US DNC leaks

-Chuck Todd of NBC is bossed around by DNC Chair Debra Wasserman.
-Hillary has to pay people to support her.
-Protests that the media cover are not real. The “protesters” are a bunch of interns.
-The Washington Post hosts joint fundraisers with the DNC.
-The Democratic primary was rigged.

Op zaterdag 23 juli 2016 23:55 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:

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Cernovich twitterde op zaterdag 23-07-2016 om 22:01:15 "Journalist" from NY Times offers to spin coverage for DNC in exchange for a quote. #DNCLeak https://t.co/yGdCjDhr5f https://t.co/qUqlxTDNBt reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 23 juli 2016 23:58 schreef Scrummie het volgende:

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Bah, dit gedoe maakt het journalisme nou kapot.

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 08:21 schreef Lambiekje het volgende:
Zal Hitlery dan toch naar de cel moeten...

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 10:21 schreef schommelstoel het volgende:

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Die zal wel wat mensen de mond snoeren en of een bedrag betalen, desnoods laten verdwijnen.

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 10:27 schreef Jigzoz het volgende:

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Doet ze dat vaker?

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 10:30 schreef schommelstoel het volgende:

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Volgens steeds meer youtube kanelen wel

Ze heeft een nogal duister verleden en manier van handelen.

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 10:32 schreef Jigzoz het volgende:

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Vertel?

Op zaterdag 23 juli 2016 22:04 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:
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Op zondag 24 juli 2016 10:54 schreef Jigzoz het volgende:
Hmja, ik geloof dat ze Monica Lewinsky ook niet heel leuk vond, maar die loopt nog gewoon rond.

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 11:01 schreef schommelstoel het volgende:

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Monica Lewinsky was het topje van de ijsberg.
Ze hebben er bewust voor gekozen om 1 verhaal naar buiten te brengen voordat de hele put zal worden open getrokken.
Vanaf dat punt is hillary op heksen jacht geweest met vrouwen de mond te snoeren die ook naar buiten wilde treden met verhalen over haar man.
Hillary zal pas echt The iron Lady zijn waar je geen problemen mee wilt hebben.
Ze krijgt wat ze wil, en haar man is maar een speel pionnetje.

Nogmaals, dit is puur van youtube en ik zeg niet dat ik alles geloof wat ik zie en of hoor op youtube.
Het is wel allemaal voer voor BNW.

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 11:02 schreef Jigzoz het volgende:

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Ja, geloof je dat nou wel of niet?

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 11:13 schreef schommelstoel het volgende:

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Ik geloof wel dat zij niet alleen maar het ieve vrouwtje is die ze doet voorkomen.

Maar of alle waarheid te vinden is in de youtube video's, nee dat geloof ik niet.
Complottheorie�n lezen bekijken is een interesse, dat zal niet meteen betekenen dat je ook alles stellig geloofd wat je ziet en of leest

Lang geleden gaf ik al eens als voorbeeld dat ik ook graag lees over grieske mythologie, maar iedereen weet dat er niet echt een vrouw heeft bestaan die op haar hoofd slangen als haar had en als je haar in de ogen keek je in steen veranderede ( Medusa )

Sommigen denken dat als je interesse hebt in complot verhalen je het ook meteen allemaal geloofd...

En nu moet ik douchen, feest hier in de stad en ga naar een park vol met niet mythologische wezens

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 11:17 schreef Jigzoz het volgende:

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Dat lijkt me duidelijk, maar haar van vanalles en nogwat beschuldigen omdat iemand op YT het zegt...

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Veel plezier!

Op zaterdag 23 juli 2016 22:04 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:
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Op zondag 24 juli 2016 10:27 schreef Jigzoz het volgende:

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Doet ze dat vaker?

Op zondag 24 juli 2016 15:04 schreef Lambiekje het volgende:

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Daily business

Rusland probeert de Amerikaanse verkiezingen te be�nvloeden met de publicatie van de e-mails van de Democratische partij. Dat zouden experts volgens die partij verklaard hebben. De e-mails werden gestolen bij een hack die al aan de Russen werd toegeschreven.

Vrijdag verscheen een omvangrijke hoeveelheid e-mails van de top van de Democratische partij op Wikileaks. De inhoud daarvan heeft inmiddels tot het opstappen van de voorzitter van de partij, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, gezorgd. Hillary Clintons campagneleider, Robby Mook, zegt dat deskundigen claimen dat Russische staatshackers achter de publicatie zitten: "Experts zeggen dat de Russen nu deze e-mails vrijgeven om Donald Trump te helpen. Ik denk niet dat het toeval is dat ze gepubliceerd worden aan de vooravond van de Democratische conventie."

De hack van een server van de Democratic National Committee, het voornaamste bestuursorgaan van de Amerikaanse Democratische partij, werd al eerder gelieerd aan Russische inlichtingendiensten, door het Amerikaanse beveiligingsbedrijf CrowdStrike. Dat bedrijf onderzocht de hack na het ontdekken van verdacht internetverkeer en sloot de hackers buiten. Al snel daarna verscheen de claim van een hacker met de alias Guccifer 2.0 dat hij achter de aanval zal en eenvoudig toegang tot de server had gekregen vanaf de zomer van 2015.

CrowdStrike blijft bij zijn claim dat de Russen achter de aanval zitten en noemen Guccifer 2.0 een afleidingspoging. Onder andere metadata bij vrijgegeven documenten, gebruik van een Russische stijl van smiley's en de timing van het verschijnen van het verschijnen van de documenten en Guccifer 2.0 zouden wijzen op betrokkenheid van Rusland, beschrijft Motherboard. Vrijwel direct nadat de hack van de server van de Democratische partij bekend werd gemaakt, verschenen de eerste documenten online en maakte Guccifer 2.0 zich bekend.

Deskundigen wijzen er tegelijkertijd op dat het moeilijk is te bewijzen wie er achter een hack zit en dat het mogelijk is dat meerdere partijen toegang tot de servers hadden. De Republikeinse partij doet de claims af als 'absurd'.

Op dinsdag 26 juli 2016 12:29 schreef jogy het volgende:
Facebook blokkeert de wikileaks over de dnc.

http://thenextweb.com/fac(...)ook-wikileaks-links/

Update 7/25/2016 8:18 pm EST: In a statement provided to Gizmodo, a representative said “Like other services, our anti-spam systems briefly flagged links to these documents as unsafe. We quickly corrected this error on Saturday evening.”

Op dinsdag 26 juli 2016 12:33 schreef Scrummie het volgende:

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Reactie Facebook:

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En daar kan je dan weer wat van vinden.

Op dinsdag 26 juli 2016 12:56 schreef jogy het volgende:

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Ooh, als de dnc leaks nu wel gewoon op facebook komen geef ik ze wel het voordeel van de twijfel.

Op dinsdag 26 juli 2016 13:01 schreef Scrummie het volgende:

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Ze hebben geen goed trackrecord in elk geval..

Op dinsdag 26 juli 2016 13:02 schreef jogy het volgende:

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True enough, de wikileaks van Turkije zijn zeker wel meteen gewoon doorgekomen en gebleven op Facebook?

Op dinsdag 26 juli 2016 13:19 schreef Scrummie het volgende:

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Geen idee eigenlijk. Maar dat er geen berichten waren dat ze *niet* te vinden waren zegt denk ik wel genoeg

Op donderdag 28 juli 2016 22:01 schreef Oversight het volgende:

Als het goed is staan de audio files nu live op wikileaks, iemand ze al gehoord, en zo ja samenvatting ?

Stond er dus al, ik weet het, ik ben lui,... samenvatting iemand ?

Op vrijdag 29 juli 2016 14:09 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:

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Niet heel boeiend, enkele voicemails waarin men duidelijk anti Bernie is omdat hij geen democraat is.

Connections between Clinton and acolytes of the imam, Fethullah Gulen, could muddle the complex relationship between the U.S. and Turkey, a key NATO ally, if the former secretary of state wins the White House.

Op woensdag 10 augustus 2016 01:31 schreef Summers het volgende:
WikiLeaks CONFIRMS Hillary Sold Weapons to ISIS... Then Drops Another BOMBSHELL! Breaking News

http://www.thepoliticalin(...)shell-breaking-news/

Op dinsdag 9 augustus 2016 23:38 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
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Alleen al dit jaar. De mensen die opeens manisch depressief werden en zelfmoord plegen met banden Clinton familie is niet op 1 hand te tellen.

Op donderdag 11 augustus 2016 12:29 schreef jogy het volgende:

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Het is gewoon belachelijk. Het is z� openlijk en in your face dat je daarom eigenlijk niet kan geloven dat die mensen om zijn gebracht om de Clintons te beschermen.

