[ April 25, 2024 ]
How is that Democrats are never held accountable? Not just for their every day run-of-the-mill corruption and skulduggery, but for high treason?
Enemedia front page news is a bogus Trumped-up Russia investigation. But the biggest blockbuster spy story of the 21st century that no one is talking about is nowhere to be found in the enemedia echo chamber.
44 Dems, Including Wasserman Schultz, Exempted Pakistani IT Aides From Background Checks
Luke Rosiak, Daily Caller, April 1, 2018
Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made “unauthorized access” to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents.
Background check diagram from House Policy 16
All of them appear to have waived background checks on Imran Awan and his family members, even though the family of server administrators could collectively read all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats, and despite background checks being recommended for such positions, according to an inspector general’s report. The House security policy requires offices to fill out a form attesting that they’ve initiated background checks, but it also includes a loophole allowing them to simply say that another member vouched for them.
Among the red flags in Abid’s background were a $1.1 million bankruptcy; six lawsuits against him or a company he owned; and at least three misdemeanor convictions including for DUI and driving on a suspended license, according to Virginia court records. Public court records show that Imran and Abid operated a car dealership referred to as CIA that took $100,000 from an Iraqi government official who is a fugitive from U.S. authorities. Numerous members of the family were tied to cryptic LLCs such as New Dawn 2001, operated out of Imran’s residence, Virginia corporation records show. Imran was the subject of repeated calls to police by multiplewomen and had multiple misdemeanor convictions for driving offenses, according to court records.
If a screening had caught those, what officials say happened next might have been averted. The House inspector general reported on Sept. 20, 2016, that shortly before the election members of the group were logging into servers of members they didn’t work for, logging in using congressmen’s personal usernames, uploading data off the House network, and behaving in ways that suggested “nefarious purposes” and that “steps are being taken to conceal their activity.”
A pair of closely-held reports on Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, his wife Hina Alvi, and his friend Rao Abbas, said, “the shared employees have not been vetted (e.g. background check).”
“Shared employees” means they were all hired as part-time, individual employees by individual members, cobbling together $165,000 salaries. Jamal began making that salary at only 20 years old, according to House payroll records; Abid never went to college, his stepmother said; and Rao Abbas’ most recent job experience was being fired from McDonald’s, according to his roommate. (“Whether they had formal training or not, they were trained on the job by Imran,” one of Imran’s lawyers said.)
Among the 44 employers, the primary advocate for the suspects has been Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who introduced a bill Monday that would require background checks on Americans purchasing ammunition. “Without bullets a gun is just a hunk of useless metal,” she said, calling ammunition the “loophole” in gun control policy.
Former DNC chair, who hired Pakistanis to manage her US Congressional email accounts, introduces bill to perform background checks on ammunition purchasers…
Wasserman Schultz was also chair of the Democratic National Committee when Wikileaks published its emails. (The Wikileaks emails show that DNC aides called Imran when they needed the password to her device.) Since then, she and other Democrats have described cyber breaches in the strongest possible terms, such as “an act of war” and “an assault on our democracy.”
But there is no indication Democrats put those concerns into practice when they entrusted the Pakistani dual citizens with their data, nor when suspicious activity was detected. Police banned the suspects from the network after the IG report, but Wasserman Schultz kept Imran on staff anyway. He was in the building and in possession of a laptop with the username RepDWS months later, according to an April 6, 2017 police report.
The House security policy, HISPOL16, says “House Offices shall… Ensure background checks, as defined in this policy, have been conducted on Privileged Users.” It includes quarterly reviews of privileged accounts’ appropriateness. By the time the policy was enacted, some members had dropped the Awans for assorted reasons, including Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona in early 2015 for what her spokesperson called “incompetence.”
The $1.1 million bankruptcy in itself would be enough to stop many employers from giving access to sensitive data. “Excessive indebtedness increases the temptation to commit unethical or illegal acts in order to obtain funds to pay off the debts,” so “financial problems are the number one killer of security clearances,” according to ClearanceJobs.com.
For each server administrator, an “Authorizing Official” from the member’s office must fill out a form on which the office attests: “I have assessed the risk of the prospective Privileged Account holder via background check processes outlined in HISPOL 16.”
However, there is an alternative: “I have verified that a trustworthiness determination has been made on behalf of this shared resource by another Member.”
