There has been an information blackout on the Awans since news broke that DWS warned the Capital police chief that there will be consequences "for not releasing her computers to her after he confiscated them.

[video:https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMjNXJASkig]

"Tim Canova, who has had up-front and personal experience with the corruption of DWS and her minions, has called for her to be banned and barred frim any and all investigations into the shady (criminal?) activities involving the laptop found by the capital police in the ‘phone booth’ in the Rayburn House Office Building that she said belongs to her. But has she really kept her distance?”

Canova's statement on this:

In South Florida, Wasserman Schultz was condemned by Tim Canova, who unsuccessfully challenged Wasserman Schultz in the 2016 Democratic congressional primary and has indicated he may run again in 2018.

“We demand that Wasserman Schultz recuse herself from the House Committee on Appropriations' Legislative Branch Subcommittee on any matter dealing with the Capitol Police budget,” Canova wrote in a Facebook post. “Now she uses her position on this subcommittee to threaten the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police.”

To start you off with some background information about them, here's what our Alligator wrote on the history of the Awans and their involvement with some of our congress members.

Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents.

All of them appear to have waived background checks on Imran Awan and his family members, even though the family of server administrators could collectively read all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats, and despite background checks being recommended for such positions, according to an inspector general’s report. The House security policy requires offices to fill out a form attesting that they’ve initiated background checks, but it also includes a loophole allowing them to simply say that another member vouched for them.

Among the red flags in Abid’s background were a $1.1 million bankruptcy; six lawsuits against him or a company he owned; and at least three misdemeanor convictions including for DUI and driving on a suspended license, according to Virginia court records. Public court records show that Imran and Abid operated a car dealership referred to as CIA that took $100,000 from an Iraqi government official who is a fugitive from U.S. authorities. Numerous members of the family were tied to cryptic LLCs such as New Dawn 2001, operated out of Imran’s residence, Virginia corporation records show. Imran was the subject of repeated calls to police by multiple women and had multiple misdemeanor convictions for driving offenses, according to court records.

For what reason would members of our congress give a Pakistani family access to their information on their computers? Why were they allowed to get away with doing this for so long? Did those congress members have a choice whether the Awans would be put in charge of their computer IT? If not, then why not? Who made the decision for them to let the Awans do that?

Was the FBI aware of that arrangement and if they were then who made the decision that they had no authority to investigate why a Pakistani family got to have access to classified and confidential information? Seriously, WTF was going on? This sure puts Russia Gate in perspective, doesn't it?

Tim Canova lost the primary too DWS and he immediately started questioning the validity of it because the ballots were destroyed before they could be recounted and he has brought the Awans' case (crimes) back from the black hole of the media black out.

Why has Awan IT scandal investigation stalled? Perhaps same reason there’s no federal criminal investigation of the illegal ballot destruction in DWS 2016 primary. Apparently no law or justice when it comes to the rich & politically connected. #NoRuleOfLaw #AmericanExceptionalism https://t.co/PZKNnn8P3o

— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) May 25, 2018

Assistant US Attorney for Wa DC is Steven Wasserman, Debbie's brother. Same office in charge of the Seth Rich case. https://t.co/AjouS7KZYx pic.twitter.com/kqp5eiCFf4

— sumtingfun (@MeSumting) May 25, 2018

Capitol Police Accidentally Gave Evidence To House Hacking Suspect’s Defense Attorney

The House IG said Democratic IT aides made unauthorized access to data, but prosecutors haven’t charged them

Democrats appear to want to keep the case out of court; a trial could expose their reckless IT practices

Capitol Police didn’t make arrests despite numerous red flags and then ‘inadvertently’ gave evidence to defense attorneys that was supposed to go to prosecutors

Prosecutors appear to be sharing info with someone on Capitol Hill who is leaking details to the hacking suspect’s lawyer

The Capitol Police turned over a trove of evidence in the alleged Imran Awan House cyberbreach and theft case to the defense attorneys when they were supposed to deliver it to prosecutors instead, according to court documents and a source.

Awan, three relatives and a friend ran IT for one in five House Democrats and could read all their emails and files until they were banned on Feb. 2, 2017, for “numerous violations of House security policies.” The violations alleged by the House Office of Inspector General include logging into the House Democratic Caucus server thousands of times without authorization. This allegedly occurred during the same period in 2016 the DNC computer files were downloaded hacked.

{ both links deserve a read }

Gowen — a former aide to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — said he learned of the story through someone on Capitol Hill. “I have been told by my source on the Hill,” he said.

If true, this would imply congressional staff, or possibly even members, are feeding information to the attorney of a hacking suspect.

Awan exclusively worked for Democrats, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who formerly headed the DNC and whose brother is an assistant U.S. attorney in the D.C. office.

Democrats, meanwhile, have publicly underscored the importance of cybersecurity, expressing outrage at what they say is President Donald Trump’s involvement with the 2016 hack on the DNC.

One aspect of the Mueller investigation is the claim that Russia hacked the DNC's computers and gave the information to Wikileaks for them to influence people into not voting for Hillary. There is also the claim that Trump knew that the Russians did that because he said during one of his campaign events that "if Russia finds Hillary Clinton's missing emails let us know." This was after Hillary said that she had destroyed 30,000 of her private emails even though she was ordered to turn them in to congress. The FBI was refused access to look at the DNC computers so we have to take CrowdStrike's word for it that Russia was responsible for the hack.

Gulfgal has made this excellent point many times before and she again posted this today in another essay here.

I am referring to is the lie that Russia hacked the DNC. This lie has been disputed based upon a technical reasons that proved that the DNC information had not been remotely downloaded. Both the Forensicator and the VIPS have similarly concluded that the DNC data was not remotely downloaded based upon differing, but not inconsistent with one another, analyses. That made the DNC leaks actual leaks, not hacks. As for Podesta, he was so careless with his password and information that any computer savvy 10 year old could have accessed his information.

The second part to all this that is conveniently dropped from all reporting is that both the DNC emails and the Podesta emails were taken from private computers, not from the US government. The DNC is a private corporation and Podesta is a private citizen. Why is the US government involved in these cases? If I was as careless as John Podesta with my password and a 10 year old was able to access my emails, would the US government come racing to my rescue?

The democrats have spent close to two years pushing that Russia hacked the DNC computers and have been admonishing Trump for not taking cyber security seriously all the while hoping that people won't find out about what they allowed the Awans to do. For years!

I just did a search for the Awans and the only articles I found are from 2017. Let's hope this changes soon.

(thanks go to Amanda for helping me with this)