Op donderdag 11 augustus 2016 12:27 schreef jogy het volgende:

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Nou, die hele ambassade pleegt straks ook zelfmoord waarschijnlijk. Of er is straks een nucleaire gas explosie ongeluk of zo.

Op donderdag 11 augustus 2016 12:35 schreef ChrisCarter het volgende:

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Nou ja, zonder bewijs kun je mensen gewoon omleggen en dat ze dan toevallig allemaal connecties hebben "bewijst" niets en zo komt men er wel mee weg.

Denk dat die brutaliteit er best wel kan zijn.

Op donderdag 11 augustus 2016 13:07 schreef jogy het volgende:

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Daar gaat het inderdaad om. Geen bewijs is niet gedaan (in de ogen van de wet). Dus als je er mee weg kan komen om zonder enige g�ne iedereen om te brengen die het voornoemde bewijs wel kan leveren dan kom je een heel eind maar op een gegeven moment houdt het toch op lijkt me..

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 11:48 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:
Nog geen draad over Seth Conrad Rich die toevallig werd vermoord net voordat hij informatie zou openbaren bij een rechter? Dit bij een 'overval' waarbij niets is meegenomen. Nochtans ideaal voer voor een complottheorie, zou ik denken.

Assange stelt dat hij weleens een informant zou kunnen zijn van Wikileaks. Niet dat ik denk dat Hillary erachter zit maar ik zie andere mensen binnen de overheid wel tot zoiets in staat. Het kan natuurlijk ook toeval zijn, we zullen het helaas waarschijnlijk nooit zeker weten.

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 12:02 schreef jogy het volgende:

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Het wordt al besproken in de 2 hillary/DNC topics

. Maar er is een hele lijst aan mensen die zijn gestorven tijdens een onderzoek naar de Clintons volgens mij. Best een gevaarlijke tak van sport, Clintons tegenwerken.

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 12:04 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:

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Ja, het geluk zit hen niet mee.

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 12:05 schreef jogy het volgende:

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(bizarre) zelfmoorden, overvallen en andere gekkigheden inderdaad. Uiteraard allemaal op zichzelf niet direct te li�ren aan de Clintons dus het zal wel toeval zijn.

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 12:06 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:

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Deze steekt er voor mij wel bovenuit. Zie de toevoeging van de laatste reactie.

Died: August 16. 2010

Gareth Williams, an MI6 spy who wored on both sides of the Atlantic, engaged in some unauthorized hacking by breaking into Bill Clinton's database of friends and connections, ostensibly to give to a friend in the media. This breach caused a diplomatic nightmare for MI6's new director, Sir John Sawers.

Gareth was found naked, padlocked into a sports bag, in his own bathtub. No fingerprints, palm-prints footprints or traces of William's DNA were found at the scene. The key to the padlock was inside the bag, underneath his body.

As usual, declared a suicide! The sheer absurdity of this claim provoked a public uproar, and the promoters of the suicide theory even went so far as to try to demonstrate how Williams could have inserted himself into the bag!

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 12:17 schreef jogy het volgende:
Oh helemaal eens. En het is de meest verse ook nog.

Op vrijdag 12 augustus 2016 13:27 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:
Was Gareth Williams niet door de SVR omgelegd?

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. State Department to accelerate its review of almost 15,000 previously undisclosed documents recovered by the FBI from private e-mail servers used by Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state.

Those documents are among tens of thousands of records the State Department is sifting through to cope with the demands of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch as the presidential race between Democrat Clinton and Republican Donald Trump enters a crucial phase.

U.S. District James Boasberg on Monday ordered the State Department to process that first batch of records by Sept. 22 and report back to him that day. While he didn’t set a schedule for their being made public, a Justice Department lawyer proposed a phased release beginning Oct. 14, a rate that raised the ire of Judicial Watch lawyer Lauren Burke.

The family has been sensitive to speculation that Rich could have leaked emails damaging to the DNC since he was murdered during the height of the presidential campaign in a case that remains unsolved. Wheeler and the federal investigator insist that there is evidence to back their claims.

An FBI forensic report of Rich's computer -- generated within 96 hours after Rich's murder -- showed he made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin MacFadyen, a now-deceased American investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker, and director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time, the federal source told Fox News.

“I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” the federal investigator told Fox News, confirming the MacFadyen connection. He said the emails are in possession of the FBI, while the stalled case is in the hands of the Washington Police Department.

Eberwein was a former Haitian government official who was expected to expose the extent of Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice next week. He has been found dead in Miami at the age of 50.

The staffer’s services were so important to congressional members, that on March 22, 2016, eight democrat members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a letter, requesting that their staffers be granted access to Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Of those that signed the letter were representatives Jackie Speier (CA) and Andre Carson (IN), the second Muslim in Congress, both of whom employed the Awan brothers.

The brothers were also employed by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

The brothers are accused of removing hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment from congressional offices, including computers and servers, while also running a procurement scheme in which they bought equipment, then overcharged the House administrative office that assigns such contractors to members.

Some congressional technology aides believe that the Awan’s are blackmailing representatives based on the contents of their emails and files, due to the fact that these representatives have displayed unwavering and intense loyalty towards the former aides.

Congressional staffers allegedly held their stepmother in “captivity” with violent threats in a plan to use her to access money stashed away in the Middle East. The staffers are suspected of using their positions to enrich themselves.

A relative described the woman’s life as being completely controlled by the brothers for months while they schemed to take their father’s life insurance.

The brothers — who as IT professionals for Congress could read House members’ emails — allegedly used wiretapping devices on their own stepmother and threatened to abduct loved ones in Pakistan if she didn’t give them access to money stowed away in that country.

“Samani Galani called [police] after her stepchildren were denying her access to her husband of 8 years, Muhammad Shah, who is currently hospitalized,” and police responded to the Springfield home she shared with him.

“I made contact with her stepson, Abid, who responded to location and was obviously upset with the situation. He stated he has full power of attorney over his father and produced an unsigned, undated document as proof,” officers wrote. “He refused to disclose his father’s location.”

Pakistani-born Imran Awan, long-time right-hand IT aide to the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman, has since desperately tried to get the hard drives back, an individual whom FBI investigators interviewed in the case told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.

An additional source in Congress with direct knowledge of the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, confirmed that the FBI has joined what Politico previously described as a Capitol Police criminal probe into “serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network” by Imran and three of his relatives, who had access to the emails and files of the more than two dozen House Democrats who employed them on a part-time basis.

The following answer to why Seth Rich was killed has been bumped to the top again because it is important

I am posting this exactly as I got it.
The answer to why Seth Rich was killed, and why he gave to Wikileaks is now out.

Seth Rich was responsible for an internet application that helped voters find their polling stations.

He discovered that Hillary had set up bogus polling places that were not on the official record. Hillary then had DNC staffers merge the results from both sets of polling places, keeping the actual number of voters officially recorded at the legitimate polling station the same while the actual ballots that went to Bernie and represented those numbers were swapped out for her.
Seth Rich was appalled by the corruption, and as a result, dumped to Wikileaks.

This answer has been out there since July 21 of 2016 and it rotted until it was recently discovered in a private E-mail.

This was sent to me "as written by Claudia Kash, the girlfriend of Seth Rich," people have sent corrections saying Claudia Kash was the recipient of the mail. This was written shortly after Seth was killed. The answer has been out there since the beginning.

"There were two sets of polling places this primary season - one set for most of the voters, who went on state web sites to find their polling locations, and a second set for Hillary Clinton supporters who looked on Hillary clinton's website to find their polling location. The secretary of state for each state had one set of locations on the record, the other set of locations, the ones listed on Hillary's website were not on the state record. I know this because I looked on her website to find where a friend should vote, then double checked the state website, which showed a different address. I thought there must be a mistake - I kept checking right up to election day. But until they killed Seth Rich, I couldn't figure out why there would be two different polling places. This is how I think the scam worked: While most voters look up their location on their state website, voters who were signed up as Hillary Clinton supporters would be directed to her site to find their polling place. It was set up the same as any other DNC polling place - with DNC volunteers, regular voting machines etc - and a duplicate voter roster, the same as the roster at the other polling place. Voters would be checked off on the roster, same as at the other polling place, and after the polls colsed, the DNC supervisor would pick up the roster and the ballots.

The supervisor would then pick up the roster at the legitimate polling place and the ballots there. He (or she) would then replace a number of Bernie Sanders ballots with an equal number of the ballots from the Hillary Clinton voting location. Then the duplicate roster from the HRC would be shredded and thrown away, along with all the Bernie Sanders ballots that had been replaced. That way the number of people who voted on the remaining roster still matches the number of ballots. This is why so many states reported a "lower than expected voter turnout". Seth Rich, who was responsible for the app that helped voters find their polling places did not realize there were two sets of polling places until he himself went to vote. He lived in Washington DC, which voted at the end of the primary season, a week after Clinton had already been declared the winner. I believe he discovered it then and had started asking questions about why the polling places on Hillary's web site didn't match the ones on the DC web site.

