Posted on 04/04/2017 12:42:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: It is fascinating to watch an entire industry disintegrate before our very eyes. So much of what we call the news business is literally eating itself alive and I guess theyre willing to do it. I have never in my life seen such a shocking abandonment of stated principles and objectives on the part of any group that I can recall.
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The worst offender of this is CNN, but practically everybody in the Drive-By Media is treating the shocking, the blockbuster, the smoking-gun story that Susan Rice was no doubt spying for President Obama on the Trump campaign and the Trump transition.
They are treating this you know, its interesting. The way theyre covering this for the Drive-Bys, CNN is actually telling people to ignore it, that they are not going to cover it, that it is simply a distraction. And theyre not gonna fall for it, and they dont want you to fall for it. This is a distraction being offered up by right-wing media.
The rest of the Drive-Bys, the only way theyre covering the story, if theyre covering it at all, is to call it a distraction. Its a distraction. Notice theyre not calling it fake news. Theyre not calling it untrue. Theyre not labeling it made-up. Theyre not saying that it isnt accurate. Theyre saying its unimportant. And, strictly speaking, their objectives being to get rid of Donald Trump, it is unimportant, and it is not helpful, and it is not useful. Those are three oftentimes, often used phrases by the Drive-Bys: not helpful, not useful.
So its being portrayed as a distraction, not even fake news. All the evidence seems to be there. So instead theyre saying its a distraction because Rice didnt do anything illegal. Except she did if she asked for this information without it being part of an investigation. And heres something very important to remember, folks. The White House cannot do investigations.
The White House does not do investigations. The FBI investigates. The CIA investigates. The NSA investigates. But the White House does not investigate. So if the White House is investigating, somethings already very wrong. All the White House does and the FBI director James Comey even admitted this in the most recent round of congressional hearings. He said the White House is a consumer of what we do, meaning the White House would consume the results, the analysis, and the data of investigations they conduct.
The White House does not do investigations. And if the White House is doing investigations, its not because theyre looking into criminal things. Its because they are engaged in political activity. The White House is not an investigative agency of the federal government. It is not. There are other elements of the executive branch that do investigations.
So if she was doing this on her own, which we doubt strenuously, she was doing this to provide information for her superiors. And only one of those matters, and that would be Barack Obama, who remains far away from any subpoena. Hes out there in Tahiti, 54 other guys, Marlon Brandos estate in a month-long, all-male-only retreat, while the minions like Evelyn Farkas and Susan Rice are doing all of the dirty work here.
Now, Susan Rice can ask for the FBI to investigate. The White House can do that, but they gotta be very careful because if these investigations are political then they can do things to you like the Democrats did to Alberto Gonzales, got rid of him, the Bush administration, for politicizing things, ostensibly. So lets get to the nub of this, and then the on-the-spot analysis.
Former President Barack Obamas national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce detailed spreadsheets of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova. What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals, diGenova told The Daily Caller.
Now, what this means is the surveillance was legal because, as weve been saying all week, all month, the surveillance was of foreign actors like the Russian ambassador. Trump administration, Trump transition, Trump campaign officials happened to be caught up in this surveillance as incidental contact. As such, they are masked. Their identity is hidden by the investigation agencies, in this case, the FBI, CIA, what have you.
What Susan Rice did was ask them to unmask and produce a spreadsheet for her, detailed spreadsheets of all of the phone calls involving Trump and his aides when he was running for president. Again, diGenova said, What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals.
Meaning, the Trump people were not breaking the law talking to people they were talking to. There was nothing illegal about the conversations themselves. So Susan Rice took this data, the unmasked data combined with the spreadsheets, and thanks to Evelyn Farkas we know what happened to it. It was leaked all over the Drive-By Media, month after month after month after month after month. It sounds like diGenova either saw these spreadsheets or talked to somebody who has.
I dont know if theyre part of the evidence that Devin Nunes says is on display at the Old Executive Office Building, which again, Adam Schiff, old Pencil Neck, he was so excited. Folks, he was so excited because he went out last week and he actually said theres evidence of collusion. Then he went and looked at the evidence that Nunes looked at and hes now gone suspiciously silent. And hes had to walk back this claim, not by name, but hes now saying, Yeah, we really dont have any evidence. Thats why we need to keep the investigation going.
The former U.S. attorney diGenova said: The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with. In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls. Something weve been maintaining from the get-go. The only crime thats been committed here has been by those people who unmasked the people in these phone calls and then criminally, feloniously leaked their names and details. Thats where criminality has occurred.
