{"id":273808,"date":"2018-05-11T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=273808"},"modified":"2018-05-14T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:42:55","slug":"obamas-fbi-infiltrated-trump-campaign-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/11\/obamas-fbi-infiltrated-trump-campaign-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s FBI Infiltrated the Trump Campaign with a Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now we move on to another subject that we discussed yesterday. I spent some time putting together three stories: A Kimberly Strassel column from last Friday, a Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday that I\u2019m sure she wrote, and a Washington Post story on Wednesday<\/a>. They involve Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee, demanding to see evidence from the FBI of a source of information and the DOJ — Rod Rosenstein — refusing to let Nunes see this stuff, whatever was ultimately shared was heavily redacted.<\/p>\n

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Cutting to the chase here, it led to my belief… Well, was not hard to figure out. It looked like, in fact, the FBI had an informant in the Trump campaign. We still don\u2019t know when, and it will be interesting when we do learn, find out when this plant was implanted in the FBI. Did it happen before the FISA warrant request? Did it happen after? Because when we find out when the FBI put an informant in the Trump campaign, then a lot of other things they have said will either be demonstrated as true or that they have lied to us.<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, Kimberley Strassel is back today with a column: “About That FBI ‘Source\u2019 — Did the bureau engage in outright spying against the 2016 Trump campaign?<\/a>” I want to read to you her last paragraph: “I believe I know the name of the informant,” she writes, “but my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it. It would therefore be irresponsible to publish” the name of the informant. “But what is clear is that we\u2019ve barely scratched the surface of the FBI\u2019s 2016 behavior, and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify everything possible.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s time to rip off the Band-Aid.” She said, “We also know that among the Justice Department\u2019s stated reasons for not complying with the Nunes subpoena was its worry that to do so might damage international relationships. This suggests the ‘source,'” the spy, the implant, “may be overseas, have ties to foreign intelligence, or both. That\u2019s notable, given the highly suspicious role foreigners have played in this escapade.<\/p>\n

“It was an Australian diplomat who reported the [George] Papadopoulos conversation,” when he was liquored up. He made some comment about Trump had having dirt on Hillary and the Russians and so forth. It was a Clinton-donating Australian diplomat who ratted out Papadopoulos. The FBI has said three things. They have said that this whole investigation began with the FISA warrant on Carter Page. Then they said, “No, no, no! It began with the FISA warrant. We found out Trump was colluding.” They said, “No, no, no! It didn\u2019t begin with Carter Page. It began with Papadopoulos.”<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had three different versions of when the FBI investigation began. So they had a plant, they had a spy, they had an informant in the Trump campaign. Now, a lot of people have been speculating who it is. I don\u2019t have any idea, folks. I really don\u2019t. A lot of people think it\u2019s Papadopoulos. Some people think it\u2019s George Nader. I haven\u2019t the slightest idea and I\u2019m content to wait to find out because to me that\u2019s not the point. For our purposes, folks, the important thing is that the Obama administration infiltrated the Trump campaign with a spy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the important thing. Who it is we will eventually learn. But we don\u2019t need to know who it is to know what the FBI did. When I say “the FBI,” I mean the Obama administration. They infiltrated the Trump campaign with a spy, and while they had that spy implanted, they were unmasking and leaking and obtaining FISA spying warrants and conducting criminal investigations of Trump advisers. This is a big deal. It is a gigantic, big deal. Who the informant was will eventually be learned, as will some other details.<\/p>\n

I think if you dig deep, we\u2019d have to conclude that it\u2019s an American that the CIA, the FBI, and no doubt MI5 ran in Britain. And I think it\u2019s probably somebody that Christopher Steele knows. And I think whoever the… I don\u2019t think it\u2019s Papadopoulos. I think the spy… I think they ran the spy on Papadopoulos, and I think they deployed their spy on some of the sources that Christopher Steele worked in prepping his dossier. Remember that Steele did all of his work in Britain.<\/p>\n

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He hasn\u2019t set foot in Russia for 20 years. He was outed in Russia as a British operative in the late nineties, and he has not been able to go back. And all of his sources or the vast majority of them are Russian. So he\u2019s apparently talking to \u2019em on the phone. I think the spy that the FBI had in the Trump campaign was run on Papadopoulos and some of the sources that Steele worked. Now, all of this made it to Fox & Friends today. We start out here with Pete Hegseth when the show just got going today.<\/p>\n

HEGSETH: Rush Limbaugh yesterday had a good take on all of this and these developments. Listen to Rush…<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\" RUSH ARCHIVE: Everybody, now, that\u2019s been studying this is convinced that the FBI did have an informant and that they planted the informant. … So they had somebody in there actually spying, looking for collusion, and they still don\u2019t have any! … [W]hat does it say that they even had the audacity to plant an informant in the presidential campaign of one candidate, not Hillary, but Trump? … [I]t tells you they really believe this nonsense that the Russians and Trump were buddies and were colluding to steal the election. And that just boggles my mind. … This is gonna be one of the most embarrassing periods in the FBI\u2019s history, when all of this is finally revealed and the history of it written.\"\"<\/p>\n

RUSH: Up next was cohost Steve Doocy…<\/p>\n

DOOCY: There is one person who can declassify everything with one signature, and the signature would say: “Donald Trump.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kimberley Strassel makes this observation — and, in fact, in her column today begs, encouraging, pleads with the president to do it. But he don\u2019t do it, does he? The president could declassify — she\u2019s right — everything: The FISA warrant application, who is this informant, who is this spy, when was the spy hired, who actually did it, what\u2019d the spy do. Everything Devin Nunes wants to see, Trump could order it declassified. Why doesn\u2019t he do it?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I\u2019m getting emails feverishly here. “Rush, you gotta remember something here: That Nunes and Trey Gowdy were not known the documents yesterday.” That\u2019s true. They were not shown. I didn\u2019t say that they were. They went up to the DOJ, FBI, and they had a meeting with Rosenstein and some deputies about these documents that have details about who the spy was, who the informant was, when he was hired and all that. They were not shown the documents. The reason they were not shown the documents is that Nunes, et al, have been requesting this information for months!<\/p>\n

The DOJ\/FBI has been stonewalling on the basis that if they reveal the information, lives could be lost, national security implications. But that\u2019s not why. Just as we\u2019ve learned that the other redactions were simply to cover up embarrassing behavior — by the FBI, by Comey, by McCabe — the odds are here that they\u2019re simply trying to withhold the information from Congress because it\u2019s clarifying! Not because lives are at stake.<\/p>\n