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2018-03-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Why Did The FBI Let A Congressional Hacking Suspect Leave The Country?
[Daily Caller] In March 2017, FBI agents were tailing House of Representatives IT aides suspected of hacking Congress, and apprehended one at the airport trying to make a hasty exit to Pakistan. She refused to speak with them, and a search revealed that she was carrying an apparently illegal amount of cash.

The FBI allowed Hina Alvi, wife of Imran Awan, to board the plane anyway ‐ then filed paperwork saying agents believed she had no intention of returning to the U.S.

For nearly a year since, the case has lingered despite the House Office of Inspector General (OIG) determining that the family of Pakistanis made "unauthorized access" to Congress’s data shortly before the election.

Following revelations about the FBI’s actions in the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server and Department of Justice officials’ handling of the Trump dossier, attention has turned to the agencies’ apparently lax attitude toward the congressional cyber breach case as perhaps the most jarring failure to enforce laws in cases that overlap politics.

The OIG alleged Imran Awan and his family members logged into servers of congressmen for whom they did not work, logged in using members’ personal usernames, covered their tracks, and continued to access data after they’d been fired.

Skipping down to.....explicit instructions from other gov't agencies "lack of desire to pursue the case."


Hosko said six months in, DOJ has all the tools it needs and cannot blame the House, and inaction can only indicate a lack of desire to pursue the case.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 08:17|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 09:02||   2018-03-01 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Because they're the (our) FBI, silly.
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-03-01 09:17||   2018-03-01 09:17|| Front Page Top

#3 F*ck Buddies of Islam FBI

Seems legit.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-03-01 09:26||   2018-03-01 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I propose the Awans did a lot of cyber dirty work for the Democrats and it got out of hand...the Awans were very greedy and took out an insurance policy of stolen emails and other documents to protect themselves.

The FBI, under the direction of the Obamites in senior leadership, did not want to touch the Awans with a ten foot pole because of what a real investigation would expose...because they knew what the Awans were doing.

Me thinks a lot of this phony Russian hacking can be tracked back to the Awans. Afterall, the Klingons could have fed them some of those neat little false flag hacking tools.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-01 10:04||   2018-03-01 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigmaa turd.

There, Besoeker, fixed it for ya, heh.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-03-01 13:53||   2018-03-01 13:53|| Front Page Top

#6 ....the Klingons could have fed them some of those neat little false flag hacking tools.

...or anything else they wanted leaked to Paki intelligence. The cost? Oh, we'll let you continue to monitor traffic (as you have done for ten years), as long as you give us the password(s) to your storage servers. Do we understand one another ?
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 15:27||   2018-03-01 15:27|| Front Page Top

#7 It's simple. Because Alvi had dirt on them all. Nothing else.
Posted by Woodrow 2018-03-01 17:48||   2018-03-01 17:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe the Awans stumbled on to the traffic from the FBI to the Clintons and DNC and vice versa...

That might be the dirt you are talking about.

There has to be a serious reason the FBI wanted them out of town and out of touch.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-01 18:09||   2018-03-01 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 If you were working the Paki desk in any named US intelligence agency, wouldn't you do your very best to recruit sources like the Awan's living in Woodbridge, VA and operating a car lot in Falls Church named..........CIA ?
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-01 18:14||   2018-03-01 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Same behavior as for the Saudi family on 9/12, and all foreign shooter/bomber's wives and families.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-01 20:40||   2018-03-01 20:40|| Front Page Top

#11 "Ma'am, just where do you think you are going?"

"Ummm...uhhhh."

"Nowhere. Without this."

Hands a manila envelope full of cash and a USB
*wink wink*

"Courtesy of her."
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-03-01 21:09||   2018-03-01 21:09|| Front Page Top

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