Posted on 01/07/2006 8:38:11 PM PST by lainie
On Friday, January 6, 2006, El Rushbo said the following:
Transcribed from rushlimbaugh.com "It's Open Line Friday… Clip: Does Anyone Remember Wen ho Lee?" Windows Media Player, paid subscription required
'Phil from Prescott, Arizona': "What I wanted to talk about: you were mentioning how Bill Clinton never seemed like he was interested in tackling huge national security issues, but I seen an example in the Wen ho Lee case where they actually railroaded Wen Ho Lee so they could at least LOOK like they were tackling national security issues..."
Limbaugh: You know, this is a fascinating case, and I don't think enough people A) know about it or B) remember it. Wen Ho Lee, Chinese descent, working out at Los Alamos, right? Los ALamos nuclear lab. Wen ho Lee was accused, by the Clinton administration, of stealing secrets and sending them back to China. During the whole period where the Clinton administration was involved in all this funny money coming in from China, and the 1996 presidential campaign, and the John Huang/Charlie Tree days, and all of this. There was NEVER...this man was kept in jail for, I don't know how many months, but, at one point, when they took him into federal court, a federal judge...now, he sent me his book. Wen ho Lee sent me his book, and it opens with this judge's apology. The judge, I forget his name, federal district judge, apologized to Wen ho Lee for everything the United States government had done to him: falsely accusing him, keeping him in jail; this is unprecedented. Sometimes charges are dismissed and they're thrown out, or what have you. The judge made it plain that he was apologizing on behalf of the United States government for what had happened to Wen ho Lee. And Phil's point here is, he's taking off on the opening monologue today which is, the Clinton administration, during 2000, had this CIA plan to try to leak phony information to the Iranians so that when they put their nuclear bomb together, it wouldn't work. Now, the point of this was that the Clinton administration knew in 2000 the Iranians were working on nuclear cweapons, and they didn't do anything about it. And they had this CIA plan that was so bad that it was doomed to fail, and it did. And his point is Clinton just wanted to look tough on this stuff, just wanted to look big on this, so we indict Wen ho Lee, when no evidence, keep him in jail, and, uh, you know, it was worse than what happened to Ray Donovan, he was, 'where do I go to get my reputation back?' And now he's filed a counter suit. I think the last I heard was he's filed some sort of a counter suit. But I won't forget what this judge said to him, as his book opens: apologizing profusely for the entire U.S. government for what he did. And of course, the mainstream press and all of Clinton's buddies hardly gave it scant attention, folks. This is the bunch that did the Waco invasion, Ruby Ridge, uh, one other example I'm leaving out, but, we talk about civil liberties today and how we're losing it."
Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi. I think I saw that he has six children of his own. Did you know that he also was at Waco on that fateful day? Don't know where he is now.
The Bush Administration directed LE to penetrate rightist groups in Idaho, in pursuance of which a BATF agent attempted to entrap a citizen of the United States who had declined his voluntary assistance to the Government in a false-flag operation that was likely, in the Government's opinion, to be hazardous to the citizen if the group to be penetrated were at all like the Government's representation of them.
The BATF then corruptly caused a United States Attorney to issue a bad bill of indictment against the uncooperative citizen, after BATF mismeasured the shotgun and falsely pronounced it an illegal weapon.
The U.S. Attorney and the District Court then caused the Marshal Service to confront Randy Weaver in his residence on Ruby Ridge, where he had retreated in despair of justice from the Government, and wilfully failing to keep his court date for arraignment. The Marshal Service, investing his home with a siege, then shot Weaver's son and a dog with automatic weapons, losing one of their own Marshals to return gunfire from the boy and his companion.
The FBI then engaged everyone in the house with gunfire and sniped Randy Weaver (injuring him, while trying to kill him outright) and his wife (killing her). The FBI's rules of engagement directed this sniping.
The entire time this went on, Randy Weaver was innocent of the original allegation, which was brought only to compel his cooperation with the Bush Administration's espionage on the Idaho group.
How's that?
Or will you now insist on original White House documents with George H. W. Bush's initials, or fingerprints, on them?
Are you going to "lawyer up", poster?
And there appears to be evidence that he's done it repeatedly.
Slur. Not an argument.
Answer the question.
So? People make mistakes. BFD. Unwad your knickers.
Wow, thanks. I didn't know that he was also at Waco. Another national disgrace. What was he doing there, sniping children?
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children,"--Sen. John Kerry (Pussy - MA) in an interview with CBS Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation Dec. 4, 2005...
Great caption!
Okay then. I'll check and see if my knickers have followed your recommendation.
A li'l free advice: your smarmy tone is detracting from your bedrock-solid arguments.
That's a GREAT one. Bravo!
Your mind is very sharp.
I also recall Mr. Weaver, when I met him, saying something about his (infant?) child being held by his unarmed wife when she was murdered, or something like that.
I wasn't very old when I met Mr. Weaver and read his book, but I vaguely remember him, in a very sullen mood, recanting first hand what happened.
I met him not long after the settlement, I believe. He might have even been with his new wife or girlfriend at the gun show.
My mind isn't so sharp this time of night, and it was awhile ago, so I could be all wet.
Dirty, rotten, sons of b's, all of those JackBoots and their commanders, right up to the top, is all I can say.
Actually, Republicans have made big government work.. not good, but kept the cogs moving like clockwork.
Whoever you are who first posted it, thanks!
Full Disclosure: The (Pussy - MA) is my own contribution :-)
Cheers!
Now you did it. I'm getting angry recalling that event and others of the last decade or so, perpetrated by AINOs (Americans in name Only).
Good night all.
You appear to have a penchant for making much ado about nothing.
Ruby Ridge was in August of '92. The election was in November and Bush was gone by January. I don't recall how Potts was treated in that time frame. I don't recall the level of investigation at that time by the Bush administration.
As far as Bush I's culpability for what happened, I've described it as being an error of omission. A failure not to rein in the FBI to any potential bad procedures of to any potential rogue agents.
I've seen no evidence of errors by commission.
It shows no such thing. Rush was commenting on (Democrat) John Conyer's lack of manners in criticizing Janet Reno. I'm guessing he was doing this "tongue-in-cheek", but anytime I've heard Rush mention Waco and Janet Reno, he places the blame for it on her and impeached ex-President Clinton.
Great point. This incident occurred during the heat of the campaign and preparation for the convention, etc. By the time the incident got properly investigated and sorted out, GHWB was long gone. Thanks for putting things in perspective.
Not.
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