But even if he didn't say a word to anybody, it would have been dangerous to let him live. He would have figured it out sooner or later, and he would have reported it when he did.

Meanwhile, Debbie Wasserman Schultz kept Awan on her payroll throughout the investigation and even ran interference for him with investigators. She was seen threatening Washington, D.C. police investigators, refused to cooperate with federal investigators, and even harassed the investigators

First of all Debbie Wasserman Schulz disenfranchised millions of Bernie Sanders voters by crookedly siding with Crooked Hillary when she had to remain impartial. She lost her job as head of DNC right after wikileaks ... leaked these/her sinister workings at the DNC !(why?). (Crooked Hillary deleted or had deleted thousands of email on a private server.) Any congressperson engaged in such activities should already be on their way to jail. a couple of months ago DWS threatens the Police Chief? And later her employee has a bunch of busted hard drives and is on the RUN. She terminates him about the same time he is trying to FLEE this country after wiring 10's of thousands of dollars outside the country (even thought he has been working here for years. !!

[...]Overnight, we also learned that Awan reportedly also consulted for the DNC and possessed the password for the iPad which then-chairwoman Wasserman Schultz used for official DNC business at or around the same time that the DNC's email system was hacked and DNC emails were published by Wikileaks.

This means that during the intrusion into IT systems containing national security information (as well as potentially the DNC and their election information), Democrats were wagging their fingers at Republicans for purported Russian interference, while Democrats themselves had a fox in their own henhouse.

The hypocrisy of Democrats is stunning.

Their unwillingness to help law enforcement is even more so.

Initially, Wasserman Schultz refused to fire the IT aide "despite being a known criminal suspect in a cybersecurity probe," instead placing him in an advisory capacity in order to circumvent the ban on having him as an IT provider. As of Tuesday morning (the day he was arrested), Wasserman Schultz still employed him. In her own interactions with authorities, she also previously refused to turn over her laptop to law enforcement and threatened the Capitol Police for getting involved.

Congressional leaders are interested in conducting their own independent investigation into a growing scandal surrounding IT staffers working for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), who are accused of stealing sensitive computer equipment from House lawmakers' offices.

"In addition to the criminal case that is now underway, Congress needs to get answers regarding the scope of Imran Awan's misconduct and the access he had to sensitive material in the United States House of Representatives, including why he remained on the House payroll for so long," Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), a member of the Government Oversight Committee and chair of its National Security Subcommittee told the Washington Free Beacon.

WASHINGTON – Detectives leading the Seth Rich murder investigation agreed to meet with Capitol Hill investigators to discuss evidence surrounding the alleged hacking of Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 presidential election, a private eye claims.

But the Metropolitan Police Department canceled its meeting with House investigators on the Hill just hours before it was scheduled to take place, according to former Washington, D.C., homicide detective Rod Wheeler.

Wheeler claims a thorough investigation of the Democrats’ IT hacking scandal involving the Awan brothers may reveal more information about Rich’s murder, the 2016 email breach of the Democratic National Committee and the Awan family.

Despite the rapidly escalating scandal that potentially involves multiple federal crimes, Awan had been kept on the payroll of former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who circumvented the ban by having him “advise” her office.

In the wake of WikiLeaks posting damaging internal emails during the 2016 election, Wasserman Schultz resigned from her post as DNC chairwoman and blamed the scandal on an alleged hacking by Russians.

After the emails became public, Donna Brazile, who served as interim DNC chairwoman following Wasserman Schultz’s resignation, initially claimed the messages were fabricated. Then she alleged Russians stole the emails.

The FBI requested access to the DNC’s server to determine who was responsible for the breach. According to former FBI Director James Comey, the DNC refused to grant access to its server.

Wheeler said in several interviews last week that a federal investigator has elaborate details about Rich’s connection to WikiLeaks and is a credible source.

The total reward for solving Rich’s murder currently stands at approximately a half-million dollars. Yet, the DNC has offered no reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of its own young staffer. Instead, the DNC honored its murdered employee by dedicating a bike rack outside its headquarters to Rich’s memory.

The Rich family’s attitude toward Wheeler, he claimed, changed dramatically after Democratic political crisis consultant Brad Bauman became their spokesman. Rich’s family threatened legal action against Wheeler in May after he told a Fox affiliate that he believed police were covering up details about the crime. An attorney representing the family sent Wheeler a cease-and-desist letter on May 19.

Wheeler said he’s uncertain when he’ll be allowed to reveal his report on Rich’s murder, but he is perplexed that Rich’s family has never expressed interest in the report’s findings.

We heard loudly and clearly yesterday from Bernie supporters that the process was rigged, and it was. And you've got to be honest about it

Jared Beck, a Harvard Law graduate and one of the several attorneys who filed the suit against the DNC and its former chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz, wants retribution for donations made by supporters to the Vermont senator's campaign, citing six legal claims of the DNC’s deceptive conduct, negligent misrepresentation and fraud. The DNC violated Article 5, Section 4 of its own charter by working with a single campaign to effectively choose who would win the Democratic ballot, the attorneys stated in the suit.

“[T]here is no right to — just by virtue of making a donation, to enforce the parties’ internal rules,” said DNC attorney Bruce Spiva. “And there’s no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There’s no contractual obligation here.”

Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 21:28 schreef jogy het volgende:
Dellipder

. Tof dat je het zo goed volgt en helder uit kan leggen.

Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 08:46 schreef ChrisCarter het volgende:
Werken voor de Clinton's zou een soort gezondheidsbijsluiter moeten krijgen...

Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 21:28 schreef jogy het volgende:
Dellipder

. Tof dat je het zo goed volgt en helder uit kan leggen.

Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 21:28 schreef jogy het volgende:
Dellipder

. Tof dat je het zo goed volgt en helder uit kan leggen.

It now appears that Debbie Wasserman Schultz planned to pay IT staffer Imran Awan even while he lived in Pakistan had he not been arrested by the FBI at Dulles Airport Monday.

Congressional payroll records also suggest that Wasserman Shultz knew Imran’s wife, a fellow IT staffer, left the U.S. months ago while she was a criminal suspect.

A House source said Awan was seen in the House office building multiple times after the network ban. “Imran Awan is working in an “advisory” role for Wasserman Schultz, her spokesman said, “providing advice on technology issues.”

The spokesman wouldn’t say who did the office’s computer work after the ban, if not Awan.

Awan’s wife, Hina, left the country under similar circumstances March 5, after withdrawing the couple’s three kids from school without telling Virginia education officials, packing up all of her possessions, and hiding $12,000 in cash, according to an FBI affidavit. She allegedly had hundreds of thousands of dollars waiting in Pakistan for her — money the FBI says Awan had obtained partly through mortgage fraud and had wired overseas using a false explanation.

Two days later, on March 7, House records show Hina was cut from Wasserman Schultz’s payroll.

Wasserman Schultz spokesman David Darmrom did not respond to a DCNF IG request to explain why Hina had been terminated two days into a trip she claimed was temporary, while her husband had not been terminated for a six-month move. Between the part-time nature of her work and the ban, her absence was unlikely to have been noticed in two days without someone telling the office her plans.

then there's evidence some of the information they had access to dumped off into a third database that's actually being called a breach. That's why the Capitol Hill Police rolled in saying there's something wrong here.

Now the FBI has rolled in and let me give you the big take away here, it looks like a foreign intelligence service may be the recipient of all this. Something called the Muslim Brotherhood.

Leading Islamist groups are contributing more to Democrats than to Republicans by a ratio of 17 to 1

In 2012, he discharged debts in bankruptcy (while scheming to keep his real-estate holdings). Congressional Democrats hired Abid despite his drunk-driving conviction a month before he started at the House, and they retained him despite his public-drunkenness arrest a month after. Beyond that, he and Imran both committed sundry vehicular offenses. In civil lawsuits, they are accused of life-insurance fraud.

Imran Awan, the former DNC staffer who was arrested this week while trying to flee the United States, was with Seth Rich the night of his murder, according to new photographic evidence.

Police who originally investigated the murder suggested that Seth Rich might have been killed by someone he knew, due to the lack of struggle. The killer also took nothing from the victim, leaving behind his wallet containing $2000, watch and phone.

“Seth attended that party, and I wanted to know who else was at that party. But I could never find out,” Wheeler said. “When I went back to ask other people who should have known who was at that party – these were people who were close to Seth – they told me, ‘You don’t need to know who was at that party because it had nothing to do with his death.’”

“He was at the party before he went to the bar (dit is de Lou's City Bar en dit was de plaats waar hij voor het laatst is gezien). What you do in a murder investigation is you work backward. You want to trace the victim’s steps as far back as you can – who was that person around the day before? – as far back as you can,” he said.

