Well, this is interesting…. very interesting…
U.S. Attorney John Bash, from the Western District of Texas, was given the responsibility by AG Barr of looking into the illegal unmasking by Obama-era officials in July of this year. Not only the illegal unmasking of General Flynn, but more extensive unmasking. Today Bash announced his abrupt resignation. “Abrupt” because he announced today, and he leaves on Friday. However, he does say he informed Barr last month:
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. – U.S. Attorney John F. Bash announced today that he will resign from the Department of Justice on Friday, October 9, 2020, at 11:59pm. U.S. Attorney Bash issued the following statement:
This Friday—eight years to the day after I first joined the Department of Justice—I will step down as United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas.
Last month I accepted an offer for a position in the private sector and informed the Attorney General of my decision. I tendered formal letters of resignation to both the President and the Attorney General this morning.
I am grateful to the President, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, and the other members of the United States Senate for the opportunity to serve the people of Texas. I am also grateful to former Counsel to the President Donald F. McGahn II, who gave me steadfast support throughout the nomination and confirmation process, and to former Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., for first bringing me into the Department in 2012. And I am honored that during my tenure as U.S. Attorney, the Attorney General has seen fit to entrust me with significant responsibilities and to appoint me to his Advisory Committee.
[…] The Attorney General has elected to appoint Gregg Sofer to succeed me as U.S. Attorney. Gregg is an inspired choice. He 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. In the latter role, he built a reputation as a dogged and tremendously effective prosecutor.
In 2018, I selected Gregg to serve as our office’s Criminal Division Chief, where he designed and implemented significant improvements to our operations, oversaw thousands of prosecutions, and provided me with invaluable advice on a range of important issues and cases. Since early this year, he has served in Washington, D.C., as Counselor to the Attorney General. He will make an excellent U.S. Attorney.
Attorney General William Barr offered the following statement:
I offer my gratitude to John Bash for his service as United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. Since 2017, John has successfully led one of the largest U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the country. John has made significant contributions to the Department of Justice, including his service on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. I appreciate his service to our nation and to the Justice Department, and I wish him the very best. (link)
John Bash is one of five known U.S.A.O.’s who were tasked to provide supplemental support to the John Durham probe. Specifically Bash’s objective originated after the extensive unmasking of Michael Flynn was discovered; however, that objective was expanded in both scope and time as explained by AG Bill Barr on July 28, 2020.
At 01:40 of this congressional questioning by representative Jim Jordan, Bill Barr provides an outline of what John Bash’s role and responsibility was as assigned. The video is prompted, just hit play:
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It would be highly unusual for a U.S. attorney to resign in the middle of a very important aspect of his investigative responsibilities as assigned by the Attorney General.
Something about this is not passing the sniff test at all…
U.S. Attorney John F. Bash announced today that he will resign from the Department of Justice on Friday, October 9, 2020, at 11:59pm. U.S. Attorney Bash issued the following statement.
Let’s suppose John F. Bash is another Admiral Rodgers. And, the message made its way to President Trump. How would you react, if you were the President?
Now. You know how I feel. That Is All.
Interesting comment. The real whistle blowers are now resigning?
Rogers did, right
No, he retired from the Navy
I tend to assume he is just a talented young man that just got one hell of a job offer/ It happens
I looked up his wikipedia listing and his wife’s and they seem straight arrow, both. I think his wife was threatened.
Yep, an offer he couldn’t refuse. There are no coincidences.
Maybe Mr. Bash is finished with his investigation.
You and I and a “few” others are thinking the same way but I am feeling a sunami under our feet a coming!
A good tsunami or a bad one?
A good one ?❤️
Whew……I feel better.
Ratcliffe released what should have been a Tsunami a week ago…,,,waiting,….,,ho hum……….. still waiting…. not holding my breath…, are the media held in bondage three levels underground?
Nah they are just counting the Clinton/Podesta
Soros/Rothchilds Globalist/CIA cash.
John Ratcliffe did this did he?
What indictments were unsealed at the same time?
If no indictments it doesn’t look the least bit like a tsunami to me.
Apparently you just have to say it was “confusing” ( Comey) and the MSM remains confused , complicit and corrupt. They are the “enemy of the State” as are numerous alphabet agencies. I think the tsunami has hit us a few times over the last 50 years —its names are” Education”, “Indoctrination”, “Malfeasance”, “Corruption”, “Politicalization” and “Ignorance” . “Ignorance ” has left lasting damage. “Havoc ” and ” Destruction” are to follow..
Trump is on to these clowns. This is why he brought in Fitton and Elder. It appears a massive tsunami of declassified material is going to be released before the next debate.
Dreamer…
Thomas Fitton, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure.
Laurence Allen Elder, of California, to be a Member of the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys.
Yes !
This country and the world need that tsunami right about now.
We need two really, really big ones. : the LA/ SF area and DC/ Northern Virginia area. Better known as Nature’s “cleansing”
“Judge thyself lest ye be judged” there is a judgement coming, like a hole in the ground that swallows everything, take your self and all that implies and stand back. Wash yourself of any part of this, mind or deed.
I gave up on our elected officials, they’re competent criminals, no more, no less. Doesn’t matter who is in office what matters is when the money handlers cast their vote. Can survive with a God of money.
