Posted on 05/14/2019 11:57:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Okay. Let me tell you the next thing to keep a sharp eye out for, folks, and that is people fleeing the country. If you see James Comey in Argentina or if you see James Clapper somewhere where they cant be extradited, then you will know that we are getting close. When these people start leaving Im half joking. It hasnt started yet, but man, are they nervous, because the attorney general has appointed a prosecutor to look into the investigation.
And not only that, Fox News is reporting that their sources are telling them that John Durham who is the prosecutor, U.S. attorney from Connecticut, that William Barr has named has been on the job for weeks all right, which does not surprise me. Here is a little rundown on this guy, and Ill just give it to you from a compendium of sources, including the New York Times. They say that the attorney general has assigned John Durham, U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to examine the origins of the Russia investigations.
This guy has a long history. Mr. Durham has a long history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoing among law enforcement and national security officials. He was appointed the federal bench in 2017 by President Trump. Mr. Durham has even investigated the use or misuse of FBI informants. In fact, one of his best-known investigations was an investigation of the FBIs handling of the mass murderer and Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. This is very significant.
It was Robert Mueller III Keep in mind (weve talked about this a few times, but its been a while, and I dont know how many of you are gonna remember this) it was Robert Mueller III, Mr. Integrity, Mr. Honorable, who kept four innocent people in prison for decades in order to keep Whitey Bulger from being exposed as an FBI informant. Four people. Four people who were innocent were kept in jail for years in order to protect the status of Whitey Bulger as an FBI informant.
Back in the late 1990s, there were allegations that FBI informants James Whitey Bulger and Stephen The Rifleman Flemmi had corrupted their handlers, [so] Attorney General Janet Reno named Durham special prosecutor in 1999 to investigate the FBIs Boston offices informants. In December 2000, Durham revealed secret FBI documents that convinced a judge to vacate the 1968 murder convictions of four other FBI informants because theyd been framed by Robert Muellers FBI.
In 2007, to help protect Whitey Bulger (thats what all those people were held in jail for) the documents helped Salvati, Limone, and the families of the two other men who had died in prison win a US $101.7 million civil judgment against the government. Robert Mueller III! How did the guy end up being the special prosecutor? He kept four innocent people in jail for years to protect the informant status of Whitey Bulger, a mass-murdering Boston mobster who ended up dying in California, and it ended up costing the government $100 million plus in civil judgments.
So if you ask me, Barr could not have picked a man with better experience. Not only has Durham gone up against the FBI and won before and even Mueller, he has investigated the FBIs use of informants, which played a larger role in the inception of the FBIs case against the Trump campaign. This seems like an inspired choice. And as I say, Fox News is reporting that their sources are telling them that John Durham has been on the job for weeks.
The U.S. attorney appointed to examine the origins of the Russia investigation has been working on his review for weeks, a person familiar with the process told Fox News on Tuesday, to probe all intelligence collection activities related to the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. So this has a lot of people very, very nervous. In addition to this, the just recently retired deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, is out making speeches, and he is unloading on James Comey. Just unloading on him.
Rod Rosenstein unloaded on former FBI Director James Comey in remarks to the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) on Monday evening, slamming Comeys turn as a partisan pundit, reiterating that [Comey] deserved to be fired, and faulting him for trampling bright lines that should never be crossed.' This is, in large part, due to Comeys now-famous press conference on July 5th where he went out there and listed everything they had discovered in their investigation of Hillary Clinton, her server and her emails, and then announced they werent gonna charge her and that no prosecutor would because they couldnt find any intent.
Now, folks, this is a violation of so much. If youre not gonna charge somebody, you do not detail what you think they did. You dont destroy them! You dont ruin them if you think you dont have Now, he wasnt doing that in Hillarys case. In Hillarys case, he was doing this to exonerate her. This investigation of Hillary Clinton was bogus from the get-go. They were never gonna find anything other than ways to exonerate her.
Thats what Comey did, and he took the position actually assumed the role of the attorney general, because in his mind, Loretta Lynch had compromised herself by meeting with Bill Clinton in the plane on the tarmac out in Phoenix. So she had corrupted herself in a sense. So Comey took it upon himself to go out there and announce the results of the investigation and he listed a number of things that Hillary had done that were illegal but that there was not gonna be any prosecution so he essentially exonerates her.