“What was interesting is when I am told as an investigator that I don’t need to talk to people who were at the party. It makes you wonder why.”

The Profiling Project, the independent, nonpartisan and autonomous unit investigating the mysterious unsolved murder of Seth Rich, announced today that to catch the killer or killers, the group will stage a re-enactment of the murder on Tuesday, August 1 funded by Jack Burkman.

Mirroring a Hollywood set, complete with lights, cameras and actors, the group says known facts of the Seth Rich case will be coupled with various probable scenarios to act out what happened that night. It will be open to the media.

Late last month, The Profiling Project released an 80-page report on its preliminary findings. Chief among them: the facts don’t support that the killing was random; that it was likely a hit.

From:robbymook2015@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
CC: jbenenson@bsgco.com
Date: 2015-02-22 21:20
Subject: Re: Wash Post story -- Sorry to write this on a Saturday night

I agree--when we have press staff, this will be MUCH easier.
And I would love an example being made.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:12 PM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Agree. Happy to talk to the David's. Call me crazy, but I think if we can
> survive the next month, it will be possible, maybe even straightforward to
> get our arms around this once there is an actual campaign. I'm definitely
> for making an example of a suspected leaker whether or not we have any real
> basis for it.

The staffer’s services were so important to congressional members, that on March 22, 2016, eight democrat members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a letter, requesting that their staffers be granted access to Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Of those that signed the letter were representatives Jackie Speier (CA) and Andre Carson (IN), the second Muslim in Congress, both of whom employed the Awan brothers.

A right-leaning ethics group is pushing for a congressional probe into Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz because she continued to employ an IT staffer for months after he became the focus of a criminal investigation.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a conservative accountability group, is requesting the Office of Congressional Ethics launch an investigation into what the nonprofit says is Wasserman Schultz’s “apparent breach” of House rules for continuing to employ Imran Awan, even after he was blocked from accessing the House IT system earlier this year.

Asked if Wasserman Schultz should be forced to testify DeSantis responded, “I think it's questionable what they were doing during that time,” referring to Imran Awan and other members of his family. “We would have to investigate that. Of course, they had access to intelligence and House Foreign Affairs Committee members’ personal email and IT accounts. There is some very sensitive information on there. This could be a significant security breach.”

The most recent court hearing on the class action lawsuit filed against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on behalf of Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters occurred in late April 2017 when a federal court judge in South Florida heard arguments from DNC attorneys and Attorney Jared Beck for why the court should move forward on the case. That decision is still pending, but on July 27 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee wrote a seven page letter to the Department of Justice seeking a special counsel probe into several aspects of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Intelligence agencies concluded Russia-related hackers broke into the email system by sending Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta a fake email from Google requesting his password.

Awan’s lawyer Chris Gowen said he thought Awan had been cleared for the trip to Pakistan before the flight. He has also denied any spying or intelligence-related wrongdoing.

“He didn't even have a security clearance,” the lawyer said, calling allegations from conservative media “completely utterly ridiculous.”

Attorney General Sessions seems more motivated lately, probably for reasons having something to do with the Presidential teeth marks he’s now sporting. He’s promising action, saying, “I have not been happy with the past prosecutions and investigations of criminal leaks.”

Sessions says, “We’ve already taken a number of steps, we’ll have multiple, we’ll have a press conference next week about it, but we already have multiples numbers of prosecutions compared to last year at this time. We’re stepping up those cases, it cannot continue. Some people need to go to jail. If we can make cases they are going to jail.”

Op dinsdag 1 augustus 2017 09:00 schreef ChrisCarter het volgende:
Hoe diep gaat dit gat nog gegraven worden?

Op dinsdag 1 augustus 2017 09:12 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Dit is groter dan Water Gate, denk ik.
Ik ben er wel sceptisch over of dat het daadwerkelijk tot op de bodem onderzocht gaat (kunnen) worden. En of dat iedereen die hier betrokken bij is verantwoordelijk kan worden gehouden.
De mainstream media berichten hier nauwelijks over. Dit is al een voorbeeld waar het hierover niet mee zit.
De tijd is in het voordeel van de DNC die veel bewijsmateriaal heeft weten te vernietigen. Het lijkt een vaste bezigheid te zijn van de DNC om mobiele apparaten, servers en harde schijven onbruikbaar te maken.

The investigator, Rod Wheeler, sued Fox for defamation. His lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York, lays out an explosive tale of Trump allies conspiring to push a false story to take the pressure of the Russian collusion investigation off the president, and a news organization willing to show the president its story before it was published.

Fox called the accusation that reporter Malia Zimmerman's story was published to detract from the Russian investigation "completely erroneous." Jay Wallace, Fox's news president, said the story is still being investigated and that Fox has no evidence that Wheeler was misquoted.

Forensic studies of “Russian hacking” into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2016, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then doctored to incriminate Russia.

After examining metadata from the “Guccifer 2.0” July 5, 2016 intrusion into the DNC server, independent cyber investigators have concluded that an insider copied DNC data onto an external storage device, and that “telltale signs” implicating Russia were then inserted.

Key among the findings of the independent forensic investigations is the conclusion that the DNC data was copied onto a storage device at a speed that far exceeds an Internet capability for a remote hack. Of equal importance, the forensics show that the copying and doctoring were performed on the East coast of the U.S. Thus far, mainstream media have ignored the findings of these independent studies [see here and here: Guccifer 2.0 NGP/VAN Metadata Analysis

There has been so much conflation of charges about hacking that we wish to make very clear the primary focus of this Memorandum. We focus specifically on the July 5, 2016 alleged Guccifer 2.0 “hack” of the DNC server. In earlier VIPS memoranda we addressed the lack of any evidence connecting the Guccifer 2.0 alleged hacks and WikiLeaks, and we asked President Obama specifically to disclose any evidence that WikiLeaks received DNC data from the Russians.

More than 20 U.S. intelligence, military and diplomatic veterans are calling on President Obama to release the evidence backing up allegations that Russia aided the Trump campaign – or admit that the proof is lacking.

We have gone through the various claims about hacking. For us, it is child’s play to dismiss them. The email disclosures in question are the result of a leak, not a hack. Here’s the difference between leaking and hacking:

Leak: When someone physically takes data out of an organization and gives it to some other person or organization, as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning did.

Hack: When someone in a remote location electronically penetrates operating systems, firewalls or any other cyber-protection system and then extracts data.

All signs point to leaking, not hacking. If hacking were involved, the National Security Agency would know it – and know both sender and recipient.

The Time Sequence

June 12, 2016: Assange announces WikiLeaks is about to publish “emails related to Hillary Clinton.”

June 15, 2016: DNC contractor Crowdstrike, (with a dubious professional record and multiple conflicts of interest) announces that malware has been found on the DNC server and claims there is evidence it was injected by Russians.

June 15, 2016: On the same day, “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement; claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks source; and posts a document that the forensics show was synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints.”

We do not think that the June 12 & 15 timing was pure coincidence. Rather, it suggests the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it came from a Russian hack.

The Key Event

July 5, 2016: In the early evening, Eastern Daylight Time, someone working in the EDT time zone with a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 MegaBytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device. That speed is many times faster than what is physically possible with a hack.

It thus appears that the purported “hack” of the DNC by Guccifer 2.0 (the self-proclaimed WikiLeaks source) was not a hack by Russia or anyone else, but was rather a copy of DNC data onto an external storage device. Moreover, the forensics performed on the metadata reveal there was a subsequent synthetic insertion – a cut-and-paste job using a Russian template, with the clear aim of attributing the data to a “Russian hack.” This was all performed in the East Coast time zone.

Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is coming under mounting pressure to explain why she kept an IT aide on the payroll for months after a criminal investigation was revealed, facing calls from Republicans to testify as well as a newly filed ethics complaint.

“I think she should testify,” Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told conservative radio host Dana Loesch on Monday. “If I had a staff member, an IT staff member, who had access to all of our data and all of our infrastructure and he had come under investigation … you better believe I would be cooperating.”

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), run by former U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker (a George W. Bush appointee), also filed a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics on Monday. The complaint urged an investigation, questioning why Schultz kept paying Awan after he was barred from the House computer system, noting “Members are directly responsible for ensuring their staff are only paid for official public work.”

The MSM spent a tireless 24-hours attempting to lead the public away from knowing the truth about the Seth Rich case. NPR led the charge publishing a piece titled “Behind Fox News’ Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale”, a piece they will no doubt have to HEAVILY retract and apologize for. NPR attempts to disprove the story after they had gained access to a lawsuit against Fox News by Rod Wheeler.

The NRP report alleges that on April 20th, after uncovering disturbing leads in the case, Butowsky and Wheeler met in the White House with Sean Spicer to brief him on what they were uncovering. Wheeler believed, and expressed to FOX 5, that there is tangible evidence on Rich’s laptop that confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death.