I wanted Trump in office, still do but my attention has turned from savior to him fulfilling these times. He is doing just that, or I should give credit where due, Our Lord is fulfilling these times through president Trump.
This is a routine resignation by a young lawyer wishing to get-on with his career and family in a new home. Such resignations are quite common, and expected. I agree he likely completed his investigation.
no way the 702 investigation is finished.
Bullshit.,, on 24may. I worked for the Federal Courts for a long. US Atty appointments are prized by all attys. They don’t just quit. Either this man was compromised and is being pushed out or is scared sh**less.
That was my first thought. That he was threatened.
Yep.. The Guy’s What About A “Buck-Ten” Soaking Wet? He Look’s Fragile…
Isn’t he investigating unmasking.? Hillary is not on that list but maybe she’s doing a surrogate “Arkancide” favor?
He looks like he could be intimidated.
Alternative 3, He was on the trail, doing a good job, and so the ‘Powers that Be’ arranged an absurdly lucrative offer such that he couldn’t (to be fair to his family) turn it down to finish the job. Could be corrupt, and yet not on his part. Or of course it could be on his part too.
You don’t resign in the middle of a career-making investigation.
Yeah, Bash is finished but was an investigation even started ?
Yes Zy, until prosecutorial fruit of an “investigation” is realized, this continues as another Huber and Durham Tic Toc.
Test 1 2. Huber and Durham want to know if an investigation has begun. Strzok also is inquiring.
Maybe Bash accepted a more lucrative offer. Maybe Bash was told to stand down. Maybe Bash was told his kneecaps were in danger. Maybe Bash caught a bad case of the flu and felt he couldn’t discharge his duties responsibly.
It’s all tea leaves available for the reading. I’ve had enough tea.
I’m ready for coffee, please, and a Danish.
For sure, one way or the other.
I think he wants to view the upcoming explosion from his rear view mirror…..after all, I’ll bet he has a family to feed, etc. November 4 is not that far away after all.
Barr, I feel, wants to try and preserve the mystique of the DOJ as an institution as much as he can, but I think even he now knows that Lynch, Holder, Rosenstein, et al. created and allowed the cancer to grow like a melanoma that requires you to cut out not only the cancer, but half of the patient with it.
I think Sundance’s little visit with the Chief Investigator shook up the carefully laid plans to salvage the DOJ’s august patina with a cold bucket of water. After all, the Chief Investigator’s first question was, “How did you find me?”.
Chief Investigator? The Treehouse or Barr?
William Aldenberg:
The Essentially Accurate Point
“I didn’t give them puzzle pieces, I gave special investigator William Aldenberg the fully assembled puzzle.”
To wit:
Discussion with John Durham’s Lead Investigator
Chief Investigator? The Treehouse or Barr?
I can’t even comment here because I will suffer repercussions down the road. But know this, I am so discouraged about the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and NSA. Its the complete lack of people coming forward. And its the fact that Trump began in 2017 trying to trust these same people who have attacked him in such underhanded ways. He trusted them. They should at least have had the character to face off with him.
I think a lot of people are acting based upon their personal finances.
If Trump would to simply fire them all, like Reagan did with the Air Traffic Controllers, and then allow them to re-apply, things might change big time.
But until it pays to stay mum….
That’s what we are seeing.
Cowards! They are all cowards. That’s why they lurk in shadows and use underhanded means to oppose the president. They are not man enough to stand forth and speak forthrightly. There are real men in this country yet. You can see that from all the veterans who have served bravely and suffered so much. However, there is not much evidence of real men in the FBI. They are cowards!
Regardless of the Barr outcome what is clear to anyone who cares to look is that any faith in the integrity and honesty of the FBI/DOJ and others is laughably misguided. The sheer no. of sheep at all levels who went silently along with this treasonous outrage is mind numbing and terrifying.
That’s it Will, bottom line. Rogers is our example, do you see anyone like that……anywhere?
Money, job, status, I guess ‘hell’ is not so embarrassing for the pay?
Maybe I’m to old school but, geez the respect I have for anyone who stands up and says “hell no” I won’t comprise my conscience for a piece of silver. The Lord honors that! And when the dirt hits the top of your coffin, really what else ya got, a shiny coffin…with dirt on it?
You have no money, no kids, no wife, no car, nothing but a bunch of memories of what you either made better or destroyed. How’s eternity with that? They call it hell!
I have worked with many attorneys in my life and can tell you that DOJ lawyers have the ethics, in general, of, well . . . . but that badge does give them a rather glamorous patina in the system. You are right to be discouraged. We need change. The corruption is endemic.
Was this the little surprise Trump has for us?
Your comment reminded me of this Biblical verse: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” ~ Corinthians Chap 13 verse 12
There are many things going on which we only see slivers of..unclear images, shadows and whispers. Sundance has alluded to these things many times and often, we become frustrated as it seems we are being teased. In fact, we ARE being teased, but not in the way you would think.
I suspect Trump is sitting on a great and powerful wealth of information, but the problem is, HOW and WHEN does he use it. If too soon, it fizzles and and is covered up by the media. If too late, then…..it’s too late.
As the phrase goes, the timing must be perfect…….
