Posted on 07/05/2018 7:32:06 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
Justice Department prosecutors and congressional investigators both cannot be right about the House IT scandal
by Mark Tapscott | Updated 05 Jul 2018 at 7:47 AM
When Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors announced Tuesday they won’t press charges against House IT scandal kingpin Imran Awan, they violated one of the most fundamental rules of logic, the law of non-contradiction: That which is A cannot simultaneously also be non-A.
Either Awan, his wife, two of his brothers and an unrelated friend — all of whom at one time or another since 2005 worked as IT aides for more than 40 House Democrats, including numerous members of the Armed Services, Homeland Security and Intelligence committees — used their congressional IT positions for illegal, possibly subversive, purposes.
Or they didn’t.
Awan is either A or Non-A. He cannot be both.
Here's the A, as explained by House sergeant-at-arms Paul Irving and House chief administrative officer Phil Kiko in a six-page, Feb. 7, 2017, memo marked "URGENT" and addressed to the House Committee on Administration:
Irving and Kiko said their investigation found "'numerous and egregious violations of House IT security' by members of the Awan family, including using Congress members' usernames and 'the unauthorized storage of sensitive House information outside the House ... These employees accessed user accounts and computers for offices that did not employ them, without the knowledge and permission of the impacted member's office,' the Irving/Kiko memo said, adding, 'Four of the employees accessed the Democratic Caucus computers 5,735 times.'
"More than 100 office computers were open to access from people not on the office's staff, it said," according to Daily Caller News Foundation's Luke Rosiak, who first reported the document.
Related: Don't Let Debbie Off the Hook on House IT Scandal, Trump Warns (https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/dont-let-debbie-off-the-hook-on-it-scandal-trump-warns/)
Rosiak also reported the House office of inspector general (IG) gave House leaders a presentation in September 2016, claiming Awan and two of his brothers were improperly accessing servers for the offices of members who had previously terminated them, and were illegally transferring data to an off-site server. The IG said the evidence “suggests steps are being taken to conceal their activity” and that their behavior mirrored a “classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization.”
All known members of the Awan group were terminated from their congressional positions in February 2017, except Imran and his wife, Hina Alvi, who were kept on by former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, until July 2017 — when Imran was arrested at Dulles International Airport after wiring nearly $300,000 to his home country of Pakistan.
Here's the Non-A, the conclusion by DOJ prosecutors that they “found no evidence that [Imran] illegally removed House data from the House network or from House members’ offices, stole the House Democratic Caucus server, stole or destroyed House information technology equipment, or improperly accessed or transferred government information.”
Will Trump demand an explanation from DOJ and enforce accountability?
Prosecutors offered no explanation for why they reached that conclusion, nor did they offer any critique of the evidence or conclusions presented by congressional investigators.
Almost exactly a month ago, President Donald Trump tweeted on the Awan case, saying, “Our Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see today. They want to make a ‘plea deal’ to hide what is on their Server. Where is Server? Really bad!”
Significantly, there is no known Russia connection in the Awan case to restrain Trump from acting. So the question now is: Will Trump demand an explanation from DOJ and enforce accountability?
Senior editor Mark Tapscott can be reached at mark.tapscott@lifezette.com. Follow him on Twitter.
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This article cites the documents that any thinking journalist would have referenced when writing about the acquittal:
What happened between when the IG, Capitol Police and Chief Admin Officer all had evidence of wrongdoing, and when the DOJ claimed none?
Can’t believe the plea deal given to the Paki Awan gangster. Either they believe Awan can lead them to bigger things or this is as crooked as the “Russian collusion” lie.
Because GET TRUMP!
IT’S CROOKED AND CORRUPT!
Don’t believe your lying eyes. Sessions has a super-secret plan to get the swamp while cleverly making it look like he is covering up for them.
I trust nobody in that whole fetid swamp. They can all go straight to hell.
Yeah, Sessions is amazing that way... six-dimension chess or some shit like that.
Um, no.
Eight. Eight-dimension chess.
I think we are up to 42D chess now.
Sessions had utterly no reason to be recused from this. He clearly is refusing to rein in Obama-era DOJ partisans. He needs to be replaced ASAP with someone who is.
Alternatively known as Dolly Parton chess.
There must be something really bad beneath this if Trump refuses to let light shine on it. Or he’s going to play it out during election season.
The DOJ didn't deny that there were tons of crimes committed. They're simply saying that they don't care.
IIRC there was a possible link of data breaches going from the US House, to the Awans, to Pakistan, to RUSSIA. This was from either an earlier report or strong speculation. Need to keep digging...
You know that feeling in your gut you get when there’s just something not right and you can’t quite put your finger on it??
Well, my gut seems to have a raging case of DC Swamp appendicitis!
Someone please read the final paragraph of the agreement! It says it is only good in D C where Sessions could never convicted Awan. Huber is waiting in Utah. Find out who Huber is.
If there was a coverup they are an accomplice, which is what I think they are. Crooks all through government, How do we cage them all up for good?
How come no one ever mentions the wife of one of them with the Ukrainian-sounding name?
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