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#ImranAwan: Kids Homework Was Reason For Massive Data Transfer From House Server! [VIDEO]
2017-09-29
[Victory Girls] The Washington Post recently wrote a story on the Imran Awan IT scandal plaguing Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Andre Carson, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The Post concluded that even though massive amounts of data were accessed and moved around, this entire kerfuffle doesn’t rise to the level of espionage. In other words, Nothing To See Here. Move Along. Oh REALLY?

Sorry Charlie ....errr WaPo! Your long winded attempt to gloss over the facts and realities of what Imran, his wife Hina Alvi, and the rest of that merry band has done might curry favor with the Democrats, but won’t win kudos elsewhere. Especially since the the blame has shifted to pointing the finger at the lax IT security protocols within Congress.

The WaPo ignores the very problematic wire transfers, glosses over the strange equipment purchases, excuses the fact that family members overlapped their job duties against the rules, and completely ignores the fact that $100,000 was sent by a known Hezbollah sympathizer to the Awans. According to the Post, the $283,000 wired to Pakistan was to pay for his father’s funeral! That’s one helluva send off!

Yes, this is definitely more than just a bit of bank fraud.

While the WaPo spins on behalf of it’s Democrat buddies, let’s take a closer look at those massive amounts of data transfer shall we? We are, as reported by Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak, looking at TERABITS of data! Imran and his crew accessed the House server 5,700 times and funneled tons of data off the server. 5,7000 times! Yet the excuse that the WaPo is helping promote?

I’ll wait until our readers quit laughing.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Moved to Opinion.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-09-29 22:44  

#5  This really should be in Opinion.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-09-29 13:33  

#4  The more I read about this fellow and the more distance our government gets from the story, the more I am convinced he was a recruited source.

We know who you are.
We know you know we know, who you are.
We know they also now know we know.
Why don't we all work together, shall we ?

Posted by: Besoeker   2017-09-29 10:04  

#3  The news blackout continues...
Posted by: Crusoth Clock7726   2017-09-29 09:15  

#2  A lot of needles could have been hidden in a terabyte sized data haystack

Like every classified document ever accessed by Congress.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246   2017-09-29 06:09  

#1  A lot of needles could have been hidden in a terabyte sized data haystack that Awan barfed into the congressional it infrastructure.

There could have been infected pictures or documents that exploited subtle vulnerabilities of OS & application software that Awan installed in PCs.

It would be the computer equivalent of a binary weapon. The data and the software would look ok to the casual observer and be harmless until they were brought together.

Also, a LOT of data can be steganographically hidden in a terabyte blob. When the blob was retransmitted to Awan's sensitive stolen data could have been hidden well enough not to trigger any automated security system sniffing outgoing traffic.

The reasonable assumption should be that whatever deep dark secret was stored on these PCs is in the possession of the ISI, the Chinese and the Norks.

Nuts!
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2017-09-29 01:59  

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