I think it might shake the foundations of the country also. We hear rumblings of witchcraft and pedophilia, Epstein and Weinstein, Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, sex slaves and human trafficking. The things we already know to be true are incredible and unbelievable if we didn’t see the proof of it. I think the spirit cooking email and the artwork in the Podesta houses are foreshadows of things to come. To know that a presidential candidate would conspire with the DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, Attorney General, Directors of all the intel agencies and foreign governments to prevent another candidate from getting elected is not a believable movie plot. What is worth the risk that would allow for such a betrayal. And even more, what would cause such hesitation to prosecute such a breach? We have forgotten Bill Clinton being in possession of 1700 FBI files, illegally while president, or the controlled burn in Los Alamos national forest during a drought and 25 mph winds, where the hard drives for the computers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory disappeared for two weeks, only to reappear two weeks later in a brown paper bag behind the water cooler. 30 years have gone by. What if all this is the same plot? Loral Corporation, BCCI, The Chinese money laundering scandal, Charlie Tree and Johnny Chung, and more recently having Pakistani Intel agents working as IT techs on about 40 democrat congressmen’s computers, having all their passwords and access to top secret information. Dianne Feinstein’s Chinese intel officer as a driver for her limo for 20 years?There is a lot of things that are horrific that no one even remembers. What if it is all the same thing?
What about Billy Boy selling hitech to China against the wishes and better judgement of the Military back in the late 1990’s… back when the Clintons and the DNC were taking all kinds of money from the Chinese and the “donor” fled back to china to keep from being interrogated by the FBI.
and don’t forget those escorted back to their home countries after 9-11: the bin laden family the next day, the only planes flying on 9-12-01, and the mossad agents caught in new jersey videoing the attacks on the world trade center, never apparently interrogated, certainly not indicted, and sent back to israel where one said on television: “we went to document the event.”
I was at a conference in Hong Kong in 1996. The ignorance spouted there by the chief Chinese rocket scientist was dumbfounding to some American scientists present. It was apparent to all professionals that the Chinese were designing their rockets on false premises. Then Clinton gave them American technology and their rockets stopped blowing up.
Yes, that was the Loral Corporation and the Chinese money laundering scandal. 90 something people fled the country rather than testify.
Also the Los Alamos scandal which included all the test data from every nuclear test the US ever performed and the schematic drawings for miniaturized nuclear warheads. Loral supplied the computerized telemetry module that was key for targeting individual cities with MERV’s. There is a good rundown on it if you google Los Alamos fire and scandal and read The NY Times story on it. It is a bit of a cover for them story, but if you are aware you can see through the disinformation part of it.
To know that a president… would conspire…[with everyone] to prevent ..[his duly-elected successor}…from getting elected and then [to overthrow him]… is not a believable movie plot.
The Buck stops with Obama (who was PRESIDENT), not Hillary. Period. Finished. Done. Don’t forget it.
It was Hillary’s plan. Obama was briefed, he knew, but it was her plan. The buck doesn’t stop with Obama. Hillary orchestrated the plan in order to distract from the private server scandal. At least that is what Brennan’s briefing notes indicate. They both should be in prison for conspiracy but to say the buck stops with Obama is bull.
Indictments and arrests aren’t easily going to be covered up by the media.
Besides, people are ALREADY VOTING so holding onto information is denying people who will decide your fate the chance to vote having full knowledge of what is going on.
An unlikely and silly strategy.
More deep state maneuvering here. Bash may try well be connected to the Democratic party. I was a n investigator for many years and I NEVER heard of a prosecuting or investigating attorney quitting in the middle of an investigation. Sundance’s last sentence says it all! SOMETHING here does not pass the smell test……………….
In May, Barr appointed Bash to launch a more focused review on the process of unmasking before and after the 2016 presidential election.
Bash was gone in 6 months.
The CIA is a difficult taskmaster to refuse. A resignation may have ensured that atty Bash will no longer receive inquiries from the spymasters at the CIA.
conceivably his wife had some influence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zina_Bash
Yep, thats a creepy untrustable millennial family, and from personal experience, I’d say those people are Soros shills
Curt:
I suspect that whatever firm it was that hired Bash was extremely interested in the information Bash has garnered heretofore in his investigation. Such information makes certain law firms more valuable than others.
And a lot of people may be needing these law firms. I think the Clinton cabal threatened him. He could be the next Seth Rich.
with their track record, sometimes they don’t even need to threaten. i’ve heard that both loretta lynch and eric holder were told, separately and in confidence in early 2016, that if they were “helpful” they’d get the next appointment to the supreme court as an opening would be occurring soon.
the next month antonin scalia died.
as jim comey probably didn’t say: as fbi director i dont always overlook criminal activity but when i do it’s because i found my suicide note while going through hillary’s emails.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
It is MUCH more lucrative defending the coup plotters for YEARS in court than it is prosecuting them for your salary.
My hunch is he is simply another “go along to get along” guy who didn’t want to get involved in such a controversial and confrontational effort because it would likely ruin his chances at parachuting into a swamp law firm defending white collar criminals, taking in $3.5 mil/yr.
Hammer, meet nail!
This sounds about right to me
This guy sounds like a greasy money grubbing lawyer who’s married to another greasy money grubby lawyer.
I would add that this likely means his contributions in his Barr appointed position will add up to zero, zilch and nada. He was too busy pursuing this new position to undertake any meaningful investigation into unmasking……guess Barr will have to push that restart button. So goes the Wash, Rinse and Repeat!
