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'Unmasking' probe concludes without 'finding any substantive wrongdoing': report
The Hill ^ | 10 13 2020 | Olivia Beavers

Posted on 10/13/2020 5:12:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The federal prosecutor Attorney General Bill Barr tapped to investigate whether Obama administration officials improperly requested the unmasking of individuals during the 2016 election has concluded his probe without “finding any substantive wrongdoing,” The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Barr appointed U. S. Attorney Jeremy Bash to review whether there was wrongdoing by the Obama administration in requesting the identities of individuals — in particular Trump allies — whose names are redacted in intelligence reports during the heated election.

The practice, known as unmasking, is common and done to help government officials make sense of the intelligence documents they are reviewing, but the president and his allies have alleged that Obama-era officials acted improperly in making a series of unmasking requests that ultimately led to former Trump campaign aide Michael Flynn’s name to be unmasked.

According to the Post, Bash and his team reviewed unmasking practices as well as whether officials at the time improperly leaked information to reporters. Bash reportedly turned over his findings to Barr, whose office chose not to publicly release the findings. The findings did not rise to the allegations Trump and his allies have made about wrongdoing, according to the report.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agbarr; bagppes; barr; bash; benghazi; jeremybash; obama; stefanhalper; unmasking
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To: yesthatjallen

WTF ever


101 posted on 10/13/2020 8:48:46 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: yesthatjallen

Let’s unmask Biden!


102 posted on 10/13/2020 8:56:19 PM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hard to believe.


103 posted on 10/13/2020 9:02:20 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: yesthatjallen
Bash reportedly turned over his findings to Barr, whose office chose not to publicly release the findings.

But BASH sure did...strategically right before the election.

104 posted on 10/13/2020 9:04:20 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Major Matt Mason

Kids. Kids. Kids.

Remember it was ONLY after Barr Was put in place that He told the asswipe MULEHEAD. put up or shut up !

That got the ball rolling and ended that crap on mar 22 2019.

Look kids. You’ll never GET A CONVICTION OF THE SWAMP IN DC


105 posted on 10/13/2020 9:13:11 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sounds like John Bash is the one who claims to have found nothing. He turned over his findings to Barr, who has not made any public statement.

The article states, “Bash reportedly turned over his findings to Barr, whose office chose not to publicly release them.”


106 posted on 10/13/2020 9:30:13 PM PDT by keats5
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To: yesthatjallen

Another game of 3 Card Monte without a money card. Will we ever learn?


107 posted on 10/13/2020 9:47:09 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I'm Joe Biden and they tell me I approve this message.)
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To: cgbg

“The way Just Us works is you narrow the scope of the investigation so that you are looking for a needle in a haystack”.

You are right on.


108 posted on 10/13/2020 10:57:26 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: LouieFisk

“But Trump made the mistake of trusting life-long swamp creatures to go after fellow life-long swamp creatures”.

Trump has done his best to find people who are not in the Swamp. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.


109 posted on 10/13/2020 11:01:46 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: yesthatjallen

110 posted on 10/13/2020 11:27:00 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: laplata

“Trump has done his best to find people who are not in the Swamp.”

Gotta look outside of the Wash establishment - Rudy G, Jay Sekulow, someone like that who knows how it works but is not part of it. If you gotta go with a DCer, use someone like Cruz who’s reasonably trustworthy and is not beloved by the swamp.


111 posted on 10/13/2020 11:29:18 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: yesthatjallen

WP reports I would wait to see if this is actually true!!


112 posted on 10/13/2020 11:31:17 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: yesthatjallen

WP reports I would wait to see if this is actually true!!


113 posted on 10/13/2020 11:31:19 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: yesthatjallen

“We found substantive wrongdoing in procedure and action, but won’t do anything about it because reasons.”


114 posted on 10/13/2020 11:49:25 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I said it before, Barr is th swamp.


115 posted on 10/14/2020 12:13:09 AM PDT by saturn
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To: LouieFisk

Isn’t this just one aspect to the Russia corruption investigation? There’s still the fake dossier funded with blood money.


116 posted on 10/14/2020 12:40:35 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: tsowellfan

Excellent post so true


117 posted on 10/14/2020 12:57:50 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate of America and Freedom.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Without seeing the report, my question is whether they followed legal procedures in requesting the information as opposed to allowing it to be leaked illegally/unethically, which could be a criminal charge.

Let’s see if Flynn’s lawsuits bring out more documents on this tactic and its use, legal or illegal.


118 posted on 10/14/2020 1:13:47 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: DoughtyOne

POLIDIOTS & PRESSTITUTES .......... Trust none of them ......ever.


119 posted on 10/14/2020 1:20:17 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: dp0622

Tom Fitton for AG. He knows the swamp and gets the real goods

If not him Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell


120 posted on 10/14/2020 1:33:34 AM PDT by patriotspride
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