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*''Daily Caller'' reports Awan family was paid $5 million by Democratic congressmen over several years many of whom serve on the intelligence, homeland security and foreign affairs committees. The Awans appeared at one time or another on an estimated 80 House Democrats’ payrolls. Current members are Marcia Fudge, Tim Ryan, [[Jim Costa]], Sander M. Levin, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Yvette D. Clarke, Gregory W. Meeks, John P. Sarbanes, [[Jackie Speier]], [[Diana DeGette]], Frederica S. Wilson, Cedric L. Richmond, David Loebsack, [[Karen Bass]], Joyce Beatty, Emanuel Cleaver, [[Lois Frankel]], Daniel T. Kildee, [[Tony Cardenas]], Michelle Lujan Grisham, Robin L. Kelly, Katherine M. Clark, [[Mark Takano]], [[Julia Brownley]], [[Pete Aguilar]], Andre Carson, Joaquin Castro, [[Ted Deutch]], [[Ted Lieu]], Hakeem S. Jeffries, and [[Kyrsten Sinema]]. The Awans had full access to the emails and office computer files of members.  Focus of the investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police is an off-site server on which congressional data was loaded.

*''Daily Caller'' reports Awan family was paid $5 million by Democratic congressmen over several years many of whom serve on the intelligence, homeland security and foreign affairs committees. The Awans appeared at one time or another on an estimated 80 House Democrats’ payrolls. Current members are Marcia Fudge, Tim Ryan, [[Jim Costa]], Sander M. Levin, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Yvette D. Clarke, Gregory W. Meeks, John P. Sarbanes, [[Jackie Speier]], [[Diana DeGette]], Frederica S. Wilson, Cedric L. Richmond, David Loebsack, [[Karen Bass]], Joyce Beatty, Emanuel Cleaver, [[Lois Frankel]], Daniel T. Kildee, [[Tony Cardenas]], Michelle Lujan Grisham, Robin L. Kelly, Katherine M. Clark, [[Mark Takano]], [[Julia Brownley]], [[Pete Aguilar]], Andre Carson, Joaquin Castro, [[Ted Deutch]], [[Ted Lieu]], Hakeem S. Jeffries, and [[Kyrsten Sinema]]. The Awans had full access to the emails and office computer files of members.  Focus of the investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police is an off-site server on which congressional data was loaded.

*There are more than 15,000 congressional staff on Capitol Hill; four of the 500 highest-paid House staffers are Awans. Median salary for legislative assistants is $43,000 annually; Imran Awan has collected $1.2 million in salary since 2010, and his brother Abid and wife Hina Alvi were each paid more than $1 million. Imran first came to Capitol Hill in 2003 and Abid joined him in 2005. Imran’s wife Hina Alvi was added to the payroll in 2007, while Abid’s wife, Natalia Sova, appeared in 2011. In 2014 the youngest brother, Jamal, was added to the payroll in 2014 at the age of 20 with a salary of $160,000.

:*There are more than 15,000 congressional staff on Capitol Hill; four of the 500 highest-paid House staffers are Awans. Median salary for legislative assistants is $43,000 annually; Imran Awan has collected $1.2 million in salary since 2010, and his brother Abid and wife Hina Alvi were each paid more than $1 million. Imran first came to Capitol Hill in 2003 and Abid joined him in 2005. Imran’s wife Hina Alvi was added to the payroll in 2007, while Abid’s wife, Natalia Sova, appeared in 2011. In 2014 the youngest brother, Jamal, was added to the payroll in 2014 at the age of 20 with a salary of $160,000.

*The brothers spent significant time in [[Pakistan]].<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/pakistani-suspects-in-house-it-probe-received-4-million-from-dem-reps/</ref>

:*The brothers spent significant time in [[Pakistan]].<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/pakistani-suspects-in-house-it-probe-received-4-million-from-dem-reps/</ref>

*''[[Politico]]'' reports Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Gregory Meeks declined to fire Imran, and that both members have a “friendly personal relationship with Awan and his wife, according to multiple sources.”<ref>http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/house-democrats-it-staffers-hina-alvi-imran-awan-235569</ref>

:*''[[Politico]]'' reports Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Gregory Meeks declined to fire Imran, and that both members have a “friendly personal relationship with Awan and his wife, according to multiple sources.”<ref>http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/house-democrats-it-staffers-hina-alvi-imran-awan-235569</ref>

*'''2 March.''' '''[[Tash Gauhar]] involved in Sessions recusal discussions''';<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/tash-recusal.jpg</ref> Sundance remarks {{quotebox|the DOJ/FBI lawyer at the heart of the Clinton-email investigation; the DOJ/FBI lawyer hired by [[Eric Holder]] at his firm and later at the DOJ; the DOJ/FBI lawyer who was transferred to the Clinton probe;  the DOJ/FBI lawyer at the epicenter of the Weiner laptop issues, the only one from MYE who spoke to New York; the DOJ/FBI lawyer who constructs the FISA applications on behalf of Main Justice;…. just happens to be the same DOJ/FBI lawyer recommending to AG Jeff Sessions that he recuse himself.}}

*'''2 March.''' '''[[Tash Gauhar]] involved in Sessions recusal discussions''';<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/tash-recusal.jpg</ref> Sundance remarks {{quotebox|the DOJ/FBI lawyer at the heart of the Clinton-email investigation; the DOJ/FBI lawyer hired by [[Eric Holder]] at his firm and later at the DOJ; the DOJ/FBI lawyer who was transferred to the Clinton probe;  the DOJ/FBI lawyer at the epicenter of the Weiner laptop issues, the only one from MYE who spoke to New York; the DOJ/FBI lawyer who constructs the FISA applications on behalf of Main Justice;…. just happens to be the same DOJ/FBI lawyer recommending to AG Jeff Sessions that he recuse himself.}}