Like corruption? Bribery? RICO charges?
a) Why would a “U.S. Attorney” suddenly leave a major crime case?
b) When did Bash the ‘U.S. Attorney’ start seeking new employment?
• i) As in did Bash use his work computer during office hours to seek new employment?
• ii) Noticing that according to the effort needed during Bash’s investigation into ‘unmasking’ would leave Bash very little time during business hours for finding new employment.
What this smacks of is Huber’s level of effort put into Bash’s assignment which was/is nil.
Now that the heat is on for producing unmasking investigative work products, it does look like
Bash sought billionaire assistance with guaranteed salary and got out of Dodge.
Exactly. More Corruption. The guy sat on his duties, produced nothing but running out the clock to the maximum, and shopped this to Democrat law firms as a bribe. $300k plus a year at some law firm, etc, and I’ll make this case go away…
$300k is $150 an hour. That is new hire level – wd think he would bill $1000-$1500 an hour, $2-3 million w US Atty experience.
No way. He’s Republican pedigree and that figure makes him a seriously cheap date.
his wife works for cornyn on the judiciary committee. as ralph nader said in the 2000 election: it’s not what the parties disagree about that’s the problem, it’s what they agree on.
US Attorneys are quietly being informed that anyone producing or participating in efforts to uncover DEEP STATE activity will suffer life altering consequences.
As Chuck Schumer wryly advised, if you cross the Intelligence Agencies, they have six ways to Sunday to get back at you. My guess…..agents of truth are getting uncomfortably close to revealing that which must not be revealed.
He doesn’t have to seek employment. The employment seeks him by a leftist law firm to stop the investigation. Money over justice. Timing smells like a rat.
a) Why would a “U.S. Attorney” suddenly leave a major crime case?
His investigation showed everything was “done by the book.” No crime was committed.
or the investigation showed that the perpetrators were experts in avoiding legal missteps and insuring plausible deniability.
Maybe Bash Excepted A Job With Peter Comey At DLP Piper, I Here There’s An Opening Now That Kammala’s Husband Resigned…
Could this be related at all, in any way, to Congressman Devin Nunes’ rant earlier?
No surprise, the unmasking investigation should have been initiated year ago. You start with Samantha Powers and then follow the evidence. But Barr-zini’s mission was to run out the clock and protect Mueller, Rosenstein, Comey, Brennan, Yates, et al.
Now that Fitton is part of the Trump administration , we finally have a wartime consigliore who will take it to the pimp Wray and Barr-zini.
Gives them a good excuse to start over and justify more delay. They are working toward January 20, 2021, but setting up “insurance policies” (no pun intended!) in case they have to stretch it out to January 20, 2025.
My question is whether they bought him off or his task is completed or at least enough to leave with a clear conscience…
Time will tell, I guess.
well, and there is always the fallback position: corrupt from the start, shopping himself after he’s got some truly incriminating information to (not) reveal.
I smell poopy….
The specific case he was investigating and larger ‘Scandal of the Century’ that encompasses it are the holy grail for a DOJ lawyer ! The Big One ! What kind of lawyer wouldn’t want to be part of that? Particularly one that that had already been knee deep in it for the last three months?
No way he completed an investigation in 3 months…. I don’t believe it. I starting to get really tired of the bullshit from these swampy mo fo’s. Seriously …. it’s getting old.
I’m Harry Dale Huffman, and I approve this message. All of you who are uncertain need to get real.
….or like Roberts and (possibly) Souter….(and who knows how many others)….Mr. Bash received a message recently that he had some skeletons in his closet.
Jeminize I’d like to find some of my old skeletons most of them were quite striking!
San Antonio is no longer part of the State of Texas let alone the USA.. it hasn’t been for the past 12-15 years.. it’s was once a great city and I loved it.. San Antonio was Californicated as was Austin.. It’s really too bad both were once fine Texas cities..I’m not surprised of his cut and run the party of the Jackass has lots of resources, I’m certain his payoff was good..
DON’T AUSTIN MY TEXAS!!!
Austin was Willie Nelsoned long before it was Californicated.
1970s was great in Austin, hippies fused w freaks & country western – commander Cody, willie, waylon, jerry Jeff, then came the punkers……
Austin has always been a dump. Just my opinion, but I am sure not alone with it.
Californication is what happened to Oregon, Austin received the gift of Barry Soteros’ ‘Community organizers’.
They also hit Colorado, Idaho & N.Mex.
I’ve been shocked that they endured in Idaho.
The ‘Community Organizers’ work as teachers and obtain minor city jobs, local elections, they exert influence in these ‘minor administrative positions’.
Pay Attention! They are pulling on the rug.
Yes. Thank you.
1. Texas has had a long Democrat component since Reconstruction – a far longer such history than California.
2. Austin is a state capital, which makes it attractive to leftists, like D.C.: Leftists are drawn to the public sector, and to centers of power.
3. In addition to having a leftist univeristy, Austin is a major music center, like Nashville, and, like Nashville, is especially leftist. Musicians are, by and large, hedonists and leftists, certainly more so than the general populace.
Blaming California for all of the long-standing political failings of Texas is convenient and erroneous. Lyndon “Bane” Johnson was homegrown Texan; he was no California import.
