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Home Front: Politix
Wasserman Schultz Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While He Lived In Pakistan
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 || 07/30/2017 09:11 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dhimmi jizya for being silent. Most would call this blackmail.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Wadn't her money anyway. Was taxpayer money.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/30/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#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 || 07/30/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Was he boning her too?

If so, he wasn't being paid enough.
Posted by: charger || 07/30/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#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 || 07/30/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  He must have had some very juicy stuff on her. I wonder what it could be...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/30/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Or he was providing her with information, and was being paid by her to keep it quiet.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/30/2017 12:03 Comments || Top||

#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 || 07/30/2017 12:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Allegations of the Awans Spying for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||

#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 || 07/30/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#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 || 07/30/2017 15:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Ikhwan, ISI, IRGC, or all of the above?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/30/2017 15:35 Comments || Top||

#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 || 07/30/2017 15:42 Comments || Top||

#14  McCarthy....
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#15  Powerline has it as well. Daily Caller is on point
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2017 15:46 Comments || Top||

#16  More from ZH
Posted by: phil_b || 07/30/2017 17:07 Comments || Top||


#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 || 07/30/2017 17:33 Comments || Top||

#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 || 07/30/2017 17:41 Comments || Top||

#20  McCarthy left out this guy, who the Awans were working when they branched out to other Congressional offices.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/30/2017 20:11 Comments || Top||



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