NormaRegula said:
It's getting cruiser and curiouser.
Trump tweeted earlier this morning: "The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?" More on the tweet and its possible connection to Flynn here: _http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-14/trump-responds-flynn-resignation-real-story-here-are-illegal-leaks
Also - General Flynn's son was dismissed from the transition team a few months ago for tweeting about Pizzagate. Today Hillary Clinton and her minion have tweeted something creepy directed at both father and son. _http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-14/hillary-clinton-references-pizzagate-tweet-general-flynn
General Flynn was a National Security Advisor - yet a
major security breech was recently reported on Saturday February 4th and basically buried by the main stream media? Three Pakistani brothers, are under criminal investigation for unauthorized access into congressional computers. The suspects had access to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs', most sensitive information. All three brothers (and a wife) were employed by Democrats. (Were they Hillary's insider's?) And Trump is wondering where the leaks are coming from?
EXCLUSIVE: House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/exclusive-house-intelligence-it-staffers-fired-in-computer-security-probe/
02/04/2017 - Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers
were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission.
Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
Three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation’s most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism.
Also among those whose computer systems may have been compromised is Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat who was previously the target of a disastrous email hack when she served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign.
The brothers are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members’ computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress.
Jamal handled IT for Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat who serves on both the intelligence and foreign affairs panels.
“As of 2/2, his employment with our office has been terminated,” Castro spokeswoman Erin Hatch told TheDCNF Friday.
Jamal also worked for Louisiana Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is on the Committee on Homeland Security.
Imran worked for Reps. Andre Carson, an Indiana Democrat, and Jackie Speier, a California Democrat. Both are members of the intelligence committee, and their spokesmen did not respond to TheDCNF’s requests for comment. Imran also worked for the House office of Wasserman Schultz.
Then-Rep. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, employed Abid for IT work in 2016. She was a member of House committees dealing with the armed services, oversight, and Benghazi. Duckworth was elected to the Senate in November, 2016. Abid has a prior criminal record and a bankruptcy.
Abid also worked for Rep. Lois Frankel, a Florida Democrat who is member of the foreign affairs committee.
The three men are “shared employees,” meaning they are hired by multiple offices, which split their salaries and use them as needed for IT services. It is up to each member to fire them.
A criminal investigation into five unnamed people began late last year related to serious and potentially illegal violations of House IT policies, Politico reported Thursday. Chiefs of staff for the members were briefed Thursday by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Capitol Police spokeswoman Eva Malecki said the investigation was still ongoing, and arrests have not been made but staff were “asked to update their security settings.”
Buzzfeed reported that
the Sergeant-at-Arms told staff that the subjects were four men who were brothers and one woman. It did not name them.
It quoted one of the affected members as saying “they said it was some sort of procurement scam, but now I’m concerned that they may have stolen data from us, emails, who knows.”
Jamal did not return a request for comment from TheDCNF at a personal email address, while emails to House addresses in the three men’s names bounced back Friday.
Abid, Imran and Jamal have all shared a house in Lorton, Virginia, that is owned by Hina R. Alvi. Alvi is a female House IT employee who works for many of the same members as the three brothers, as well as the House Democratic Caucus.
Signs of trouble have long been visible in public records. The Congressional Credit Union repossessed Abid’s car in 2009, and he declared bankruptcy in 2012, facing multiple lawsuits.
Alvi, who did not respond to The DCNF’s request for comment, has taken multiple second mortgages.
Security-sensitive jobs typically require background checks for credit and legal problems that can create pressures to cash in on access to secret information and documents.
Jamal, who public records suggest is only 22 years old and first began working in the House when he was 20, was paid nearly $160,000 a year, or three times the average House IT staff salary, according to InsideGov, which tracks congressional salaries. Abid was paid $161,000 and Imran $165,000.
Jack Langer, spokesman for the intelligence committee, said the committee office has its own IT staff and security measures and classified information from the panel is not allowed to be sent to members’ personal offices.
While the MSM is still in full "attack Trump" mode, breathlessly reporting each of his tweets, attacking his cabinet picks, gleefully celebrating how the most liberal court in the land, as well as the one that has the most over-turned rulings by the Supreme Court, has temporarily blocked the immigration pause, we see that one of the biggest bombshells was dropped on February 4, 2017, yet major outlets like Washington Post, New York Times and other mainstream outlets, has either downplayed it or simply hidden it from their audience.
