Transcript of The Hearing on Rush's Medical Records

Who knows for sure? What I noticed is that apparently they were opened and viewed by the DA but the state attorney maintains, citing ??(forgot), that the condition of the warrant was that they remained sealed. So, there is not only some confusion as to whether the warrant was "well founded" to start with but also whether they violated the "condition" of the warrant.

The transcript seems to indicate that it doesn't really matter, but I think it does. Evidence for a warrant may be loosely construed whereas the playing out of a subpoena is something I consider a major event.

PURE POLITICS!! and known criminals got immunity besides AND $250,000 from the Enquirer. Ain't that special.

Yeah, too bad Rush became a law breaking hillbilly heroin junkie and provided the Rats so much ammo with which they attempt to bring him down.

MR. BLACK: I have about five minutes left and I will rush through it. David Cline with his wife decided to publically or threatened to publically disclose Mr. Limbaugh's addiction to pain medication, among other things. They obtained the security access codes to his Palm Beach studio. They cornered him in the parking garage to his studio and they demanded 4 million dollars in order to keep this quiet and not sell it to the Enquirer. They had followed him a number of times in order to be able to get to him personally. David Cline was sort of a wild man making threats not only against Mr. Limbaugh, but other people associated with him. At first Mr. Limbaugh adamantly refused to pay and wanted to inform the FBI about this extortion attempt by his former housekeeper and her husband. But he first sought advice on how he ought to proceed with others who are in the business with him. He was told that if he made a complaint to law enforcement, that the people in power would ignore the crimes being perpetrated against him and instead they would target him because of who he was.

He was told that his enemies would use the fact of this addiction as a weapon to discredit him, and, of course, all that this subsequently became true. Over years he paid substantial amounts of money to the Clines because of their extortion. After the Clines bled him dry, they then went to the Palm Beach County State attorney's office in December of 2002 where they were granted immunity from prosecution in order to be used as witnesses against Mr. Limbaugh.

I'd be fascinated at the timeline on this. Apparently, this had been going on for a number of years (somewhere around four years?). The "crime" that the Killer Democrat Prosecutor Klowns are trying to get Limbaugh on wasn't even a crime five months before the bundle of joy that is the Clines turned up on the Dem prostitutor's doorstep.

So, basically, the Clines were committing crimes before Limbaugh, AND for a longer period of time, AND the crimes were more serious (BECAUSE the State of Florida, and all other states AND the federal government have had anti-extortion statutes in place for a long, long time).

This is actually pretty cool.

We know that there is a list of felonies that it's OK to commit if you're a Democrat.

Now, we can start a list of felonies that it's OK to commit if you're helping "the authorities" [read: Democrats in control of the local legal system] get prominent Republicans or conservative political enemies.

extortion (the Clines)
wiretapping (McDermott)

The important point to show how this is a witch hunt, the cases cited by the prosecution were targeting dealers and all cases regarding to the medical records subpoenaed by the state were related to DUI prosecutions.

There is something very suspicious about the cline imunity deal and the sale to the enquirer. (all in palm beach BTW). Florida has a son of sam law, can't profit from crime.

Could it be that the immunity deal was orchestrated in order to facilitate the publicity? Without the publicity they had no case or reason to investigate. However, without immunity the clines could not publicise their claims. Thus by giving the Cline's immunity. They were free to involve the enquirer and then the state was able to hide behind the claim of public pressure to "pursue" the investigation.

I'm going dizzy trying to figure out what all this stuff means. I have a few simple questions for anyone who can answer it.

How was Rush getting his drugs? Does anyone know yet? And if he wasn't getting them illegally (drug ring, doctor shopping, etc.), then how could he have been blackmailed? Was he just addicted to prescription drugs given to him legally by his doctors and he let himself be blackmailed because he didn't want people to know that?

Still thinking here....according to what I've been reading, Rush was getting his drugs from the maid. Or has that not been established yet? Was she really supplying him with drugs (and isn't that illegal?) or did she just know about his addiction? Why bring up that her husband is a convicted drug pusher if Rush was getting his drugs legally from doctors?

Someone please help me with facts here. I'm having a hard time distinguishing between facts, alleged facts, conjecture and lies.

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