Awan, Imran

U.S. House of Representatives Democrats' IT tech, Jan 2004 – ~Feb 2017, when the criminal investigation of him convinced most, but not all, Democratic Representatives to stop employing him.

Little IT education. Probably unlike Awan's employers and the media, I actually checked his claimed education. He went to a community college (see Principles of IT Incompetence (No IT Education: For-Profit and Community Colleges, Other Training)) then in Jan 2002 transferred to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to get a BS in Information Systems. However, he went to JHU's Carey Business School so his degree is a business degree not an IT degree; see Principles of IT Incompetence (What Is IT? Networking). Even before graduating in May 2004, he went to work (Jan 2004) for Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, so the degree couldn't have been too hard.

The salary of Awan is unknown because Congress is conveniently not subject to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), which I know from experience is the only way to get such information.

Foreigner: Pakistani. Awan was born in Pakistan in 1980 and emigrated to the U.S. when he was 17. Before his trial he was arrested by the FBI and Capitol Police at Dulles Airport (Washington, D.C.) trying to flee back to Pakistan. See Principles of IT Incompetence (IT Hiring: Foreigners).

Awan was hired by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives solely due to political correctness; see Principles of IT Incompetence (IT Hiring: Trading IT Competence for Political Correctness).

Awan was discovered committing multiple serious crimes in his job, including possibly espionage. The politically correct (Democrats, media, etc.) foolishly claimed, with great fanfare and as if it exonerated him, that no evidence of espionage was found, but a basic truth is "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", particularly when investigators are not competent to look for evidence and those controlling the investigators would rather not find evidence.

Representatives in the U.S. House have access to top national security secrets — for example, the House Intelligence Committee — and have a habit of being lax with them, including emailing them. It is quite possible that many of these secrets are now in the hands of Pakistan, which could hardly be described as a loyal ally of the U.S., particularly since they harbored 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Awan has to be considered almost as bad as Edward Snowden, in having hacked the U.S. House of Representatives, like Snowden hacked the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); see 9/11 Was Due to IT Incompetence.