[Breitbart] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Monday referred ten current and former U.S. officials to the House Judiciary and Oversight & Government Reform Committees’ joint task force, as it investigates potential DOJ and FBI wrongdoing related to the Trump-Russia probe.
Nunes, in a letter to the chairmen of both committees obtained by Breitbart News, listed ten current and former U.S. officials who may have received or provided information relevant to their investigation.
The list includes a number of U.S. officials who were working at the U.S. Embassy in London, where the alleged conversation between Australian diplomat Alexander Downer and then-Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos in May 2016 was reported.
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And even more convoluted. I am breathlessly awaiting a simple diagram that explains it all and demonstrates Obama's complicity.
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and MI6 is up to their ears in it too, I expect
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So the investigation has spilled over into the Department of State? Five-eyes did not officially share any info. Was the info shared unofficially? Eventually, this is going to spill over to the previous CIA.
[Daily Caller] A secret memo marked "URGENT" detailed how the House Democratic Caucus’s server went "missing" soon after it became evidence in a cybersecurity probe. The secret memo also said more than "40 House offices may have been victims of IT security violations."
In the memo, Congress’s top law enforcement official, Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, along with Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko, wrote, "We have concluded that the employees [Democratic systems administrator Imran Awan and his family] are an ongoing and serious risk to the House of Representatives, possibly threatening the integrity of our information systems and thereby members’ capacity to serve constituents."
The memo, addressed to the Committee on House Administration (CHA) and dated Feb. 3, 2017, was recently reviewed and transcribed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter bolsters TheDCNF’s previous reporting about the missing server and evidence of fraud on Capitol Hill.
It details how the caucus server, run by then-caucus Chairman Rep. Xavier Becerra, was secretly copied by authorities after the House Inspector General (IG) identified suspicious activity on it, but the Awans’ physical access was not blocked.
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but the Awans’ physical access was not blocked.
Physical access is total access.
Given the high value of the information obtainable from Congressional IT I suspect that the Awans did some spying using customized hardware that would store information and be swapped regularly. Think keylogging USB keyboarda, storage devices/NICs with customized firmware, perhaps even motherboards and processors.
This kind of spying would generate no suspicious network activity and would be invisible to software.
Again, the assumption must be that Pakistani/Chinese intelligence has all the data that was stored on Congressional IT during the reign of the Awans over said IT.
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Again, the assumption must be that Pakistani/Chinese intelligence has all the data that was stored on Congressional IT during the reign of the Awans over said IT.
Any intelligence 'damage assessment' would make this assumption and take the appropriate steps to mitigate the damage.
I.e. replacing all Members of Congress, staffers, clerks, secretaries etc. since the data leak makes them all at least vulnerable to social engineering attacks and manipulation.
[Judicial Watch] (Washington, DC) ‐ Judicial Watch announced U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton instructed the Justice Department to immediately begin producing records about DOJ communications with Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr. Nellie Ohr worked for Clinton campaign vendor Fusion GPS on the anti-Trump Dossier campaign document.
Judge Walton rejected a Justice Department request to begin producing documents six months from now and ordered the DOJ to begin producing documents immediately on a rolling basis over the next two months. Judge Walton also rejected DOJ’s efforts to restrict their search to only 2016.
Judge Walton repeatedly criticized the Justice Department during a June 14 hearing:
I think if it’s been almost, since December when the initial request was made more should have been done by now. And it seems to me if you have someone who’s going to come into office and they say they’re going to be a disrupter, that they should appreciate there’s going to be a lot of FOIA requests and therefore, should gear up to deal with those requests. So I’m not real sympathetic to the position that you have limited staff and therefore, you can’t comply with these requests. So I think you’re going to have to get some more people.
I mean FOIA is considered to be very important. I keep getting from the government, from various agencies we can’t do this, we can’t do that because we don’t have the resources. I’m not real sympathetic to that. FOIA is important. Open government is important, and government has to comply with FOIA in order to make it an open government.
In March 2018 Judicial Watch filed the FOIA lawsuit after the Justice Department failed to respond to a December 2017 FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:18-cv-00491)). The lawsuit seeks: Bruce and Nellie Orr. The forgotten Deep state players waiting to be exposed. Bravo for Judicial Watch.
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The Bureaucratic Veto in action. The traditional solution was to hang a few scribes from the window by their feet to encourage the rest to get to work. Bastianado also had its charms as an incentive.
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"Russia-linked individuals"..... Easy enough to orchestrate such contributions, then publicize them and call for further investigations. Full IRS disclosure will of course be necessary.
What sort of project funding should we budget for? Not more than $2,500, excluding postage and handling.
The NRA disclosed in April that it received about $2,500 in contributions from 23 Russia-linked individuals since 2015. McClatchy reported earlier this year that the FBI was looking into whether one of those donors, Alexander Torshin, used the NRA to funnel money to the Trump campaign.
