{"id":274717,"date":"2018-05-23T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=274717"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:43:11","slug":"why-is-an-investigation-assumed-to-be-pure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/23\/why-is-an-investigation-assumed-to-be-pure\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is an Investigation Assumed to Be Pure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This has been a bugaboo of mine for I can\u2019t tell you how long.\u00a0 The headline of the story:\u00a0 “GOP Senator:\u00a0 Trump Has No Right to Influence an Investigation.<\/a>”\u00a0 This is from TheHill.com. “Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said [last night] that he has not seen evidence that President Trump has tried to interfere in the federal Russia probe while emphasizing that the president would be out of line if he tried to influence the investigation.<\/p>\n

\"\"“‘None of us have the right, including the president, to influence an investigation and try to tell the FBI and the Justice Department how the results should be of an investigation,'” how they should be looked at. “‘I don\u2019t see any evidence that the president has done that,'” but he still can\u2019t.\u00a0 Now, can somebody explain to me something?\u00a0 Why is an investigation off-limits?\u00a0 Why is an investigation always automatically assumed to be pure as the wind-driven snow?<\/p>\n

Why is an investigation never corrupt?\u00a0 Why the hell can you not question an investigation?\u00a0 Why do investigators come off demanding and expecting no scrutiny?\u00a0 This is something that has always baffled me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s a local sheriff, the local cop, or the FBI.\u00a0 Once a, quote-unquote, “investigation” starts, it\u2019s hands off, and you can\u2019t be seen trying to influence.\u00a0 Where can the hell not?\u00a0 Who the hell are they?\u00a0 Do you think they are nonpartisan?\u00a0 Do you think they have no interest in the outcome?<\/p>\n

Do not make me puke!\u00a0 There isn\u2019t pure objectivity anywhere.\u00a0 There is bias everywhere.\u00a0 The idea that “the investigation” — whatever “the investigation” is — is unassailable, is sacrosanct, you don\u2019t dare question it.\u00a0 Says who?\u00a0 When did this start? Folks, try being the target of one and see what you think.\u00a0 Try being the subject of one and see what you think then.\u00a0 “You\u2019d better not tamper with the investigation!”\u00a0 What if the investigation is designed to railroad him out of office?\u00a0 Is he not permitted to discover that?\u00a0 And, if he can, is he not permitted to disclose it?<\/p>\n

\"\"Why is it that Robert Mueller, of all people in Washington, has unassailable integrity and honor?\u00a0 Who did that?\u00a0 Because, A, it isn\u2019t true.\u00a0 And, B, it\u2019s like putting a straitjacket on everybody.\u00a0 “Once an investigation starts, it\u2019s hands off! You can\u2019t go…”\u00a0 Who the hell says?\u00a0 Anyway, this has been something that\u2019s bugged me for decades, and it\u2019s now reaching a fever pitch with this one.\u00a0 “Trump better not be trying influence the investigation!”<\/p>\n

The investigation is so damn corrupt already, somebody better do something about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0 You know, you may not know it, but presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, they have all ordered investigations over.\u00a0 They have ordered them begun.\u00a0 It has been common for presidents to exercise authority over DOJ.\u00a0 This is absurd what they\u2019re trying to set up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Ginny in Lewes, Delaware. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello there, sir. And I thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, madam.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question today is, with all these Democratic people and the DOJ and the FBI and the CIA and NSA, you name \u2019em all, who all seem to be losing things and misplacing things, what assurances do we have that what they have right now they won\u2019t happen to lose or destroy, or get rid of?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. You mean evidence against Hillary?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Any kind of evidence that they\u2019ve collected, like Mueller, everything he\u2019s collected from the FBI —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that has to be preserved by statute. That will be part of Mueller\u2019s report. Mueller has to hold on to that. However, there is an interesting answer to your question. After Hillary Clinton was interviewed, a scant two days before she was cleared, she was interviewed after her exoneration letter had been written by James Comey and his staff.<\/p>\n

\"\"Remember, his press conference is on July 5th. She\u2019s interviewed the previous Saturday. With her was Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin. Cheryl Mills\u2019 laptop that had all kinds of evidence on it, Ginny, was destroyed after Hillary was exonerated. So your question in that regard is quite relevant. Much of the evidence they had on Mrs. Clinton has been — well, I don\u2019t know how much, actually, but I know that a laptop that did have evidence was returned to Cheryl Mills. Or maybe it was destroyed and not given back to her. I forget which. But I do know that the contents on it were eliminated, and some of the contents were evidence.<\/p>\n

As to the overall evidence collection, I\u2019d have to seek a higher authority than myself to find out what is done with all that. But Mueller\u2019s evidence, quote, unquote — since we\u2019re not allowed to question the investigation, since we\u2019re not allowed to do anything but bow down and salute the damn thing, if there isn\u2019t any evidence, we\u2019re not supposed to question that, Ginny. And you\u2019re being a malcontent by even bringing it up. Anyway, I\u2019ll try to get a better answer to it. It\u2019s a decent question.<\/p>\n

