Breaking: Debbie Wasserman-Schulz' IT staffer arrested while trying to flee US

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

I have been trying to post a story from the Daily Caller on this thread about DWS and her Pakistani friend.
Seems as if DWS screamed at House officials to stop hacking probe of her former IT aide.

Trying to post without the names of DWS and her friend to see if I don’t receive the “forbidden” message.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been trying to post a story from the Daily Caller on this thread about DWS and her Pakistani friend.
Seems as if DWS screamed at House officials to stop hacking probe of her former IT aide.

Trying to post without the names of DWS and her friend to see if I don’t receive the “forbidden” message.

Amazing......It worked. Now I’ll try posting the story with their names...........

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I have been trying to post a story from the Daily Caller on this thread about DWS and her Pakistani friend.
Seems as if DWS screamed at House officials to stop hacking probe of her former IT aide.

Trying to post without the names of DWS and her friend to see if I don’t receive the “forbidden” message.

You were blocked because your post contained the f-word. The names are no problem.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been trying to post a story from the Daily Caller on this thread about DWS and her Pakistani friend.
Seems as if DWS screamed at House officials to stop hacking probe of her former IT aide.

Trying to post without the names of DWS and her friend to see if I don’t receive the “forbidden” message.

You were blocked because your post contained the f-word. The names are no problem.

Got it. It was in the body of the article... It was what DWS said. I will repost and omit that word. Sorry. Didn’t see that.

[Anonymous]

Here is the article about DWS....Seems as if she doesn’t want Awan investigated. Wonder why?

Ex-Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she intervened in a Pakistani land deal involving her then–IT aide Imran Awan, according to two House employees. The dispute came after Awan’s father was charged with fraud in relation to the deal, and the mysterious exertion of political influence resulted in Pakistani authorities instead targeting the elderly alleged victims, according to a local report.

And when a House Office of Inspector General cybersecurity investigation found that Awan made “unauthorized access” to House servers, including the House Democratic Caucus’ shortly before the election, Wasserman Schultz became “frantic, not normal,” “making the rounds” to House officials in an attempt to kill the investigation, one House employee told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Awan told people Wasserman Schultz chose the name for his daughter, Leza — a Jewish name — and that the Florida congresswoman’s daughter regularly rode a horse that Awan kept at a boarding facility, sources with knowledge of the relationship told TheDCNF.

Wasserman Schultz cornered House Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko and called him a “f-ing Islamophobe,” saying “you will not so much as take away their parking spots,” the two House employees said Kiko told them.
The congresswoman also told Kiko she had invited Awan’s whole family to her daughter’s bat mitzvah and said she had “helped him with a land deal,” the sources said. A spokesman for Kiko declined to comment on this story.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/04/wasserman-schultz-awan-islamophobe/

[Anonymous]

Sorry. Awans had access to top Dems emails and computers. Likely, also had access to DNC emails, etc. It just defies common sense to think they might not be involved in the hacks of the DNC emails. Maybe, the emails weren't hacked but just downloaded to Awan's computers. Remember, the DNC would not let the FBI examine their server.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. Awans had access to top Dems emails and computers. Likely, also had access to DNC emails, etc. It just defies common sense to think they might not be involved in the hacks of the DNC emails. Maybe, the emails weren't hacked but just downloaded to Awan's computers. Remember, the DNC would not let the FBI examine their server.

There is a ton of forensic evidence showing that the emails were hacked. Also evidence that they were hacked by Russians. The FBI was allowed to examine images of the server which is what anyone else would have examined.

Ironically, if Awan had hacked the DNC server and given the Russians the emails, he would be a Republican hero and Trump would probably give him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. Awans had access to top Dems emails and computers. Likely, also had access to DNC emails, etc. It just defies common sense to think they might not be involved in the hacks of the DNC emails. Maybe, the emails weren't hacked but just downloaded to Awan's computers. Remember, the DNC would not let the FBI examine their server.

There is a ton of forensic evidence showing that the emails were hacked. Also evidence that they were hacked by Russians. The FBI was allowed to examine images of the server which is what anyone else would have examined.

Ironically, if Awan had hacked the DNC server and given the Russians the emails, he would be a Republican hero and Trump would probably give him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Sorry-how do we know there is "tons of forensic evidence?" Because we have been told that?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. Awans had access to top Dems emails and computers. Likely, also had access to DNC emails, etc. It just defies common sense to think they might not be involved in the hacks of the DNC emails. Maybe, the emails weren't hacked but just downloaded to Awan's computers. Remember, the DNC would not let the FBI examine their server.

There is a ton of forensic evidence showing that the emails were hacked. Also evidence that they were hacked by Russians. The FBI was allowed to examine images of the server which is what anyone else would have examined.

Ironically, if Awan had hacked the DNC server and given the Russians the emails, he would be a Republican hero and Trump would probably give him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Sorry-how do we know there is "tons of forensic evidence?" Because we have been told that?

Just like all the information about the Awans in this thread, it was reported. Unlike most of the stuff reported in this thread, people have also testified under oath about it.

