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More delays in Democratic IT scandal

The attorney for Imran Awan, the computer specialist who had worked for numerous Democratic congressmen, including Debbie Wasserman Schlutz and is now charged with bank fraud, has caused a month delay in the court case in an effort to block the use of a laptop and its contents as evidence.

Wasserman Schultz fought to prevent law enforcement from looking at the laptop, threatening a police chief with “consequences” and implying it was “a member’s” laptop. She hired an outside lawyer, Bill Pittard, who specializes in the “speech and debate” clause of the Constitution that is designed to protect lawmakers from persecution for political stances, but lawmakers have used to try to stymie criminal probes in the past.

Now, it is Awans’ lawyers who are seeking the right to keep information in the backpack, including the “hard drive,” from being used as evidence.

The Awan attorneys are claiming that the laptop and all other information found in the backpack should be blocked as evidence because they fall under attorney-client privilege. This is absurd. If the court agrees with this interpretation, it will allow criminals to declare almost all evidence inadmissible, just by claiming it was communications between lawyer and client.

Based on all this effort to keep law enforcement from seeing what’s on that laptop, I suspect it contains some very damning information, both to Awan as well as to Wasserman Schultz and many other Democrats who had hired Awan.

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3 comments

  • Cotour

    My email of the day, related:

    As our American media and political world unravels in front of all our eyes many are very scared, confused and upset. How do I know? Mostly the Liberal Democrats that I personally know as of this date 11/30/17 are at such a state of panic that they can no longer contain themselves, their outbursts are becoming uncontrolled. What is the cause? Obviously Trump becoming president and how he conducts himself as president and what is compounding it is the overwhelming numbers of Left leaning Liberals in Washington, Hollywood and in the media being revealed as being much, much less moral and idealistic then what the law suits resignations and firings reveal. Personally I know that these abuses of power exists equally on both sides of the political aisle and these revelations are slanted Left for the moment only. (Although it does seem a bit one sided and that does appear interesting to say the least) I also suggest that they stop listening to the likes of MSNBC and the like, but that is unlikely.

    These two continuing to unfold events have caused much angst in the Liberal Democrat world and as time moves into the next weeks and months they will likely become even more agitated and to be honest I do not know what they will do. (This is a positive indicator to me) I have become truly concerned with their mental state, nervous break downs may be eminent. What will probably be happening in the next weeks and months to continue to drive this upset?

    Trump resigning because of the special prosecutor finding hard evidence of “collusion” with the Russians? Doubtful.

    This is what needs to and will probably be happening:

    1. The inevitable indictment of Hillary Clinton and possibly Bill Clinton and many that surround her. On what subject? The continuing to be revealed private server transmission of top secret information over while Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The two sets of laws must be created here for Hillary must be reconciled. Even if she is pardoned in the end this must take place.

    2. The continuing to be revealed information on the Uranium One company being provided to the Russians in order that they fulfill their uranium market domination goals. This apparently was part of president Obama’s “Russian reset” which apparently meant in order to get the Russians to “like” us we OK the sale of a portion of our uranium production. Much like the giving of $150 billion to the Iranians plus a couple of pallets of cash and who knows what else and to ensure that they will develop their own nuclear energy / nuclear weapons programs in order that they once again “like” us. Does any reasonable American really think that these are two really great for America ideas? Please let me know if you do I want to know your thinking on the issue.

    There are certainly other subjects that will be further revealed but these are probably the biggest of the lot that will cause the afore mentioned reconciliation. And the reconciliation I refer to is the reconciliation that needs to come about related to common sense and our laws. This needs to happen on both sides of the aisle but it seems that the Left will be a bit more under scrutiny at this point in time.

    The past 30 years in America has been so filled with corruption, deceit and abuse of power on both sides of the aisle that this reconciliation must happen and the above listed items will set it all off and many on both sides will be revealed for what they are, corrupt. And if it does not happen and the status quo acceptance of lies is allowed to continue there will be no hope for our country what so ever, we will be revealed to be no better than any of the worst in history. The cleansing light of truth is the only antidote.

  • ken anthony

    The demoncrats have the govt. wired in a network of moles for the sole purpose of protecting themselves from law. They have people in key positions in DOJ, FBI, Intel and so forth pretending to be who they are not. They bribe and blackmail, threaten and ‘suicide’ to get the outcomes they want.

    The true extent of it is beyond believing because normal people don’t work or think that way. It’s not govt, it’s a crime syndicate beyond anything the mafia ever dreamed. Rule of law, with few exceptions, is whatever they say it is with judges making stuff up depending on the target or issue.

    No matter how bad we imagine it to be, it’s worse.

  • Cotour

    Ken, you are very correct.

    What makes us different to where we have some hope?

    The existence of the Constitution. There in lies the potential for the reconciliation, the Founders were way ahead of everyone.

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