Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
MAJOR DEMOCRAT SCANDAL
House Investigation: Pakistanis Hired By Democrats Hacked Congressional Computers
Conservative Institute ~ Jan 18, 2018 ~ By Kit Perez
House Democrats hired a Pakistani ex-McDonaldâs worker as their IT administrator in 2009. Soon after his hiring, three family members and his best friend also found themselves as IT administrators for the Dems, roles they were paid a total of over $4 million for over several years â a scandal in itself.
Not only was the Awan family overpaid and underqualified, but they were engaged in far more ânefariousâ activities. The Daily Caller reports that House investigators found that Imran Awan, his family, and his best friend used their insider positions to gain âunauthorized accessâ to Congressional servers and potentially classified information.
Even more troubling is that Democratic leadership appear to have consistently downplayed the security threat to their members, âleading 44 Democrats to not conduct protective measures typically taken after a breach â including informing constituents whose personal information may have been exposed,â reported the Caller.
The House Investigative Report
The four-month House investigation reportedly found that as recently as 2016, the Awan family was âallegedly accessing the data of members for whom they did not work, logging in as members of Congress themselves, and covering their tracks.â
The Houseâs Office of the Inspector General summed up their findings in a presentation titled ââUNAUTHORIZED ACCESSâ that â5 shared employee system administrators have collectively logged into 15 member offices and the Democratic Caucus although they were not employed by the offices they accessed,'â according to the Caller.
The Awans also installed Dropbox â a third-party offsite cloud storage â on two Democratic Caucus computers, which is against House rules.
Even after being discovered and told to stop, the Awans kept up their illegal activities.
The Daily Caller reported:
Their behavior mirrored a âclassic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization,â and they continued even after orders to stop, the briefing materials allege.
There are indications that numerous membersâ data may have been secretly residing not on their designated servers, but instead aggregated onto one server, according to the briefing and other sources. Authorities said that the entire server was then physically stolen.
The report also found that Democrat leadership lied to their own party, calling it all just a simple theft. As a result, the breach wasnât reported as such â and critical security measures to mitigate damage werenât implemented, including notifying constituents whose information was compromised.
Bank Fraud Allegations
As if all of that wasnât enough, Awan and some of his family members have also been indicted on bank fraud charges. Awan wired close to $300,000 to Pakistan in July 2017, and was later arrested by the FBI as he tried to board a flight to his native country from Dulles International Airport in Washington.
His wife Hina Alvi had already left the U.S. months prior, with money she received from claiming medical hardship in order to withdraw from a retirement account.
Awan and his family stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in IT equipment, but according to Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King, this loss of taxpayer money is the least of their concerns.
âThe American people deserve to know the truth to this; it is a big deal,â King told WND in the fall of 2017. âItâs not just $6 or $7 million, $120,000 worth of equipment here or there. The biggest thing is that the brothers, Awanâs wife and friend all had access to the private emails and electronic communications of members of Congress and all their staff.â
Thereâs âno telling what they downloaded, what they know,â King said.
http://www.conservativeinstitute.org/national-security/democrats-hacked-more-computers.htm
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DNC Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Shultz made it all happen for Awan.