NOW THIS: As NPR was attempting to stop the inquires once and for all, Big League Politics reporter, Cassandra Fairbanks, released a leaked audio of Rod Wheeler explaining the Fox coverage of Rich and how Aaron Rich, Seth’s brother, was adamantly trying to stop all inquiries into the WikiLeaks connection.

On August 1, Wheeler filed a lawsuit in New York City alleging White House involvement in pushing the story. But in this recording, he explains that he acted on his own in contacting Fox News reporters — and exactly how that all went down. The White House being involved is not mentioned once.

Wheeler said that brother Aaron Rich tried to block Wheeler from looking at Seth’s computer, even though there could be evidence on it.

Wheeler said that Seth’s girlfriend told him that Aaron Rich had possession of Seth’s cell phones, but Aaron denied it and said “we’re not going to worry about the cell phones.”

Aaron also blocked Wheeler from finding out about who was at a party Seth attended the night of the murder.

Op dinsdag 1 augustus 2017 09:00 schreef ChrisCarter het volgende:
Hoe diep gaat dit gat nog gegraven worden?

Congress is advancing an investigation into a growing scandal surrounding IT staffers working for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), who are accused of stealing sensitive computer equipment from House lawmakers' offices, according to senior congressional sources who told the Washington Free Beacon the Democratic leader's refusal to answer questions could "merit resignation."

Leading members of Congress are growing frustrated with the pace of the criminal investigation and have moved to conduct their own independent probe into the scandal, according to multiple sources who indicated that the relevant congressional committees are making moves to start an investigation, which could include compelling testimony from Wasserman Schultz, who has been accused of stonewalling on the issue.

Butowsky says he became convinced that the FBI had a report concluding that Seth Rich's laptop showed he had had contacts with WikiLeaks after speaking to the legendary reporter Seymour Hersh, who was also investigating Rich's death. According to the transcripts in the lawsuit, Butowsky says Hersh had an FBI source who confirmed the report.

In an interview this week, Hersh sounds unconvinced.

"I hear gossip," Hersh tells NPR on Monday. "[Butowsky] took two and two and made 45 out of it."

“All I know is that he offered a sample, an extensive sample, I’m sure dozens of emails, and said ‘I want money.’ Later, WikiLeaks did get the password, he had a DropBox, a protected DropBox,” he said. They got access to the DropBox.”

Wheeler alleges in the lawsuit that the reporter, Zimmerman “fabricated two quotations and attributed them to Mr. Wheeler.”

Those quotations were:

“My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks.”

And: “My investigation shows someone within the DC government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward. That is unfortunate, Seth Rich’s murder is unsolved as a result of that.”

Alleges the lawsuit, “According to Butowsky, the statements were falsely attributed to Mr. Wheeler because that is the way the President wanted the article. Zimmerman, Butowsky and Fox had created fake news to advance President Trump’s agenda.”

About the kid, I’ll tell you what I know. What I know comes off an FBI report. Don’t ask me how. You can figure it out, I’ve been around a long time. The kid, just, I don’t think he was murdered, I, I don’t think he was murdered because of what he knew. The kids a nice boy, 27, he was not IT expert, but he learned stuff. He was a data programmer, but he learned stuff. And so he’s living on one street, someone, in my eyes,- he’s living in a ruff neighborhood and in the exact where he’d been living, as I’m sure you know, there have been about 8 or 9 or 10 violent, uh not robberies, most of them with somebody brandishing a gun and it’s the kids hands, I’m telling you look, I’m sure you know what, his hands are marked up, the cops concluded he fought off the people, tried to run they shot him twice in the back with a 22 small caliper. And then, they, the kids that did it ran, they got scared, they didn’t take his wallet.

Ok. So what the cops do is this: And this is where nobody knows, what I’m telling you, and maybe you know something about it. When you have a death like that DC cops, if you’re dead, you don’t just generally go yep I know (unintelligible) you have to get in to the kids apartment and see what you can find. If he’s dead you don’t need a warrant but most cops get a warrant because they don’t know if they’ve guys has, has a, a roommate. You need a warrant. So they get a warrant. I’m just telling you, there is such a thing. They go in the house and they can’t do much with this computer. It’s (unintelligible) the cops don’t know much about it. So the DC cops they have a cyber unit in DC and they’re more sophisticated. They come and look at it. The idea is maybe he’s a series of exchanges with somebody who says I’m going to kill you motherfucker over a girl or… and they can’t get in. The cyber guys do a little better but they can’t make sense of it so they call the, they call the FBI cyber unit, the DC unit.

The Washington field office is a hot shit unit. The guy running the Washington field office he’s like, he’s like, you know, he’s like a three star at an army base he’s already looking for four, you know what I mean? He’s gonna go in a top job. There’s a cyber unit there that’s excellent, given. What you get in a warrant is, the public information you get in a warrant doesn’t include, uh, it does not include the affidavit underlying what, why you are you going in, what the reasons are that.. That’s almost never available, um, I, I can tell you that the existence of a warrant is a public document 99% of the time. So, um, on the same warrant, they call in the feds. The feds get through, and this is what they find. This is according to the FBI report. What they find is he makes cont- first of all this is what you have to know, you have to know some basic facts, one of the basic factors, in that there’s no DNC or Podesta emails that exist beyond May 22nd. May 21st, May 22nd is the last email from either one of those groups. And so what the reports says is that sometime in late spring, we’re talking June you know summers in June 21st, late spring would be after, I presume, I don’t know, I’d just say late spring, early summer and he makes contact with Wikileaks. That’s in his computer and he makes contact.

Now, I have to be careful because I, I’ve know, I, met Julian 10 or 12 years (ago?) I stay the fuck away from people like that, you know. He’s invited me, and when I’m in London I always get a message “Come see me at the Ecuadorian” but I say fuck no I’m not going there I’ve got enough trouble without getting photographed. And he’s under total surveillance by everybody but anyways. So, they found what he’d done. He had submitted a series of documents, of emails. Some juicy emails from the DNC, and you know, by the way all this shit about the DNC, um, you know, whether it was hacked or wasn’t hacked, whatever happened, the democrats themselves wrote this shit, you know what I mean? All I know is that he (Seth) offered a sample, an extensive sample, you know I’m sure dozens of email and said “I want money”. Then later Wikileaks did get the password, he had a Dropbox, a protected Dropbox, which isn’t hard to do, I mean you don’t have to be a wizard IT, you know, he was certainly not a dumb kid. They got access to the Dropbox. He also, and this is also in the FBI report, he also let people know, with whom he was dealing, and I don’t know how he dealt, I’ll tell you about Wikileaks in a second. I don’t know how he dealt with the Wikileaks and the mechanism but he also, the word was passed according to the NSA report, “I’ve also shared this box with a couple of friends so if anything happens to me it’s not going to solve your problem”. Ok. I don’t know what that means.

I don’t know whether you- Anyways, Wikileaks got access, and before he was killed- I can tell you right now Brennan is an asshole. Uh, I’ve known all these people for years. Clapper is sort of a better guy but not rocket scientist, the NSA guy’s a fucking moron, and they don’t- you know the trouble with all of those guys is that the only way they’re going to make it to a board or two and get hired by (?) and get some fat cat contracts is if Hillary stayed in. With Trump they’re gone, they’re done, they’re going to live on their pension, they’re not going to make it. And I gotta tell you guys, they don’t want to live on their pension, they want to be on boards (?).

I have somebody on the inside, you know I’ve been around a long time, and I write a lot of stuff. I have somebody on the inside who will go and read a file for me. This person is unbelievably accurate and careful, he’s a very high-level guy and he’ll do a favor. You’re just going to have to trust me. I have what they call in my business a long-form journalism, I have a narrative of how that whole fucking thing began, it’s a Brennan operation, it was an American disinformation and fucking the fucking President, at one point when they, they even started telling the press, they were back briefing the press, the head of the NSA was going and telling the press, fucking cock-sucker Rogers, was telling the press that we even know who in the GRU, the Russian Military Intelligence Service, who leaked it. I mean all bullshit. They were telling the studp- I worked at the New York Times for fucking years, and the trouble with the fucking New York Times is they have smart guys, but they’re totally beholden on sources. If the president or the head of the (???) to actually believe it. I was actually hired at the time to write, to go after the war in Vietnam War in 72 because they were just locked in. So that’s what the Times did. These guys run the fucking Times, and Trump’s not wrong. But I mean I wish he would calm down and had a better a better press secretary, I mean you don’t have to be so. Trump’s not wrong to think they all fucking lie about him. I can tell you right n….

