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AG Barr Appoints Federal Prosecutor To Review Obama Admin ‘Unmasking’ Of Trump Associates
Daily Caller ^ | 5/27/2020 | chuck ross

Posted on 05/27/2020 7:47:37 PM PDT by bitt

Attorney General William Barr appointed a federal prosecutor to review so-called “unmasking” requests that Obama administration officials submitted against Trump associates, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department said Wednesday.

Kerri Kupec, the Justice Department spokeswoman, said on Fox News that Barr appointed John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, to conduct the review.

Bash will carry out the probe in coordination with U.S. attorneys John Durham and Jeff Jensen, who are looking into various aspects of the Trump-Russia investigation.

“The attorney general determined that certain aspects of unmasking needed to be reviewed separately as a support to John Durham’s investigation,” Kupec told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

On May 13, Republican senators released a list of 39 Obama-era government officials who submitted requests for intelligence reports during the presidential transition period that identified Flynn, the incoming national security adviser. (RELATED: Biden, Brennan, Comey Submitted Flynn ‘Unmasking’ Requests)

The documents showed that former Vice President Joe Biden, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and other officials in the Obama administration submitted requests for information regarding Flynn.

Kupec said that while the process of unmasking is not “inherently” wrong, Barr is analyzing whether Obama officials had political motives in submitting requests for reports that identified Flynn.

“The motivation and the reasoning behind unmasking can be problematic,” she said.

“When you are looking at unmasking as part of a broader investigation like John Durham’s investigation, looking specifically at who was unmasking whom can add a lot to our understanding about motivation and big picture events.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agbarr; barr; eeyoreparty; johnbash; unmasking
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To: Singermom

You have good reason for your pessimism. I remember when Hillary was going to be put behind bars. Look where that ended up. Not even a prosecution.


41 posted on 05/27/2020 8:28:05 PM PDT by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash)
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To: Golden Eagle

From 2012 to 2017, Bash was an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice.
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He had to have been appointed to that by the Kenyanesian Usurper.
Not sure I’m going to get excited yet.


42 posted on 05/27/2020 8:29:55 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BobL

Does his District cover areas West of the Pecos?


43 posted on 05/27/2020 8:31:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Singermom

Yes, but no need to give up, got to keep going forward.


44 posted on 05/27/2020 8:31:19 PM PDT by Striperman (Striperman)
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To: lodi90

The GOP will continue to cover for the Kenyan from Indonesia just as they have since they helped him violate the Constitution.
They have to in order to save their own necks.


45 posted on 05/27/2020 8:32:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Fungi

misspent youth?


46 posted on 05/27/2020 8:34:17 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: fwdude

You have good reason for your pessimism. I remember when Hillary was going to be put behind bars. Look where that ended up. Not even a prosecution.


Agree. I think of that kind of stuff when Biden and Ukraine comes up. That stuff is never going to stick to him. Ever.


47 posted on 05/27/2020 8:34:24 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: bitt

But, but, but Mike Wallace assured me that unmasking was perfectly normal.


48 posted on 05/27/2020 8:34:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Could depend on the level he was assisting at, as to whether it was an actual appointed position or not? Either way, considering the snake pit he’s been living in, his creds are on their face about the best our side ever sees.


49 posted on 05/27/2020 8:36:04 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. - President Donald Trump)
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To: bitt

The Rats tell us that it’s no big deal, that thousands of U.S. citizens are unmasked all the time.

They say it like it’s a good thing.


50 posted on 05/27/2020 8:36:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: AndyJackson

?


51 posted on 05/27/2020 8:37:26 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: lodi90
In my opinion this Obamagate stuff is nearing red herring territory. It’s just a well planned snipe hunt distraction from the ongoing coup. What is far more important is what has happened while Trump is POTUS. The coupists and their GOP enablers need to be brought to account and that is just not happening.

Great comment. As you know those are mostly my thoughts as well. Despite all of Obama’s efforts, he was like Wile E. Coyote and everything blew up in his face, even his trying to hijack Flynn. None of that ever actually happened until Sessions demanded the AG job, then disappeared, and Rosenstein and Mueller took over. That was a coup of a current President, not just some candidate.

52 posted on 05/27/2020 8:41:50 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. - President Donald Trump)
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To: upchuck
Every time someone else gets appointed to ‘review’ this, it pushes the outcome closer and closer to the Nov election.
Looks like it will be farther and farther past the Nov. election now.
53 posted on 05/27/2020 8:45:25 PM PDT by citizen (Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars. All the other genders you make up are from Uranus.)
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To: mass55th

Pearlclutchers in our midst/


54 posted on 05/27/2020 8:48:28 PM PDT by pghoilman (Earth First. We'll drill the rest of the galaxy later.)
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Great. Now all my Bash searches will mention John.


55 posted on 05/27/2020 8:48:31 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Reno89519

Move on, nothing to see here.


56 posted on 05/27/2020 8:55:23 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: bitt; little jeremiah; ransomnote
***Attorney General William Barr appointed a federal prosecutor to review so-called “unmasking” requests that Obama administration officials submitted against Trump associates***

AG Barr is trying to speed up the process in order to reach a solution prior to the election. If he cannot show some conclusions before November and DJT loses the election, all his efforts are for naught. The only alternative would be to appoint a Special Counsel and then DoJ loses all control. All these special issue investigations Barr has tied to the Durham probe.

I believe Barr is aiming at some sort of broad based conspiracy prosecution; else wise he would be bringing individual indictments - against bureaucrats, politicians and media. Rep. Devin Nunez has said as much often. Some FReepers have posited a RICO umbrella of charges; perhaps, but I am not sure that 'racketeering' would cover sedition or treason.

57 posted on 05/27/2020 8:58:59 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

I wonder what’s happening with Durham... I would think Durham would already be on top of this. Show?


58 posted on 05/27/2020 9:04:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: bitt

Why now?

This could have been done a year ago.


59 posted on 05/27/2020 9:06:55 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: bitt

Great, this means we’ll get justice any decade now.


60 posted on 05/27/2020 9:07:27 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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