House background check form
The option B does not ask the name of the member that vouched for the employee, and the language does not directly specify that vouching for an employee requires that the earlier member provided a background check.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to all 44 members, and none disputed that they had not conducted a background check. Not a single one of the 44 would say which of their colleagues vouched for the Awans, nor stated what criteria they used to determine that it was prudent to give them access to all their data.
Besides Wasserman Schultz, Imran has longstanding personal relationships with Reps. Gregory Meeks and Marcia Fudge of New York, Politico reported. Employers also include Rep. Ted Lieu of California on the Foreign Affairs Committee and three members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Reps. Andre Carson of Indiana, Jackie Speier of California and Joaquin Castro of Texas.
The HISPOL16 policy was created in September 2015 and says “As privileged accounts have a greater potential impact on information and information systems than general user accounts, organizations must promote trustworthiness of users of privileged accounts. Authorization officials must check the backgrounds of users of privileged accounts for elements that might make trustworthiness of a user questionable… The Office of the CISO suggests that Hiring Officers and their designees use the rigorous criminal history records search services provided by the United States Capitol Police.”
The policy focuses on and encourages members to use the Capitol Police’s background check service, but it says private background check companies can also be used. The IG report does not specify whether it made the determination that the Awans had not received background checks by looking at the forms or by consulting with the Capitol Police, but it says that they “have not been vetted.”
The Shared Employee Handbook, published in 2009, says “Due to the sensitive nature of the information to which Shared Employees may be exposed during day-to-day job functions, it is recommended that Member and Committee offices request a Capitol Police Criminal History Records Check on potential Shared Employees.”
Eric McCracken, a spokesman for the Committee on House Administration, would not say why the screening policy provided the option B loophole that allowed another member to vouch for the aides in lieu of a background check. Despite the IG report addressing it, Gregg Harper, the Mississippi Republican who controls the committee, told The Daily Caller in 2017 that he did not know whether the Awans had background checks.
The Awans’ employers also included Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York, who saw $120,000 in computer equipment disappear under Abid Awan’s watch but “wrote off” the taxpayer funds rather than make an issue of it, according to the IG report and multiple senior government officials.
Xavier Becerra, now attorney general of California, ran the House Democratic Caucus, and his server was physically stolen shortly after the IG report named it as evidence in a hacking probe, three senior government officials said. A list of the members who did not conduct background checks is below.
Imran Awan: A Continuing DCNF Investigative Group Series
- Court docs
- Long History Of Alleged Witness Intimidation, Evidence Tampering
- Why Did The FBI Let A Congressional Hacking Suspect Leave The Country?
- Intel Committee Dems ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Negligent’ In Handling Of Breach By Their Own IT Aide
- Internal Probe Reported ‘Unauthorized Access’ To Data; Officials Misrepresented Findings As ‘Theft’
- House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings Of A Nefarious Money Laundering Operation
- Becerra Tried To Block Awan From House Democratic Caucus Server, But Logins Continued; He Didn’t Go To Cops
- Hard Drive Tied to Wasserman Schultz Is Central To Imran Awan Case
- 18 Months In, Dem IT Aides Not Charged With Hill Crimes Despite Evidence
- Used Political Influence To Have Fraud Charges Dropped In Pakistan
- Own Wife Turns, Accuses Him Of Fraud, Violent Threats
- Imran Awan ‘Very Strongly’ Wants To Block Review Of Hard Drive, Was Using Alias
- Lawyer Says Congressmen Wanted Invoices Falsified
- Sending Money To Police Officer In Pakistan
- Funneling ‘Massive’ Data Off Congressional Server, Dems Claim It’s Child’s Homework
- ‘Like a Slave’: Three Muslim Women, At Least One Of Them Bloodied, Called Police on Imran
- Had Secret Server, Caught Falsifying Evidence To Cover It Up
- Imran Still Has Copy Of House Laptop DWS Said Has Sensitive Leg-Branch Info
- DWS Laptop Found at 3AM In Phone Booth With Letter To Prosecutors
- Awan Asks Judge To Remove GPS, Citing Possible Emergency With Kids–Who Are In Pakistan
- Has Secret, Still-Active House Account–[email protected]–Linked To Intelligence Specialist
- DWS ‘Islamophobia’ Claim Prompts Angered Witnesses To Go Public
- Rep. Yvette Clarke Quietly Signed Away $120,000 In Missing Equipment
- Imran, Hina Indicted For Conspiracy Against U.S.