Op woensdag 2 augustus 2017 08:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wikileaks is al geruime tijd extreem onbetrouwbaar gebleken, met als laatste voorbeeld dit, maar hiervoor waarbij ze wilden doen voorkomen dat Mueller uranium gesmokkeld zou hebben naar Rusland, wat echter voor een volstrekt legitiem doel werd getransporteerd. Dus, op voorhand zou ik echt alles met een enorme korrel zou nemen wat ze zeggen.

Nu tweeten ze dus wat audio van Hersh die als een verslaggever hiernaar gekeken heeft. Dus alles wat hij zegt is niet Wikileaks zelf als bron, maar Hersh. Klaarblijkelijk is het ook van enkele weken terug.

Dit is zijn standpunt op dit moment:

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Kortom, wikileaks blijkt eens te meer een propaganda-machine te zijn geworden; het is alleen niet helemaal duidelijk van wie precies. Het kan natuurlijk ook heel simpel opgelost worden; wikileaks weet wie de boel geleverd heeft (althans, dat is de veronderstelling) en Assange kan daarover getuigen.

Op woensdag 2 augustus 2017 23:03 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:

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Ik volg het allemaal niet zo, maar er is het re�el om dat van wikileaks te verlangen?

Op donderdag 3 augustus 2017 00:57 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Het is niet zo dat Wikileaks een opinie-outlet zijn

Op donderdag 3 augustus 2017 01:02 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Dit is simpelweg onwaar. Wikileaks heeft een extreem duidelijke bias.

Op donderdag 3 augustus 2017 01:53 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Wat is dat toch met het woord extreem?

In elk geval knip je in mijn citaat (eigenlijk haal je alles weg, behalve een halve zin) en vervolgens zeg je niet waar. Dat is heel sjiek, maar voor mij niet bepaald overtuigend.

The thrust of Wheeler’s lawsuit rests on the idea that Fox News falsely said that he believed there was a connection between murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich and WikiLeaks. This alleged libel by Fox News, according to the lawsuit, was due to the joint efforts of Butowsky, who funded Wheeler’s investigation, and the White House, who allegedly wanted the story of Russian hacking to go away.

The suit also alleges that Butowsky told Wheeler that the quotes are like that because that is how President Trump wanted the story to look. However, in a little-noticed statement on May 22 from Wheeler published on FetchYourNews, the former D.C. detective said, “I am of the personal opinion that the information/article reported by FoxNews Channel last Tuesday was essentially correct and worthy of further investigation. That is exactly why when I first learned of this new information developed by a FoxNews investigative journalist, I immediately called the DC Police to inform them.”

Wheeler’s lawsuit does say that Butowsky and Zimmerman “on behalf of Mr. Wheeler, drafted a response to the Rich family’s statements. Mr. Wheeler did not write or approve the response.”

But Wheeler went on FetchYourNews’s YouTube show, and said on May 23, “With respect to the statement I put out yesterday.” This is him showing ownership for a statement that says the Fox News report on May 16 was “essentially correct.”

However, it should be noted that Wheeler’s public statements about the investigation roughly fall in line with these quotes.

Wheeler himself went on Fox 5 local news on May 15 and said that “absolutely” his “sources at the FBI” have “confirmed” that there is link between Rich and WikiLeaks.

“In fact, when Mr. Wheeler was interviewed by a Fox affiliate on the evening of May 15, 2017, he made sure not to confirm as fact the proposition that Seth Rich sent emails to WikiLeaks, instead confirming only that a ‘source’ (i.e., [Fox News reporter Malia Zimmerman’s] and Butowsky’s alleged source) had information that could link Seth Rich to WikiLeaks,” the lawsuit states.

FOX 5 DC: “You have sources at the FBI saying that there is information…” WHEELER: “For sure…” FOX 5 DC: “…that could link Seth Rich to WikiLeaks?” WHEELER: “Absolutely. Yeah. That’s confirmed.”

"The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated," a senior law enforcement official told CNN. "This left the FBI no choice but to rely upon a third party for information. These actions caused significant delays and inhibited the FBI from addressing the intrusion earlier."

"The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI's Cyber Division and its Washington Field Office, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, and US Attorney's Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation, but the FBI never requested access to the DNC's computer servers," Eric Walker, the DNC's deputy communications director, told BuzzFeed News.

Op donderdag 3 augustus 2017 08:00 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Via AON sprak Ed Butowsky gisteren de beschuldigingen van Ed Wheeler tegen.

Fox News nam in scherpe bewoordingen afstand van Wheeler's standpunt dat de motivatie afleiding van het Rusland schandaal zou zijn.

Witte Huis correspondent Alex Pfeiffer zette de onregelmatigheden van Wheeler's verhaal in een artikel.

Op vrijdag 4 augustus 2017 00:43 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Bron?

“Rod’s lies just continue to add up. And I know I’m on national television and I know what I’m saying and I know it’s the truth. Rod has a big, big problem with the truth.”

Alex Pfeiffer? Nadat de vorige dailycaller verslaggever hen verliet om te werken voor CNN zitten we nu met 20-jarige Pfeiffer. Niet per se onwaar, maar wel vreemd. (Bron)

Oh goh, wie hebben we hier weer: Alex Pfeiffer:

Dit is op zich leuk, maar stop svp met het verspreiden van nep nieuws.

Op vrijdag 4 augustus 2017 04:31 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 4 augustus 2017 08:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Heb je bericht wat ingekort was het was een aardige lap. Anyway, kunnen we elkaar normaal adresseren? "Meneer ExtraWaskracht" komt nogal vreemd op me over. We kunnen het denk ik oneens zijn op een forumpje zonder in de verdediging te schieten? Toegegeven, ik maakte me hier ook ietwat schuldig aan door "Oh goh" te typen. Voor wat het waard is denk ik dat het uit zal lopen op een settlement met geheimhoudingsclausule, omdat Fox News zich absoluut geen schuldigverklaring kan veroorloven. Ik vermoed dus dat we publiekelijk nooit tot de bodem zullen komen, helaas. Om in te gaan op je punten:

Als ik vraag om een bron waar je OAN schrijft, dan bedoel ik niet te zeggen dat je het uit je duim gezogen hebt oid, maar dat ik gewoon graag een concrete link zou willen. That's it, niks meer, niks minder. Evenzo voor de vraag bij wat je stelde over Fox News; niet omdat ik het per se betwijfel, maar omdat ik het graag even na wil kunnen lezen.

Het is denk ik btw wel goed om een kanttekening te maken mbt OAN. Die zijn mee gegaan in de hele Seth Rich conspiracy door nota bene tipgeld te beloven, wat me politiek gemotiveerd lijkt en hen in een wat lastige positie brengt... ik heb niet de indruk dat ze hier neutraal in staan.

De leeftijd van de verslaggever vind ik in dit geval wel een punt van aandacht. Iemand van 20 zal net van school af zijn gekomen. Ik vind het raar dat je zo iemand dan meteen op een dergelijk belangrijke positie zet, maar los van wat ik raar vind, is zo iemand denk ik sneller geneigd om zich te laten zeggen wat te rapporteren. Daarbij heeft hij geen historie. We weten niks over zijn betrouwbaarheid.

Neem bijvoorbeeld dit verhaal: Reporter says ‘Russian propaganda outlet’ pushed him to cover conspiracy theory at the center of a White House lawsuit. De kans dat iemand van 20 op gaat komen voor zijn integriteit in tegenstelling tot Feinberg naar eigen zeggen, acht ik een stuk kleiner dan wanneer een verslaggever al wat naam heeft kunnen maken.

Wat ik zei over nep nieuws neem ik terug. Mea culpa. Hoewel ik wel van mening ben dat het hele Seth Rich verhaal inderdaad nepnieuws is, is een dergelijke oproep hier niet op zijn plaats.

Op vrijdag 4 augustus 2017 17:32 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:
Ik wil er even bedankje uitsturen voor de reacties op mijn vraag.

Voor wat het waard is denk ik dat het uit zal lopen op een settlement met geheimhoudingsclausule, omdat Fox News zich absoluut geen schuldigverklaring kan veroorloven. Ik vermoed dus dat we publiekelijk nooit tot de bodem zullen komen, helaas. Om in te gaan op je punten:

Als ik vraag om een bron waar je OAN schrijft, dan bedoel ik niet te zeggen dat je het uit je duim gezogen hebt oid, maar dat ik gewoon graag een concrete link zou willen. That's it, niks meer, niks minder. Evenzo voor de vraag bij wat je stelde over Fox News; niet omdat ik het per se betwijfel, maar omdat ik het graag even na wil kunnen lezen.

Het is denk ik btw wel goed om een kanttekening te maken mbt OAN. Die zijn mee gegaan in de hele Seth Rich conspiracy door nota bene tipgeld te beloven, wat me politiek gemotiveerd lijkt en hen in een wat lastige positie brengt... ik heb niet de indruk dat ze hier neutraal in staan.