Rosenstein, in his speech, says this is not the job of the FBI director. This flouts Justice Department guidelines in many ways. It is not the job of the FBI director to determine who gets charged and who doesnt. Its certainly not the job of the Department of Justice to hold a national press conference to air dirty laundry on somebody not being charged. Which, by the way, is exactly all thats happened to Donald Trump.
I mean, the violations of those guidelines and regulations continue to this day. Rosenstein formally stepped aside as deputy attorney general two days ago. Im sure hes been chomping at the bit to get out there and speak. His speech specifically took aim at Comeys comments earlier this month implying that [himself] Rosenstein and Attorney General Bill Barr lacked the inner strength to resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump.' This is what Comey has been saying about both Rosenstein and Barr.
As though he is Mr. Integrity, as though he is the definition of our national morality, as though James Comey is our national conscience and its obviously gone to this guys head. Because these tweets that he sent out with these words are accompanied by Comey being pictured in the forest, in the woods, looking to the treetops for inspiration. All by himself, out alone amongst nature, and tweeting his belief that both Rod Rosenstein and Bill Barr lack the inner strength to resist the compromises necessary to serve Donald Trump.
Comey also derided Rosensteins character and suggested his soul had been consumed in small bites.' This was during the CNN town hall the other night. On previous occasions, Comeys out there talking about these guys this way. Hes the one whos been fired. He is the one whos been disgraced. Hes acting like hes been martyred and is speaking as the ultimate victim, number one.
As I mentioned, he has taken to posting numerous photographs of himself in nature staring wistfully at trees and roadways since leaving public office, [and has] been showered with media attention in recent months, and his memoir earned him over $2 million. Rosenstein said last night, Now, the former director is a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul, Rosenstein said.
That is disappointing. Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors. Generally, we base our opinions on eyewitness testimony. Although Rosenstein emphasized that he did not dislike and even admired Comey in the past, he asserted that the former FBI heads handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016 was a grievous and defining professional error. You know, Comey has gotten a pass on all of this from the Drive-By Media.
Here comes Rosenstein. For the longest time, people thought Rosenstein and Comey were are the same page. There were a lot of people who thought Rosenstein was in the hoax, in on the scam to get Trump because he had hired Mueller. Now Rosenstein is taking the occasion of his recent retirement or resignation from the Department of Justice to unload. Lets go to the audio sound bites. Now that Trump has named John Durham Look, hes not called a special counsel, but he may as well be one and let me reiterate.
This guys experience is investigating the FBI, investigating informants and their use, investigating the corruption in the FBI. Dont forget, he found that Robert Mueller kept four people innocent people in jail for years to protect the informant status of Whitey Bulger, and those people ended up suing, their families did. Two of them died in jail, by the way.
Two of them got out once this was discovered, and there were a series of civil suits that cost the government a hundred million dollars. Well, a little tour of the audio sound bite roster today will show what a home run this choice is. First lets start on CNN today. John Berman bringing in the former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Question: Do you think this kind of investigation is warranted, Mr. Clapper?
CLAPPER: You are gonna have to stand in line, take a number to do, uhh, investigation of the investigators. Theres already one substantial investigation which, as as I understand, is nearing completion, being conducted led by the Department of Justice inspector general. Now were starting other investigations before that one is completed.
RUSH: Thats right.
Clapper: 120,000 troops is a massive deployment
CLAPPER: Were kind of losing sight of what was the cause of all this, uh, the predicate for all this was the, dozens of cases where Russian operatives, some of whom were known to be, uhh have intelligence connections were trying to engage with the Trump campaign. Thats what, uhh, the concern for and was a predicate for this investigation.
RUSH: No. Mr. Clapper. Look, I dont really blame him for continuing this fantasy. It was never about this. It was never about the Russians attempting to interfere in the election. The Russians are attempting to The Chinese are attempting to interfere in our trade policy. The Russians attempt to interfere in everything. Theres nothing new here, and there was certainly nothing unique here, and there was nothing that had not happened before, and there was nothing that could be specifically tied to Trump.
This has been a political operation from day one.
The Steele dossier is all they had. Its a political opposition product, and theres never been anything This has never been a criminal investigation, and even they admit that. They called it a counterintelligence investigation. Its always been nothing but political. The Justice Department has been weaponized, or was weaponized, by agents opposed to Donald Trump. The criminal justice system was used as a political operation, and it was hidden under the disguise of a legitimate intelligence investigation.
