So it looks like there are more "smashed hard drives" making their way around DNC land before FBI investigates them

Disputed facts = Fake News wrote:

Hmm, now Breit Bart says only $165000...

“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.”

Agreed. If you read the charging documents, in #28 he bought a RETURN plane ticket. Why would he do that if he didn't plan to return to USA? This is proof that he's not running from the law.

Same too with Alvi. She is scheduled to return to USA on her return ticket in September.

Gowen says the federal bank fraud count stems from a “modest real estate matter” and is motivated by anti-Muslim bigotry. He’s confident Awan “will soon be able to clear his name and get on with his life.”

Abid Awan filed for bankruptcy in 2012, listing $1 million in liabilities. Employers typically don’t allow people with money problems to have access to sensitive information, because the financial pressures can cause them to misuse it.

As the IT employees who set up user accounts, they had superuser privileges and could read any emails and files saved on the computers of House members’ offices.

DNC Assistant to the Chair Amy Kroll responded: “I do not have access to her ipad password, but Imran does.”

Donna Brazile initially claimed after the emails became public that they were fabricated, then switched explanations and said the Russians stole them.

DWS spokesman David Damron did not respond to questions about whether the stolen emails might have come from Imran. Damron also declined to respond when asked if DWS has stronger evidence the theft was committed by a Russian.

Computer security experts say the most common threat comes from someone abusing a position of trust, trusting the wrong person or a perpetrator manipulating someone using “social engineering” to gain access; all such explanations defy the prevalent stereotype of distant strangers using high-tech tricks.

You leave something personal behind in the house you rent and surely you want it back, right? Destroying hard drives so that the information does not get out is normal business practice. At any rate, talking about hard drives is talking about nothing. Come back with actual information providing for the possibility of a criminal indictment.

WaPo finally "covered" it.

Nothing about the smashed HDs and the fact he was about to leave the country, and DWS link is buried deep in the text.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/congressional-it-staffer-charged-with-home-equity-loan-fraud/2017/07/26/f5f402e8-71a7-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html

Doesn't look safe to me wrote:

The 37-year-old suspect was released but ordered to surrender his passports, wear a GPS monitor and observe a curfew. He was ordered to reappear in court for a hearing on Aug. 21.

Court documents show Awan, a Pakistani national, had booked a flight to his home country.

Bad idea with the GPS. Hillary will be able to find him easier.

Plus, it should be easy for a bright IT guy to hack the GPS device.

Yep, it's only the alt-right that is busy creating its conspiracy theories that cares about this story.

“The attacks on Mr. Awan and his family began as part of a frenzy of anti-Muslim bigotry in the literal heart of our democracy, the House of Representatives. For months, we have had utterly unsupported, outlandish, and slanderous statements targeting Mr. Awan coming not just from the ultra-right-wing “pizzagate” media but from sitting members of Congress.”

zxcvzxcv wrote:

You leave something personal behind in the house you rent and surely you want it back, right?

The "something personal" here actually belonged to the US government. We are not talking replevin here, only at best detinue.

Destroying hard drives so that the information does not get out is normal business practice.

In some corners of the government, it seems this is indeed "normal business practice".... However, independent of whether the *information* was government property, the hardware itself belonged to USA, and so the actions fail a number of proper procedures in the indicated destruction process.

At any rate, talking about hard drives is talking about nothing. Come back with actual information providing for the possibility of a criminal indictment.

Improper destruction of government property is already criminal.

Supposedly DWS's brother was the assistant DA in charge of covering things up on that end. But they decided to nail Awan for bank fraud instead, stepping around this blockage in the command chain.

Sitting and waiting wrote:

Yep, it's only the alt-right that is busy creating its conspiracy theories that cares about this story.

“The attacks on Mr. Awan and his family began as part of a frenzy of anti-Muslim bigotry in the literal heart of our democracy, the House of Representatives. For months, we have had utterly unsupported, outlandish, and slanderous statements targeting Mr. Awan coming not just from the ultra-right-wing “pizzagate” media but from sitting members of Congress.”

Well, I agree that "To an extent, the matter speaks for itself."

What are the odds that a no-name two-bit Paki thief (as DNC wants to spin) gets a hi-powered Clinton lawyer (Gowan) to mouthpiece for him?

So it looks like Seth Rich eh? wrote:

https://twitter.com/rodwheeler/status/890177121334722560

Yes, Wassermann bro is in charge of covering this up.

Now Awan's wicked stepmother has deposed against him.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFws-luW0AAbBfJ.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFws-mFWAAAH8pJ.jpg

Supposedly DWS is going ape and can barely function. But Fake News media would hardly tell you that.

Put her on "suicide" watch.... wrote:

Supposedly DWS is going ape and can barely function. But Fake News media would hardly tell you that.

I thought "Democracy dies in darkness"? What Happened?

Maybe you can try some actual facts, rather than alt-right VRWC conspiracy theories.

No surprise. They are now alleged as spies. Pakistan ISI (secret intel) is actually ranked #1 in the world, ahead of Mossad, CIA, MI6, etc. Of course they try to play the victim card too.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/lt-col-tony-shaffer-awan-brothers-sent-sensitive-intel-muslim-brotherhood-video/

Evidence keeps rolling in wrote:

No surprise. They are now alleged as spies. Pakistan ISI (secret intel) is actually ranked #1 in the world, ahead of Mossad, CIA, MI6, etc. Of course they try to play the victim card too.

Now they are in trouble on both ends, losing their Paki ally too.

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif resigns after Supreme Court order to disqualify him – statement

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday resigned from his post, his office said, hours after the country’s Supreme Court disqualified him over corruption claims against his family. The Supreme Court said Sharif is not fit to hold office and ordered a criminal investigation into him and his family. The court also disqualified Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. The Prime Minister’s office said in a statement that Sharif has “stepped down” despite having “serious reservations” about the judicial process. (Reuters)

Looks like Dems have wheeled out the "go-to" plan of false-flagging Awan as a paedophile (YouTube subscribes), to justify the conflict and removal. Tourniquet the bleeding on the fall guy.

http://thegoldwater.com/news/5763-pol-Finds-Imran-Awan-s-YouTube-Channel-Pedophile-Subscriptions

Just when you didn't expect it wrote:

Looks like Dems have wheeled out the "go-to" plan of false-flagging Awan as a paedophile (YouTube subscribes), to justify the conflict and removal. Tourniquet the bleeding on the fall guy.

There's also the alternative conspiracy theory, that he's tied to PizzaGate somehow. After all, the Seth Rich lawyer was claiming he was involved in that too.