De leeftijd van de verslaggever vind ik in dit geval wel een punt van aandacht. Iemand van 20 zal net van school af zijn gekomen. Ik vind het raar dat je zo iemand dan meteen op een dergelijk belangrijke positie zet, maar los van wat ik raar vind, is zo iemand denk ik sneller geneigd om zich te laten zeggen wat te rapporteren. Daarbij heeft hij geen historie. We weten niks over zijn betrouwbaarheid.

Neem bijvoorbeeld dit verhaal: Reporter says ‘Russian propaganda outlet’ pushed him to cover conspiracy theory at the center of a White House lawsuit. De kans dat iemand van 20 op gaat komen voor zijn integriteit in tegenstelling tot Feinberg naar eigen zeggen, acht ik een stuk kleiner dan wanneer een verslaggever al wat naam heeft kunnen maken.

Wat ik zei over nep nieuws neem ik terug. Mea culpa. Hoewel ik wel van mening ben dat het hele Seth Rich verhaal inderdaad nepnieuws is, is een dergelijke oproep hier niet op zijn plaats.

“I believe that I did the right thing, and I would do it again,” Wasserman Schultz said Thursday in an exclusive interview with the Sun Sentinel. “There are times when you can’t be afraid to stand alone, and you have to stand up for what’s right.

“It would have been easier for me to just fire him,” she said

Instead of firing him, Wasserman Schultz said her office worked with the House chief administration officer to develop a job description that “would allow him to continue to do work … until such time as there were other charges brought or we had some evidence that there was something that was produced that warranted further action.”

Even without access to the IT network, Wasserman Schultz said, “there are plenty of technological issues that an IT person can assist with. He didn’t have access to the network, but he was able to give us guidance and advice and troubleshoot on a wide variety of other technological issues.”

“I had grave concerns about his due process rights being violated,” she said. “When their investigation was reviewed with me, I was presented with no evidence of anything that they were being investigated for. And so that, in me, gave me great concern that his due process rights were being violated. That there were racial and ethnic profiling concerns that I had,” she said.

.A law enforcement official familiar with the case said after Awan’s arrest there was no evidence of anything beyond the mortgage fraud for which he was charged and no indications of intelligence or national security implications. Because this is a pending case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington said it wouldn’t have any comment beyond the federal complaint.

Instead, Wasserman Schultz said, it involved “transferring data outside the secure network, which I think amounted to use of apps that the House didn’t find compliant with our security requirements.”

She said the laptop in question was issued by her office to Awan. “He accidentally left it somewhere,” a loss Wasserman Schultz said was reported to the Capitol Police. When the Capitol Police recovered the laptop, the agency wanted to search its contents.

She said she has agreed to allow the police to examine the laptop and wasn’t attempting to hide anything. “This was not my laptop. I have never seen that laptop. I don’t know what’s on the laptop,” she said.

Wasserman Schultz said the Awan case is getting so much attention from conservative media outlets because they’re attempting to distract people from the investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. “Any opportunity they can to pull people’s eyes and ears away from that they take.”

Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz pressured officials at Congressional Federal Credit Union to write a loan to a husband and wife from Pakistan now charged and accused of bank fraud, according to federal law enforcement sources.

According to FBI sources familiar with the criminal case, Congressional Federal Credit Union officials were hesitant to write the couple the loan because underwriters flagged portions of the Awan’s application as problematic and risk loaded. That was until Wasserman Schultz is believed to have made overtures to the federally-backed credit union to vouch for Awan and his spouse. FBI sources said the home equity credit line was approved despite the red flags, namely: The Awans rented the home linked to the loan application, but the FBI said the bank does not extend home equity lines to rental properties. The Awans never told the bank it was a rental property, the FBI said.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has requested copies of immigration files for the six Pakistani suspects in the House IT scandal, who allegedly stole equipment from Congress and accessed computers without permission.

“In light of the alleged illegal activity, the committee seeks to better understand Awan and his associates’ immigration histories,” Grassley said in an August 4 letter to Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Elaine Duke. The letter was made public by the committee Monday.

Imran Awan retained Chris Gowen as his defense attorney. Gowen is a long-time associate of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

There has been a long effort to counter the official narrative we now call “Russiagate.” This effort has so far focused on the key events noted above, leaving numerous others still to be addressed. Until recently, researchers undertaking this work faced critical shortcomings, and these are to be explained. But they have achieved significant new momentum in the past several weeks, and what they have done now yields very consequential fruit. Forensic investigators, intelligence analysts, system designers, program architects, and computer scientists of long experience and strongly credentialed are now producing evidence disproving the official version of key events last year. Their work is intricate and continues at a kinetic pace as we speak. But its certain results so far are two, simply stated, and freighted with implications:

There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system. This casts serious doubt on the initial “hack,” as alleged, that led to the very consequential publication of a large store of documents on WikiLeaks last summer.

Forensic investigations of documents made public two weeks prior to the July 5 leak by the person or entity known as Guccifer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent: Before Guccifer posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language. Guccifer took responsibility on June 15 for an intrusion the DNC reported on June 14 and professed to be a WikiLeaks source—claims essential to the official narrative implicating Russia in what was soon cast as an extensive hacking operation. To put the point simply, forensic science now devastates this narrative.

On August 9, the Nation finally covered a report from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) — a 30 member group made up of well respected former experts from the National Security Agency (NSA), tech companies, and other intelligence agencies.

The report from VIPS states that “forensic studies of ‘Russian hacking’ into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2016, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to a DNC computer. After examining metadata from the ‘Guccifer 2.0’ July 5, 2016 intrusion into the DNC server, independent cyber investigators have concluded that an insider copied DNC data onto an external storage device.”

“With all the billions of dollars we spend on this collection access system that the NSA has, there’s no way that could have missed all the packets being transferred from those servers to the Russians,” Binney told Sputnik News for my report at the outlet in December. “I mean, they should know exactly how and when those packets left those servers and went to the Russians, and where specifically in Russia it went. There’s no excuse for not knowing that.”

Some members of the Democratic National Committee have former DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in their sights, and it all seems to be a result of her fired — and arrested — former IT aide, Imran Awan.

The lawsuit doesn’t allege anything wrong with the Aug. 30 primary, which Canova lost to Wasserman Schultz 57 percent to 43 percent. In Broward, which makes up most of the 23rd Congressional District, Wasserman Schultz received 26,608 votes and Canova got 20,504. She won the Miami-Dade County part of the district, 2,201 to 1,403.

Canova couldn’t be reached by voicemail or text message on Thursday. But in the months after the 2016 primary, Canova suggested on Twitter, on Facebook and in person, that he might not really have lost.

On Twitter, he wrote: “Independent statistical analysis: results of my primary vs @DWStweets are ‘mathematically improbable.’ Manipulated?”

Beranton J. Whisenant Jr.’s death was ruled a suicide Thursday, months after the federal prosecutor’s body was found washed up on a Hollywood beach shore in former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s congressional district.

Whisenant worked in the major crimes division for the US Attorney’s Office in Miami investigating visa and passport fraud, reports the Associated Press, and his death came as a shock to colleagues.

The federal prosecutor’s death occurred in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, represented by former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Disobedient Media’s previous coverage of the suit discussed the case being relatively weak. If misquotation or false quotation were proven to have occurred, it would still be unlikely to legally prove that defamation had occurred.

Many of the claims made in Wheeler’s suit have been brought into serious question. On the day the suit was filed, Big League Politics investigative journalist Cassandra Fairbanks released two audio tapes; one with legendary, pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh referencing Seth Rich as the source of Wikileaks’ DNC email publication. The other audio clip contained a recorded conversation where Wheeler appeared to support the information attributed to him in the initial Fox story.

Further questions regarding Wheeler’s suit were raised after his appearance on MSNBC where he contradicted significant elements of the defamation suit against Fox. During the interview, Wheeler stated that he did not know for a fact if President Trump knew about the Fox story, which fundamentally contradicts Wheeler’s previous allegations that the Trump administration had participated in orchestrating Fox’s story.

Adding to controversy surrounding the case, Consortium News reported that pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh confirmed that audio files released by Cassandra Fairbanks were legitimate. Hersh told Consortium that the tape in question was “made without his permission” when he quoted an unnamed government source who stated Seth Rich had offered the DNC emails to WikiLeaks in exchange for money.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who is friendly to Russia and chairs an important House subcommittee on Eurasia policy, became the first American congressman to meet with Assange during a three-hour private gathering at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up for years,

Rohrabacher recounted his conversation with Assange to The Hill.

“Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC emails during last year's presidential election,” Rohrabacher said, “Julian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.

“Julian also indicated that he is open to further discussions regarding specific information about the DNC email incident that is currently unknown to the public,” he added.

