Dems screaming "Russia!" should be looking out for Pakistan link to Dem corruption

Russia! Russia! Russia!--yeah, we know. But have the Dems mentioned just once the Awan Brothers or Pakistan or the ISI or the real sedition that is just sitting under every congress critter's nose? Interestingly the Repugnants are just as silent about this as the Dems, although, so far no one can pin any blame on the Repubbies for this security fiasco, which is correctly termed sedition.

Sedition: n. [OFr. sedition; L. sedition (-onis),dissension, civil discord, sedition; from sed- sed apart, and itio, a going, from ire- -, to go]

1. the stirring up up of discontent, resistance or rebellion against the government in power.
2. rebellion, insurrection [Rare.]

In this case, it is difficult to understand why the seditious practice of hiring the Awans has not received more attention from Republicans, as they seem to have no skin in the game. But the Dems MUST keep this story out of the lights until at least after the mid-terms. Most people here are aware of the amazing Awan Brothers spying for (enter name of country or entity here, e.g., Pakistan's ISI).

We know about DWS threatening the chief of the Capitol Police "with consequences" should he not return the computer to her because it was her property. But then she realized that she better back off.

First, let's take a trip on the WayBack machine to 2017 (not so far back at all).

Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission.

Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

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.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/exclusive-house-intelligence-it-staffe...

I agree with the reporter, Luke Rosiak, that Dems are afraid the scandal may deflate the entire Russiagate story. And he is correct because once Russiagate goes away, so does Mueller. And once Mueller goes away, then a firestorm of legal problems will engulf the Dems involved in the Awan sedition. Mueller is the dam holding back the fire and brimstone from destroying most of the establishment House Dems.

To see the rogues' gallery of dangerous and duped Dems, see this article which gives a timeline of Awan employment by Dems. Here's a sample.

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.

Oh, how about DWS culpability? No question here:

Wasserman Schultz was also chair of the Democratic National Committee when Wikileaks published its emails. (The Wikileaks emails show that DNC aides called Imran when they needed the password to her device.) Since then, she and other Democrats have described cyber breaches in the strongest possible terms, such as “an act of war” and “an assault on our democracy.

Assault on our Democracy, indeed! DWS outright names her actions as seditious by the most serious data breach in US history, allowing foreign actors access to the most secret domestic information.

This is what a "privileged user" such as DWS must adhere to:

The Democrats are walking a tightrope here, one side on survival, the other on destruction and imprisonment.

The power plays here necessary for Dem survival:
1. Keep control of Rosentstein
2. Keep Rosenstein in control of DOJ
3. Let Mueller run his wasteful, non-productive instigation as long as he can
4. Forestall a second special prosecutor
5. Keep HRC out of the spotlight

The pyramid topples if Rosenstein is removed or coerced by Trump into stopping this probe into nowhere and nothing.

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snoopydawg's picture

Having other democrats hire them too has never made any sense either. It's not like they were the only game in town who could have done their jobs.

On the topic of Russia. After Putin won we had people like McCain and other blabber mouths saying that the election was rigged so only he could have won, right? He received around 75% of the votes. The Egyptian president just won reelection with close to 100% of the votes and yet not one person has said anything about how he rigged the election for himself. Funny that.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Pricknick's picture

Who owned DWS?

Having other democrats hire them too has never made any sense either.

Yea, I'm blaming the double loser on this.
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@Pricknick

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dumb sonsabitches. There's dumb, and then there's "the Russians did it!" dumb. A whole 'nuther level of dumb$h!tedness.

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It was not surprising to see the Awans being protected by the Democrats who hired them, but what is surprising is how they seem to continue to be protected even though the Republicans are in charge of both houses of Congress and the White House. Do I believe that every Democrat the Awans worked for knew what was going on? No, I believe that some of the newer Reps were probably clueless. What I do think is that it is very odd that the Awans were paid at a far higher rate than other IT personnel employed in Congress.

There is much more to this Awan "spy scandal" than meets the eye. I am just not sure what it is. Lots of things are simply not adding up. I may be very wrong here, but I am beginning to believe all the scandals and corruption we are seeing in Washington are related. I have nothing to base my supposition on, but it would not surprise me if Imran Awan turned out to be a CIA asset. And of course, the Clintons are probably involved in some way also. Everything they touch becomes rotten to the core.

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@gulfgal98

There is much more to this Awan "spy scandal" than meets the eye. I am just not sure what it is.

Me, either.

I wonder whether the Republicans are simply too busy with the Russia! Russia!! Russia!!! mess to go after this Awan business. Seems that what started out as an excuse for Hillary losing has turned into something else - such as a massive deflection to keep eyes looking elsewhere. Whatever it is, it is big enough that the Dems are willing to risk nuclear war with Russia over it, as they just keep poking that bear.

It makes no sense to me ... and why the Republicans aren't after it is puzzling.

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@gulfgal98

tastes bad, but it has to be done.

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earthling1's picture

@gulfgal98
is protecting his old BFF's ..... the Clintons.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

and who is fighting to survive. It is the current operators of the Democratic Party, the neocons who have seized control of the party starting with the election of Bill Clinton and continuing with the Obama presidency. These people hyjacked the party of FDR and turned it into a virtual rebirth of the legacy of Barry Goldwater through Hillary Clinton.

The current operators of the Democratic Party can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't lift a finger to help them continue in power. The Democratic Party, however, is worth saving, providing it can return to the Socalist roots laid down by FDR.

