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House Dems hush up how Muslim IT employees compromised Intelligence Committee networks

Feb 16, 2017 5:48 pm By Robert Spencer

While the establishment propaganda media churns out fake news about Trump and Russia, here is a real story about possible sedition.

“House Conservatives Want To Know How Rogue IT Staffers Got Away,” by Kathryn Watson, Daily Caller, February 14, 2017:

House conservatives want to investigate three IT employees, all brothers, suspected of compromising the networks of Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Conservative Republicans — disappointed in House Democrats for hushing up the issue and in the media for failing to widely report the story — hope the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) will examine how House Democratic offices allowed the potential breach in national security information.

The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group was first to identify suspects Abid, Imran and Jamal Awan, who are under a U.S. Capitol Police criminal investigation for their use of congressional IT systems and alleged theft and over-billing of computer equipment.

“I’m for an investigation — I hope to do it,” Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said Tuesday during Conversations with Conservatives on Capitol Hill. He later added he hopes to discuss a possible investigation with HOGR chairman and Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, and Florida Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis, chairman of HOGR’s Subcommittee on National Security.

The Awan brothers were abruptly relieved of their duties as shared IT workers among Democratic House offices and barred from House networks earlier this month.

Among members whose systems may have been compromised is Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was also the target of an email hack while she served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) during the 2016 campaign. South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan said Congress particularly needs to investigate what information was compromised after last year’s DCCC hack.

Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry, who sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the ongoing Capitol Police investigation precludes a public hearing now, but he wants to do everything he can to protect national security information.

“I want to make sure that from my standpoint — since I’m not really hearing anything in the press — I want to make sure I’m doing all I can to secure the nation,” Perry said. “And if these folks are trading in secrets based on the committees that they’re dealing with, we need to know that. I don’t want this to be swept under the rug.”

Perry, who first heard the story on WMAL radio Monday morning, more than a week after TheDCNF first reported the story, expressed frustration that the media isn’t giving the story more attention and that, in the initial reports he heard, “not one name was mentioned.”

“I asked my staff members if they saw the names because I was curious to get that, and they said yes, but we can’t pronounce any of them,” Perry said. “And I said, is there a pattern? And they said, well, we see a pattern. I think that is a big part of the story.”

Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador also expressed frustration over the story’s lack of coverage, especially given the media’s attention on national security issues under President Donald Trump’s White House. Democrats have repeatedly ignored TheDCNF’s requests for interviews and further information.

“I’m surprised that the media hasn’t made a bigger deal about this,” Labrador said. “This is pretty outrageous. These are people who had direct connections and access to the House, to intelligence information, and the media has said very little about it. I know there have been a couple of reports, but they’re spending all this time talking about all these other issues. This is actually something that could directly affect the national security of the United States, and I have seen very little reporting, and apparently, the Democrats are not that interested.”

Jordan said the story raises other concerns, too, like how Jamal earned nearly $160,000 a year — three times the salary of the average House IT worker — as a 22-year-old staffer….

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  1. Allan Mandrowski says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    Why can’t Flynn talk to Russia about sanctions et al. Isn’t that his job anyway? Are these sanctions put in place by Obama meant to never be lifted? New government = new direction. Trump should have stood by Flynn and explained it as such.

    • Mac-101 says

      Feb 16, 2017 at 6:20 pm

      Agree 100%. Trump showed weakness and NOW the sharks will continue to circle and ATTACK.
      .
      Trump needs to go on the offensive. This story is one. Also Putin and BiBi should leak ALL the files they have on Obama, Clinton and Soros and these other scum bags. A very simple investigation is whether Obama’s 2nd Birth Certificate he showed has around 8 layers of Photo shopping or NOT. If NOT, put Sheriff Joe and his 7 or 8 document experts in jail. If it does, you know the rest of the story!

    • Angemon says

      Feb 16, 2017 at 7:47 pm

      Flynn backtracked and made Pence, who vouched for him, look bad. At least his departure won’t let the Dems have something to prop up as a smokescreen – not that they won’t try.

      • Baucent says

        Feb 17, 2017 at 2:50 am

        Flynn’s mistake was trying to conceal his contact with the Russian ambassador. He should have just admitted it straight up and said, “Yes, it happened, what of it?” By being upfront and defending the contact as appropriate, the story would have blown over and he would still be the N.S. advisor.

        • Allan Mandrowski says

          Feb 17, 2017 at 4:25 am

          Exactly my thoughts.

          Why wouldn’t he be able to talk about the sanctions to the Russian ambassador? Kinda normal to me to talk about those sanctions with a spokesperson of the sanctioned country?

          He should just have said: yes, I am talking about the sanctions. This is my job as a government official. It’s called diplomacy?

        • Anne Smith says

          Feb 17, 2017 at 7:29 am

          Absolutely. If you lie you will always be caught out. Tell the truth and shame the devil.

        • Carolyne says

          Feb 17, 2017 at 2:43 pm

          Yesterday the President said that the phone call was appropriate but what wasn’t appropriate was Flynn telling a couple of different things and then he couldn’t remember. He said that he would have directed Flynn to talk to the Russians. No problem. It was Flynn’s double stories and then loss of memory which caused the President to ask for his resignation.

