Pizzagate Relevance: The topic is dominated by the involvement of Democrats. Seth Rich has possibly multiple connections to Pizzagate, and now it's speculated that Rich's murder may partly result from Awan's activities. Obviously, adults communicating with kids via webcam is an area for potential abuse.

This August 27, 2005 article in the Chicago Tribune includes some intesting quotes from Imran Awan, who was already the IT director for 8 House democrats. Technology travels to House [https://archive.is/2rCTl]

I've suspected for years that the preference for use of Blackberry devices by officials even at present may be because of secret back-doors that enable spying on their users.

"Her calendar is sent directly to her Blackberry..." - Awan

I was surprised to read the author describe how one Congress member's kids were given secure access to a Capital Hill computer network.

"The kids have to enter a security code to log into the computer network on Capital Hill." - Author

Awan makes a, possibly ironic statement about the need for security.

"Everybody wants to hack into government institutions, so you have to secure yourself." - Awan

I suspect this, specific scenario described in the article is a benign one where any actual security breach was probably unintentional. There was likely an interest by the author to promote the efficiency and creative means of using technology. So, I don't think Bean was selling chat sessions with her daughters on the Hill or anything.

What this article DOES seem to shed light on is the ubiquity of Awan's IT services very early on. Awan was accepted as a qualified source for sharing the technical details. It also gets the mind turning with theories of what OTHER technical implementations have been set up by Awan, especially any that might involve webcams. And was Awan making use of those Blackberry back-doors?