{"id":30637,"date":"2020-10-06T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=30637"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:07:19","slug":"deep-state-has-been-peeling-away-one-doj-attorney-after-another-form-ag-barrs-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=30637","title":{"rendered":"<i>Deep State<\/i> has been peeling away one DoJ attorney after another from AG Barr&#8217;s most critical investigations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>US attorney tapped by Barr to review process of &#8216;unmasking&#8217; resigns from DOJ<\/h1>\n<h3>US Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash resigned<\/h3>\n<p>By Brooke Singman | Fox News<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/barr-asks-us-attorney-john-bash-to-review-unmasking-before-and-after-2016-election-doj-tells-fox-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Bash,<\/a> who was tapped by Attorney General Bill Barr to review the practice of unmasking, resigned from the Justice Department on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cThis morning I submitted my resignation to the President and the Attorney General, effective Friday,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/barr-asks-us-attorney-john-bash-to-review-unmasking-before-and-after-2016-election-doj-tells-fox-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Bash\u00a0<\/a>tweeted Monday. \u201cLast month I accepted a position in the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1313158134039556098&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fus-attorney-reviewing-unmasking-resigns-doj&amp;siteScreenName=foxnews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1313158134039556098\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bash said he was \u201cgrateful\u201d to President Trump and members of the U.S. Senate for \u201cthe opportunity to serve the people of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Bash, in a statement, said that Barr has \u201celected to appoint Gregg Sofer\u201d to succeed him as U.S. attorney, whom he described as \u201can inspired choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a veteran Department of Justice attorney, serving first in the National Security Division at Main Justice and then for over a decade as a national-security specialist in our Austin office,\u201d Bash said. \u201cIn the latter role, he built a reputation as a dogged and tremendously effective prosecutor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash added that Sofer will \u201cmake an excellent U.S. Attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI leave the Department with a profound respect for its people, its traditions, and its importance to our constitutional democracy,\u201d Bash said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop\"><\/div>\n<p>In May, Barr appointed Bash to launch a more focused review on the process of unmasking before and after the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department also, at the time, revealed that U.S. Attorney John Durham from Connecticut, who is reviewing the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, was also investigating the so-called unmasking of Trump campaign associates as part of his broader review. That line of investigation was confirmed after Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and\u00a0Ron Johnson, R-Wis., made public a list of Obama officials who purportedly requested to \u201cunmask\u201d the identity of Michael Flynn, who\u00a0at the time\u00a0was Trump\u2019s incoming national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unmasking inherently isn&#8217;t wrong, but certainly, the frequency, the motivation and the reasoning behind unmasking can be problematic, and when you&#8217;re looking at unmasking as part of a broader investigation &#8212; like John Durham&#8217;s investigation &#8212; looking specifically at who was unmasking whom, can add a lot to our understanding about motivation and big picture events,&#8221; Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in May, after Bash was tapped to take on the task.<\/p>\n<p>Unmasking occurs after U.S. citizens&#8217; conversations are incidentally picked up in\u00a0conversations with foreign officials who are being monitored by the intelligence community. The U.S. citizens&#8217; identities are supposed to be protected if their participation is\u00a0incidental and no wrongdoing is suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Officials, however, can determine the U.S. citizens&#8217; names through a process that is supposed to safeguard their rights. In the typical process, when officials are requesting the unmasking of an American, they do not necessarily know the identity of the person in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The roster featured top-ranking figures including then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Obama\u2019s then-chief of staff Denis McDonough.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear, at this point, if Sofer will take on Bash\u2019s responsibilities in investigating the unmasking process.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-attorney-reviewing-unmasking-resigns-doj\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-attorney-reviewing-unmasking-resigns-doj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US attorney tapped by Barr to review process of &#8216;unmasking&#8217; resigns from DOJ US Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash resigned By Brooke Singman | Fox News U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas\u00a0John Bash, who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=30637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}