“Julian passionately argued the case that WikiLeaks was vital to informing the public about controversial though necessary issues. He hoped that Wikileaks — an award winning journalistic operation — might be granted a seat in the White House press corps. As a former newsman myself I can't see a reason why they shouldn't be granted news status for official press conferences,” he said.

As for other information to be given to the president, Rohrabacher said: “We left with the understanding that we would be going into further details in the near future. The rest of the message is for the president directly and I hope to convey it to him as more details come in.”

The congressman told TheDC that “if [Assange] is going to give us a big favor, he would obviously have to be pardoned to leave the Ecuadorian embassy.”

“He has information that will be of dramatic importance to the United States and the people of our country as well as to our government,” Rohrabacher said. “Thus if he comes up with that, you know he’s going to expect something in return. He can’t even leave the embassy to get out to Washington to talk to anybody if he doesn’t have a pardon. Obviously there is an issue there that needs to be dealt with, but we haven’t come to any conclusion yet.”

Rohrabacher has been maligned by opponents for being too favorable to the Russian government, and was called “Putin’s favorite congressman” by Politico. He told TheDC that these attacks are due to people’s efforts to “obscure information that would be damaging to their political positions.”

“They can’t fool the American people all the time, especially if there’s some dramatic information that would expose this monstrous fraud that has been perpetrated on the American people and thus undermining an elected president and his ability to take the responsibility given to him by the voters,” Rohrabacher stated.

Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was indicted Thursday on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements.

The indictment also includes his wife Hina Alvi.

The grand jury decision in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia comes roughly a month after Awan was arrested at Dulles airport in Virginia trying to board a plane to Pakistan, where his family is from.

Awan and other IT aides for House Democrats have been on investigators’ radar for months over concerns of possible double-billing, alleged equipment theft, and access to sensitive computer systems. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February, but Schultz had kept him on until his arrest in July.

The indictment itself, which merely represents formal charges and is not a finding of guilt, addresses separate allegations that Awan and his wife engaged in a conspiracy to obtain home equity lines of credit from the Congressional Federal Credit Union by giving false information about two properties – and then sending the proceeds to individuals in Pakistan.

Op woensdag 2 augustus 2017 19:00 schreef dellipder het volgende:

Wasserman Schultz admits she has breached network security.

Dit in relatie tot Wikileaks die het password heeft van Seth Rich's Dropbox

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--Seymour Hersh

Over de rechtszaak tegen Zimmerman, Butowsky en Fox de kern van de zaak:

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In de audio legt Rod Wheeler echter uit dat hij Fox News alleen benaderde.
Hij benoemd op geen enkele manier dat het Witte Huis betrokken zou zijn geweest.

Tegenreactie van Ed Butowsky

Ed Butowsky Refutes Wheeler Lawsuit, Clears Trump of Any Russian Collusion

Ziet er niet goed uit voor de rechtszaak van Wheeler, in mijn beleving.

twitter:
CassandraRules twitterde op woensdag 02-08-2017 om 06:08:09 Seth Rich Police Detective: PD Gave 'Strict, Strict Rules,' If I Talk I'll Get 'Re-Assigned' - cc @wikileaks https://t.co/3qktWHsnRn reageer retweet

Heel apart dit verhaal. Misschien een vervolg.

Ruwe transcript Seymour Hersh over Seth Rich aangeboden via CassandraRules:

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Op dinsdag 9 augustus 2016 18:50 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:

twitter:
wikileaks twitterde op dinsdag 09-08-2016 om 17:58:37 ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks has decided to issue a US$20k reward for information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. reageer retweet

Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 09:19 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:

Dat deden ze niet zomaar.

http://www.nbcwashington.(...)st-DC-386316391.html

http://forward.com/news/n(...)-rich-10-days-later/

Waar rook is, is vuur.

Tijd voor nog een pakket sancties richting Rusland ook al is dat hele verhaal over Russische inmenging een 'nothingburger, but it attracts viewers'.
De VS is heilig

A federal grand jury Thursday indicted two former information technology (IT) aides of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — Pakistani-born Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi — on four counts of conspiracy in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“Defendants AWAN and ALVI did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly conspire, combine, confederate, and agree with each other to commit offenses against the United States,” including bank fraud, false statements, and unlawful monetary transactions, the indictment said.

An arraignment date has not yet been set, and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s question about when Hina Alvi would become a fugitive if she does not return to the U.S. voluntarily, or whether officials would seek to extradite her from Pakistan.

Christopher Gowen, founding partner of Gowen Rhoades Winograd & Silva, who has represented Awan, said by email Thursday evening that “we are confused as to why the government elected to prosecute such a minor case when it declines to prosecute hundreds of cases a month far more serious than these charges.”

Gowen criticized conservative media outlets that have been fueling the story. “Today’s indictment shows the right-wing media’s severe lack of credibility. Throughout the past two weeks, right-wing media including Fox News reported illegal activity committed by my client in relation to his dedicated service to the United States House of Representatives. Today, it is quite clear that every last one of those reports were utterly false. We look forward to reading the right-wing media’s retractions,” Gowen said.

Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say

Investigators now suspect that sensitive US government data — possibly including classified information — could have been compromised and may have been sold to hostile foreign governments that could use it to blackmail members of Congress or even put their lives at risk.

“This is a massive, massive scandal,” a senior US official familiar with the widening probe told The Post

During the probe, investigators found valuable government data that is believed to have been taken from the network and placed on offsite servers, setting off more alarms. Some 80 offices were potentially compromised.

“These lawmakers allowed an insider threat to come into the House,” the official charged. “Computer equipment was stolen, taxpayers were robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and sensitive data was compromised and possibly sold overseas.”

Now that prosecutors have Awan hung up on the fraud charges, they will try to squeeze him harder in the larger cyberespionage investigation, according to the US official, who expects additional charges and arrests in the case.

Awan had access to Wasserman Schultz’s e-mails at both Congress and the DNC, where he had been given the password to her iPad. After DNC e-mails and research files were stolen during the presidential election, Wasserman Schultz reportedly refused to turn over the server to the FBI and instead called in a private firm to investigate and ID the hackers. The firm blamed the Russian government, while admitting, “We don’t have hard evidence.” The corrupted DNC server, held in storage, still has not been examined by the FBI.

Wasserman Schultz denies the DNC turned down the FBI’s assistance or that her congressional or DNC e-mails were compromised by Awan.

“This whole investigation pivots off Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” the official said.

“It’s clear that large bytes of data were moved off the secure network,” said another source close to the investigation, adding that Awan and the other four staffers under investigation had “full and complete access” to lawmakers’ e-mails, calendars, schedules, hearing notes, meeting notes and memos and other sensitive information.

U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements it used to buttress claims of Russian hacking during last year’s American presidential election campaign. The shift followed a VOA report that the company misrepresented data published by an influential British think tank.

In December, CrowdStrike said it found evidence that Russians hacked into a Ukrainian artillery app, contributing to heavy losses of howitzers in Ukraine’s war with pro-Russian separatists.

VOA reported Tuesday that the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which publishes an annual reference estimating the strength of world armed forces, disavowed the CrowdStrike report and said it had never been contacted by the company.

CrowdStrike was first to link hacks of Democratic Party computers to Russian actors last year, but some cybersecurity experts have questioned its evidence. The company has come under fire from some Republicans who say charges of Kremlin meddling in the election are overblown.

After CrowdStrike released its Ukraine report, company co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch claimed it provided added evidence of Russian election interference. In both hacks, he said, the company found malware used by “Fancy Bear,” a group with ties to Russian intelligence agencies.

CrowdStrike’s claims of heavy Ukrainian artillery losses were widely circulated in U.S. media.

On Thursday, CrowdStrike walked back key parts of its Ukraine report.

The company removed language that said Ukraine’s artillery lost 80 percent of the Soviet-era D-30 howitzers, which used aiming software that purportedly was hacked. Instead, the revised report cites figures of 15 to 20 percent losses in combat operations, attributing the figures to IISS.

Finally, CrowdStrike deleted a statement saying “deployment of this malware-infected application may have contributed to the high-loss nature of this platform” — meaning the howitzers — and excised a link sourcing its IISS data to a blogger in Russia-occupied Crimea.

In an email, CrowdStrike spokeswoman Ilina Dmitrova said the new estimates of Ukrainian artillery losses resulted from conversations with Henry Boyd, an IISS research associate for defense and military analysis. She declined to say what prompted the contact.

Dmitrova noted that the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community have also concluded that Russia was behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.

A chief of staff of Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke quietly agreed in early 2016 to sign away a $120,000 missing electronics problem on behalf of two former IT aides now suspected of stealing equipment from Congress, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Clarke’s chief of staff at the time effectively dismissed the loss and prevented it from coming up in future audits by signing a form removing the missing equipment from a House-wide tracking system after one of the Awan brothers alerted the office the equipment was gone.