Imran Awan tried to leave the country and Feds/USCP picked him up at Dulles Airport.

This is interesting:

Soon after Imran Awan joined the staff of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2005, his brothers Abid and Jamal, his wife Hina, and his brother’s wife Natalia all appeared on other members’ payrolls, supposedly as IT administrators. His best friend Rao Abbas landed on the payroll too. Most of them made salaries ordinarily only chiefs of staff earn, but they were rarely seen or heard from in Hill IT circles.
...
Deutch, meanwhile, had Natalia — who is from Ukraine, while the others are Pakistani — as his IT person in 2011.

dailycaller.com

So many of the Dems had foreign nationals (and apparently their spouses) working as their IT staff, but they were never seen other than as names on a payroll report.

Good gravy.

Awan's attorney, Chris Gowen, said his client is the victim of a right-wing media conspiracy.

"This is clearly a right-wing media-driven prosecution by a United States Attorney's Office that wants to prosecute people for working while Muslim," Gowen said. "A quick glance at what the government filed in court today confirms the lack of evidence or proof they have against my client."

This is what UPI is reporting.

Right wing Islamophobia... obviously.

a reply to: butcherguy

To your post:

Imran boasted unusual clout among House Democrats, and was even pictured conversing with former President Bill Clinton.

After Rao Abbas, who was owed money by the dealership, threatened to sue amid allegations of deception and theft, Abbas appeared on the congressional payroll and received $250,000 in taxpayer payments.

dailycaller.com...

originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: IAMTAT

Rao R Abbas Information Technology, Rep. Theodore Deutch (D-FL21)

Rao R Abbas, a current staffer, earned an estimated salary of $93,151 USD as an Information Technology through the most recent House pay period. This was close to the median for a House IT administrator.

Abbas has been employed in Congress since Q4 '12, and has also been a staffer for Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO5), Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD3), Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY14), and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA8).

insidegove.com

And

Imran boasted unusual clout among House Democrats, and was even pictured conversing with former President Bill Clinton. After Rao Abbas, who was owed money by the dealership, threatened to sue amid allegations of deception and theft, Abbas appeared on the congressional payroll and received $250,000 in taxpayer payments.

Despite numerous family members making $160,000 congressional salaries, debts went unpaid by the brothers, including to the Congressional Federal Credit Union.

frontpagemag.com

But...Russia!

Is that right?

 

And here is Rao's YouTube channel. Anyone read or speak Arabic?

Kind of wondering if these guys had a ton on many of the dems. Them being tied to the email leak would make sense too.

So here's a theory....these guys have been working behind the scenes gathering information for a decade all for the purpose of blackmail. They finally get to the point where they have enough and begin the operation to actually blackmail those they have dirt on. They tell them they want money or else they'll go public.

Those they tell don't believe them and call them on it, so they release the DNC emails just to prove it and show just how big of an impact what they have will make, but that stuff wasn't the real dirty secrets.

So the DNC has to cover this by not allowing the Intel Agencies any access to their server as they would be able to tell that these guys had accessed the info and they certainly don't want any of it hitting the Intel community. So they hire Crowdstrike to formulate a plan using software from our own government to cover everything up by injecting the Russian code into the "hack.

Trouble is the data was pulled to quickly from the server to have been anything but a local attached drive....so no Russians.

Fast forward....these guys are getting paid to do nothing except NOT release anymore information. Everyone who lived near them says they were always home....never working yet they had houses and cars and whatnot...

Now that the story has begun to unravel, they start flipping out and running. Unfortunately Imran gets caught....after trying to destroy computer hardware which likely has much of what was stolen on it.

The DNC is now unravelling because of this as well, since those that know what they Awans had now know he's in custody and the information is still out there.

All of this having been an ongoing plan for a while now in the GoP....long game.