The Trump people were not committing any crimes. Believe me, in the case of Michael Flynn, how many months has this been going on? How many months has this been reported? How many months has this investigation been pursued? The transcript of the calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador, Im sure Susan Rice has them now. Im sure countless Obama embeds have them. Im sure countless media people have them.
If there was a quid pro quo, in other words, if Flynn promised the Russian ambassador to lift Obama sanctions once Trump was inaugurated, you know damn well wed a known this months ago. And Flynn would have been frog-marched out of whatever building he was in into the nearest courthouse where he would have been thrown into an Obama dungeon. But none of thats happened because Flynn didnt do that.
So all they have is the ability to create innuendo and to make low-information news consumers think that it happened convince insane, lunatic leftists and Democrat base voters that it did happen. But it didnt. And we can safely say that it didnt because if it had, that would have been part of the leak. That would have been the reason Flynn had to go. And none of that happens to have been the case. Again: The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with, diGenova said.
In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the [Trump] people in the calls. Other official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to [the Daily Caller] diGenovas description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election. So diGenova has backup. There are additional sources that say that Rice ordered all of this a year before. Can we say October 2015, like three months after Trump announces his candidacy, three months after all the smart people figured Trump would be gone?
Trump comes down elevator in June of 2015, right? He says what he says. Everybody expects Trump to implode. Everybody thinks Hillarys gonna win in a landslide. Everybody thinks that Trumps gonna step in it and hes not even serious. Hes doing this for other reasons, to promote ratings for his TV show The Apprentice or what have you. By October, Trump is still there, and hes running rings around people in the polls and hes doing well in Republican debates and his popularity is soaring and thats when surveillance begins, October of 2015.
Also on Monday, Fox News and Bloomberg News said the unmasked names of Trump aides were given to officials at the National Security Council (NSC), the Department of Defense, James Clapper, President Obamas Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, Obamas CIA Director. Joining Rice in the alleged White House operations was her deputy Ben Rhodes, according to Fox, whose brother runs CBS News. By the way, its the same Ben Rhodes who bragged about how he got the mainstream media to promulgate his lies about the Iran deal. Remember that?
Its the same guy bragging about how he convinced the media to spread his lies about the Iran deal and how well it was going and how meaningful it was going to be. So that basically is a thumbnail sketch of what happened. You add this to what Evelyn Farkas divulged back on March 2nd You know, this story features many opportunities. We could go back all the way to 2006 with Obama quotes on spying domestically and how he opposes it, how it shouldnt happen. We go back to the past, earlier in the month of March which were gonna do and Susan Rice was on TV claiming she knew nothing about this
The one thing we know about Susan Rice: This woman is a full-fledged frontal liar. She lied on five separate TV shows about the Benghazi incident, blaming it on that poor video maker. You know whats becoming patently obvious, ladies and gentlemen, is the Democrats Two things. Its interesting phenomenon. The Democrats are embracing Theres even a story in the Stack here today about this. The Democrats are embracing all their former enemies. Theyre embracing Julian Assange, who they wanted to frog march into prison for violating peoples privacy. Theyre turning on former friends.
The Russians! They used to be in bed with the Russians and with the Soviet Union. Now theyre turning In other words, this scandal and Donald Trump is forcing the left and the Democrat Party to turn itself inside out. They are so discombobulated that they are abandoning lifelong allies and embracing lifelong enemies because the only objective here is to get rid of Trump, and I think at this stage I say this as a bit of an exaggeration, but I dont think they even know specifically why Trump has to be gotten away, other than he won the election. But when you Its gotten so far out of control that they cant even tell you why now.
I mean, they might say, Well, Trump lies all the time! Trumps a misogynist! Trumps a pig, but they cant give you specific reasons. They can make them up on the fly, I think. But I think the inertia of this my point is has so overtaken them that the objective has become the purpose, and the purpose is the objective. The reason is the objective. Its all encapsulated, and theyre insane. They have literally been rendered mentally unstable by all of this.
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RUSH: So it turns out there was a government interfering in the presidential election. It was ours. It was the United States government, at the time being run by Barack Hussein O and his minions. George Neumayr, the American Spectator: For months and months, the Obama administration was spying on Trump and leaking hints of its investigation to the press in the hopes of helping Hillary, who, by the way, colluded in the effort. Yet even the ruthless partisan Adam Schiff cant definitively cite a single proof of collusion on Trumps part, as he reluctantly acknowledged on Sunday.