Re LBJ, you took the words right out of my mouth. In my misguided but happy youth, I always considered Texas to be Democrat dominated.
Austin is still a great place to live by comparison but I can only imagine what defunded the police will do on slowing the cartel to stanglehold the state Capitol and they will. I hate that bc I really love Austin. Houston and Dallas are also both blue.
My Texan friends who insist Texas will never go blue are in utter denial. Demography is destiny and they’ve allowed a wide open border and elected governors like Perry who incentivizes moving California businesses into Texas on the backs of Texas taxpayers via incentive deals.
In May, Barr appointed Bash to launch a more focused review on the process of unmasking before and after the 2016 presidential election.
Bash was gone in 6 months
Four reasons:
1 Bash finished his investigation
2 Bash was bad at the job
3 Bash decided the investigation was bad for his future career
4 Bash found something Durham’s investigation was doing that he did not agree with.
5. Barr shutdown Bash’s investigation
I am going with number four for now.
I’ll put a few tokens on number five. I’m getting discouraged with AG Barr.
I’m with you.
#6 Barr head fake
“3 Bash decided the investigation was bad for his future career”
3.5 Bash decided the investigation was bad for his future as a breathing individual
Let’s see how Barr’s lineup is doing
Huber led off and struck out
Nora up second and struck out
Bash batting third and he strikes out
Looks like the DS is pitching a perfect game.
Soros pistol whips Barr-zini every day. His many spies in the State , DOJ, and FBI provide him with every move Barr-zini makes. He is no match for the evil genius Soros, who as a young man assistanted the SS to separate the Jews from their belongings as they entered the concentration camps.
Fitton, who President Trump just brought in the administration maybe up to the task to take on Soros.
how many people on barrs advisory Council have “LEFT”? I remember the liu woman was removed in an odd way. Maybe barr likes to put enemy’s at his table.
Maybe Barr likes to deliver enemies at the table of his enemy. I believe this belongs to you?
Wasn’t that a scene in Braveheart?
I can’t put my finger on Bash’s motivations.
One thing to remember is that this is election season, so it is also resignation season. Some resign to work on the campaign so that they can get a new position. Some resign to make room for new appointees. Some get sick of it all. Etc.
The fact that he argued cases before the Supreme Court under President Obama is troubling. Neither Holder or Lynch would let him stay if he didn’t argue effectively for Obama policies. Don’t know which cases though.
Mostly looks like a solid Republican. Clerked for Scalia and for Kavanaugh. Wife is a big Cruz supporter. She clerked for Alito and Kavanaugh, and worked for Cruz’s 2016 campaign and for Senator Cornyn.
Both worked for Trump before his appointment as U.S. Attorney.
And you never know if he got pushed out or left on his own. What if he is upset at Barr? Or Barr is upset at him?
If, like so many other Trump administration people, he is anti-Trump, we will definitely hear about it. And that would clear up what he was doing. If on the other hand, Barr was directing a coverup, and Bash was upset, we will never hear that from either one.
But then the family could just be good honest people who, like us, are just sick and fed up with the dirty national politics and are going back to private life.
He left his post in a time of war.
What could possibly be more satisfying than a long fruitful career fighting high level .gov corruption, conspiracy and treason from the inside?
Ranching or farming or just about anything productive would be far more satisfying.
Ranching or farming or just about anything productive would be far more satisfying.
The coup conspiracy bribed him with a fat job in the private sector. By leaving abruptly it no doubt slows the investigation with the goal of running out the clock on the Trump administration which they all believe ends with a Biden win.
bingo, we have a winner. … simple.
A little background behind USAO John Bash.
His wife Zina Bash was caught up in the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
“The Statesman also reported that Barr’s wife, Zina Bash, works in Paxton’s office as senior counsel, but said she was not one of the seven aides alleging bribery and abuse of office from the Texas AG.”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1037154335963185152
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/05/texas-ken-paxton-bribery/
Who is Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general accused of bribery and abuse of office?
Paxton said Monday he wouldn’t resign. Here’s what we know so far about the latest allegations against Texas’ top legal official.
BY ELVIA LIMÓN OCT. 5, 2020
2 HOURS AGO
* USAO John Bash wife is Zina Bash … Not Barr’s
* USAO John Bash wife is Zina Bash … Not Barr’s
Perhaps Bash can shop indictment intel to potential defense attorney firms representing the swamp. Seems like a payday to be had for your typical ethics void lawyer.
Thank you ohnoyoudont, innocent until proven guilty! Lest we ALL forget!!
Perhaps he found details that were so unsettling and consequential that he was worrying himself sick about what it could mean to him and his family if he were to expose the malfeasance in any kind of report. Much easier to cut and run than to put one’s life on the line. In such cases it’s preferable to be a quitter.
A great majority of folk don’t believe in putting America first…not everyone is as courageous as President Donald J. Trump.
Yea, Bill Barr pulled him aside and said, “You’re looking into this Clinton thing. Just between you and me, Vince Foster didnt kill himself. Carry on”
he’s going to sell dirt and tip-offs
Intel Sources: CIA Director Gina Haspel Banking On Trump Loss To Keep Russiagate Documents Hidden
Haspel is hoping Trump loses his re-election bid so she can run out the clock on Russiagate document declassifications, multiple intelligence community officials told The Federalist.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/05/intel-sources-cia-director-gina-haspel-banking-on-trump-loss-to-keep-russiagate-documents-hidden/#.X3tKES6JYqI.twitter
Sounds like it’s time to bring in the US Marshals to collect the People’s property.
