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Angered Marine Goes Public On Awans
[DailyCaller] A Marine who provided key evidence in the FBI case against Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s former IT employee said he is appalled by her claim that Islamophobia led U.S. Capitol Police to frame the former staffer.

Also Wednesday, two of Imran Awan’s relatives went on the record to say they think he would do anything for money.

Andre Taggart alerted the FBI to damaged harddrives and a cache of electronics tied to Imran Awan, a former IT specialist for dozens of House Democrats. Awan is the central figure in a criminal investigation of suspected procurement fraud and violations of the congressional IT network, including diverting data to an off-site server.

Taggart told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group Wednesday that “it was amazing” that Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, describes Imran as a victim of religious discrimination by law enforcement. Taggart rented the Northern Virginia home of Awan, who had frantically moved out after learning authorities were onto him.

“It pisses me off,” said Taggart, a black Marine who says he votes Democrat. He believes Wasserman Schultz is crying wolf and devaluing the meaning of genuine discrimination, while also exposing herself and the nation to risks.

“I just want to get these [guys] locked up and exposed and now,” Taggart told TheDCNF. “The people who facilitated them should also be locked up, as far as I’m concerned.”

Taggart said he made the decision to no longer be anonymous because he is concerned that his fellow Democrats are making a grave mistake by ignoring a scandal with serious criminal and national security implications.

“I’m absolutely disgusted with everything going on in the country right now, mostly because of right-wing conservatives, but with respect to this situation, political affiliation is irrelevant,” Taggart said.

“Him, his wife, his brother, all working down there — there’s no way they could do this without help. If we can drag Trump and his wingnuts through the mud for the Russia influence that they are having, then it’s only fair that we also expose this s–t,” Taggart said.

After Imran Awan realized the hard drives and electronics had been left in the house he rented to Taggart, Awan threatened to sue him to get the equipment back. Awan also listed the house for sale shortly after signing a multi-year lease with Taggart, the latter said.

“They took advantage of us,” Taggart said, describing a series of financially aggressive and dishonest interactions he said he had with Imran.

Also on Wednesday, an Awan relative, Syed Ahmed, told The Daily Mail that “for the sake of money they would have done anything… [Imran] might have been selling this information.”

Evidence suggests that the Awans were running a ghost employee scheme, collecting $6 million in salaries from taxpayers even though only a few of the six people on the House payroll actually performed IT work. Congressional offices signed off on those time-sheets for unknown reasons.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Imran Awan: A Continuing DCNF Investigation.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/25/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Please remove the last post as it is redundant.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/25/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The second she claimed islamophobia you knew she was guilty as fuck
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/25/2017 9:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Poll: Majority of Voters Think Trump Keeping Promises, Blame Washington Elites for Delays
[Breitbart] The George Washington University battleground poll found that 51 percent of voters agreed with the statement "Donald Trump had been keeping his campaign promises" with 44 percent disagreeing.

But when asked about the reasons for the delay in getting some of his promises enacted, 52 percent of respondents agreed that "Washington elites are to blame for the delay in passing some of these reforms."

The poll comes at a time when Trump has been increasingly locking horns with top Republican leaders over priorities in Congress. Trump said at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday that he was prepared to shut down the government if Congress would not fund a wall at the southern border.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2017 02:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do we still need the wall now that illegal immigration is way down?
Posted by: Pengui of the Desert || 08/25/2017 5:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 08/25/2017 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Do you still need a door on your house or apartment?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/25/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Celebrities seem to like high walls for some reason...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/25/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Israel built a wall; terrorist incidents decreased. The Pope has a wall around the Vatican. I'm still waiting for him to tear it down to allow hordes of migrants in (sarc). This wall seems to work despite what the Pope preaches. Some countries in Europe have erected barriers to keep from being over-run. The WH has a fence and barriers around it. So yes, a wall should be built across our Southern border to keep illegals out and to control drugs from coming in from Mexico.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/25/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Do we still need the wall now that illegal immigration is way down?

Is it permanently down?
Posted by: Pappy || 08/25/2017 8:59 Comments || Top||

#7  The thing is, the presidency isn't an event, it's a process. You don't get everything on the list on day one, this isn't Christmas.
Some things take time, and frankly, if we can draw out left's ulcers for a few years, it's all good. It's win-win. Maybe some of them will despair and kill themselves. Then it becomes win-win-win.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/25/2017 19:06 Comments || Top||

#8  I have resorted to trimming my own palm trees down here in McAllen Texas. I find it rather refreshing to work up a good sweat for an old white guy, but I will always defer to my 89 year old neighbor who insist I don't sweat enough.
Posted by: Joe of the Jungle || 08/25/2017 20:54 Comments || Top||


Swamp Creatures masquerading as GOP taken aback by President's verbal bombs
[The Hill] President Trump’s public fights with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other Republicans are just making it tougher to move his agenda, say GOP aides, strategists and former senators.

Republicans say the hard feelings between the White House and Senate leader will only complicate the task of passing tax reform, keeping the government funded and raising the debt ceiling -- three top items on the fall agenda.

"It makes it much more difficult obviously. It’s much easier when you got everyone on the same page, in the same boat and pulling in the same direction," said former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who was a counselor to McConnell when he served in the Senate.

