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2017-02-06 Home Front: WoT

House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff

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Posted by Pappy 2017-02-06 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan...

Wait, am I really supposed to take this seriously? In a post-9/11 world, this really took place?

Posted by Crusader 2017-02-06 00:40|| 2017-02-06 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 A bit more from Dan Greenfield at FrontPage.

References same Daily Caller article.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-06 05:22|| 2017-02-06 05:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Allen West has it as well from 4 Feb.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-06 05:31|| 2017-02-06 05:31|| Front Page Top

#4 RedState excerpt from 5 Feb. Unless I missed something, not sure where they got the "20 member offices" piece. Nothing yet on the teevee.

Seems like they buried the lede, doesn’t it. I would think that there are larger risks than mere equipment theft. They also fail to mention that the “more than 20 member offices” have one thing in common: they are all Democrats.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-06 05:40|| 2017-02-06 05:40|| Front Page Top

#5 This story appears to be vanishing.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-06 06:53|| 2017-02-06 06:53|| Front Page Top

#6 LinkedIn gives a Jamal Awan as a 'Program Director
ManTech International Corporation
July 2016 – Present (8 months)'

Could of course be another Jamal Awan.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-06 07:49|| 2017-02-06 07:49|| Front Page Top

#7 we SURE this is non-WOT?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-02-06 10:03|| 2017-02-06 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 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.

Uh huh. Criminal background and potential financial issues = security clearance?

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-06 10:10|| 2017-02-06 10:10|| Front Page Top

#9 They lived in Lorton. ManTech has a facility in Springfield. Not a bad commute. Just saying.

Posted by Big Angeamp7856 2017-02-06 10:55|| 2017-02-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#10 We either find a way to make virtue signalling fairy expensive for signalers, or perish.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-06 11:47|| 2017-02-06 11:47|| Front Page Top

#11 fairy ---> fairly .

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-06 11:49|| 2017-02-06 11:49|| Front Page Top

#12 It's not the techs. It's the referral agency that should be of interest.

Note: "dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis"
Curious the names ones are all DEMs.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-06 12:33|| 2017-02-06 12:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Curious the names ones are all DEMs

They're all showing each other how PC they are.

Posted by gorb 2017-02-06 13:50|| 2017-02-06 13:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Likely a matter of indolence in that the brothers were already working on premises (thus presumably vetted) and the Congress-critter's offices could share the cost of the contract. Then again, as
g(r)om mentioned, it could also be virtue signaling.

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-06 17:41|| 2017-02-06 17:41|| Front Page Top

#15 Also, silly con valley pushes the myth that only wogs can be IT nerds...

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-02-06 20:01|| 2017-02-06 20:01|| Front Page Top

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