I doubt if Haspel has confidants. Although a woman with the nerve to waterboard our enemies disappoints me , if she protects a POS like Brennan for any reason.
From that article:
Officials also accused Haspel of repeatedly lying to the White House about the status of documents that are in the pipeline for declassification and release. These officials said that Haspel has consistently provided baseless excuses for her failure to produce certain documents, falsely claiming that she can’t physically locate documents, or that her agency doesn’t technically own them and therefore cannot release them.
“Haspel has repeatedly lied to the president about the status of documents to be declassified,” one intelligence community source said. “She will claim they don’t know where they are, or which agency technically owns them, and then we’ll find out she had them the entire time and just didn’t want them to see the light of day.”
“The frustration with Haspel is reaching nuclear levels,” one official said, noting that White House and top U.S. intelligence community officials have been taken aback by the ferocity of Haspel’s refusal to release documents.
Why doesn’t Trump sign an Executive Order and tweet it out asking Haspel to bring certain documents to the White House within 24 hours.
And when she fails.
FIRE HER for GROSS INSUBORDINATION.
Of course that won’t happen, but add Haspel to list of people being fired in November.
Haspel, Wray, Barr? Durham? Huber?
I wonder what kind of odorama we’re in for here!?
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Maybe I’m wishful thinking but just maybe Barr and Durham are wrapping this up and the fit is about to hit the shan. They may be looking out for this young rising star with his whole life ahead of him. and saying it’s time for you to get out and let us old guys take the heat.
Private, I like this one. We can only hope.
Really? All evidence points to the opposite. It is wishful thinking.
Link?
Goes like this:
Player wants to throw the game without throwing the game.
Coach for the opposing team would LOVE to have the Player quit the team and join forces (or retire, or whatever takes him out of competition).
I know! Hire the key player away right before he takes the mound. If you have a treasury or an industry of willing allies who will gladly take a team player (fellow elite lib), you can keep hiring the cream of the crop away from their effective duties, and it’s all above board and A-ok. It just requires players who have no concept of loyalty and duty….plenty of those around. That’s why Barr has his hands full with this mess.
Beloved Sundance:
The American named Frank Herald Field III received an unamerican horse f—— a few years before Flynn got Frank Fielded.
Perhaps not all? But perhaps many in this apparatus called FBI/DOJ really do reach down down down to improperly prosecute those who cannot fight back with money power and fame or renown. They are promoted partly by the amount of prosecutions. I got HOSED and more importantly? My progeny has therefore too.
This thing. This AMERICA? Amazing. Joy expanding WONDERFUL.
Please Treepers: Do not believe the rank and file are clean. They don’t have the fortitude to stand for truth.
I now have multigenerational scars and guts wrenching stories to tell.
Please pray for America.
America lover. Faithful friend. Christian.
My speculation:
Bash is a good guy.
He is sick and tired of his good work being buried by the DOJ.
He probably found dozens upon dozens of indictable offences, yet none have come.
In the end, he said “shove it” to Bill Barr.
unlikely. bash could simply tell PDJT and White House Counsel, like Admiral Rogers, in he very scandal bash is investigating.
So this man’s wife worked for the Texas State Attorney General Paxton, I believe I read that she would be the one to prosecute John Paxton if it made it that far. She was Senior Counsel and I know that lots of the assistant AGs retired but I do not know if she happened to be one of them.
Her name is Zina
This could have something to do with this. I dont think the “unmasking” investigation would take that much time or effort.
WDTX is a very tough venue. Massive illegal immigration, cartel and less organized drug activity plus all the usual crimes and claims. The court and USAO was so understaffed and overwhelmed for decades judges and prosecutors from other districts would rotate through to help, like Samaritans Purse going to help disaster victims. I was skeptical when I heard the unmasking investigation was assigned there–how could they possibly handle it? Hopefully they did, but assuming he did his job with honor, I can sure understand he needs a break from that grind, including the opportunity to make serious private practice $$$$.
That’s one weird resignation letter. Too long.
This is a rather lengthy comment. As I’ve said in the past; I’m too old, worn out, and have stood face to face with death (and I mean real honest to goodness death where one misspoken word or one misinterpreted move on my part would have resulted in my death) too many times to be concerned with what anyone thinks about me or my opinion.
I never for one split second thought that Philip Haney committed suicide and from time to time do a web search to see if I can learn anything about his murder. One search revealed that the United States Attorney’s Office Attorney who was investigating Philip’s murder was murdered along with his wife. Here is just one part of that article. Remembering about Timothy Delgado and his wife, Tamara’s murder I’m of the opinion that United States Attorney’s Office Attorney John Bash was smart enough to know that it simply wasn’t worth him and his wife being murdered by the very same Deep State actors who murdered good people like Delgado, Scalia, Kennedy, and many others.
Keep in mind that LBJ admitted that “We ran Murder Incorporated.”. Keep in mind that GHWB said “Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.”
If you still doubt that our government and our elected officials and the minions working in our government are capable of corruption, then I suggest that you read about; Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Quanah Parker, and other Indian Chieftains. Even Henry Ford would have directed you to study the Indians in order to learn about the corruption of the government.
