John Bash, the US attorney in El Paso who implemented the early family separation program that is the subject of this report, recently left DOJ for a yet-to-be disclosed job in the private sector. Who hires someone who orphaned kids? https://twitter.com/sykescharlie/status/1318707661844680704

Small correction: Bash was in the WH during the pilot program, and became the US attorney one month after it ended - he was US attorney when the full program was implemented in 2018 and thousands more children were separated, including hundreds under his watch in West Texas.

When DOJ was designing the full program, career prosecutors in Bash's office actually wrote a memo recommending children under 12 not be separated because they couldn't find their way back to their parents...but Bash sat on it, and never sent it to Rosenstein or Sessions.

. @JuliaEAinsley and @jacobsoboroff wrote a great piece on Bash's role in the program here, and I look forward to reading more about what he and other DOJ officials did when the IG report is released: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/officials-said-2017-separated-migrants-under-12-couldn-t-find-n1242439

As a postscript, Bash called me to complain about my first tweet being inaccurate, which it was w/r/t the pilot program - apologies for that. People can look at the full record and decide whether he's blameless. I hope they do because no one involved should escape accountability.