[Anonymous]

Some experts do not agree that the evidence proves a Russian hack of the DNC computers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-u-s-ex-spies-don-t-buy-the-russia-story

The VIPS theory relies on forensic findings by independent researchers who go by the pseudonyms "Forensicator" and "Adam Carter." The former found that 1,976 MB of Guccifer's files were copied from a DNC server on July 5 in just 87 seconds, implying a transfer rate of 22.6 megabytes per second -- or, converted to a measure most people use, about 180 megabits per second, a speed not commonly available from U.S. internet providers. Downloading such files this quickly over the internet, especially over a VPN (most hackers would use one), would have been all but impossible because the network infrastructure through which the traffic would have to pass would further slow the traffic. However, as Forensicator has pointed out, the files could have been copied to a thumb drive -- something only an insider could have done -- at about that speed.

Adam Carter, the pseudonym for the other analyst, showed that the content of the Guccifer files was at some point cut and pasted into Microsoft Word templates that used the Russian language. Carter laid out all the available evidence and his answers to numerous critics in a long post earlier this month.

VIPS includes former National Security Agency staffers with considerable technical expertise, such as William Binney, the agency's former technical director for world geopolitical and military analysis, and Edward Loomis Jr., former technical director for the office of signals processing, as well as other ex-intelligence officers with impressive credentials. That doesn't, of course, mean the group is right when it finds the expert analysis by Forensicator and Carter persuasive. Another former intelligence professional who has examined it, Scott Ritter, has pointed out that these findings don't necessarily refute that Guccifer's material constitute the spoils of a hack.

VIPS's record of unruly activism might have devalued its theories and conclusions in the eyes of mainstream journalists. Ray McGovern, a VIPS founder who used to prepare and deliver White House briefings at the Central Intelligence Agency, has been removed from Hillary Clinton's events for protesting her policies. While the group was right about Iraq in 2003, that doesn't mean it's right about Russia in 2017, with some of its members' intelligence work now long in the past.

And yet these aren't good reasons to avoid the discussion of what actually happened at the DNC last year, especially since no intelligence agency actually examined the Democrats' servers and CrowdStrike, the firm whose conclusions informed much of the intelligence community's assessment, had obvious conflicts of interest -- from being paid by the DNC to co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch's affiliation with the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that has generally viewed Russia as a hostile power.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Some experts do not agree that the evidence proves a Russian hack of the DNC computers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-u-s-ex-spies-don-t-buy-the-russia-story

I assume that you do not have a lot of computer expertise. If you did, you would easily understand what is wrong with the VIPS theory. We discussed that here when it was first published. It made a bit of a splash initially because folks like you got suckered by the technical jargon. But once technical folks had a chance to digest it, the flaws became obvious. As noted here, the theory is not even supported by its own evidence:

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/348879-the-nation-adds-lengthy-editors-note-to-story-debunking-dnc-hack

"But experts note that commercial internet services used by businesses can reach speeds more than five times as fast as 23 megabytes-per-second. And, even if the data had showed that a USB drive was used at one point, there would be no reason to believe that it wasn’t used to transport the documents from one Russian system to another."

[jsteele]

BTW, if you still don't think the Russians hacked the DNC, please research the article published by the Volkskrant (a very well respected Dutch newspaper):

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/370857-dutch-spy-agencies-passed-fbi-crucial-intel-on-russian-election-hacking

"The Volkskrant newspaper is reporting that officials with the Netherland’s AIVD, the General Intelligence and Security Service, penetrated networks used by Russian hackers in 2014 and observed them subsequently breaking into networks used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC)."
...

The Dutch were actually able to observe the Russians committing the hack and then pass that information on to the FBI.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the article about DWS....Seems as if she doesn’t want Awan investigated. Wonder why?

Ex-Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she intervened in a Pakistani land deal involving her then–IT aide Imran Awan, according to two House employees. The dispute came after Awan’s father was charged with fraud in relation to the deal, and the mysterious exertion of political influence resulted in Pakistani authorities instead targeting the elderly alleged victims, according to a local report.

And when a House Office of Inspector General cybersecurity investigation found that Awan made “unauthorized access” to House servers, including the House Democratic Caucus’ shortly before the election, Wasserman Schultz became “frantic, not normal,” “making the rounds” to House officials in an attempt to kill the investigation, one House employee told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Awan told people Wasserman Schultz chose the name for his daughter, Leza — a Jewish name — and that the Florida congresswoman’s daughter regularly rode a horse that Awan kept at a boarding facility, sources with knowledge of the relationship told TheDCNF.

Wasserman Schultz cornered House Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko and called him a “f-ing Islamophobe,” saying “you will not so much as take away their parking spots,” the two House employees said Kiko told them.
The congresswoman also told Kiko she had invited Awan’s whole family to her daughter’s bat mitzvah and said she had “helped him with a land deal,” the sources said. A spokesman for Kiko declined to comment on this story.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/04/wasserman-schultz-awan-islamophobe/

Kiko is denying being accosted by DWS:

https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1004062179878998017

"House Chief Administrative Officer Philip Kiko on Hse IT scandal: At no point was I threatened or accused of any prejudice, whatsoever, by any individual over the CAO's corrective actions in response to the activities of five shared employees subject to a pending investigation."

Edit to add more:

https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1004062329112182784

"Hse CAO Phil Kiko on Hse IT scandal: “Any assertion that I was called an ‘Islamophobe’ is false. Furthermore, I was never informed of any ‘land deal’ involving any of the individuals under investigation as falsely reported.”"

[Anonymous]

Jeff is worried about this.