DEAD MEN DON’T TALK: US Attorney Investigating Deep State Murder Of DHS Whistleblower Phil Haney Gunned Down Alongside Wife
With the assassination of Phillip Haney being an unmistakable Deep State murder, as aside from his warning of his own coming assassination, everyone who knew him says his committing suicide was preposterous to even contemplate, it comes as no surprise that before any investigation was even started, the assassination of United States Attorney’s Office Attorney Timothy Delgado and his wife, Tamara, was immediately ruled to be a “murder-suicide” – an absurdity to believe in light of United States Attorney’s Office Attorneys being so vetted and screened that only one of them has committed suicide in the past 35-years – and that just happened to be United States Attorney’s Office Attorney John Atchison – the lead United States Federal Prosecutor in Florida preparing to file sex trafficking criminal charges against child sex slaver Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 – but when the secret agreement deal was made between the Department of Justice and Jeffrey Epstein to effectively absolve him of his crimes in September of 2007 – saw United States Attorney’s Office Attorney John Atchison being arrested on 16 September 2007 and jailed on a made up child sex crime himself – a jail in which it was reported United States Attorney’s Office Attorney John Atchison tried to kill himself on 20 September 2007 – but who was then removed from suicide watch and said to have hung himself to death in his jail cell 16-days later on 5 October 2007 – a near exact match death followed 12-years later when, on 23 July 2019, it was reported Jeffrey Epstein tried to hang himself in his jail cell – after he was removed from suicide watch, saw it being reported that he hung himself to death in his jail cell 18-days later on 10 August 2019 – thus showing that as vile and dangerous as the Deep State is in dealing with all that oppose them, they actually do have a macabre (disturbing/horrifying) sense of humor.
Thank you for reminding us about Phillip Haney and the US attorney (& wife) investigating Haney’s death. I check on it from time to time as well and get nowhere. I believe Bash’s exit was due to a threat—either real or implied. We shall see.
We probably won’t see. When someone is willing to use such threats, it is to keep the truth hidden. Revealing the threat proves there is a hidden truth and may also reveal said truth.
The logic of these threats dooms Bash and the threatener to a life of fear. Even a mutually assured destruction pact would problematic for both. Maybe the sign would be that Bash gets smeared or suicided despite bowing out.
That Jim Jordan Bill Barr video really torqued my arse the day that went down. Bash was well known publicly to have been conducting a “investigation” for a few months on unmasking before this hearing… The Jim Jordan fake “surprise” really pissed me off.
Otherwise I have always seen Bash’s participation to be up there with Hubar /Durham… And by up there I mean complete BS.
Sidney Powell was US Attorney for Western and Northern Districts of Texas for about 10 years…She was involved in over 350 cases…. She was instrumental in Aryan Brotherhood gang prosecutions… They killed a judge in West Texas and put a hit out on her…. She left West Texas…. Wrote her book Licensed to Lie…. and found a new fame…. and became a private attorney…
My God, please help us.
John Bash (or his Wife Zina) thinks Joe Biden will win the Election and doesn’t want to be around to deal with the flak afterward.
That is my first read.
He wants to get out of dodge!
That oft-promised tsunami seems to always turn into a low tide.
While I do acknowledge the deep-state corruption, I am also pleased to note that there are those who are keeping score deeply.
And this:
Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Is this John F. Bash, who was tasked with investigating unmaskings, related to this other John R. Bash, former Amb. to Turkey during the Obama Admin. who, it turns out was an unmasker?
this tweet is from a twitter thread within a twitter thread of @Avery1776 who was following a trail of interest to him(her?) regarding actors in the M.E.
still learning how to post tweets, only meant to post the middle one that showed the names of unmaskers.
let me do my Emily Litella impersonation here – “Nevermind”
(misspelled the last name, Bass the former Ambassador, Bash, the former DOJ guy)
too bad the updated WP doesn’t have a delete function 🙂
So Bash was assigned to investigate his fellow unmaskers. How truly deep state of Barr.
Bash pulls a Sgt Shultz immitation and resigns because he couldn’t find anything to prosecute.
Barr pats him on the back and says, ‘It is time you went back to making tons of money. Keep that reputation turd polished so that we can call on you next time too.’
Naw – I made a huge error in posting this, in my hurry to understand or try to figure out what was going on didn’t realize these two individuals have two completely different last names, no relation whatsoever.
My bad.
Thanks for correcting. Would have explained so much.
Bessie, the subject of the article is John BASH. The former ambassador to Turkey, John BASS.
Yes, I realized that after posting and again, apologize. Thank you.
Mr. Bash almost assuredly delegated the actual work to an assistant US Attorney working under his direction. His replacement has been working closely with Barr in DC. I’ll throw my hat into the speculation ring: Bash has an offer that will let him cash in on years of government service. He knows that either if Trump loses in November, he (Bash) will be replaced in January and this line of inquiry will die; or, this “investigation” will go into a prosecution phase, tying him up for a couple of years in a politically charged quagmire. Handing this off now in an orderly fashion now strikes me as rational and honorable.
Who bought him off? Or threatened him? He looks kind of ferrety to me – in this photo and in videos where I saw him speaking. I’m not seeing strength. I don’t do conspiracies but this one doesn’t sound right to me.
