{"id":278151,"date":"2018-07-02T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=278151"},"modified":"2018-07-05T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:42:55","slug":"a-fascinating-book-on-dishonest-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/02\/a-fascinating-book-on-dishonest-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fascinating Book on Dishonest Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: That book by Sidney Powell I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/02\/my-question-for-democrats-is-there-anything-wrong-with-america-remaining-america\/\">just talking about,<\/a> it\u2019s four years old. It\u2019s from 2014. It\u2019s called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1612541496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1612541496\"> Licensed to Lie<\/a>, and it\u2019s in depth what happened with the Enron trials and the Ted Stevens prosecution. This was also thrown out after they destroyed him, and there\u2019s a name&#8230; There\u2019s a bunch of people that are in every one of these cases she writes about, and many of them have a lot to do with Mueller &#8212; one of them in particular named Andrew Weissmann. But beyond that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidneypowell.com\/shop\/books\/licensed-to-lie-book\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-278154 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/BOOK-Licensed-To-Die.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/BOOK-Licensed-To-Die.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/BOOK-Licensed-To-Die-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m reading this book kind of slowly. It is written beautifully. It\u2019s written&#8230; It\u2019s a page-turner. It\u2019s just&#8230; (sigh) Folks, it\u2019s stunning! It\u2019s stunning, the lawlessness in the Department of Justice that has nothing to do with left or right. It\u2019s not just liberalism. It happens under every president, and its primary focus &#8212; at least to the phase I\u2019m at in the book &#8212; is the fact that the prosecution, Department of Justice, United States attorneys suborn perjury from their own witnesses. I mean, they have their own witnesses lie specifically, which happened in the Ted Stevens case.<\/p>\n<p>They do not turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense. It was an FBI agent whistleblower who, if he had not spoken up, Ted Stevens\u2019 conviction would have stood and he would still be considered to be fraudulent and corrupt. He was totally set up. He was set up by people who wanted scalps, and the book claims that nothing\u2019s changed in the Department of Justice since those days, or very little. Some of you, I\u2019m sure, may have already read it, heard about it. Sidney Powell\u2019s a frequent guest and has been on cable TV shows for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m just now getting to it but somebody just recently recommended it to me. But it\u2019s shocking, and it\u2019s gonna shock a lot of people because the day-to-day rules of order in federal court, the judge and the prosecutors rely on each other. They trust each other. The defense already has a difficult burden in federal court because the prosecutors are allowed basically to run the courtroom, and it\u2019s just the way it\u2019s always been set up. And now with the apparent corruption that was running rampant there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And some of those people got promoted, some of those people in the Enron Task Force, every one of their cases was overturned. Judge Emmet Sullivan actually held a bunch of them in contempt, and they\u2019re working now for some of the biggest private sector law firms in the country. Nothing happened to them. They got away with it, even those who were called out by name. It just lets you know what you\u2019re up against if the Department of Justice ever starts coming after you.<\/p>\n<p>It will shock a lot of people because the presumption is that law enforcement is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. They don\u2019t have time to waste falsely charging people. I know people are well aware of exceptions to this. But all I mean is if you\u2019re reading the paper, if you\u2019re watching the news and you hear that law enforcement says X about a crime, that something happened &#8212; they define and describe what happened &#8212; and they tell you who they think did it, you just believe it! They have a natural existing credibility.<\/p>\n<p>God, country, flag, law enforcement, so forth and so on. But, man, the information that she learned and exposed in this book is just shocking. You know, it\u2019s reignited some concerns I have about what\u2019s going on with Mueller here and his investigation, the people running it, such as this raid on Manafort\u2019s house at 6 o\u2019clock in the morning while he was cooperating. Anyway, it was Kirsten Gillibrand, moving back to the news of the day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1612541496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1612541496\">Licensed to Lie is the book<\/a> &#8212; and it\u2019s a long one, 600-some-odd pages.<\/p>\n<p>So if you go get it, be prepared to sink in with it for a while. But I\u2019ll tell you, it won\u2019t take you long to get into this, and you\u2019ll be having all kinds of&#8230; She portrays these judges (chuckles) on the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans as incompetent, uninterested, and whatever the prosecutors say is and it\u2019s never any doubt and it\u2019s an impossible mountain to climb. She describes all this as a rude or shocking eye-opening experience for her as well. But I read&#8230; I was so excited to see how this thing ended because I\u2019m at the point where she has finally discovered that there\u2019s a couple people in the DOJ who are behind all of this.