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So that $2500, divided across 23 people, amounts to little more than each of them getting 3-year memberships. Assume they actually had a mix, and it still looks like membership fees from people in Russia with US citizenship.
So how much in that stunningly small wad of cash was "funneled" to the Trump campaign? How does that compare to overseas donations made to the Clinton campaign? To, say, a single Hollywood celebrity's structured donations that were clearly intended to get around limits? To the illegal donations made to the Obama campaigns because they had disabled credit card checks on their site?
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He's trying to damage Republican support structure before the collapse of his investigation. I suspect this info will be leaked at some point and crowds will surround the larger donors houses or themselves while out at restaurants.
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I suspect this info will be leaked at some point and crowds will surround the larger donors houses or themselves while out at restaurants.
Bingo.
Plus, they've been running a campaign to smear the NRA all year. The $2500 from Americans in Russia has been part of the propaganda campaign since it was "discovered" -- it somehow means the NRA is controlled by Russians, at least when it's not controlled by gun manufacturers.
Mind you, we'll never hear how much cash went to, say, the ACLU from Russian (rather, Soviet) sources...
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A toga? It's Gore and his chakra,
The weathercock over the Agora,
Looking wonderfully Greek
Though his dad was a freak
Who sold coal in the ol' Via Sacra.
[Daily Caller] A secret memo marked "URGENT" detailed how the House Democratic Caucus’s server went "missing" soon after it became evidence in a cybersecurity probe. The secret memo also said more than "40 House offices may have been victims of IT security violations."
In the memo, Congress’s top law enforcement official, Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, along with Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko, wrote, "We have concluded that the employees [Democratic systems administrator Imran Awan and his family] are an ongoing and serious risk to the House of Representatives, possibly threatening the integrity of our information systems and thereby members’ capacity to serve constituents."
The memo, addressed to the Committee on House Administration (CHA) and dated Feb. 3, 2017, was recently reviewed and transcribed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter bolsters TheDCNF’s previous reporting about the missing server and evidence of fraud on Capitol Hill.
It details how the caucus server, run by then-caucus Chairman Rep. Xavier Becerra, was secretly copied by authorities after the House Inspector General (IG) identified suspicious activity on it, but the Awans’ physical access was not blocked.
But after, the report reads, the server appears to have been secretly replaced with one that looked similar.
The memo called for firing the Pakistani-born aides, revoking all their computer accounts, and changing the locks on any door they had access to.
Rep. Louie Gohmert ‐ a Texas Republican on the House Committee on the Judiciary who has done oversight work on the case ‐ said the missing server contained copies of Congress members’ emails.
"They put 40 members of Congress’s data on one server ... That server, with that serial number, has disappeared," he said.
Multiple sources connected to the investigation told TheDCNF that shortly after an IG report came out identifying the House Democratic Caucus server as key evidence in a criminal probe, the evidence was stolen.
"They [the Awans] deliberately turned over a fake server" to falsify evidence, one official close to the CHA alleged. "It was a breach. The data was completely out of [members’] possession." Much more at the link.
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The secret memo also said more than "40 House offices may have been victims of complicit in IT security violations."
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The news out about the one minor charge and government agreement to seek no charges against all of the other suspected crimes screams that this guy has the missing server beyond our reach, and the damage he would do would be so great that they essentially folded on everything! I have never seen so clear a capitulation to political pressure in my entire life.
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Of one thing we can be sure, more about all of this is certainly known. Unfortunately, no one in government has any intention of making that knowledge public.
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[Spectator] "What Schumer explained to these audiences was as follows. If they elected him to the State Assembly, he would put forth a bill that would create a set of provisions, ostensibly to "help" the underprivileged urban blacks. It would identify those apartment buildings on Ave. K as being in a state of some dilapidation, requiring an extensive facelift and revamping of the apartments. I don’t recollect with certainty if ownership would be assumed by the State itself or one of those "community rehabilitation organizations" that served as the instrument of choice for soaking up large sums of government money for the stated purpose of redeveloping slums.
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[Daily Caller] A secret memo marked "URGENT" detailed how the House Democratic Caucus’s server went "missing" soon after it became evidence in a cybersecurity probe. The secret memo also said more than "40 House offices may have been victims of IT security violations."
[Daily Caller] A secret memo marked "URGENT" detailed how the House Democratic Caucus’s server went "missing" soon after it became evidence in a cybersecurity probe. The secret memo also said more than "40 House offices may have been victims of IT security violations."
The residents would then all be relocated into government or government-subsidized housing in other areas while the apartments were being renovated. At the end of the process, the individual apartments would be redefined as co-ops or condominiums to be sold to private owners. Although on paper the current tenants would be given priority for the right to purchase the newly upgraded condos, we could be sure that ‐ ha, ha, ha ‐ the blacks would not be able to raise the cash required, which would be not inconsiderable.
