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2018-11-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Records of Investigations into the Awan Brothers, Congressional Democrat IT Scandal
[Judicial Watch] (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department for all records of communications relating to the investigation into former Democratic information technology (IT) staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan and Hina R. Alvi (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02563)).

Imran Awan and his family were banned from the House computer network in February 2017 after the House’s top law enforcement officer wrote that Imran is "an ongoing and serious risk to the House of Representatives, possibly threatening the integrity of our information systems," and that a server containing evidence had gone "missing." The inspector general said server logs showed "unauthorized access" and procurement records were falsified.

Imran Awan was Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s top information technology aide. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February, but Wasserman Schultz kept him on until he was arrested in July, trying to board a flight for Pakistan.

Imran Awan was allowed a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud but prosecutors found no evidence that Awan "violated federal law with respect to the House computer systems."

The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed after the FBI failed to respond adequately to two FOIA requests.

The FBI claimed it could neither confirm nor deny records related to the first request, filed on May 26, 2017, seeking:
Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-13 00:26|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 A non-governmental watch group must sue the "Department of Justice" via FOIA time and time again, in order to discover the truth.

What stronger evidence is needed to illustrate that our republic is in peril.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-13 00:41||   2018-11-13 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm tired an awan a go home...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-11-13 03:53||   2018-11-13 03:53|| Front Page Top

#3 What good would Christopher Steele or Carter Page data be if you had no mechanism to push it to the other side ?
Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-13 07:58||   2018-11-13 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I bet whatever they get is redacted to the point where nobody can make heads or tails of it. Any takers?


Didn't think so.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-11-13 10:16||   2018-11-13 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Should be interesting.
Posted by Woodrow 2018-11-13 13:42||   2018-11-13 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Well you'd have to be quite naive to assume Brennan and company were not fully aware (and exploiting) a family of Paki's living in Woodbridge, VA. for years. Not to mention the used car lot in Falls Church.

I believe it's referred to as "placement and access" within some circles.

Redacted? Yes, lots and lots of black ink.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-13 13:55||   2018-11-13 13:55|| Front Page Top

#7 This would not be necessary if the Republicans in Congress or so-called "good" agents in the FBI had shown the courage to actually do their job.
Posted by Boss Spoper5850 2018-11-13 15:21||   2018-11-13 15:21|| Front Page Top

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