It would be highly unusual for a U.S. attorney to resign in the middle of a very important aspect of his investigative responsibilities as assigned by the Attorney General.
Something about this is not passing the sniff test at all…
Maybe Netflix hired him to be their playlist legal oversight advisor.
If Bash is as smart as he appears, he knew before even starting that the unmasking investigation could be explosive. Barr, knowing Bash would do a good job appointed him, even though Bash had reservations. As soon as he got into it, bash realized he was on to something that would be difficult for him and his family to deal with. He put out his feelers for a different job and politely walked away rather than suffer the never ending abuse that was to come.
The intimidation strategy works unfortunately. From worrying about a Trump bumper sticker on your car leading to it being vandalized, a Trump sign in your yard inviting a suspicious fire, or a high profile exposing of corruption, It can weaken the best of us. Barr can’t protect his few reliable people from the onslaught.
Put it in context of mob,mafia, or gang activity from the 20’s to even the 70’s. Once it becomes pervasive, the only way to get ahead of it is to use aggressive tactics like J Edgar Hoover or the Untouchables, or Elliot Ness, or Melvin Purvis, or even Bobby Kennedy. We don’t have a Hoover at the FBI for sure, so who is going to confront all the corruption without back up?
If you are a pessimist, then Bash was paid off to sit on the investigation. This close to the election he can resign and collect his bounty.
If you are an optimist, Bash was planning to go private, but stayed on to do the investigation. He’s finished up and is heading out.
Don’t know.
Sure seems like some major shit is afoot. This truly is the most important election in Americas history. Trillions and Liberty at stake, and if the Commie Scum prevail, they will be sending their social justice warriors to your door. Vote, get everybody else you know to vote, and then be prepared for war. Live Free or Die fighting for it. No choice now Treepers.
The Coup Against Trump because he was anti-war and “not one of us” is unraveling deeper and deeper corruption which is leading right to Gina Haspel who is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They have contrived fake news and used it to go after everyone around Trump to disrupt his administration. Flynn is just the tip of the iceberg. The FBI is prohibited to penetrate and subvert any presidential campaign. Executive Order 12333, Section 2.9, “Undisclosed Participation in Organizations in the United States.” This expressly prohibits in very plain language any sort of intervention that arose from the U.S. Army Counterintelligence penetrating Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to aid the FBI during the 1960s. Because of this prohibition, they viewed this as only prohibiting domestic intervention. That legal prohibition is why the FBI felt the need to manufacture a “foreign counterintelligence threat” in the UK and then “import” the investigation back into the United States.
However, this goes even further. Since the Steele dossier was paid for by Hillary, and the entire approval of investigating the Trump campaign in 2016 came implicitly from Obama and Biden, the corruption involving the infiltration of the 2016 Presidential Campaign was in itself a Soft Coup. Gina Haspel was the head of the London office of the CIA where everything was organized. The FBI needed to fabricate a foreign counterintelligence “event” in order to pretend this operation was legal. It is now Haspel who is refusing to declassify RussiaGate papers because it was her branch in the UK that was operationally the “friendliest” office to pull off this entire coup. Haspel was deeply involved which runs the risk of this even rising to the level of treason.
Sen. John McCain’s role in this coup explains a lot as to why he said he did not want Trump to speak at his funeral. It was McCain who handed the Steele dossier to Comey involving President Donald Trump. This was revealed in recently unsealed court filings. McCain previously had acknowledged getting a copy of the dossier, which was a compilation of memos written by former British spy Christopher Steele for he was friends with Hillary, and delivering it to then-FBI Director James Comey. McCain provided the cover for he was a Republican handing it to Comey rather than Hillary who paid for it. Moreover, it was also John McCain who was the sponsor of the Magnitsky Act which was a cover-up because of the Clinton’s approval of the bankers trying to take over Russia. (The film Magnitsky has been banned and removed from YouTube most likely at the demands of Bill Browder which only raises the probability that it was true)
However, the explosive dossier contained false accusations claiming the Russians had compromising information on Trump, which Comey is still trying to use publicly advising people to vote for Biden. This entire mess revolves around the US/NY bankers attempt to interfere in the 2000 Russian elections which forced Yeltsin to step down and brought Putin to power.
It was David Kramer who is involved with the McCain Institute for International Leadership which should be renamed the Institute for Soft Coups. Kramer was deposed in December 2017 as part of a legal battle waged by a Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev over BuzzFeed’s publication of the dossier. The judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida unsealed the records adding even more interesting aspects to this Soft Coup.
Kramer Deposition
This election stands for a lot more than just who will be president. If President Trump is reelected, this might very well begin to DRAIN THE SWAMP. A victory for Biden would guarantee we will never hear another word about this Soft Coup. There is a lot at stake in this election that is so far beyond just the personality of the president. Trump needs to be very careful. These people will not think twice about eliminating him but probably by poison – they certainly do not what his picture on any money in the future.
Nothing about any of this has ever passed the smell test. The corruption is so deep and so wide that each level removed reveals only another level of even more corruption.
about the only guy I trust right now is Ric Grennell. Barr, Durham, all these guys, Wray, they are not helping the president. I don’t know why he puts up with them.
about the only guy I trust right now is Ric Grennell. Barr, Durham, all these guys, Wray, they are not helping the president. I don’t know why he puts up with them.