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 Durhams 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 Durhams 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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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.
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.
Does his District cover areas West of the Pecos?
Yes, but no need to give up, got to keep going forward.
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.
misspent youth?
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.
But, but, but Mike Wallace assured me that unmasking was perfectly normal.
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 hes been living in, his creds are on their face about the best our side ever sees.
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.
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Great comment. As you know those are mostly my thoughts as well. Despite all of Obamas 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.
Pearlclutchers in our midst/
Great. Now all my Bash searches will mention John.
Move on, nothing to see here.
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.
I wonder what’s happening with Durham... I would think Durham would already be on top of this. Show?
Why now?
This could have been done a year ago.
Great, this means we’ll get justice any decade now.
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