Looking forward to seeing if anything begins to get reported, or if any narratives begin to get dropped quickly.

originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
This is interesting:

Soon after Imran Awan joined the staff of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2005, his brothers Abid and Jamal, his wife Hina, and his brother’s wife Natalia all appeared on other members’ payrolls, supposedly as IT administrators. His best friend Rao Abbas landed on the payroll too. Most of them made salaries ordinarily only chiefs of staff earn, but they were rarely seen or heard from in Hill IT circles.
...
Deutch, meanwhile, had Natalia — who is from Ukraine, while the others are Pakistani — as his IT person in 2011.

dailycaller.com

So many of the Dems had foreign nationals (and apparently their spouses) working as their IT staff, but they were never seen other than as names on a payroll report.

LOL....how funny would it be if it turns up that Natalia is the same as from FusionGPS.....I may crap a brick if that happens.

Wasn't there a picture posted somewhere of an email from a CIA OP that was captioned "Natalias House"?

Nasir Khattak is another POI associated with the Awans:
www.linkedin.com...

In addition to his other jobs, Imran is a real estate agent, and Khattak is also a realtor who obtained the cash from Al-Attar and passed it through bank accounts used for real estate deals in Fairfax County, Va.

dailycaller.com...

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Yeah, that's what I thought as soon as I saw that name. It is highly unlikely though, but funny to consider nonetheless.

As to the theory you posit in the response prior, that is very plausible and certainly could have gone down that way.

In any case, this will be fascinating to watch unfold.

According to Legistorm
Rao Abbas was on the Congressional staffer payroll until the end of February 2017.

originally posted by: Vasa Croe

originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
This is interesting:

Soon after Imran Awan joined the staff of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2005, his brothers Abid and Jamal, his wife Hina, and his brother’s wife Natalia all appeared on other members’ payrolls, supposedly as IT administrators. His best friend Rao Abbas landed on the payroll too. Most of them made salaries ordinarily only chiefs of staff earn, but they were rarely seen or heard from in Hill IT circles.
...
Deutch, meanwhile, had Natalia — who is from Ukraine, while the others are Pakistani — as his IT person in 2011.

dailycaller.com

So many of the Dems had foreign nationals (and apparently their spouses) working as their IT staff, but they were never seen other than as names on a payroll report.

LOL....how funny would it be if it turns up that Natalia is the same as from FusionGPS.....I may crap a brick if that happens.

Wasn't there a picture posted somewhere of an email from a CIA OP that was captioned "Natalias House"?

If i recall it correctly then the Awan borthers were never mentioned. I think i would've picked up on it when i read certain emails. To be fair Natalia is also a common name in the Ukraine but it is an interesting theory. If this is connected to Seth Rich in any way oh boy. Maybe we should look at the double homicide that occured shortly after he was killed again.

Keep it up ladies and gentlemen. This is what ATS is all about. Researching and investigating every possible lead together.

a reply to: IAMTAT

Riffing off that:

NASIR KHATTAK is the Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board of the Climate Institute, which is a Washington DC based non-government organization established in 1986. Since 1998, Mr. Khattak has held a number of technical and management positions, and as Director of International Programs has worked on sustainable energy and environmental programs and projects of the Institute in over 20 countries around the world. He is also leading the Institute’s programs and offices in the Middle East and South Asia region.

Mr. Khattak has organized numerous special events at the United Nations Conferences and participated in many international events on Climate Change and renewable energy. He is also coordinating the VISION 20/30 initiative for Small Island Developing States, which is one of the High Impact Initiative recognized by the UN Secretary General’s initiative of Sustainable Energy for All. He helped establish the Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative in 2000 as a consortium of international organizations, to assist the small island states of the Caribbean and the Pacific in their energy transformation efforts, including development of national sustainable energy plans and the supporting of the implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

Mr. Khattak has a Master’s degree in Environmental and Energy Management from George Washington University, Washington DC, and a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Law & Political Science from Peshawar, Pakistan.

climate.org

And, wouldn't you know it:

Partner(s) of the Commitment Maker(s)
Climate Institute, Washington, D.C., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Clinton Foundation .org



All of this seems to be in reference to a different Nasir Khattak

THIS name:
Muhammad Tufail

has come up excessively connected in searches of Linkdin for Nasir Khattak.

