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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Imran Awan Still Has A Copy Of Congressional Data Linked To Wasserman Schultz
[Daily Caller] Prosecutors have given Imran Awan a copy of the hard drive of a House laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried to keep law enforcement from looking at, court filings show, suggesting prosecutors intend to bring charges related to the underlying cybersecurity and theft probe.

The hard-drive copy was included in discovery even though the Florida Democrat has said the laptop contains House information on it and is a government-paid work computer, and even though Imran was fired and banned from the House network because of suspected cybersecurity violations.

Skipping down a bit to a couple of paragraphs possibly containing the reasons for the release of data:

Imran had access to all the emails and files of dozens of House Democrats. The bizarre refusal of members of Congress to criticize Imran no matter how many suspicious actions are tied to him raises questions about whether members may be afraid that he could release their emails if they assist in his prosecution, or that some could implicated in a kickbacks scheme involving disappearing equipment and ghost employees.

Immediately after prosecutors gave Imran a copy of the laptop, Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi, told prosecutors she would agree to return from Pakistan to face charges, seemingly indicating she has confidence that she won’t face serious punishment for theft or cyberviolations, despite authorities being in possession of massive quantities of invoices that were systematically altered to prevent the equipment from appearing in House inventories.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2017 06:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How long must we wait until a federal judge throws this frivolous case in the rubbish bin ?

[sarc off}
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2017 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Backup early, backup often.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2017 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  The bizarre refusal of members of Congress to criticize Imran no matter how many suspicious actions are tied to him raises questions about whether members may be afraid that he could release their emails if they assist in his prosecution, or that some could implicated in a kickbacks scheme involving disappearing equipment and ghost employees.
Ya think? That statement deserves alone deserves the Masters of the Obvious graf.
Posted by: magpie || 09/09/2017 13:33 Comments || Top||


No plans to charge Lois Lerner in IRS scandal
[FOXNEWS] The Trump administration has no plans to charge former IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
official Lois Lerner
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
over her role in the Tea Party targeting scandal, the Justice Department said Friday in response to calls by Republican politicians to revisit the case.

In a letter to the politicians, the Justice Department said that "reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence."

This past April, House Boodle Central Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., had asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take a "fresh look" at the case.

Despite numerous hearings and inquiries into the tough treatment of conservative groups by the tax agency during the 2010 and 2012 elections, the Obama Justice Department had announced in 2015 that no one at the IRS would be prosecuted. They said at the time that Sherlocks had "found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution."
Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A pity.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/09/2017 4:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Go to the DOJ web site and leave an email opinion about this. Probably won't do any good, but might make you feel better. Yep, 1 set of rules for civilians, another set of rules for gov. employees.
Posted by: Juting Clolugum7534 || 09/09/2017 6:34 Comments || Top||

#3  In chess the King is sacrosanct and must be protected at all cost. I have a hunch this agency and it's upper echelon enjoy a similar protected status.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2017 6:41 Comments || Top||

#4  What a clayfooted twat Sessions is turning out to be.

Then again, there were those rumors that some Republicans were in on the Tea Party targeting.

He's probably just protecting his pals in the Senate.
Posted by: charger || 09/09/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  ...you think?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2017 19:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.): We'll Shut Down The Gov't In Dec Until The DREAM Act Passes
[Hot Air] He’s always been crystal clear about his allegiances. In 2010 he famously told Newsweek, "I have only one loyalty, and that’s to the immigrant community." Watch his floor speech from yesterday below and you’ll find him celebrating DREAMers for having one loyalty as well, to the United States. If that’s true, they’re doing a better job with their priorities than he is.

Gutierrez is prepared to go to the mat for legalization this December by using the impending fiscal cliff as leverage. Are Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2017 08:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A threat with very little downside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  "I have only one loyalty, and that’s to the immigrant community."

The whole 'immigrant community'?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/09/2017 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  You do that, you little prick, and watch how quickly people turn on you because you value a handful of illegal aliens over American citizens. After the 2018 election we won't have to listen to your bullshit anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/09/2017 11:24 Comments || Top||

#4  "Go ahead. Make my day. Pendejo"

this would kill Democrats' chances
Posted by: Frank G || 09/09/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  What a worthless anti-American Mexican scumbag. You need to be deported, not in Congress. Screw your district too voting for commie Shit like you.

Posted by: newc || 09/09/2017 15:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Prepping for a reup in Nov.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2017 19:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Ok.

You are also violating your oath to your constituents and office.

So.... say when.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2017 21:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Only please, Brer Fox, please don't throw me into the briar patch.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 09/09/2017 23:51 Comments || Top||


Trump not worried if deal with Dems upsets GOP, says White House
[WASHINGTONTIMES] President Trump is not concerned that he angered some Capitol Hill Republicans by striking a deal with Democrats to quickly pass emergency disaster relief, the White House said Friday, saying it was more important to break the gridlock in Congress.

"The biggest message is we are a lot less focused on what makes Congress happy and [instead on] what makes Americans better and stronger," said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. "He’s going to continue working with whoever is interested in moving the ball forward to help the American people."

Mr. Trump blindsided Republican leaders and riled conservative politicians with the deal that tied a short-term increase in the debt limit and spending to keep the government open until mid-December with the emergency disaster relief.
Chuck Schumer is a more reliable partner than John McCain and Susan Collins.
The package was headed to Mr. Trump’s desk after winning final approval from Congress earlier in the day.

Mrs. Sanders said the deal-making was one of the reason voters sent Mr. Trump to the White House.

