Luke Rosiak of dailycaller.com – who has earned his designation as an investigative reporter, unlike so many of his so-called counterparts in most mainstream media (which have desperately tried to keep this under wraps)- has provided us new information on the awan scandal. And it has a very, very interesting twist.
Excerpted from his latest piece:
A laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has frantically fought to keep prosecutors from examining may have been planted for police to find by her since-indicted staffer, Imran Awan, along with a letter to the U.S. Attorney.
U.S. Capitol Police found the laptop after midnight April 6, 2017, in a tiny room that formerly served as a phone booth in the Rayburn House Office Building, according to a Capitol Police report reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. Alongside the laptop were a Pakistani ID card, copies of Awan’s driver’s license and congressional ID badge, and letters to the U.S. attorney. Police also found notes in a composition notebook marked “attorney-client privilege.”
The laptop had the username “RepDWS,” even though the Florida Democrat and former Democratic National Committee chairman previously said it was Awan’s computer and that she had never even seen it.
Awan was banned Feb. 2, 2017, from the congressional computer network because he is a suspect in a cybersecurity investigation, but he still had access to House facilities because Wasserman Schultz continued to employ him.
The laptop was found on the second floor of the Rayburn building — a place Awan would have had no reason to go because Wasserman Schultz’s office is in the Longworth building and the other members who employed him had fired him.
Wasserman Schultz used a televised May 18, 2017 congressional hearing on the Capitol Police budget to threaten “consequences” if Chief Matthew Verderosa did not give her the laptop. “If a member loses equipment,” it should be given back, she said.
She changed her story two months later, claiming it was Awan’s laptop — bought with taxpayer funds from her office — and she had never seen it. She said she only sought to protect Awan’s rights. “This was not my laptop,” she said August 3. “I have never seen that laptop. I don’t know what’s on the laptop.”
Now that is interesting.
It is hard not to conclude that something stinks here. Badly.
And while we still do not know for certain where the stink emanates from, it is also hard not to think that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a politician who doesn’t worry much about ethics or honesty (ask Bernie Sanders) is the source.
What’s that old saying: “If I’m going down I’m taking other people with me”? Is that what imran awan is telling us by making this computer, thus its contents, so accessible to law enforcement?
If mainstream media can’t find a problem with Schultz’s “It’s my computer and I demand you give it back to me or there will be consquences. Oh, you won’t give it back? In that case it’s not my computer and nothing on it has anything to do with me”, they are not acting in a journalistic capacity. They are circling the wagons in protection of Debbie Wasserman Schultz…and whichever other Democrats would be affected by the information on that computer.
And that is precisely what most mainstream media are doing.
We owe Luke Rosiak a debt of gratitude for his investigative work on this huge – and getting bigger – scandal.
And we owe the mainstream media, still not reporting on this scandal, a question: “Do you really wonder why fewer and fewer people trust you?”