So people were led to believe that there was really serious intelligence that the Russians had tampered with the election and colluded with Trump. That was never proven. There was never any evidence of it. It was totally politicized. Now heres Clapper, The predicate for all this was the Russians, dozens of cases where Russian operatives, some of whom were known to have intelligence connections were trying to engage with the Trump campaign.
He can say that because the Russians always do that. Theres nothing unique about it. What he doesnt say is the Trump campaign resisted every one of their scams. These things that Clapper is talking about were performed by FBI informants. It was FBI informants that attempted to get involved in the Trump campaign who were then going to call their contacts in Russia so as to so-called prove a connection or collusion. But the other thing he said here that is very interesting to me. He said, I dont know why theyre doing this now.
Theres already one substantial investigation, which I understand is nearing completion, and thats the inspector general investigation of the FISA warrant process that was abused and perhaps corrupted here. What Clapper is saying is, Why are we doing this while that investigation is ongoing? What he is implying here is, Why dont we wait to see what that turns up before doing this? I have an answer.
Its a theory. Its not an answer. Its a theory. My theory is that Barr already knows much of what the IG report is going to say, and that is the reason for hiring Durham. I think weve all had advance knowledge of some of the things that the inspector generals found, like yesterdays leak was that the IG investigation will focus on a lot of media complicity in this whole FISA and Russia collusion story.
So I think whatever the inspector general has found is known, and what has been learned and discovered in that investigation is the reason, one of the reasons why Barr has named Durham. So, Mr. Clapper, I think the answer is that theres a head start thats taken place here, and the people doing the investigating know a lot more than you probably think they know and what they have found out is why they think they need to investigate further.
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RUSH: Here is another reason why we think that the attorney general, William Barr, is not going to wait for the IG to report before deciding whether to go through with his own investigation. Its very simple. I actually think, as I say, that Barr has already talked to the IG, knows some of what hes going to produce, and it is that which will warrant further investigation, because the inspector general of the Department of Justice cannot prosecute anybody.
All he can do is recommend changes in the future. Inspectors general do not have the power to charge anybody with crimes, misbehavior, stealing the honey bears, whatever. They cant do anything. All they can do is recommend that changes be made in the future so that whatever he found went wrong doesnt continue to go wrong or happen again. Im not even sure if inspectors general can make criminal referrals. They may be able to do that, but they cannot charge anybody on their own. So if whatever the IG finds requires that people be charged criminally, he cant do it.
Somebody else is going to have to do that, and here comes the appointment of the Hes not being officially called here a special counsel here, John Durham, but hes effectively serving in that capacity. So well take a break here the bottom of the hour. Well get to the latest on the China trade thing. Well further update you on that, which I informed you and imparted to you yesterday, and more obvious fright over the naming of this investigator to investigate the investigation.
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RUSH: Holy cow. Some of you people are on fire out there today. I checked the email during the break, and I got a bunch of people sending me notes. I dont care about this guys resume. Im fed up with hearing about peoples resume! Theyre talking about the guy that Barr has appointed. Im gonna wait see results. I dont care what this guys done. You know, thats all we get. We get resumes, we get past history, we get performance, we get our hopes raised, we get our expectations raised, and then nothing ever happens.
So you can stuff this guys resume, Mr. Limbaugh, as far as Im concerned. Im waiting to see if anybody delivers on this. I understand the sentiment, folks. I understand the sentiment. I can count as easily as you can the number of times over whatever length of time in the past you want, 30 years, 10 years, 15, five, it doesnt matter. The number of times weve been led to believe that heads are gonna roll, things are gonna happen, the bad guys are gonna get caught. I mean, for two years weve been, Breaking news! Breaking news!
The bottoms gonna fall out tomorrow, and it never does. Breaking news! Breaking news! Heads are gonna roll tomorrow, and they never do. Breaking news! Breaking news! Full operation exposed, details tomorrow morning, whatever. Never happens. I understand that. But I think its only I mean, its incumbent on me to tell you who the guy is. Its incumbent upon me to give you some of his track record and some of his histoire, because it does provide at least a potential road map.