David in Charleston, South Carolina. You\u2019re next. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. One question. If John Brennan with his pro-communist background is the way he is, why is he so anti-Russia, so anti the Soviets and former Soviets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. Doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not at all. He\u2019s anti-Trump. The guy hates Trump!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The guy\u2019s pro-Hillary. The guy\u2019s pro-Russia. You\u2019re asking this facetiously, correct?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: John Brennan did vote for the Communist Party candidate way back in the — I want to say the fifties. It might have been sixties. I\u2019m not sure. But John Brennan, as a well-known career leftist, is well known. He didn\u2019t advance in the CIA. Obama put him there. He was in Obama\u2019s National Security Council. Obama nominated him to run the CIA.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Brennan\u2019s career in intel was spent climbing the ladder at the CIA. When Obama nominated him for director — and I think when he was nominated he was running Obama\u2019s National Security Council. I haven\u2019t looked at the his complete biography, so some of this I\u2019m reconstructing what could be a vague memory, but I don\u2019t think he was a ladder climber at the CIA.<\/p>\n

But look. Let me remind you of something again. When word of the spy<\/a>, the informant leaked out Stefan Halper, of course then his description, well, he was a dual citizen, U.K.-American citizen. He taught at Oxford, he taught at Cambridge, he taught at Harvard. He was very close with Richard Dearlove, the head honcho of MI6.<\/p>\n

And a friend of mine sent me a note, “The Brits seem thick as thieves in this. Why isn\u2019t anybody looking at the Brits\u2019 role in all it is?” I said, “Because it\u2019s not a Brit role.” The thing that I see is that this deep state cabal is made up of academics. You take a look at the people at the upper echelons of all this and you\u2019ll find Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge and maybe some other Ivy League schools, Eton in the U.K. But that\u2019s where they all come from.<\/p>\n

It is well known that the CIA recruits from Harvard and Yale. The agents struck up friendships with the professors, professors keep eyes on students, make recommendations. Not all. But the recruitment of agents for intelligence agencies is thick in the Ivy League. And the Ivy League, universities in general is where the Soviet Union, Soviet communism has had so much success at infiltrating that part of America, the education system.<\/p>\n

So if you look at the people involved here, Mifsud, Stefan Halper, Dearlove, people on our side, they all have backgrounds rooted in academia. Academics are notoriously leftist, and so it\u2019s not strange that there would be communists in the CIA. It does seem counterintuitive, but it isn\u2019t. The CIA\u2019s got all kinds of — the FBI as well. I think the notion — and I used to have it too. I used to believe that everybody in the American bureaucracy was a red-blooded, red, white, and blue patriot.<\/p>\n

\"\"I don\u2019t know how long ago I learned that, but shortly when I got to adulthood I figured out that\u2019s not true. Look at the Obama State Department was doing everything it could to undermine this country in favor of militant Islamists after 9\/11! We think that all of these bureaucracies are led by red, white, and blue patriots, but there\u2019s all kinds of people in these esteemed bureaucracies and agencies that think the United States is the problem in the world.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Let\u2019s head back to the phones.\u00a0 We have Brandon in New York.\u00a0 He\u2019s celebrating Fleet Week in New York<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to have you on the program, Brandon. \u00a0Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Mega dittos, Rush, and greetings from Fleet Week in New York City.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 Well, Rush, I had a question.\u00a0 If the FBI is truthful and they were protecting Donald Trump, wouldn\u2019t it be logical to notify Trump that they were there so that Trump could grant every courtesy to the FBI and possibly aid their investigation?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 That\u2019s a brilliant point.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad you called before Fleet Week really got going, \u2019cause who knows what later on…? (chuckling) Oh, they have a great time during Fleet Week.\u00a0 Fleet Week in Manhattan is awesome.\u00a0 They get to come off the ships and… Yeah.\u00a0 Anyway, Brandon, that is exactly the point.\u00a0 Two things about this.\u00a0 Well, there\u2019s actually three, but I\u2019m not gonna repeat one of them.\u00a0 So the FBI says they\u2019re triggered by Carter Page and Manafort being hired.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re worried they\u2019ve got ties to the Russians.\u00a0 You would think they\u2019d go warn Trump.\u00a0 You\u2019d think they\u2019d try to tip him off. “Look.\u00a0 You might want to rethink this.\u00a0 These people, we\u2019ve been keeping an eye on \u2019em.\u00a0 They have ties to the Russians in ways that may not help.”\u00a0 They didn\u2019t do that.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t try to help Trump. They weren\u2019t trying to warn him and they weren\u2019t trying to protect him.\u00a0 They wanted the collusion to happen.<\/p>\n

And they wanted to catch it while it was happening.\u00a0 That\u2019s why informants were in there.\u00a0 There were no attempts to protect the Hillary campaign from these Russians.\u00a0 Only Trump.\u00a0 They wanted there to be collusion — and when they didn\u2019t spot any, they tried to create some, is the only way to describe this.\u00a0 If there really had been, why not arrest Trump or these people and get \u2019em out of that campaign if they really have trouble?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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