Given all the spying and leaking on Trump, wouldnt we know by now if they had any evidence of collusion? Its fascinating. They have no evidence he have collusion between Trump and the Russians, but look at the evidence of collusion between elements of the United States government and the Democrat Party. Its overwhelming! And the collusion of elements of the United States government trace all the way to the White House. This is bigger than Watergate. Certainly, its Watergate style. Its in that league.
Elements of the White House are colluding with the Democrat Party and the nominee to undermine the candidacy and then the transition and then the presidency of Donald Trump. We have a new sound bite from Evelyn Farkas, October 26, 2016, before the election, a couple of weeks before the election. Shes in Warsaw Remember, shes an assistant secretary of defense. There is the Warsaw Security Forum taking place, and Evelyn Farkas is part of the United States delegation. Again, on October 26th, 2016, a couple of weeks before the election
FARKAS: Even if we have the wrong result from my perspective, America is resilient. We have a lot of presidential historians who have put forward very coherently their argument. Theyve given us examples of all of our horrible presidents (snickers) in the past and the fact that weve endured, and we do have a strong system of checks and balances and actually, if Donald Trump were elected, I believe hed be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And Im not even joking.
RUSH: Evelyn Farkas two weeks before the election, assuring Europeans that theyre worried about Trumps gonna win. They know it! Theyre worried sick, and theyre trying to assure attendees that we do have a strong system of checks and balances and actually, if Donald Trump were elected, I believe hed be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And Im not even joking. They were already contemplating it. We knew that.
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RUSH: No, we did not find out about this from the mainstream media. Thats the thing. Susan Rice didnt come from the mainstream media. This is another thing. Folks, journalism is changing right before our very eyes. The Drive-Bys, the mainstream media, theyre not who they used to be. Well, take that back. Theyre always who they used to be, but they are not the arbiters any longer.
Do you realize if the Drive-Bys were still it, if they were the only thing going, we wouldnt even know this Susan Rice story. Their reaction to it is to circle the wagons and protect her, protect Obama. Mike Cernovich, 60 Minutes, tried to destroy him. You know, hes a pro-Trump blogger, and they tried to destroy him in a profile on Sunday night.
He said not only was Susan Rice doing all this, but the New York Times has known about it for 48 hours. That Maggie Haberman, a reporter for the New York Times, formerly of The Politico, has sat on it for 48 hours, knowingly didnt run it. He refers to her as an employee of the Democrat National Committee, for all intents and purposes.
So no, we dont know this because the Drive-Bys, CNN has got an active campaign going to tell their viewers to ignore this. Theres nothing to see. This is totally a distraction. Theyre not calling it fake news. Theyre saying its a distraction created by right-wing media, and thats automatically supposed to convey to viewers that you cant trust them.
Now, my buddy Andy McCarthy has weighed in on this, a piece at National Review Online. And theres a reiteration here. The thing to remember in all of this is that the White House does not do investigations. They do not do criminal investigations. They do not do intelligence investigations. Yes, they do, Rush. No, they dont. They have to ask for them to be done. They are not an investigatory agency, and there is not an investigatory agency at the White House. They dont do criminal investigations.
Now, if they get involved in things like this, its because of politics. Ill tell you why that is so important. Why is that so important in the context of these revelations that Susan Rice called for the unmasking of Trump campaign and transition officials? Its because we have been told for weeks that any unmasking of people in Trumps circle was for one of two innocent reasons.
One, the FBIs investigation of Russian meddling in the election. And the second innocent explanation was, the need to know for purposes of understanding the communications of foreign intelligence targets, the identities of Americans incidentally intercepted. The unmasking, say the Obama apologists, has nothing to do with targeting Trump or his people. And that wont do, folks, that wont suffice, because its a way of finding out, its a way of surveilling Trump people.
This is precisely what has happened here. Chosen surveillance targets, foreign actors, foreign agents, foreign individuals were chosen because of the likelihood they were going to be talking with Trump officials. When people say that it was all legal, it was legal because it was the foreigners targeted, it was the foreigners for whom warrants to surveil were sought. The Americans caught up in this were incidental, they werent targets. And in that sense, nothing was illegal.
Its a very fine line here. So the Obama administration defense is, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, were not doing anything here. Were surveilling legitimate bad guys, were surveilling potential bad guys. The fact that Trump people got caught up here, nothing to do with us. Oh, but it was, is the whole point.