Ill tell you, the thing that gets me about this is his resume, Mr. Durhams resume, is impeccable, particularly as it relates to this gig. But could somebody explain something to me? And I know the answer. So here we have Robert Mueller III. Mr. Integrity, Mr. Honor. Who tells us this? Everybody else in Washington. You know, people in his tribe, people in the establishment or the administrative state. Hes the most impeccable guy, the most filled with honor well ever have.
This guy let four people rot in jail who were innocent in order to protect the informant status of a mass-murdering Boston mobster named Whitey Bulger, and that ended up costing the government over a hundred million dollars in civil settlements. How in the world does that get a Gold Star? How in the world does somebody in that circumstance, Mueller, get promoted? Well, Rush, you dont understand the way things work here in the DOJ. You dont understand the way things work in Washington.
It was incumbent upon Mueller to keep Bulgers identity hidden for the purposes of moving the case forward. Yeah, but four people, innocent people in jail. They were framed. They were put in jail all to protect the informant of Bulger. What did he give them? And then we find out that during this so-called investigation which was not an investigation other people have now been ruined and wiped out financially, in something that was not what it was. It was a political
Essentially, the Democrat Party was able to take over the Department of Justice. The Hillary Clinton campaign started this whole thing with the Steele dossier and all the other investigations into Trump. And then after Trump was elected, the DOJ became the opposition research team of the defunct Hillary Clinton campaign, because then it became payback time.
Since Hillary lost after they were expecting her to win in a landslide, now its time to get Trump thrown out of office, overturn the election results. So they concoct this magnificent scheme thats made to convince people that theres a serious crime thats taken place, Russian-Trump collusion, and that a deep investigation is needed to get to the bottom of it. And there was no investigation, and there was no crime. All this is, is the continuation of the political opposition research that was started with the creation of the Steele dossier.
And in the process of running a political oppo-research operation against Trump, Manaforts in jail for life, Michael Flynn is wiped out, George Papadopoulos went to jail for two weeks. All of these peoples reputations have been sullied for the rest of their lives, and none of them had committed any crimes until this investigation began. Every crime that they supposedly were charged with were things they supposedly did after the investigation began.
And the guy behind it is the same guy who had four innocent people kept in jail for years in a previous operation that was uncovered by the lawyer that Mueller has appointed to investigate this investigation. In the world that Ive always lived in, an employee I dont care if hes FBI director, if hes a lawyer, if hes whatever. An employee who kept people in jail, innocent people in jail for many years and ended up costing the company a hundred million dollars, would not be called Mr. Integrity and Mr. Honorable and would not end up being promoted.
But were talking about Washington, and were talking about politics. This guy, Mueller, knowingly served while the precious Department of Justice that he served for all these different administrations bam a political weapon rather than a law-enforcement agency. The FBI became politically weaponized. So did the CIA to the extent that John Brennans involved in all this. So theres an investigation now to ferret all this out, and much of the investigation, what its gonna find, we already know.
We dont know everything, but we know quite a bit. We know enough for me to say confidently what I just said to you. I dont know how else to say it. There was not an investigation. There was an attempt to plant informants in the Trump campaign. There was an attempt to entrap members of the Trump campaign so that they could be set up as colluding with Russia, or thinking about it or interested in it or willing to take dirt on Trump like the famous Trump meeting. But there was never an investigation because there was never a crime.
Rosenstein, when he appointed Mueller, did not specify a crime for Mueller to investigate, because there wasnt one. All there was were allegations from the media and the Democrats that there had been collusion with Russia. Thats all there was, allegations and the allegations stem from a phony document called the Steele dossier. Yet the vast majority of Americans still think that there was some kind of nefarious behavior, criminal activity by the Russians attempting to corrupt the elections and that the investigation into it was valid and legitimate.
And none of it was.
So if Rosenstein is gonna go out and start making speeches, and hes gonna lambaste Comey for violating Department of Justice guidelines by listing a bunch of crimes Hillary Clinton was not charged with Again, this is very, very important to understand and I learned this late in life. It was not something I ever was taught in school. Now, a lot of you may have learned it long before I did, but the fact remains. Whether a prosecutor is at the county level or the state level or the federal level, if you investigate somebody and you cant find evidence, you do not go public with what you were investigating them for.