*Comey testifies to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee that, while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his FBI interview, Strzok who questioned him concluded that he did not lie.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>

*Comey testifies to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee that, while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his FBI interview, Strzok who questioned him concluded that he did not lie.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>

*Ranking Democrat Vice-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee [[Adam Schiff]] accuses Comey of withholding information from Congressional Overseers. Lindsey Graham says, "Somebody is leaking this crap. It's putting people like me in a terrible spot."<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe</ref>

:*Ranking Democrat Vice-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee [[Adam Schiff]] says Comey is withholding information from Congressional Overseers. Lindsey Graham says, "Somebody is leaking this crap. It's putting people like me in a terrible spot."<ref>https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe</ref>

*[[Evelyn Farkas]], the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under Obama, while interviewed on MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'', a smoking gun went off: “I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left. So, it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, that the Trump folks, '''if they found out how we knew what we knew''' about their -- the staff, the Trump staff's dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods... So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more."<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mike-ciandella/2017/03/30/former-obama-official-stumbles-while-trying-backtrack-after</ref> '''Farkas was not employed by the Obama administration at the time''' the Russian allegations arose. According to Pentagon records, Farkas resigned in September 2015.  

*[[Evelyn Farkas]], the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under Obama, while interviewed on MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'', a smoking gun went off: “I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left. So, it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, that the Trump folks, '''if they found out how we knew what we knew''' about their -- the staff, the Trump staff's dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods... So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more."<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mike-ciandella/2017/03/30/former-obama-official-stumbles-while-trying-backtrack-after</ref> '''Farkas was not employed by the Obama administration at the time''' the Russian allegations arose. According to Pentagon records, Farkas resigned in September 2015.  

*While serving a senior [[foreign policy]] advisor for Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, both Farkas and Clinton still held security clearances outside government.<ref>https://youtu.be/xfSES06rlIU</ref>  

*While serving a senior [[foreign policy]] advisor for Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, both Farkas and Clinton still held security clearances outside government.<ref>https://youtu.be/xfSES06rlIU</ref>  

*Farkas' use of "people on the hill" refers to Congressional staff which numbers into the tens of thousands, some of which have press contacts and are the source of leaks. Once the materials fell into their hands, many partisan staffers then became armchair counter-intelligence sleuths, combing  through the leaked material, feeding their mainstream sources with their latest pet theories on Donald Trump being in the pay of the KGB, and taking to Twitter threads with extended narratives to document their speculation.

:*Farkas' use of "people on the hill" refers to Congressional staff which numbers into the tens of thousands, some of which have press contacts and are the source of leaks. Once the materials fell into their hands, many partisan staffers then became armchair counter-intelligence sleuths, combing  through the leaked material, feeding their mainstream sources with their latest pet theories on Donald Trump being in the pay of the KGB, and taking to Twitter threads with extended narratives to document their speculation.

*As Dep. Asst. Sec. of Defense, Farkas had daily access to Obama's ''Presidential Daily Briefing'', which includes SCIF.

*As Dep. Asst. Sec. of Defense, Farkas had daily access to Obama's ''Presidential Daily Briefing'', which includes SCIF.

*'''17 March.''' From the Grassley Memo: {{quotebox|the Chairman and Ranking Member were provided copies of the two relevant FISA applications, which requested authority to conduct surveillance of Carter Page. Both relied heavily on Mr. Steele’s dossier claims, and both applications were granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).}}

*'''17 March.''' From the Grassley Memo: {{quotebox|the Chairman and Ranking Member were provided copies of the two relevant FISA applications, which requested authority to conduct surveillance of Carter Page. Both relied heavily on Mr. Steele’s dossier claims, and both applications were granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).}}

*'''Carter FISA warrant application leaked''' to BuzzFeed and the ''New York Times''. Several major mainstream news organizations are now in possession of the facts - the ''Steele dossier'' is paid opposition research and unverified, and the DOJ and FBI used Steele's reporting to corroborate himself to hoax the FISA court to surveil team Trump. The media now are complicit in spreading the [[fake news]] Trump-Russia [[conspiracy theory]].

*'''Carter Page FISA warrant application leaked''' to BuzzFeed and the ''New York Times''. Several major mainstream news organizations are now in possession of the facts - the ''Steele dossier'' is paid opposition research and unverified, and the DOJ and FBI used Steele's reporting to corroborate himself to hoax the FISA court to surveil team Trump. The media now are complicit in spreading the [[fake news]] Trump-Russia [[conspiracy theory]].

*From the Wolfe indictment of June 7, 2018: {{quotebox|On or about March 17, 2017, the [Carter Page FISA application] was transported to the Senate Select Committee. The [Carter Page FISA application] contained both SECRET and TOP SECRET information, including SECRET-level information regarding the identity and activities of the individual referred to in this Indictment as Male-1 [Carter Page]. As Director of Security, Wolfe received, maintained, and managed the [Carter Page FISA application] on behalf of the [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]...<br>Wolfe exchanged 82 text messages with Watkins, and that evening engaged in a 28-minute phone call with her.}}

*From the Wolfe indictment of June 7, 2018: {{quotebox|On or about March 17, 2017, the [Carter Page FISA application] was transported to the Senate Select Committee. The [Carter Page FISA application] contained both SECRET and TOP SECRET information, including SECRET-level information regarding the identity and activities of the individual referred to in this Indictment as Male-1 [Carter Page]. As Director of Security, Wolfe received, maintained, and managed the [Carter Page FISA application] on behalf of the [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]...<br>Wolfe exchanged 82 text messages with Watkins, and that evening engaged in a 28-minute phone call with her.}}