Judicial Watch: Federal Court Hearing on Awan Brothers, Congressional Democrat IT Scandal

Former Democrat IT staffer Imran Awan allegedly leaked secret data from House offices to a secret server and Dropbox.com

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court ordered a hearing for Friday, December 13, 2019, on the Congressional Democrat IT (information technology) scandal involving the Awan brothers. The hearing was ordered in accordance with a November 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, which was filed after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to respond adequately to two separate FOIA requests (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02563)).

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.

Judicial Watch’s second request, submitted on July 3, 2018, sought:

All records related to any investigations or preliminary investigations involving former congressional IT support staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, Hina R. Alvi and Rao Abbas. As part of this request, searches of records 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 communications, including but not limited to emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text messages, instant chats or messages on the Lync system, sent to or from FBI employees, officials or contractors involving the Awan brothers, Ms. Alvi and Mr. Abbas. Records of communications searched should include but not be limited to those between FBI officials, employees and contractors and officials with the Capitol Police, the Office of the Inspector General of the House, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of the House.

In August 2019, the DOJ told the court that it would begin producing records by November 5, 2019. After producing no records, on November 13, 2019 the agency told Judicial Watch that it was having “technical difficulties,” and in a recent email claimed that “difficulties with the production remain.” In a joint status report filed on December 5, 2019, Judicial Watch reported to the court that the DOJ claimed in a phone call that it was now unable to produce any records to either of the FOIA requests “because the agency was waiting for some unspecified action by Judge [Tanya S.] Chutkan in some other matter so as to avoid having to produce records in this case.” In that same report the DOJ told the court that Judge Chutkan is “presiding over a related sealed criminal matter” that prohibits the government from releasing the requested FOIA information. [Emphasis added]

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-federal-court-hearing-on-awan-brothers-congressional-democrat-it-scandal/

JW v DOJ Awan Status Report 02563

https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-doj-awan-status-report-02563/

>>7486051

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Biden Privately Told Aides He’ll Only Serve One Term

Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden reportedly told aides that he plans to only serve one term if elected in 2020. Four anonymous sources close to the Biden campaign told Politico that it is "virtually inconceivable" that the 77-year-old former vice president would seek a second term in the 2024 election. "If Biden is elected," one campaign adviser said, "he's going to be 82 years old in four years and he won't be running for reelection." The sources told Politico that the former vice president has ruled out publicly promising to only serve one term, calling an open declaration a "nonstarter" and a "gimmick." Instead, Biden plans on "quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise."

That reporting matches what Biden himself told the Associated Press in October when asked if he would commit to a single term. "I feel good and all I can say is, watch me, you'll see," he said. "It doesn't mean I would run a second term. I'm not going to make that judgment at this moment." The Politico report comes four years after CNN's Carl Bernstein reported that Biden was considering making a single-term pledge if he entered the 2016 race. "One thing that I keep hearing about Biden is that if he were to declare and say, because age is such a problem for him if he does, I want to be a one-term president," Bernstein said. Republican presidential candidates Bob Dole and John McCain both considered making the pledge to assuage concerns about their age, though neither ultimately made such a decision.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-privately-told-aides-hell-only-serve-one-term/

>>7486220

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>>7486373

Thanks anon, do that, no improvement, sorry to say..weird, this is not an issue on other boards similar to this one.