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| Wasserman Schultz Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While He Lived In Pakistan |
| 2017-07-30 |
| The MSM is trying to ignore this. She's guilty as sin and was probably blackmailed [DailyCaller] Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz seemingly planned to pay cyber-probe suspect and IT aide Imran Awan even while he was living in Pakistan, if the FBI hadn't stopped him from leaving the U.S. Monday. Public statements and congressional payroll records suggest she also appears to have known that his wife, a fellow IT staffer, left the country for good months ago ‐ while she was also a criminal suspect. In all, six months of actions reveal a decision to continue paying a man who seemingly could not have been providing services to her, and who a mountain of evidence suggests was a liability. The man long had access to all of Wasserman Schultz's computer files, work emails and personal emails, and he was recently accused by a relative in court documents of wiretapping and extortion. Records also raise questions about whether the Florida Democrat permitted Awan to continue to access computers after House-wide authorities banned him from the network Feb. 2. Not only did she keep him on staff after the ban, but she also did not have any other IT person to perform necessary work that presumably would have arisen during a months-long period, according to payroll records. Wasserman Schultz employed Pakistani-born Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, and refused to fire either of them even after U.S. Capitol Police said in February 2017 that they were targets of the criminal investigation. She said police wouldn't show her evidence against the couple and, without it, she assumed they might be victims of anti-Muslim profiling. Awan booked a round-trip ticket to Pakistan in July and planned to depart Monday, July 24 with a return ticket in six months. He was arrested at Dulles Airport during his attempt to leave. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #20 McCarthy left out this guy, who the Awans were working when they branched out to other Congressional offices. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-07-30 20:11 |
| #19 I keep coming back to the Hezbollah connection. Normally Sunnis want nothing to do with Shiias. Which makes me think Iran via the MB (or similar) are behind this. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-07-30 17:41 |
| #18 He spied on Congress for a long time and that information was used to blackmail the shit out of Congress. Or he supplied dirt to the DNC for the same thing. The MB and Pakistani IC likely benefited as well. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-07-30 17:33 |
| #17 Maybe this guy's trip to Pakistan should be examined more closely. Note the reference near the end to John Brennan, later head of CIA. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-30 17:25 |
| #16 More from ZH |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-07-30 17:07 |
| #15 Powerline has it as well. Daily Caller is on point |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-07-30 15:46 |
| #14 McCarthy.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-07-30 15:45 |
| #13 Andy McCarhy has it at NRO (yeah, I hate them too, but...). When they say it's bank fraud, it's not bank fraud. I think this is coming down around Lil Debbie and the DNC |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-07-30 15:42 |
| #12 Ikhwan, ISI, IRGC, or all of the above? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2017-07-30 15:35 |
| #11 One source, the Daily Caller I think, said he was initially hired with no prior relevant experience at 3 times the going rate. Which is about as suspicious as it gets. IT support people are 2 a penny these days. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-07-30 15:27 |
| #10 The return ticket isn't significant. A lot of Asian countries won't allow you to enter without one, assuming he travelled on a US passport. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-07-30 15:16 |
| #9 Allegations of the Awans Spying for the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-30 14:46 |
| #8 And who did this nobody part-time IT guy get as a lawyer? A public defender? Someone he could afford on his salary? No, he got Chris Gowen, a power attorney a long-time campaigner for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a member of an attorney team that brought a fraudulent lawsuit against energy giant Chevron. He also has a reputation, as related by his stepmother, of bugging rooms and recording phone calls. This is huge, people. He spied on Congress for a long time and that information was used to blackmail the shit out of Congress. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-07-30 12:33 |
| #7 Or he was providing her with information, and was being paid by her to keep it quiet. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-07-30 12:03 |
| #6 He must have had some very juicy stuff on her. I wonder what it could be... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-07-30 11:54 |
| #5 #4 Was he boning her too? Charger, it is going to be difficult to get that mental image erased. DWS' brother, Steve Wasserman is said to be heading up the prosecution of Imran Awan. Another friggin gatekeeper put in place to limit blowback on DWS? Look for Awan being 'suicided" while in jail. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-30 10:28 |
| #4 Was he boning her too? If so, he wasn't being paid enough. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-07-30 10:18 |
| #3 My thoughts lean less to blackmail and more to co-conspirator. Awan's tenure fairly matches DWS's rise to power, like someone was feeding her information. That she was also being played didn't alter her deal. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-07-30 09:48 |
| #2 Wadn't her money anyway. Was taxpayer money. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-07-30 09:45 |
| #1 Dhimmi jizya for being silent. Most would call this blackmail. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-30 09:23 |