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 17, 2017 at 2:29 pm

        According to the President yesterday, He told the Vice President one story and the FBI another and then he couldn’t remember. The big story here is that someone in the NSA, probably a holdover from Obama, is leaking secrets. The phone call was monitored by NSA and then the contents of the phone call were transcribed and should have been secret, but were leaked to the press. Apparently the same thing happened when the President talked to the PM of Australia. That’s the story. not Flynn who apparently lied. Someone in the NSA is betraying the country.

    • common sense says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 10:27 am

      Flynn was not the director of the NSA at the time either, otberwise this is all sound logic. Too bad, we all know Flynn is a capable patriot and was the right man for the job.

    • Allan says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 2:31 pm

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

  2. Donovan Nuera says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    It is time for a Wall Street Journalesque-“Who is Vincent Foster?”-type national article……….

    “Who are Jamal, Imran, & and Abid Awanand WHO THE F#@* THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA TO HIRE THEM TO ACCESS OUR MOST IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE COMPUTERS DURING WARTIME???!!!”

    or perhaps an accompanying article….

    “Who is Rep. Andre Carson?…..AND WHY IS THIS ISLAM SUPREMICIST SITTING ON OUR MOST SENSITIVE INTEL COMMITTEE??? [I am looking at you, Pelosi!]

  3. somehistory says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    “There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed,” (Jesus Christ)

    • common sense says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 10:33 am

      Luke 12:2, “For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.”
      It”s coming out all over the place and people are averting their eyes knowing full well its the truth.

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 17, 2017 at 2:32 pm

        Well common sense tells me that the bible has nothing todo with it.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    Jihadists working in the government IT departments could easily divert classified materials to fellow jihadists overseas as well as in the US. They could signal military information about naval and troop movements, etc., giving the terrorists time to get away or to ambush them.

    The Obama administration’s policy of ‘see no jihad’ was designed by Pollyanna.

  5. 762x51FMJ says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    In a Howard Cosell or John Madden voice recite the following phrase.
    .
    Despite Obama tight end action Hillary could not contain the Phoenix tarmac scandal and she was intercepted by the electorate and intentionally grounded..but Schumer is still on the field for Obama, kicking the same old muffed punt into an empty goal and now demands America go into sudden death..

    ( This pay to play brought to you by all kick ass football announcers like Howard Cosell and John Madden who were fired for being too frank ) …

  6. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 11:41 pm

    The new bolded typeface is a big improvement.

  7. Relic says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 1:00 am

    I thought I was going nutz

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 2:47 pm

      Interesting, but the last time I look at a map, Paris was not on any ocean.

  8. jeff says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 1:25 am

    Rouge, or by design exactly the way Hillary’s Department of State and Clinton Foundation moved classified information onto unauthorized servers. Maybe this is how the Dem’s repay the Arabs for their funding? It is easier to fulfull the terms of your political liabilities if you use middle men (middel eastern men?) to handle and process the illegal information. Only the House Dems you say? Hum, sounds like the democrats found a way to harm America as a nation, and reward the world socialists/communists and themselves.

  9. Ben Iyyar says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 6:43 am

    It stinks of a very large and possibly global Soros conspiracy.

    • ItsJo says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 9:55 am

      Ben, you are not far off…..my thoughts exactly, as “Evil Soros, is in just TOO MANY of the problems America is going through AND he is ‘sabotaging Trump’s presidency, as he wanted his “Second Puppet, to carry on his bidding after Obama..namely Hillary.

  10. rappini says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 10:00 am

    There is never any accountability in Washington DC.

  11. Stands4Freedom says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 10:25 am

    Flynn is an honored and respected retired General in the US military. Now his actions are to be “mistrusted”? He was set up – we are all aware of how Hill and O Bama maneuvered their way out of
    situations. As for the Awan brothers – we might look to the financial contributions to the Clinton Foundation to explain why they were hired for critical IT positions.

  12. common sense says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 10:46 am

    Of course MSM is running the Florida man who planned to bomb targets up and down the east coast. A WHITE man which is fair enough so why not run this story with the Muslim brothers who comprimise us from within, where is the diversity now?
    Only white peolpe do evil and all minority groups are always good? Especially Muslims? MSM Libs want us to think that for sure.
    I truly despise the press more than ever, nobody can be in a room with me while msm news is on without my synopsis of what the vermin are not saying.

    Interrogation and firing squad. We are at war and that is what you do with spies. Aggressors set the terms and we look so flippin weak right now.
    We cant allow a fighter to jab us for 15 rounds and play peek a boo when we out class them in every conceivable way.

  13. Custos Custodum says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 3:36 pm

    Hilariously, the three Muslim brothers are most likely the source of the famous “DNC Leaks” showing that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz conspired against Bernie Sanders to hand the nomination to Hillary.

    This discovery led many Bernie voters to stay home, thus handing the trophy to President Trump.

    And yes, then DNC chair Wasserman-Schultz was one of the “customers” of the Muslim trio.

  14. Nam Marine says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 9:26 am

    President Trump needs to get rid of all the Muslim plants of Obama’s Administration!

  15. Rainman says

    Feb 18, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    The are rumors that these 3 may have compromised a special ops mission in Yemen where it was obvious that the bad guys knew we were coming. We lost a good man there. They were fired pretty quickly after that happened and I wonder if they are still in the states.
    Rainman……

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