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32 Comments
6 years ago
Ho hum, how quaint and interesting, yet another shocking scandal that shakes the very foundations of congress. How dreadful, now file it with the other “scandals of the week” get some coffee and donuts.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
These S-heads need to fry, need to be made examples of. ‘ don’t F-ing care if this goes all the way up to HRC and BHO, they need to F-ing fry and I bet it does go that high. They’ll probably NEVER go to prison much less be shot for treason but they NEED to be.
“Ho hum”?…
Is that how Mueller, demoRats, MSM, hollywood and millions of F-ing stupid Americans are treating Trump and conservatives? They’ve leaked all kinds of S-, hindered his administration, and publicly ripped him and his family to shreds in the media like no one’s been attacked before.
F-ing Leftists haven’t yielded S- and have been all over the collusion crap for over 18 months and have not stepped up any evidence. At 69 or so, candidate Trump had been a working man for decades. He made hundreds of millions of dollars with ALL kinds of opportunity and temptation to commit all kinds of crime. WTF did the DNC come up with, locker room talk with a Bush S-head and a businessman witholding his tax records. (As long as they are under gov’t review, isn’t Trump, under law, not supposed to release info?)
Isn’t the “how quaint” attitude the kind of S- the Left wants others to be thinking so they can continue to really F- us over even worse than they did in the past?
All that need to be shot for treason, need to be shot for treason.
F- leftists. F- ’em and fry ’em. Fry ’em and shoot ’em.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Indeed, nothing will come of this, our government and its agencies are of the same treasonous bent. Subversive, enablers embedded into the nation’s core. Shocking, not really, it is the pathway this nation has been led, especially during the tenures of the aspirant despot, Obama. The MSM, Fifth Column, would never betray the Gatekeepers. Treason, in the loathsome Democrat’s mindset, is to be lauded and applauded.
6 years ago
Since the Government will not do anything, all 44 of them need to rounded up by the public on citizens arrest and hanged in the public square or shot on the way there
6 years ago
Democrats, Labour socialists in UK, wherever the political hard left pops up, the menu for the feast is the same,
Black bloody treason dressed up and presented as “compassion” “progressive” and “equality”, only thing is some are more equal than others. All the efforts are designed to limit the potential and freedom to prosper or fail according to the exercise of ones talents and efforts.
Nanny state knows best ?
Nanny can get stuffed.
6 years ago
This makes no sense, why would they waive background checks? Maybe they knew that these people would not pass the checks? It looks more and more like treason to me.
6 years ago
Reply to
Clear Sky
It has always looked like treason to me from the time that Barry Soetoro was put up as a candidate. If Congress did not act on that one I have no hope that they will act now. We need vigilante groups and an armed revolution to get out of this.
6 years ago
Reply to
Clear Sky
….and why did the Dems opt for FOREIGN workers over native workers, anyway? Yes, TREASON!
6 years ago
WRONG !! WRONG !! WRONG !!
These Democrats ‘vetted’ him and others,…. they answered correctly.
DNC: ” Do you hate America ? ”
6 years ago
“…without bullets a gun is just a useless hunk of metal.”
Yet
-you want to ban this useless hunk of metal.
-you think this needs “control”.
-you need to register this.
-(proposal) no one should have such useless metal until they turn 21.
-you want stricter background checks for purchasing such useless metal.
-you never ask cops to surrender useless metal.
-you cry for useless metal free zones.
Well, Debbie, B-, who would know better than you to say that bullets change EVERYTHING?
With bullets
-guns are now harmful and need to be banned because bullets make guns point at people and self discharge.
-guns, like some unsupervised little children, or demoRats, just can’t seem to control themselves.
-gun are dangerous, but registration will make them safe again.
-guns magically make people look like they’re 21, whether they’re responsible or not.
-guns manage to lie on their background checks.
-guns are just added weight for cops to run around with when they’re now having to chase after or scruffle with bad guys. we can not, I say again, WE CAN NOT have police officers too winded to yell, “STOP! STOP or I’ll yell ‘STOP!’ again!”
-a lot more gun free zones will be so numerous, that guns will have to be banned. but then again, they had to be banned anyway because guns just self point at people and self discharge.
