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<\/p>\nRUSH: So I want to take a different direction here. There\u2019s stuff happening that\u2019s really important that\u2019s been overshadowed by the summit and some other things, and it\u2019s back to this Trump-Russia collusion and the FBI spying operation, that whole story. And we learned something recently. There has been an ongoing fight between Devin Nunes and the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee. They have been subpoenaing documents for a long time — in some cases years, months.<\/p>\n
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And one of the things Nunes has subpoenaed is the document or the series of documents that will simply explain when this investigation began, what triggered it. Because that has — that question has had many answers. They first tried to tell us that the Steele dossier was the reason for the investigation. I mean the FBI, CIA, the intelligence community investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion that led to Mueller being appointed. And then when the Steele dossier…<\/p>\n
Well, we found out that that was Hillary Clinton bought and paid for; then they said, “Oh, no, no, no. It wasn\u2019t the dossier. It was this guy George Papadopoulos, who is on Trump\u2019s foreign policy team. He\u2019s out there bragging that they knew that the Russians had a bunch of Hillary emails.” Well, then we found out that Papadopoulos only knew this because FBI informants had planted the information with him so that he would tell people and then they could then say somebody in the Trump campaign was bragging about this.<\/p>\n
And then when that blew up they try say, “Well, that\u2019s actually the beginning, July 31st, 2016.” That blew up. We learned about the informants. We learned about the spies. So we still don\u2019t know when this investigation actually began. We do not know what triggered it. The FBI does, and the Obama DOJ does. And Devin Nunes has been trying to get the document that would explain what it was that triggered this, and the DOJ is refusing. Rod Rosenstein is refusing all of these subpoenas.<\/p>\n
So there have been a couple of trips supposedly up to the FBI where Nunes and his buddies on the committee would be allowed to look at documentation. But those have been setups. They were setting Nunes up as a leaker. They tried to make it look that Nunes was trying to get the name of the FBI informant. Nunes at no time ever asked them that. He wasn\u2019t paramountly interested in that. They have been playing games with him in defying his subpoenas.<\/p>\n
So the most recent iteration (as I\u2019m really leaping forward here) is we have learned that Rosenstein was so mad that they refused to take his “no” for an answer that he threatened to retaliate against the oversight committee! Rosenstein was threatening to sue them! And now we\u2019ve learned that Rosenstein and others were demanding that the House Intelligence Committee be investigated simply because of what it wanted to see that was in the possession of the FBI and the DOJ.<\/p>\n
This has gone so far outside the bounds of propriety and common sense. What in the world is going on when the deputy director of the FBI claims that a congressional committee needs to be investigated by a special counsel? Now, what\u2019s happened, I think, is that these intelligence community people — this little cabal of holdovers loyal to Obama and the deep state itself — have actually gone rogue. I think these people consider themselves above congressional oversight for whatever reasons.<\/p>\n
Their jobs are too important. What they do must be kept so secret. The exposing of what they do would do such damage that the representatives of the people (i.e., members of Congress) are not entitled to know. They\u2019re not equipped, they\u2019re not capable of understanding everything they\u2019re doing and they\u2019re not capable of putting it all in context. And we can\u2019t afford the security risk of letting the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee see what we\u2019ve done, when it began.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s outrageous. And Rosenstein\u2019s taken the lead on this, and I have to tell you that Jeff Sessions is backing him up. So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites on this to show you where we are at the moment. First up is Catherine Herridge, Fox News Channel Special Report with Bret Baier last night. This is a portion of her report that Rod Rosenstein threatened the House Intelligence Committee at a private meeting in January.<\/p>\n
HERRIDGE: The account claimed Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee regarding the Russia probe. Quote, “The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, criticized the committee for sending our request in writing and was further critical of the committee\u2019s request to have DOJ-FBI do the same when responding.” Committee investigator Kash Patel wrote, “Going so far as to say that if the committee likes being litigators, then we, the Justice Department, too, are litigators, and we will subpoena your records and your emails,” referring to the House committee and Congress overall.<\/p>\n