Bash To Investigate Motivations and Frequency of Unmaskings

[Rightguide]

Apparently John Huber under AG Sessions either didn't investigate as was reported:


Barr asks US Attorney John Bash to review 'unmasking' before and after 2016 election, DOJ tells Fox News

By Vandana Rambaran, Jake Gibson | Fox News

Attorney General Bill Barr has asked U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash to review the practice of "unmasking" before and after the 2016 presidential election, a controversy that has picked up steam after the Justice Department moved to drop charges against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the DOJ told Fox News on Wednesday night.

Republican lawmakers have demanded more information about the extent of the practice after a previously clandestine list of Obama-era officials who sought to reveal what turned out to be the identity of Michael Flynn in intelligence reports was released earlier the month. The DOJ had moved to drop the Flynn case after internal memos were released raising serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to his late-2017 guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts.

DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told Fox News' "Hannity" that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been reviewing the origins of the Russia investigation, was looking into "unmasking" but Barr determined certain aspects of the practice needed further review, and Bash has been assigned to do so.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ba...re-and-after-2016-election-doj-tells-fox-news

 

[Rightguide]

Let's find out why there was a 300% increase in unmaskings in the final term of Barack Obama.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Let's find out why

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/483/348/bdd.jpg

 

[YukYou]

cause under Obama we didnt needa wear masks

now we do

and those that had masks

were unmasked

 

[hogjack]

Save the people some money. No investigations needed.

Unmaskings were part of the process to get to the ultimate goal: spying on Trump and the Trump Campaign

Political scum (President Obama) worked closely with CIA scum (Communist-sympathizer Brennan) to make it all happen.

 

[Rightguide]

In the week before the Inauguration did Obama amend EO #12333 to protect his administration officials from investigation and prosecution for illegally unmasking American citizens?

Why Is Obama Expanding Surveillance Powers Right Before He Leaves Office?

It could be to prevent Trump from extending them even more.
Kaveh Waddell
January 13, 2017

This from Susan Hennessey, a Brookings fellow, and former attorney in the NSA general counsel’s office, explains the difference the changes make:

"The civil-liberties concern often surrounds the use of incidentally collected information. Under the new rule, the FBI could not obtain access to or search raw intelligence information for ordinary criminals in an ordinary criminal investigation against a U.S. person. However, if the FBI incidentally seized evidence of a crime, they are allowed to use that information. So that tends to be where the tension is for people who are concerned with the potential impacts that this change could have on U.S. persons."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/obama-expanding-nsa-powers/513041/

So that said, does it mean the Obama players are now protected? I'd say no if the purpose of the new language is to cover up criminal wrongdoing. Biden was the last person to request an unmasking of Flynn on January 12. 2017, but not afterward. The day Obama signed the new rule was on January 12, 2017. So, after the 12th, they didn't need to worry about it being illegal. I wonder if this is why Barr appointed US Attorney bash to investigate the issue.