Is THIS the same man? If so,....wow!
en.wikipedia.org...(politician)

a reply to: jadedANDcynical

I found another Linkdin profile for the same name (Washington DC), which I switched out for the other in my previous post on this.

Why am i not surprised...

The attorney for a prominent Democratic congressional employee at the center of a major criminal investigation has deep ties to the Clinton machine in Washington.

Attorney Chris Gowen is serving as the lawyer for Imran Awan, a Pakistani-American IT professional who was apprehended at Dulles Airport this week as he reportedly attempted to leave the country for Pakistan.

Gowen’s past includes several stints in the Clinton machine’s orbit. He began his legal life as a public defender but left that job for the Bill Clinton White House. At the time, he also worked for then-Senator Hillary Clinton. Years later, he jumped on board Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, directing advance operations there, according to his biography from his law firm, Gowen Rhoades Winograd & Silva, PLLC. In another bio page, Gowen states he has consulted with former Democratic presidential contenders John Kerry and John Edwards.

Full story here

originally posted by: IAMTAT
THIS name:
Muhammad Tufail

has come up excessively connected in searches of Linkdin for Nasir Khattak.

Is THIS the same man? If so,....wow!
en.wikipedia.org...(politician)

SO F'ing Strange.
Within the past 5 minutes, the wikipedia page on Muhammad Tufail was edited.
en.wikipedia.org...

FORTUNATELY, I still had the page up...and captured it.

Muhammad Tufail (politician) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chaudhary Muhammad Tufail MNA Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan Incumbent Assumed office 29 September 2016 Personal details Nationality Pakistani Political party Pakistan Muslim League (N) Chaudhary Muhammad Tufail (Urdu: چوہدری محمد طفیل‎) is a Pakistani politician who is currently a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League (N). Political career[edit] He is ex-tehsil nazim of Chichawatni.[1] Tufail ran for the sear of National Assembly on a ticket of Pakistan Muslim League (N) from NA-162 (Sahiwal) in Pakistani general election, 2013 but was unsuccessful.[2][3] He was elected as the member of the National Assembly on a ticket of Pakistan Muslim League (N) from NA-162 (Sahiwal) in by elections held in September 2016.[4][5][6][7] The seat was became vacant after Rai Hassan Nawaz who won it in 2013 election, was disqualified to continue in office because of inaccurate assets declaration.[8]

a reply to: IAMTAT

Ok, so which NASIR KHATTAK is the right one?

The one in your second post or the one in the first?

originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: IAMTAT

Ok, so which NASIR KHATTAK is the right one?

The one in your second post or the one in the first?

I'm guessing the Realtor one...but not sure.

a reply to: jadedANDcynical

Did you see the Muhammad Tufail posts above?
THIS could be a Pakistani government connection to these guys.

Regarding the "smashed" hard drives, while scanning articles on WRH last night (or the night before) I found an article that stated that the hard drives, when recovered, were intact, but that when handed over by the capital / DC police to the FBI were in a damaged state. If true, that in itself should be worthy of a whole new investigation into the chain of evidence and evidence tampering!

I am working tonight but if I get some time I'll see if I can find the report.

What worries me is that the Awan brothers had unrestricted access to a lot of sensitive and probably classified information. They even knew nearly all the passwords of every person they worked for. Is that a common procedure btw?

a reply to: IAMTAT

That is strange, here is the google cache page of that entry:

webcache.googleusercontent.com...:UBvIsHVxLlYJ:en.wikipedia.org...(politician)+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl= us

This probaby won't show up properly in the post, but if you quote this post it should let you see the entire url.

Archive.is page for the entry.