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re doing it for reasons the reader would never understand. But she hasn\u2019t yet named these people. So I went to the back of the book, to the epilogue to find out if I could just see who she\u2019s talking about, and I still don\u2019t know the names of the people she\u2019s talking about. But I did conclude that at the end of the book she doesn\u2019t think anything\u2019s changed. Despite all that was learned about the corruption and the tactics that were used to gain convictions for truly innocent people who were sent to jail and their lives were destroyed &#8212; and they hadn\u2019t even done anything, and their indictments didn\u2019t even list a crime!<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You say they wanted Ted Stevens\u2019 Senate seat, but it was the George W. Bush DOJ that railroaded Ted Stevens. Ted Stevens was a Republican. George W. Bush was a Republican. And so theory &#8212; Alberto Gonzales, the attorney &#8212; they were all Republicans. What were they doing going after Ted Stevens? And if it was rogue Democrat prosecutors in the DOJ that got away with this why didn\u2019t the Republicans in the DOJ stop \u2019em? You want to call this partisan but I don\u2019t know how you can when you\u2019ve got the Bush DOJ destroying a Republican senator like Ted Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it could well be that somebody had a tiff with Stevens over something. He was appropriations. Been in there 40 year &#8212; you know what Stevens lost his seat over? If you\u2019ll excuse me for a second here, just so you\u2019ll remember. Ted Stevens is from Alaska, he was accused of not reporting favorable conditions to him by a contract.<\/p>\n<p>He was remodeling his house or some such thing. Now, follow me on this. He\u2019s remodeling his house, and he, on his disclosure forms, claimed that it was $160,000, that that\u2019s what he was charged and that\u2019s what he paid. The prosecutors said that the contractor was offered bribes to report different numbers. It was made to look like Stevens had lied, that he had received a much greater benefit than he had reported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050218-Scales-Justice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050218-Scales-Justice.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050218-Scales-Justice-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It turns out that the value of the work done was only $80,000. The contractor had screwed Ted Stevens, and the prosecutors knew this, and the prosecutors told the lead witness, the contractor, to lie, which he did! That also happened in Enron trials. I mean, it\u2019s outrageous when you read this stuff. And it made big news when it was happening, but it was locally contained in Washington, this news, and in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>It ended up the judge in the case, Emmet Sullivan, just excoriated the prosecutors in this case. The lead prosecutor, the guy that ran this prosecution was a guy named Friedrich, and he was all over television bragging about the charges and then bragging about the conviction. And shortly after he left the department, went into private practice and escaped the wrath of judge Sullivan. The line prosecutors actually prosecuted the case were investigated, were held in contempt. It was unprecedented for Department of Justice prosecutors to be treated this way by a federal judge, but it was outrageous what they did to Ted Stevens. They literally made up a charge.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Stevens paid $160,000 for $80,000 worth of work. He ends up getting screwed. They charged him with lying about how much benefit he got from the contractor, and then they told the contractor to lie on the stand, which the contractor did \u2019cause he was scared of \u2019em. It\u2019s not the kind of stuff you think happens in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Sidney Powell in her book does not allege that this was done to get Ted Stevens\u2019 seat, that that nevertheless happened. I mean, you might want to use common sense and conclude it, but this was all done under the auspices of a Republican Department of Justice. This happened during the George W. Bush presidency. And in fact it was Eric Holder &#8212; are you ready for this? &#8212; when Obama came into office is when all this against Stevens was reversed and made right.<\/p>\n<p>And Eric Holder, within a month, I believe, of taking office, got to claim credit for cleaning up the DOJ and getting rid of this poison and dropping the indictment and vacating the guilty verdict from the jury and setting Ted Stevens free. The Obama Department of Justice got the credit for cleaning the place up! And all that happened was the calendar. It wasn\u2019t that Holder decided anything was right or wrong. He just said this is a great benefit for us, man. Alberto Gonzales and the previous occupants here totally botched this case and we can look like the greatest supermen for justice in the world by letting this Stevens guy go, which he did.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d already lost his Senate seat so they were not putting him back in the Senate. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash not long after and never saw the justice that was meted out to the prosecutors that shafted him. But it isn\u2019t just Ted Stevens. I don\u2019t know what you remember about Enron. But I think four out of five of the Enron convictions were overturned at the Supreme Court because of prosecutorial misconduct, any number of other things.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a story about a guy named James Brown at Merrill Lynch who didn\u2019t do a thing wrong that was sent to prison and then let out by the Fifth Circuit when they discovered that the sentence was incorrect and the government went back and tried to put him back in jail. He was beaten up by people. He wasn\u2019t in max security, but it wasn\u2019t a camp, it wasn\u2019t a white-collar prison. This guy lost 30 pounds. He lost all faith in himself, his family, and his country. Right before he was sentenced to jail or right before he was to report his son nearly died in an auto accident in Colorado. And there was no sympathy shown. But the guy didn\u2019t do anything. He didn\u2019t do anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-Gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-Gavel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-Gavel-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Scooter Libby, I mean, all of these things are happening. Scooter Libby didn\u2019t do anything. The guy that leaked was Richard Armitage. Nothing happened to him. Now we got the same kind of thing going on with Robert Mueller\u2019s team zeroing in on Trump and what\u2019s-his-face, Cohen and whoever else, Manafort. And when you read through this, it\u2019s jaw dropping.