Leftists, demoRats, do we have to stoop waaaayyyy down to your level of stupid to make you see how F-ed up you are?
“shall not be infringed”, do you understand? Don’t F- with the second amendment? F- yourselves instead.
6 years ago
How do the Demokkkrats get away with it? Good question.
A never ending sewer of crimes – and high treason – exporting jobs and technology to enemies – and importing anti-Americans to take the remaining jobs – with Demokkkratic teacher’s unions to brainwash the drones into believing these faults are caused by the evil Whitey skin color magic b/c some Whitey used to believe Demokkkratic lies…
Can’t make any of it up.
But it does make sense. You just have to have the key to understanding the game.
6 years ago
Once again the liberal condescension = prejudice of low expectations, when it comes to foreign workers gives them leave to not vet these employees…Aren’t they just bloody wonderful???
6 years ago
Good catch by the authorities! But make sure the investigation is complete and all involved are exposed.
D
6 years ago
WHY aren’t these scumbags being charged?!
I strongly urge ALL OF YOU to forward this story on to AG Sessions and *demand* that he do his job!
6 years ago
Reply to
Jane Dowe
I doubt that AG Sessions will do anything. I can’t figure out if he is asleep or demented.
6 years ago
IS there any more evidence we need how TREASONOUS Demoncraps are??? Why are they still up there? Why have they not been impeached or expelled, or even HANGED for their HIGH TREASON??
Why have not 535 Congogressmen + 1 Nerogro not been arrested for committing treason on these United States of America??
If there is no justice, why bother to even have a government that is NOT doing its constitutional duty? Just burdening us with illegal taxes and unconstitutional bureaucracy just to show US WHO is in charge??
Ukcing SENSELESS!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Please note that the former president Hussein obama now has a net worth of $ 2.9 BILLION. Did he have a good day at the slots or has he gotten his share of the missing $21 Trillion that the government cannot locate?
Treason against America pays very well!!!!!
6 years ago
The commiecrats look the other way while these ragheads are given unfettered access to highly sensitive data with national security implications but want granular details about the background of any law abiding US citizen attempting to legally purchase a firearm? Typical.
6 years ago
They want mandatory universal background checks for us to practice our 2nd amendment freedoms but when it is their friends in crime and terrorism not so much! Can you say HYPOCRITES?
6 years ago
Greetings!
The name, “Benedict Arnold”, comes to mind.
Regards
6 years ago
Where is “A list of the members who did not conduct background checks is below.”?
6 years ago
It was entirely against law and policy for them to “waive” background requirements for any Information Technology employee (IT) either federal employee or contractor. They must go through a thorough background check initially and every three years. These background checks include personal, professional, educational, psychological and financial information. These demonrats committed felonies, plain and simple.
6 years ago
Why aren’t the Republicans Screaming about this from the Top of the Capital’s Steps??? If the Republicans Did This, We All know the DemonRats would Use This and Would be on Every Enemdia Channel They Control 24/7!!!!!! It’s Bullsh_t that These Commie Scumbags Aren’t doing the Perp Walk in Hand Cuffs in front of the American People!!!!!! But then again.. It Is Debbie Wasserman Schulze and Her Merry Band of Traitor’s!!!!!!
6 years ago
Florida Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz is rife with corruption. Time and time again she slips and slides through the boundaries of law with ease. She is a major supporter and planner of the anti-second amendment movement paralyzing the state. Something that could only happen under the leadership of Florida’s treasonous RINO majority.
6 years ago
DNC ensured their appointments to secure Iranian and Hezbollah laundered drug money wasn’t interfered with !!
Hundreds of millions, even BILLIONS of ‘donations’ were at great risk !!
6 years ago
6 years ago
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves
amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through
all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the last senators of the Roman republic and assassinated on orders of the Triumvirate
6 years ago
How is it that people like you get to say unsupported things? We are all sorry that you are so fearful. Please calm down and look around for true things to believe in not all these paranoid fantasies. And no, the bogey man doesn’t live under your bed either.,
6 years ago
I’d bet Bercerra’s computer was ‘stolen’ by him. Gotta keep that info from the investigators. Boy are these people devious.
6 years ago
Why this WASSERMAN SHULTZ is not behind bars is well beyond me??
