Feds Debunk Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory 'Pakistani Mystery Man' Leaked DNC Emails
My guess is that Hannity will be silent and the RW will continue to push this false story!
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Feds Debunk Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory ‘Pakistani Mystery Man’ Leaked DNC Emails
https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-debunk-right-wing-conspiracy-theory-pakistani-mystery-man-leaked-dnc-emails
Fox News hosts and Trump pushed the idea that an IT staffer for House Democrats took data from Democrats. Trump’s Justice Department says it’s not true.
Will Sommer
07.03.18 1:03 PM ET
Federal prosecutors blew up one of the right-wing media’s most hyped conspiracy theories on Tuesday, saying that they had investigated and debunked claims that a House Democratic staffer, not Russian hackers, had stolen the Democratic emails published by WikiLeaks.
Former IT staffer Imran Awan pleaded guilty Tuesday to making a false statement on a home equity loan, which the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said likely carries a six-month prison sentence.
Normally, a Democratic staffer pleading guilty to any crime would be big news on the right. But Awan’s guilty plea is a letdown for conservatives, who had become convinced that Awan was involved in something much more nefarious than bank fraud.
Led by reporting from the Daily Caller News Foundation, Republicans suspected that Awan was somehow involved in data leaks to either Russia or Pakistan. In July 2017, Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and Sean Hannity speculated that Awan had used his access to Democratic servers to leak the emails from Democratic National Committee leader Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz that were published by WikiLeaks in 2016. 
The Inspector General’s Office of the House found that Awan and four other IT staffers had accessed congressional computers without authorization. Far from spying, the Washington Post reported investigators “instead found that the workers were using one congressional server as if it were their home computer, storing personal information such as children’s homework and family photos,” according to an official.
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