US Department of Justice Tells Judicial Watch it Can’t Produce Documents on Imran Awan Due to “Technical Difficulties”


Imran Awan and his two Pakistani brothers were paid millions of dollars for managing the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials. They were relieved of their duties in February 2017 on suspicion they hacked networks that contained classified information. Even though the DOJ agreed not to prosecute Imran Awan in 2017, Judicial Watch pressed forward and filed multiple Freedom of Information requests for the investigation records on the Awans and for FBI communications involving the Awan case. The DOJ said it would begin producing the records in November, 2019, but now says it cannot do so due to “technical difficulties”. -GEG

 

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is not letting the Imran Awan Democrat IT scandal go.

Judicial Watch filed multiple FOIA lawsuits seeking documents related to the Imran Awan Democrat IT scandal and a federal court ordered a hearing for this Friday, December 13 on the Awan brothers!

 

Imran and his two Pakistani brothers were paid millions of dollars for managing the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials. They were relieved of their duties in February 2017 on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking.

Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives in February 2017.

In July of 2018, the DOJ agreed NOT to prosecute Imran Awan, but Judicial Watch kept pressing forward with its lawsuits in its pursuit of bringing this criminal cabal to justice.

The Justice Department however is claiming it cannot produce the requested documents due to “technical difficulties.”

 

JW’s lawsuit also revealed there is a “related sealed criminal matter.”

Judicial Watch’s first request, filed on May 26, 2017, sought:

  • All records related to any investigations or preliminary investigations involving former congressional IT support staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, and Hina R. Alvi. As part of this request, searches should of records [sic] should include, but not be limited to, the FBI automated indices, its older manual indices, and its Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) Data Management System (EDMS), as well as cross-referenced files.
  • All records of communication sent to or from FBI employees, officials or contractors involving the subjects in bullet item 1.

The timeframe for the requested records is May 2015 to the present.

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Jewish Activists Shut Down Border Patrol Facility In San Diego, Demand Illegals Be Given Flu Shots


Jewish activists from the group “Never Again Action” shut down a San Diego Border Patrol facility to demand illegal aliens detained there be given flu shots. It has been reported that several children in the facility recently have died, although the cause of death may have been from causes other than the flu. Many children are very ill when they arrive, and there are many other possible causes, such as infections and malnutrition. [It is ironic that these demonstrators are unaware that there is growing evidence that vaccines of all kinds, including flue shots, cause more harm than good.] -GEG

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BREAKING: Doctors, Jews & allies are risking arrest, blocking Border Patrol HQ in San Diego.

We’re here to demand that CBP allow doctors in to give FREE flu vaccines to immigrants who are getting sick and DYING in their custody.

Donate to the bail fund: http://NeverAgainAction.com/bail 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/10/us-immigration-detained-children-flu-shots




Portland Plans to Force New Construction Sites to Include ‘Rest Spaces’ for Homeless People

Portland’s “planning and sustainability commission,” which writes and enforces the city’s building codes, approved a new rule that would require new construction to feature “opportunities to rest and be welcome” for those who do not number among that building’s residents or customers. One member of Portland’s planning and sustainability commission confirmed that the goal is to benefit homeless people. Inviting the homeless to rest is inviting them to squat. Once squatting takes place, claims to ownership will follow, based on long-held norms that property is possession. An estimated 34% of Portlanders want to leave the city due to the homeless problem.

To ensure that homeless “campers” have all the comforts they need, the very woke blue city of Portland is preparing a regulation to require all new homeowners to provide “rest spaces” for the homeless.

According to the Daily Wire:

The city’s “planning and sustainability commission,” which writes and enforces the city’s building codes, approved a change to building guidelines in November that would require new constuction [sic] to feature “opportunities to rest and be welcome” for those who do not number among that building’s residents or customers.

The requirement can be read a number of ways, but at least one member of the Portland planning and sustainability commission was clear to local reporters that the requirement is to the benefit of the city’s “unhoused,” who are often kicked off of private property for loitering, sleeping, or camping — as is (typically) a private property owner’s right.

“Just one of the realities of Portland right now is that we have a lot of folks who are unhoused who benefit from some of these spaces that provide weather protection,” she said when introducing the idea at a recent meeting.

Problem one is that this is an expropriation of private property.  Inviting the homeless in to “rest” is inviting the homeless in to squat.  And once squatting takes place, claims to ownership can follow, based on long held norms that property is possession.  Too bad about the people who actually paid for the property.

Problem two is that it’s pretty insulting to the homeless.  Instead of the city providing them with the housing and drug treatment many require, they get these private “rest spots” instead. 

It’s also supremely ignorant of who the homeless are and what homeless dynamics are.  Some homeless people are temporarily down on their luck.  Some are driven to living in their cars based on NIMBY environmental regulations and high housing costs that don’t jibe with their earnings.  Those are people who can be helped in far more dignified ways than “rest spots” on private property.

There are also “lifestyle” homeless, who have chronic drug, mental health, and drug-linked mental health issues who are very difficult to help because they won’t accept help.  Typically, they gather around a drug dealer and set up camp.  The rest spots can be new camps.  And once in, they can be fiercely territorial.  The new “rest spots” are likely to become battle grounds as these homeless seek to stake out new territory on private property.  Sound like a place to build some new construction in?  Lucky owners.

It almost sounds as if Portland’s insanely blue government is attempting to deputize the private sector to take on some of the city’s abundant homeless population in a bid to reduce stress on public spaces.

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