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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Notice how this Hill story cites only the WaPo. If there was an identified official source, wouldn’t that be mentioned? Smells like Democrat propaganda.
Wasn’t a Durham report too political before the election, but this isn’t? This stooge couldn’t be anymore DS.
In order to learn the information, US officials with proper security clearance to review the report can ask the agency that collected it — such as the FBI, CIA or National Security Agency — to “unmask” the name.
They must provide a reason, such as their need to fully understand the significance or context behind the intelligence.
This is a common process that happens “literally hundreds of times a year across multiple administrations,” according to former CIA deputy director Michael Morell.
If the request is approved, the names are then only shared with the specific individual who asked. Leaking an “unmasked” name to the media or public is illegal.
The way Just Us works is you narrow the scope of the investigation so that you are looking for a needle in a haystack.
Then you spend thousands of hours and lots of staff time hunting for the needle.
Then you don’t find it.
This stuff is _so_ predictable.
Spit.
I’m just surprised that anyone actually bought the whole any-day-now bigtime arrests “tick-tocking” hook, line and sinker. Was a fraud from “start” (as if they ever did anything to begin with, heh) to finish.
Why did Barr have someone else investigate it?
Oh for Pete’s sake...
Unmasking isn’t illegal.
It’s what they do with the information that comes into question.
I sat through fatty’s bag pipes and speeches for this?
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"The findings did not rise to the allegations Trump and his allies have made about wrongdoing, according to the report"
NOW, just where does that come from if the report is not publicly released? Oh, yes, more confidential informants. Head shake. The article is pure crap. And AG Barr is not going to bring more damage to the FBI by further exposure than has already been discovered.
Unmasking isn’t illegal.
It’s what they do with the information that comes into question.
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Oh, okay.
I guess that will be discovered in the NEXT investigation.
GEEEEEEZ. I’m sick of this shat.
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You don’t understand!
They have to wait for the exact right time - 20 years in the future.
And they can’t use the tools the Dems use, that wouldn’t be gentlemanly.
A lot of idiots should be apologizing for their gullible idiocy.
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I agree my friend.
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They said the same exact things about Barr, Mueller, and Comey.
Same people championed all of them.
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Trump should have appointed his son as AG right out of the gate.
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Joe Biden is on Video admitting to a Felony.
They are all protecting Joe.
It’s just that Simple.
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“Even with Barr, Dems get away with it EVERY SINGLE TIME”
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But Trump made the mistake of trusting life-long swamp creatures to go after fellow life-long swamp creatures.
“Trump should have appointed his son as AG right out of the gate.”
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No. Rudy G. and/or Jay Sekulow, to investigate and prosecute. Hopefully there is a second term where wiser appointments are made.
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