Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said John Bash, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, will look into the issue.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr has tapped an outside federal prosecutor to look into episodes of unmasking involving Obama administration officials – the latest in a series of probes by the Justice Department on issues that matter to President Donald Trump and his allies.
The declassified documents state that the officials who requested to unmask Flynn had authority to do so. Story continuesThe appointment of Bash comes a few months after Barr appointed another federal prosecutor, Jeffrey Jensen, to review the criminal case against Flynn. The Justice Department has since sought to drop its prosecution of the former Army general, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his communications with a former Russian ambassador after Trump's election.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan appointed a third party to challenge the Justice Department's bid to drop the prosecution and to examine whether Flynn committed perjury for claiming he's innocent of a crime he had earlier admitted. Flynn is now asking a federal appeals court to intervene by forcing Sullivan to dismiss the case.
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