I understand that Rush is making a parallel with Clinton Administration intelligence and counterintelligence operations, for the benefit of people who like to get exercised about the NSA and Homeland Security and their operations under the Patriot Act, to isolate the complainers as the advocates for America's enemies that they so often are.
However, I think it may well be that Wen Ho Lee deserved a hell of a lot worse than what he got. Is that up for discussion?
In that case Lee's case still corroborates Rush's attack on the Lefties, but in a way that isn't reflected in his comments.
Rush might have better brought up Clinton's infamous mot that he uttered when the subject came up of conducting police sweeps through federally-subsidized housing in Chicago (the infamous "projects"), during which the police uniformly confiscated privately owned firearms. The searches having hit a Fourth Amendment obstruction, Clinton instructed his legal team, "Find me a way around the Fourth Amendment." Which is about as limelit as it gets, if you want to see an example of the sort of cavalier Clintonista attitude toward civil rights that Rush is talking about.
I also concur, that it's irrefutable that the Ruby Ridge fracas occurred on Poppy Bush's watch, in 1992 -- and that comments about it (and about some crudely abusive ATF searches in other states) by Wayne LaPierre of the NRA prompted Poppy very publicly to resign his membership in the NRA.
(This snippet of history is one of the reasons I don't trust business-wing Republicans, Ivy Leaguers in particular, with RKBA issues and regard them, in fact, as weakly-motivated enemies of civil liberties and Second Amendment rights.)
It's also true that Reno Justice tried to cover for and defend the actions of the Marshal Service and the FBI at Ruby Ridge.
Good question. It's always up for discussion, as far as I'm concerned. You're now the second person to say he deserved what didn't get because he was guilty...Rush says the exact opposite and blames Clinton for unfairly "railroading."
And, by the way, who was this judge who presumed to speak for the USG and apologize to Wen Ho Lee, anyway?
So the Clinton bunch "did" Ruby Ridge.
They of course had no direct part of the operation. Neither did the Bush I administration. It was the Clinton administration directly who supported the actions after the fact. Reno quickly promoted Potts.
Rush was correct.