You do not have the right, as a prosecutor, to ruin somebodys reputation by announcing what you couldnt find. Prosecutors do not do it. Comey had no right to do that press conference in the first place, even if were talking about Hillary Clinton. But what he was doing was exonerating her while listing all the crimes that she had committed and then telling everybody that there wasnt any intent and so no reasonable prosecutor would ever pursue charges. Thats, by the way, a bunch of hooey.
Rod Rosenstein Calls The Russia Probe 'Justified' And James Comey A 'Partisan Pundit'
Rod Rosenstein Calls The Russia Probe 'Justified' And James Comey A 'Partisan Pundit'
But the reason I focus on exonerating Hillary Clinton and the purpose of this Comey July 5th press conference is shes the Democrat nominee. There is no way. A, these people are all for Hillary. They hate Trump. So they have to exonerate her. They have to find a way to exempt her from laws, from breaking laws that other people are in jail for. There are people in jail for doing what Hillary Clinton did in terms of trafficking in classified data over unsecure networks, nongovernment networks. There are people in jail.
They had to exonerate Hillary Clinton, and I focused on that because that was really the origin of this. Remember, before the Trump-Russia thing really got a lot of energy and its a close call here, but remember the Democrat National Committee network computers, we were told, were hacked by the Russians. But we still dont know that because the FBI was never allowed to investigate forensically the Democrat computer network.
They hired a private sector outfit called CrowdStrike to come in and look at it, and CrowdStrike told everybody what they found, and everybody just accepted it, including the FBI, even though the FBI had never seen it. Theyd never expected the servers, never found out how the stuff got hacked. Look, just to repeat: A lot of the information that was on that network, people were able to examine the transfer speeds, and it could not have happened other than on thumb drive. Which is what gives people an indication it was an inside job and not the Russians that hacked.
If youre gonna hack over the internet and youre going to corrupt and steal data, you have maximum data transfer speeds available to you. Whatever they are, theyre not as fast as when you take a thumb drive, attach it to the computer, and start transferring data that way. And the data transfer speeds that were recorded as part of the hack dwarf whatever speeds, maximum speeds you can get via an internet connection.
But the purpose for this was to exonerate Hillary Clinton. They had to find a way to make sure she was not going to be held accountable to the law, because she was the Democrat nominee. And thats when the politicization of this began. Now, they were also trying to target Trump at the same time here. But protecting her was paramount. Thats the original reason. In my estimation, the original, original, original reason for this investigation, and then it blossomed. And it may have had a dual purpose. But exonerating her was at the top of the mandate list
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I should hope that they are not stupid or complicit enough to let people flee justice. If they do, that in and of itself will be considered a major crime for which heads should roll.
Any hint, that any outcome is acceptable other than full prosecution to the max of all the coup participants, should be treated as an act of treason, with all the appropriate contempt and hostility towards those who propose it.
No end other than full and complete justice will happen. Only question is whether or not the law will, or the people will alone.
It's great that Durham vacated the murder convictions, but Mueller skated.
Barr needs to subpoena the DNC server. It needs to be searched by the DJ not an outside contractor. They need to determine if it was a inside job. That should pucker a few.
I’m glad he’s talking about Mueller’s job with the FBI what he was protecting Whitey Bulger who was the Serial mob leader, who was letting the FBI do his dirty work for him is he turned in people that he was battling for my birth control with in exchange for information on them in the meantime we get these four guys in jail for decades
Battling for control of the mob you’re not birth control LOL! Smartphones are sometimes smarter than me
Howie Carr (talk radio guy in Boston) knows his work up in Boston & is offering high praise. Says he cleaned up the corruption in the Boston FBI office.
Like the callers calling in to Rush,
just more boom-boom-boom talk. believe it when we see the known subjects under arrest for espionage and abuse of powers and not some piddling little jaywalking misdemeanors
Fox News has been reporting today that AG Barr has enlisted the Director of the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence to assist Durham in his investigation.
I want Trump to put all their names on the NO FLY LIST & to revoke all their passports.
More like a ‘prison train’.
Sounds great! EXCEPT -— when Dunham was investigating the Whitey Bulger thing, how did Mueller get off scot free? I hope his time has finally come, but I want to know WHY not until NOW? If there’s a satisfactory reason, I’ll take it, but if not, then it sounds like Dunham let him go. Inquiring minds...
he does.
But I’ll bet that thing is with Jimmy Hoffa now.
All these villains need to go out the way Bulger did.
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