MSM Hides One Of The Biggest National Security Breaches Of The Century From Their Audience
http://allnewspipeline.com/Bombshell_MSM_Is_Hiding.php
February 10, 2017 - Three Pakistani brothers, are under criminal investigation for unauthorized access into congressional computers. The suspects had access to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs', most sensitive information.
Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
Three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation’s most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism.
All three brothers were employed by Democrats.
Maria Bartiromo of Fox News discusses this issue in the short clip below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktqdYXd1qJQ (2:11 min.)
How sensitive is the information these men had access to? That is explained in detail by FrontPage:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265729/muslim-brotherhood-security-breach-congress-daniel-greenfield
The offices that employed them included HPSCI minority members Speier, Carson and Joaquín Castro. Congressman Castro, who also sits on
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence the services of Jamal Moiz Awan. Speier and Carson’s offices utilized Imran Awan.
Abid A. Awan was employed by Lois Frankel and Ted Lieu:
members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also on the committee is Castro. As is Robin Kelly whose office employed Jamal Awan. Lieu also sits on
the subcommittees on National Security and Information Technology of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Tammy Duckworth’s office had also employed Abid. Before Duckworth successfully played on the sympathy of voters to become Senator Tammy Duckworth, she had been on
the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces of the Armed Services Committee.
Gwen Graham, who had also been on
the Armed Services Committee and on the Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee, had employed Jamal Awan. Jamal was also employed by Cedric Richmond’s office. Richmond sits on
the Committee on Homeland Security and on its Terrorism and Cybersecurity subcommittee. He is a ranking member of the latter subcommittee. Also employing Jamal was Mark Takano of
the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Imran had worked for the office of John Sarbanes who sits on
the House Energy and Commerce Committee that oversees, among other things, the nuclear industry. Other members of the Committee employing the brothers included Yvette Clarke, who also sits on the Bipartisan Encryption Working Group, Diana DeGette, Dave Loebsack and Tony Cardenas.
But finally there’s Andre Carson. Carson is the second Muslim in Congress and the first Muslim on the
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and, more critically, is the ranking member on its
Emerging Threats Subcommittee. He is also a member of
the Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture Subcommittee.
The bold print emphasis above is mine, showing the amount of critical, dangerous information that these men had access to.
One would think that major media outlets would at least be asking why these people were accessing data they were unauthorized to access, to the point where there is now a criminal investigation into those security breaches, and more critically, what were they doing with the information they were accessing?
According to Politico, Imran Awan, who has worked for more than two dozen Democrats since 2004, is still on the payroll of former DNC Chair and current Representative of Florida's 23rd congressional district, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who was forced to step down from the DNC Chair after Wikileaks exposed her corrupt practices during the presidential campaign season.
That same article reports
Imran Awan's wife, Hina Alvi, is also still employed by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), pending investigation.
In a follow up article, The Daily Caller, found that these men and Iman's wife, had massive debts and a history of suspicious activity, yet PJ Media reports that "the House passed a rule last year requiring all employees with access to IT to pass background checks in order to flag potential problems such as the credit and legal issues." Those background checks were applied retroactively and the only way to avoid them was if "a 'hiring authority' in a congressional office had signed a waiver attesting to the 'trustworthiness and judgment' of the privileged user."
We have multiple Congressional employees, from Pakinstani descent, accessing information critical to national security on almost every level, with no idea what they have been doing with said information, all under criminal investigation........ so where are the mainstream media reports?
In the video below after a very brief description of why I am doing Google searches in the New York Times and Washington Post, in a one month time frame, for the names Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan, we see that according to Google, all three names when plugged into their search engine come up as "did not match any documents," in both major newspapers.
Below the video are screen shots from a direct search from over the last seven days at the NYT website itself, which comes up with the same results..... nothing, nada, zip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYgOXh8hBXI (7:02 min.)
BOTTOM LINE
We are left wondering why both the NYT and Wapo is hiding what could arguably be one of the biggest national security breaches of the century, from their readers.
The Daily Caller exclusive was published on February 4, 2017, which has give the MSM outlets mentioned above six full days to report this to their audience.... so why haven't they?
Over the last two years we have learned that when the media doesn't want the public to know something, it is usually something we should know.
