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RUSH: Have you seen the news about the NSA? The federal judge, Richard Leon, has declared that the NSA sweeping phone calls is unconstitutional. Fourth Amendment. It violates search and seizure, and one of his big assertions in his opinion was that the government, despite being asked numerous times to produce evidence, has not been able to produce evidence that what they\u2019re doing is working.<\/p>\n

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They haven\u2019t been able to produce evidence that they\u2019re actually getting closer to capturing terrorists or other criminals, and I\u2019m kind of conflicted because the knee-jerk reaction is to support Judge Leon and the ruling and actually to even almost stand up and applaud and say, “Finally somebody is willing to find something in this Regime unconstitutional,” but then something happened today that made me question it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Anyway, the NSA. Here\u2019s what happened. Like everybody else, when the ruling came down and the NSA was found to be unconstitutional, like everybody else, I sort of applauded and said, “Finally something this Regime is doing, even if just a little thing here, is being found unconstitutional.” And then I was watching Fox today, and a man that I really admire, former attorney general and a federal judge himself, Michael Mukasey, was being interviewed by Bill Hemmer, and Mukasey says he knows Judge Leon, the judge that made the ruling in the NSA case and found NSA data mining phone calls unconstitutional. <\/p>\n

He said, “I like Judge Leon and I respect him, but he\u2019s dead wrong on this.” He said, “The only thing the NSA is collecting is metadata,” and Hemmer said, “Well, what\u2019s metadata?” It\u2019s the phone number, and it\u2019s basically the phone number of both phones. It had nothing to do with the content, nothing to do with the identities behind the phone numbers. That\u2019s not possible to know. It could be anybody using anybody\u2019s phone to make a phone call. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s no way that the NSA is spying on people here. They\u2019re simply collecting metadata and therefore it doesn\u2019t violate the Fourth Amendment. And he was really fervently serious about this, and he was worried that all of us hyper-attention and misunderstanding was going to end up really hampering national security apparatus, national security efforts to discover and detect genuine potential terrorists or criminal activity. <\/p>\n

The metadata is basically just the traffic analysis. And if the metadata is illegal, then the NSA may as well go out of business. There isn\u2019t any content involved. Nobody, according to Attorney General Mukasey, nobody\u2019s phone calls are being listened to. The NSA is not dialing in, tapping and actually monitoring the voices on phone calls. They don\u2019t even know who\u2019s making and receiving calls. All they know is the two phone numbers and some other information. But it isn\u2019t content. <\/p>\n

Another point that was made, he says you\u2019ve gotta be very careful here because there are people who really do want to neuter our intel agencies. There are Americans, there are leftists who really do want to hamper the CIA, who want to hamper the NSA. And they\u2019re taking the occasion of what Snowden has leaked, Edward Snowden — and Mukasey didn\u2019t say this, but the media\u2019s so excited about this, that\u2019s a red flag for me. I\u2019m just telling you. If the media really dig something — normally the media would not be happy about the Regime being found to be unconstitutional. Normally that would irritate the media because that\u2019d be a black mark on Obama. It would be a black mark on the Regime. “How dare you say that our president is breaking the law?” <\/line><\/p>\n

In this case, they\u2019re fully behind this ruling, and it\u2019s natural that a lot of people, in the process of misunderstanding what the NSA is doing, would also support the ruling. It almost nabbed me, and I was not standing and cheering when I heard that the judge had found it unconstitutional. I wasn\u2019t that exuberant, but I did find myself tending to support it simply because I think this Regime is behaving outside the Constitution on a daily basis and any action that signifies that and identifies and reins it in would tend to get my support. <\/p>\n

Then I saw the media reaction to this, and I said, “Wait a minute. They\u2019re too happy about this.” I don\u2019t trust the media. The media\u2019s interests and mine do not coincide. They\u2019re leftists, folks. This is how I do it. Some people may think, “Well, this is awfully simplistic, Rush.” No, it isn\u2019t. It really is very simple. And it is really very truthful. The left is who they are. And I don\u2019t agree with them about anything. And when they\u2019re happy about something I generally am not. <\/line><\/p>\n

So then I saw Mukasey on Fox, and he\u2019s really, really worried about this, which then gave me pause about this. And that\u2019s what I was gonna ‘splain at the bottom-of-the-hour break. And it\u2019s something that I\u2019m still spending some time informing myself on, trying to avoid a knee-jerk reaction to it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kevin in Amanda, Ohio. It\u2019s great to have you, sir. You\u2019re next. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Hey, Judge Richard Leon\u2019s decision should be praised and applauded for having the courage to make a constitutional decision. I believe that his decision will follow him for the rest of his career. The IRS has already shown what the government will do when they target people, and you would be amazed at the box you can be put into if the government knows every single person you call, Rush. Do you think the leftist, socialist communists wouldn\u2019t like to know every single phone call you make from your cell phone? It\u2019s a very dangerous thing. Our forefathers had the wisdom to see the dangers of an out-of-control government, and that\u2019s why they gave us our Fourth Amendment. And that\u2019s very important, it\u2019s a treasure, and we ought to protect it with everything we can. I\u2019m all for going after the metadata of a person where probable cause has been developed to demonstrate that they\u2019re up to terrorism or what have you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there ain\u2019t no probable cause involved here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. This is a massive fishnet. It\u2019s American citizens, Rush, not —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kevin, I\u2019ve got limited time, and I want to play for you General Mukasey, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Fox this morning. Bill Hemmer said, “A federal judge saying a program to collect your metadata is likely unconstitutional. First, Judge, what is metadata?”<\/p>\n

MUKASEY: The number that does the calling, the number that is called, the date of the call, and the length of the call. That\u2019s it. It\u2019s nothing about the content of the call. It\u2019s nothing even about the identity of the person making the call.<\/line><\/p>\n

HEMMER: It\u2019s not my address?<\/p>\n

MUKASEY: It\u2019s not your address.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: It\u2019s not the context of the conversation?<\/p>\n

MUKASEY: It\u2019s not any of the content of the conversation.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: No keywords that are searched for in here?<\/p>\n

MUKASEY: No words at all, key or otherwise. I gotta tell you that Richard Leon is a fine judge and a terrific person. But, you know what? Even great judges and terrific people occasionally make mistakes. And I think this one was a mistake.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s former Attorney General Mukasey, and he is universally respected and so forth. I would be interested to delve deeper into what Mukasey thinks, \u2019cause I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll write about this and some of his supporters will as well. But Kevin, I appreciate the call. I\u2019m glad there\u2019s attention being paid to all this, finally, in a productive and learnable way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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