A former Senate Republican leadership aide said Trump is only alienating allies by lashing out at them over Twitter.
"Every time the president goes on a Twitter rant he either alienates people whose votes he needs, wastes time that should be spent building a public case for his policies or gives Democrats something to hammer," said the source.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl8MNwwzK9E

Had to do it.
Posted by: Grunter || 08/25/2017 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  President Trump needs to get into McConnell's and Ryan's faces. They have done nothing but delay and obstruct. Time for an a$$ kicking.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/25/2017 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3  After 8 years of lying, saying they would repeal the Democratic agenda, they have done nothing when the electorate sends them a President who is ready to sign their repeals.

They are fraudulent, nefarious, dishonest lizards who are a total disgrace to this nation.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 08/25/2017 0:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Democratic should read Democrat
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 08/25/2017 0:44 Comments || Top||

#5  And we thought we might never see a man like Chuck Schumer as honorable and praiseworthy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2017 2:41 Comments || Top||

#6  The Pubs don't seem to know what to do with power once they have it. If they are not careful, it will slip away. Seldom does the opportunity come along when a party has the House, Senate, Presidency and the possibility of shifting the balance of SCOTUS. This window of opportunity is narrow. The American voters gave the Pubs this opportunity because the Dems were not representing the people; it was not because they have some great love for Pubs but because they thought the Pubs would hurt the country the least. They were looking for the swamp to be drained.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/25/2017 7:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Both kimonos lie crumpled on the floor. Not a nichel's worth of difference in either dem or pub as far as I can see. The most likely positive impact appears to be another Supreme Court death or retirement in which POTUS can potentially add some long-term, judicial course correction.

Significant short-term course corrections are being obstructed daily. Forget about 'health reform, the budget, or tax relief.'You can stick a fork in the 115th Congress, it is done.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#8  two brands, one party, zero choice
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/25/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||

#9  The American people often elect those who can hurt them the least. Sad state of affairs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/25/2017 8:19 Comments || Top||

#10  They are used to get-along, go-along politics.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/25/2017 9:49 Comments || Top||

#11  If this isn't an argument for a small federal government, I don't know what is. Seems like it would be something that Dems and Pubs alike (the voters, at least) could agree on: both sides are f&*king it up, so let's strip it down and move government closer to the people, where we the people can better keep an eye on things. The problems with this are myriad: 1.) Dems think the answer to broken government is more broken government; 2.) the Pubs also think the answer to broken government is more broken government; 3.) eligible voters don't vote, don't know anything about the issues anyway and don't really give a shit until there's a crisis - and then they want to blame someone (typically the other party); 4.) state government is not much (any?) better, suffering from the same problems, just on a smaller scale. 5.) local governments aren't used to thinking beyond basic services, like water, building permits, cops, firemen and skimming a little of the top for themselves (at least, that's the way it is here in Dekalb County).

One might be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that our grand experiment in democracy has failed.
Posted by: Whitch Turkeyneck3879 || 08/25/2017 13:18 Comments || Top||

#12  They are fraudulent, nefarious, dishonest lizards who are a total disgrace to this nation.

Now, now. I thought we all agreed that McConnell is a turtle.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/25/2017 13:31 Comments || Top||

#13  The American people often elect those who can hurt them the least. Sad state of affairs.

I've been voting like that since Perot ran for president.
Posted by: Raj || 08/25/2017 13:54 Comments || Top||

#14  is only alienating allies

And what makes them allies? They won't agree on any of the principles on which he was elected and piss all over the people that voted for him.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/25/2017 15:03 Comments || Top||

#15  D-R UniParty. USA needs a second political party. Here is some thinking, at least, on the subject: http://theological-geography.net/?s=party
Posted by: TopRev || 08/25/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#16  What you need is Article Five (PDF)
Posted by: newc || 08/25/2017 16:19 Comments || Top||


White House Fingers Mitch McConnell As Media Leak; Believes GOP Leader Divulged Sensitive Intelligence on Trump
[TruePundit] The White House is accusing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of waging a clandestine smear campaign against President Donald Trump, leaking sensitive internal communications shared with the President to the New York Times and possibly other media, according to administration officials.

"The President knows exactly what the senator (McConnell) has done," a White House official said. "And the President will address this in his own way. Privately."

The honeymoon -- if you can call it that -- appears to be officially over for the GOP leaders. And that might be a very bad thing for McConnell whose popularity is sliding in his home state of Kentucky.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 08/25/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Et tu, Brute?

About those NSA, IRS, et al files on you and your family Mitch. You know, like the ones you and yours have been leaking.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/25/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  McConnell needs to go. Simple as that.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 08/25/2017 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Those who expressed horror at what Trump said about Charletteville are either pro-Communist, fools that don't understand the world, or scoundrals looking to stick a shiv in whenever the opportunity presents.

I'm not really sure where McConnell stands, possibly all three.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/25/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Embrace the power of 'and'. Pro-Commie, and fool, and scoundrel? Sounds about right. McConnell and his ilk are people too low to despise.

Perhaps I am too harsh.

Nah.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/25/2017 19:54 Comments || Top||

#5  As popular as the Clap, Syphilis, or TB....or all of those combined?
Posted by: Ulains Thuque6389 || 08/25/2017 20:28 Comments || Top||



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