"The president’s focus was doing what is best for the American people. And that’s why he’s the president," she said. "People wanted somebody to be a leader. They wanted someone who was going to step up and take action, and that’s exactly what the president did."
Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering how the RHINOs in congress have treated Trump, I can't blame him. Make a couple small deals with the demoncrats to hopefully shame them. If they don't come to the table then declare war on them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2017 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Wait! If the Dems are making deals with TrumpHitler, doesn't that make them literally Hitler, too?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/09/2017 1:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually, it would mean the Dems are more than willing to play the role of Chamberlain, regardless of who is literally Hitler
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/09/2017 2:53 Comments || Top||

#4  If McConnell and Ryan can't concede to the Dems what exactly is their purpose in Washington?
Posted by: Airandee || 09/09/2017 7:27 Comments || Top||

#5  What goes around, boys...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/09/2017 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6  What Steve Bannon said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#7  It's amazing to see Bannon getting a chance to actually present his case on CBS.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/09/2017 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Mr. Trump blindsided Republican leaders and riled conservative politicians with the deal

"How dare he beat us to the punch and make a deal with the Dems. That's our job!"
Posted by: charger || 09/09/2017 12:40 Comments || Top||


Environmentalists File New Challenges to Trump’s Border Wall Prototypes
[FREEBEACON] An environmental group challenging the construction of President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s border wall and prototype projects in San Diego expanded its lawsuit challenging the Homeland Security Department’s authority to waive environmental laws in order to move forward with the project.

The new filing in U.S. District Court argues that then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly did not have the constitutional or other legal authority to waive dozens of environmental laws to "rush construction of the border wall and prototypes."

"The waiver highlights the Trump administration’s dangerous disregard for our environment and the rule of law," Brian Segee, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the lawsuit, said in a statement. "Trump is willing to throw environmental protections out the window and fulfill his divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
and destructive campaign promise."

"What’s to stop him from using this lawless approach to wreck wildlife refuges and beautiful public lands all along the border?" he added.

Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So it's ascetic concerns rather than environmental concerns.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/09/2017 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  You want to see their heads spin around like in the 'Exorcist'?
"National Security Exemption". Look it up.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/09/2017 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  "National Security Exemption". Look it up.

Won't stop some libtard federal "judge" from trying to kill the wall anyway. See "travel ban".
Posted by: PBMcL || 09/09/2017 14:52 Comments || Top||


Tim Kaine: ‘I Don’t Know Enough About Antifa’
[DAILYCALLER] Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine says he does not know much about so-called members of "antifascist"
...anybody not a leftist...
(Antifa) groups but says it is unfair to paint them with a broad brush.
... and he just can't find information on them anywhere!
When asked by The Daily Caller Thursday if Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
should be considered a terrorist organization, Kaine replied: "I don’t like broad brushes and I don’t know enough about them to say that they’re forces of Evil but people who do violent things. The law should take care of them."

The Department of Homeland Security has called the activities of Antifa "domestic terrorist violence," according to Politico.

Kaine’s son, Linwood, was jugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
back in March at a pro-Trump rally at Minnesota’s state Capitol on misdemeanor charges in connection with lighting smoke bombs.

The younger Kaine was accused of taking part in Antifa activities against Trump supporters.

When asked about his son’s arrest at the time of his son’s arrest the Senator said through a spokeswoman to CNN: "We love that our three children have their own views and concerns about current political issues. They fully understand the responsibility to express those concerns peacefully."

Sen. Kaine, along with Democratic Sen. Mark Warner and Republican Sens. Cory Gardner and Johnny Isakson, signed a bipartisan resolution Wednesday condemning "white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other hate groups" for their role in the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month, but does not mention so called anti-fascist groups.
Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  The a-hole could start by talking to his loser/ Antifa son
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/09/2017 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2  He doesn't have the capacity to legislate then.
Posted by: gorb || 09/09/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  ahhh...yes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2017 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Ask your loser son, dipshit.
Posted by: Barbara || 09/09/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2017-09-09
  300 ISIS fighters stranded in the desert, as bait to target jihadists
Fri 2017-09-08
  US warplanes takes out ISIS members running to stranded convoy
Thu 2017-09-07
  Two arrested after 'bomb factory' discovered near Paris
Wed 2017-09-06
  Insurgents call Rohingyas to arms for war in Myanmar
Tue 2017-09-05
  US-backed Syrian militias seize Great Mosque of Raqqah from Daesh
Mon 2017-09-04
  US Coalition bombs ISIL convoy heading to Deir Ezzor from Lebanon, claims 85 dead
Sun 2017-09-03
  Arson attacks push thousands more Rohingya from Myanmar
Sat 2017-09-02
  US-backed Syria force says seizes Raqa Old City from IS
Fri 2017-09-01
  Nearly 50,000 Rohingya flee violence in Myanmar
Thu 2017-08-31
  At Least 18,500 Rohingya Flee to Bangladesh as Rakhine Unrest Rages
Wed 2017-08-30
  Rohingya Men Fight against Myanmar's Forces, 6000 stranded at Bangla border
Tue 2017-08-29
  Houthi militias prevent Saleh loyalists from leaving Yemen capital
Mon 2017-08-28
  Turkish Army invades northern Syria, launches attack on Kurdish-held border town
Sun 2017-08-27
  Iraq forces recapture city of Tal Afar from ISIS
Sat 2017-08-26
  'Terror attack’ in Brussels: Machete-waving ‘terrorist’ is shot dead as he attacks soldiers shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ near street where ISIS called for vehicle attacks


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