It is the FBI that conducts investigations that bear on American citizens suspected of committing crimes or of acting as agents of foreign powers. In the matter of alleged Russian meddling, the investigative camp also includes the CIA and the NSA. All three agencies conducted a probe and issued a joint report in January. That was after Obama suddenly made a great show of ordering an inquiry and issuing sanctions. 35 Russian diplomats sent packing, sanctions imposed.
This is after Obama had said over and over again that any Russian collusion, activity, trying to affect the election was inconsequential, they couldnt do it, Obama said it over and over again. And Ill remind you again leading up to the U.S. election when they all thought Hillary was gonna win, there was no talk of Russia subverting the election. The talk back then was how horrible Trump was for not saying he would accept the results of the election, you remember.
So because those are the three agencies that do investigations, FBI, CIA, NSA, if any unmasking was relevant to Russia investigation, it would have been done by those three agencies, not by Susan Rice, not by the White House. The fact the White House is involved is the big stink.
Trump better do somethuing, and I don’t mean go to Twitter and say something juvenile, such as, ‘Not Nice”.
Well, okay, if they say so.
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Pres Trump needs to announce ASAP, that since this is all legal, his administration will step up and do the legal thing to protect Americans' safety and security.
They'll be surveilling and unmasking any and all Democrats, on a continuing non-stop basis, particularly Democrats who have talked with any outside ambassadors, foreign offshore entities, and the like.
Plus, the Trump administration will ask for the unmasking of all those who are involved in such talks... because it is legal.
AND Trump will use Obamas "legal" rules to distribute that information to every US intelligence agency. (HAT TIP BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP)
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Can't wait to watch the Democrat worms squirm.
Agreed. Comey’s been very quiet lately. Operation CYA is in full effect.
This is who interfered in the US election but the People over ruled him damn scum.
When it comes to Comey, I think it's a case of light dawning on Marblehead. IMHo, he realizes that a LOT of people within the FBI and other government agencies are talking and not on board with continuing the Obama war on Trump now that Barry doesn't hold the power of the pardon.
In addition, I think he and a good many others are starting to suspect that a lot of what they thought was Trump shooting from the hip is really Trump firing a well aimed opening salvo after getting all he needs before opening his mouth.
The thing they're really not used to is someone giving out what they have a little at a time. While the guilty and their media pals busy pretending they can explain everything away, Trump already has more information and proof of what he says ready to go when he thinks it's time to show it and show anyone paying attention just what liars the guilty parties and the media really are.
I know a lot of people, maybe most and with good reason, think none of this will amount to a hill of beans but I'm not so sure about that. Trump has shown that slow erosion works better than letting out some massive flood that can be channeled into the storm drains and mostly ignored then forgotten.
JMHo
So, if Obama was surveilling Trump as early as 2015, then who else was he surveilling? After all, it was not a foregone conclusion that Trump would be the nominee in 2015. If it can be shown that they were doing this to more than Trump, then this become radioactive.
Was thinking the exact same thing. It’s explosive anyway just with what they have so far, but if they can prove it happened to several other candidates ( maybe Barney Frank as well as other GOP candidates) it may be more of 50 megaton H bomb going off.
Thanks for posting. I heard some of this on Rush today. I have also read a number of today’s stories. This sums it up very well. I predict the smelly stuff is about to collide with the rotating device and the smelly stuff is going to stick to many in DC not expecting it. The swamp draining will be necessary in earnest now just to make DC habitable. Time for popcorn!
I really value your ‘humble opinion’ - you are right on target. And it will amount to a lot more than ‘a hill of beans’. Trump is no match for the slow witted in Washington. H is head and shoulders towering above them all, and that includes Comey.
If it began in October one could probably find evidence of their spying on Cruz, Rubio, and other early leaders in the primary.
Susan Rices Husbands Employer ABC News Doesnt Cover Biggest News Story of the Year about Rice Spying on Trump Team
That title pretty much nails it on the head.
That you Rush?
Quoting yourself again?
I’m trying to think of bombshells that came out and I choose Cruz as one who was probably surveilled.
It took 2 years for Watergate to come to fruition with Nixon resigning.
How about Trump “legally” unmask a few hundred Clinton Foundation conversations?
MSM “covering it up”? They were an integral part of the scheme, of course they won’t cover their own involvement. Most dishonest people in the world.
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