Well, this should put the nail in the coffin of that non-story of ‘Russian hacking’. But will the Media (D) report it?
ClashDaily had reported on the Pakistani Hacking of the DNC waaaaay back in February.
And the Media (D) response?
Nuthin’. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
And today: Awkward silence.
Because there’s actually some ‘there’ there. As opposed to the 9-month long investigation into Trump ties with Russia. As Sean Spicer had quipped, ‘If the President puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, that’s somehow a Russian connection‘. (Of course, the statement prompted the crack team at CNN had to investigate Russian salad dressing. They had to make sure to point out that Russian Dressing isn’t actually Russian, so it must be ‘Fake News’. Oy. And yet they still wonder why they’re mocked. Gee, I wonder.)
Anyway…
Back to the new details into the old hacking scandal that the Media (D) ignored for 5 months.
Imran Awan and his two brothers, Abdi and Jamal, had a family-run IT business that handled the tech needs of the DNC. Business was good — they had made almost $4M working for Congress over the past 8 years.
Here’s a pic of Imran hobnobbing with the best of them — Bill Clinton in 2017.
On Monday, Imran Awan was arrested at Dulles International Airport for attempting to flee the country.
A House IT staffer at the center of a congressional computer equipment scandal has been arrested by federal officials and charged with bank fraud, Fox News has learned.
Fox News is told officers and agents from the U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI and Customs and Border Protection were involved in the arrest of Imran Awan at Dulles International Airport.
Awan, 37, of Virginia, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to one count of bank fraud during his arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C. He was released but will have to wear a GPS monitor and abide by a curfew….
…Authorities also have looked into IT workers putting sensitive House information on the “cloud” and potentially exposing it to outside sources.
Fox News is told that federal officials arrested Awan at Dulles airport in suburban Virginia as he was “trying to leave the country.”
Source: Fox News
Someone that has access to Congressional passwords and the DNC putting sensitive House information on the ‘cloud’?
That’s called ‘hacking’.
(I say that for the benefit of CNN, whose ‘journalists’ and ‘on-air talent’ don’t seem to understand what ‘hacking’ means. Also for both Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon who are neither ‘journalists’ nor ‘on-air talent’, but are nevertheless employed by CNN for unknown reasons.)
Chad Pergram of Fox News broke the story on Twitter.
Feds/USCP bust Hse IT staffer Imran Awan & charge him with multiple counts of bank fraud as part of Hse IT procurement scandal
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 25, 2017
Awan had been at center of scandal where he allegedly double charged Hse for IT equipment & may have exposed Hse info online
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 25, 2017
But Pergram — being a journalist — noticed something odd.
The real head-scratcher is that Awan was still on the payroll of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
Group of Hse Dems fired other Hse IT staffers probed by USCP. But Wasserman Schultz kept Awan on payroll. He was barred from Hse servers
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 25, 2017
Awan & his relatives worked for Hse IT for more than decade, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars. He declared bankruptcy in '12
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 25, 2017
Debbie’s trying to distance herself from Awan now.
A little late, isn’t it?
Sure, they’re suspected of committing fraud by double-billing Congress, removing computers without permission, using their access to Congressional email addresses and passwords, and the entire DNC — including Debbie’s own DNC iPad — but, it’s probably not them doing the hacking. More likely it’s The Russians™.
Just like OJ will now be looking for the ‘real killer’, the DNC will continue to try to connect the dots to Russia.
Good luck with that.
