit is about
one-tenth of that. Awan’s three children are in elementary school or younger. A
book report in Word document format could clock in at under a megabyte, even if
it were 100 pages long. To fill a terabyte with family photos, a person would
need 250,000 photos.
Rules aside, there would be little reason for a staffer to
upload his children’s homework and family photos to a congressman’s server. For
one, cloud services such as Google Drive and Google Photos readily provide that
functionality, with a web interface. The congressional computer was a server
with no monitor, so you couldn’t view the photos on it, and they had to have been
uploaded onto it by another computer. It makes little sense that Awan would
upload personal data from a home computer onto a House server only to
re-download it.
Awan’s wife, Hina Alvi, was the sole person that was
supposed to be authorizing the Caucus server, and she could have uploaded
pictures of her children without attracting attention.
Yet she accessed it only 300 times as part of her job, while
other people — including Awan’s two brothers and his friend Rao Abbas —
accessed it 5,400 times. It’s unclear why extended family and friends would be
uploading Awan’s kids’ homework and pictures more than their own mother would.
The Post did not note the “massive” outgoing data and
unauthorized access until the 40th and 42nd paragraphs of its story, after it
had quoted multiple defense attorneys and ventured into a lengthy and seemingly
irrelevant but humanizing backstory on Awan’s childhood.
Its print headline was “Evidence Far Exceeds Intrigue” in
the probe, yet it quoted only a congressional staffer who, The DCNF’s
congressional source said, would not have been able to make assurances that
there was nothing to the criminal investigation, because Congress has been fire
walled from the criminal probe since it was turned over.
The Post also did not specify that data was also being
backed up online via unofficial Dropbox
accounts. Wasserman Schultz has acknowledged that the accounts were
used for congressional data, and that she has used the service in violation of
House rules “for years.”
The server was under the auspices of Xavier Becerra, who
left Congress Jan. 24 to become California attorney general and asked for the
server to be wiped at that time. Police first asked for a copy and received
what they identified as an elaborately falsified image, leading police to ban
them from the network immediately because they viewed it as an attempt to tamper with a criminal
investigation and an indication of clear criminal intent, The DCNF
reported before the Post story ran. The Awans were banned from the House
network Feb. 2.
The Post reported:
By midsummer [2016], with the
approval of the House Administration Committee, the Inspector General’s Office
was tracking the five employees’ logins. In October, they found “massive”
amounts of data flowing from the networks they were accessing, raising the
possibility that an automated program was vacuuming up information, according
to a senior House official familiar with the probe.
Initially, investigators could
not see precisely what kind of data was moving off the server due to legal
protections afforded by the Constitution’s “speech and debate” clause, which
shields lawmakers’ deliberations from investigators’ eyes.
Investigators found that the
five IT employees had logged on at one server for the Democratic Caucus more
than 5,700 times over a seven-month period, according to documents reviewed by
The Post. Alvi, the only one of the five who was authorized to access that
server, accounted for fewer than 300 of those logins, documents show.
The invocation of “speech and debate” suggests that
Democrats barred law enforcement from looking at the apparent data
breach. The Post — which has highlighted the importance of cybersecurity
and the intolerability of hacks on government — suggested finding any of this
odd would be “unfounded conspiracy theories and intrigue.”
Yet, according to a senior
congressional official familiar with the probe, criminal investigators have
found no evidence that the IT workers had any connection to a foreign government.
Investigators looking for clues about espionage instead found that the workers
were using one congressional server as if it were their home computer, storing
personal information such as children’s homework and family photos, the
official said.
There are indications that Awan is less than a doting family
man, and that he would use his congressional position for ill. Three women have
called police on him in the last three years. One is his stepmother,
Samina Gilani, who said she was kept “in captivity.” In court documents, she
alleged: “Imran Awan threatened that he is very powerful and if I ever call the
police [he] will do harm to me and my family members back in Pakistan and one
of my cousins here in Baltimore …
Imran Awan did admit to me that my phone is tapped and there are devices
installed in my house to listen my all conversations … Imran Awan introduces himself as someone from
U.S. Congress or someone from federal agencies.”
A second told police she felt “like a slave,”
and a third said she “just wanted to leave.” The latter two were apparently in
romantic relationships with Awan, who lived in small apartments in Alexandria,
Va. that he paid for while he lived with his wife.
Awan began selling off many of the multiple houses that his
family owns around the time he learned he was subject of the cybersecurity
probe, and wired money to Pakistan, resulting in Awan and his wife being
indicted for bank fraud.
The Post confirmed that Democratic IT aides had no
experience, such as Rao Abbas, who worked at McDonald’s. But it did not mention
that an Iraqi politician tied to
Hezbollah sent $100,000 to a company the family set up while
working for Congress, and that Awan had a secret account unknown to authorities, 123@mail.house.gov,
that was tied to the name of an intelligence specialist working
for Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana. The intelligence specialist denies knowing
anything about the account.
Imran Awan: A Continuing DCNF Investigative Group Series
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The IT guys in the House criminal probe could
read these members' emails
The Awans and their associates collected more than $5
million in pay from congressional offices, often drawing chief-of-staff level
pay though there is reason to believe many didn't even show up. They are
suspected of cybersecurity violations.
The money is broken down by year, congressional office and family member paid:
Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas.
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