The Party and its current operators are two very different things.

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@ovals49
The current operators are what draw such ire from the Breitbart crowd as well as other right wingers. The evil, corrupt, brain dead, libtards are who they hate. Their zeal to someday exterminate them all is palpatable.
Many of them lump us true leftest progressives in with them.
Convincing them that there are people on the left that believe in the common man and love our country, just like they do, is THE challenge we must overcome.
IMHO

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Alligator Ed's picture

@earthling1

The current operators [of the Democratic party] are what draw such ire from the Breitbart crowd as well as other right wingers. The evil, corrupt, brain dead, libtards are who they hate. Their zeal to someday exterminate them all is palpatable.
Many of them lump us true leftest progressives in with them.
Convincing them that there are people on the left that believe in the common man and love our country, just like they do, is THE challenge we must overcome.
IMHO
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Song of the lark's picture

Classic case of immigrants on the make , stealing computer equipment , selling info, working for whom ever. CIA, ISI, moving money. Etc. Not as well done and certainly not as clever as the 60 Russians Russians just kicked out. The Awans are an everyday ocurrance all over the world, low level, badly done barely covered up, shoestring operation. Nothing to see here. Happening now with someone else, Dems were just stupid with their penchant for hiring "oppressed" immigrant groups. Pakistan is not our friend, we been droning them for years and giving them billions of dollars. This is the crime. Look elsewhere Alligator you are knawing in the wrong putrid meat.
Want to know a real subject of interest , instead of this ordinary political bullshit? Two nuclear powers, about to go at it over water, and territory. Pakistan and India. Nuclear war in the subcontinent in the as soon as the Himilayan glaciers melt. I give it 5 years.

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@Song of the lark India is likely to come out a loser in this because of sensitive data purloined by the Awans. Pakistan and India have been at it since the Mogols went away--another senseless bloody feud. If Kashmir fell into a giant chasm, those two countries would find something else to fight about. The U.S. is very inventive in manufacturing reasons to fight somebody, anybody.

However, Imran does not sound like the patriotic type, certainly no more patriotic than Medusa and Hussein. He and his clan are in it for the bucks. Yes, he'll sell to ISI but any other takers also.

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Lookout's picture

...money laundering, arms and auto trades, spying on congress, and more? From my hillbilly view sure looks like our own spies are in bed with the Awans (and the Dims).

That's why we don't hear the story covered....cause corporate media is a CIA megaphone?

That's my take anyway.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout

getting into everything that they did and in getting out of the country, with all of that expensive publicly-owned missing computer equipment (bearing potentially recoverable evidence?) simply written off and covered over and with their detaining/arrests prevented so that they could leave the country, in one case with an illegal amount of money she then had the law bent over for her, if I recall correctly. And I can't see DWS having so much sympathy for anyone not a giant donor, never mind sticking her precious neck out for immigrants stealing sensitive info from various Congress-people and Committees, unless she was getting some advantage from the actual crimes. Not to mention Debbie's behaviour over that lap-top, etc..

The traditional edit, this time for a duplicated word from a sentence re-write, for a refreshing change from letter-typos.

Re-edit: Speaking of Russia, just started watching this - and the expression on Putin's face as Erdogan speaks (the camera has been moved off both parties so Putin's expression is no longer visible at this early point) implies perhaps a lot of BS, although it may be just impatience with such talk. Would like to hear the impressions of those with the general knowledge I lack and who are feeling better and more awake.

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Edit: speaking of not awake, not sure how I managed to get the block-quotes part-way down the area they needed to cover, but I don't think I'm going to survive this scented chemical inundation flooding into my room every time the door opens and closes with the animals in and out like this...

Hah! to US corporate media! Truth will tell...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

@Lookout

Deep State, blackmail of Congress, both Parties, in other words, Bushworld, which is why no Republicans can see or say anything about this.

...money laundering, arms and auto trades, spying on congress, and more? From my hillbilly view sure looks like our own spies are in bed with the Awans (and the Dims).

That's why we don't hear the story covered....cause corporate media is a CIA megaphone?

I think you've nailed it about as well as anyone possibly can from outside the events.

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@Lookout I mentioned above that I would not be surprised if Imran Awan is somehow involved with the CIA, probably as an asset.

Also, there is something very fishy here that nearly everyone in Congress clams up when the Awans are mentioned and that Imran Awan was immediately provided with legal services of Chris Gowan, a very close associate of Bill Clinton's. Not a member of Gowan's law firm of which he is a founder, but by Gowan himself.

Below is a little snippet about just how close Chris Gowan is to the Clintons.

Imran Awan, a once seemingly low-level, apolitical Capitol Hill IT worker who was arrested by the FBI while trying to fly to Pakistan, has retained as his lawyer a former aide to both Bill and Hillary Clinton who worked closely with and traveled with the couple.

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His official bio on the firm’s web site notes that he “left the Public Defender’s office to work for former President William Jefferson Clinton and then-Senator Hillary Clinton. Chris was a fact checker for President Clinton’s memoir, ‘My Life.'”

“He also served as a traveling aid for President Clinton’s national and international trips. Chris finished his tenure with the Clintons by directing the advance operations for then-Senator Hillary Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign.”

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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@gulfgal98 Actually, this does dovetail into that adage: "Follow the Lawyers".

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