Congressional technology aides are baffled that data-theft allegations against four former House IT workers—who were banned from the congressional network—have largely been ignored, and they fear the integrity of sensitive high-level information.Imran Awan and three relatives were colleagues until police banned them from computer networks at the House of Representatives after suspicion the brothers accessed congressional computers without permission.

Five Capitol Hill technology aides told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group that members of Congress have displayed an inexplicable and intense loyalty toward the suspects who police say victimized them. The baffled aides wonder if the suspects are blackmailing representatives based on the contents of their emails and files, to which they had full access.

“I don’t know what they have, but they have something on someone. It’s been months at this point” with no arrests, said Pat Sowers, who has managed IT for several House offices for 12 years. “Something is rotten in Denmark.”

A manager at a tech services company that works with Democratic House offices said he approached congressional offices, offering their services at one-fourth the price of Awan and his Pakistani brothers, but the members declined. At the time, he couldn’t understand why his offers were rejected but now he suspects the Awans exerted some type of leverage over members.

“There’s no question about it: If I was accused of a tenth of what these guys are accused of, they’d take me out in handcuffs that same day, and I’d never work again,” he said.

The Nitty Gritty

The Awans collected well over $4 million in just a few years. Even employees who never physically showed up for work were raking in salaries of $165,000 a year.

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Liberal elitists aren’t just turning a blind eye to the loss of dollars, much of which was sent to Pakistan. What’s more disconcerting involves the stolen computers from Congress.

And though their own step-mother ratted them out, the family faces not a single indictment. At least not yet.

It appears the Anwans stole enough data to put high-level Democrats in check. The question is who?

Based on recent activities, some believe one of the people to be Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Wasserman-Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding equipment that she says belongs to her.

The police are in possession of the equipment, in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive congressional data offsite.

The Florida Democrats attempted to use her position on the committee that sets the police force’s budget to press its chief to relinquish the piece of evidence last week. Some consider Wasserman-Schultz’ tactics interference with a criminal investigation.

Despite all efforts to thwart an investigation, Capitol Police and outside agencies are pursuing Imran Awan. He ran the technology for the Wasserman Schultz since 2005. However, back in February of this year, authorities banned Awan from the House network on suspicion of data breaches and theft.

In the annual police budget hearing of the House Committee On Appropriations’ Legislative Branch Subcommittee, Wasserman Schultz commented:

“My understanding is the the Capitol Police is not able to confiscate Members’ equipment when the Member is not under investigation,”

Police Chief Matthew R. Verderosa explained to the Congresswoman,

“We can’t return the equipment.”

However, a clearly panicked Wasserman-Schultz fired back,

“I think you’re violating the rules when you conduct your business that way and you should expect that there will be consequences,.”

How’s this for coercion?

As one of eight members of the Committee on Appropriations’ Legislative Branch subcommittee, Wasserman Schultz is in charge of the budget of the police force.

As we noted earlier, this police force is currently investigating her staffer. Investigators wish to learn how he managed to extract so much money and information from members.

In what clearly bothers Wasserman Schultz, she spends quite a bit of time on what she perceives as a personal affront regarding her computer.

You can see the exchange between the police chief and Wasserman-Schultz.

As the Daily Caller reported,

When theDCNF inquired of Wasserman Schultz if it could inquire about her strong desire for the laptop, she replied, “No, you may not.”

After TheDCNF asked why she wouldn’t want the Capitol Police to have any evidence they may need to find and punish any hackers of government information, she abruptly turned around in the middle of a stairwell and retreated back to the office from which she had come.

Her spokesman, David Dameron, then emerged to say “We just don’t have any comment.”

Though on the surface Wasserman Schultz would have been a victim of Awan’s scam, she has inexplicably protected him, circumventing the network ban by re-titling him as an “adviser” instead of technology administrator.

Politico described him and his wife, Hina Alvi, as having a “friendly personal relationship” with both Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York.

That baffled a Democratic IT staffer, who said “I can’t imagine why she’d be that good of friends with a technology provider.”

“Usually if someone does bad stuff, an office is going to distance themselves” rather than incur political fallout for a mere staffer, he added.

There is more than smoke here.

Wasserman Schultz is throwing buckets of water on an inferno. More to come…