The U.S. attorney tasked with investigating the 'unmasking' saga concluded that retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn's name had never been hidden to begin with when the FBI shared information with the Obama administration.
Flynn's communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were leaked to the media in early 2017. However, the prosecutor said he did not find politically motivated wrongdoing related to the requests by officials that unmasked associates of Donald Trump during the transition period after his 2016 win.
A follow-up article by the Washington Post on Feb. 9, 2017, revealed classified details from Flynn’s monitored calls with Kislyak, citing “nine current and former officials” in “senior positions at multiple agencies." Bash said Barr tasked him in May 2020 with reviewing the disclosure of “U.S. person identity information in disseminated intelligence reports,” dubbed “unmasking,” and said he reviewed unmasking requests from the start of March 2016 through the end of January 2017.
Bash sought to absolve officials of any wrongdoing related to broader unmasking during the 2016 election and presidential transition. The U.S. attorney said some requests “sought the identity of one or two of the presidential candidates” but that “those involved only references to the candidates by foreign individuals.”
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