<\/p>\n<p>And then I found myself asking, you know, I know everything, how did I miss all of this when it was happening? Well, a lot of it was happening in New Orleans at the Fifth Circuit on the Enron stuff. The Ted Stevens stuff I remember in a general sense, and while it drew a huge press contingent, it was largely Washington. There was some national attention, but Alaska and Washington got most of the details because this did not make the DOJ look good at all.<\/p>\n<p>And we now know the DOJ, we look at what\u2019s happening with spying operation they\u2019ve run on Trump and their embedding all of these operatives like Stefan Halper and Mifsud and this effort to go get Trump on this Russia collusion, it\u2019s banana republic kind of stuff. And she concludes in her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1612541496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1612541496\">Licensed to Lie<\/a>, again, that nothing\u2019s really changed there, even after all of this had been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jeffrey Toobin just now&#8230; It\u2019s like these people are listening to me and giving me fodder, although I know that\u2019s not the case. But listen to this. Toobin was just on CNN, Jeffrey Toobin is the legal beagle over there, and the fill-in host Erica Hill&#8230; They\u2019re all excited that Michael Cohen &#8212; you know, Trump\u2019s fixer lawyer &#8212; apparently told Stephanopoulos that he\u2019s not gonna go down for anybody. So now they\u2019re all interpreting it that means Cohen\u2019s gonna flip on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Cohen could be flipping on any number of people or he couldn\u2019t be flipping on anybody. Nobody knows what he\u2019s gonna do. Nobody has the slightest idea what Cohen\u2019s gonna do, least of all Stephanopoulos. They\u2019re just making this stuff up. So in the process of discussing whether or not Cohen is gonna flip and be called liar, Hill says, &#8220;[Trump tweeted] &#8216;Sorry, I don\u2019t see Michael [Cohen] doing that.\u2019 Is this setting Cohen up to be called a liar in case he does flip?\u201d because everybody thinks he\u2019s gonna flip.<\/p>\n<p>So now the long lives are out for Cohen. &#8220;You can\u2019t believe him! He doesn\u2019t tell the truth,&#8221; and here\u2019s what Toobin says in response to that question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-278157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-02-at-12.49.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-02-at-12.49.57-PM.png 620w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-02-at-12.49.57-PM-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>TOOBIN: Could I just say as a &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HILL: Yes!<\/p>\n<p>TOOBIN: &#8212; former federal prosecutor, just to &#8212; to respond to what the president said in that tweet, federal prosecutors do not actually get people to lie. That is unethical. It is illegal. So the idea that prosecutors just allow people to lie when they cooperate is just, you know, it\u2019s something that not only a president of the United States shouldn\u2019t say. Anyone who\u2019s informed about the American legal &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Stop the tape! Go get the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1612541496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1612541496\">Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell<\/a>. I just learned she even has a website set up that outlines all that\u2019s going on the DOJ, and it\u2019s designed to help people who end up being charged with a federal crime. It\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creepsonamission.com\/\">CreepsOnAMission.com<\/a>. But you go read the book, Mr. Toobin, and you\u2019ll find out not only did prosecutors lie, they suborn perjury on their own witnesses! They did it throughout the Enron trials and they did it in the Ted Stevens case. They told the contractor to lie about what Stevens told him and about what he told Stevens!<\/p>\n<p>See, this is my point. You have these people &#8212; former federal lawyers, judges and so forth &#8212; and they come out, prosecutors, and say &#8220;Oh, no. Oh, no. It\u2019s unethical. It\u2019s illegal. Prosecutors do not do not actually get people to lie.&#8221; Well, not according to Sidney Powell, who is a practicing attorney and has a wide experience. But she doesn\u2019t come from Harvard or Yale, and so she was not all that popular with her colleagues. The judges that she spoke before, for the most part, liked her, she says. But they do!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the whole point of her book. Not only, Toobin, do they lie, they do not turn over exculpatory evidence that they have! The stuff that they withheld from Ted Stevens&#8230; If they had been forced&#8230; No. They were forced. If they had followed the law and turned over all Brady material&#8230; Brady material is a legal term for exculpatory. When the prosecutors have evidence that could show innocence on the part of the accused, they are required to turn it over. They were not.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Enron trials, they held on to it. They wrote summaries of the exculpatory evidence they had which were impossible to translate and read, turned those over. And they did the same thing in the Ted Stevens case. I think the contractor in the Ted Stevens case&#8230; His name is Bill Allen or something Allen. A-l-l-e-n. This guy&#8230; Everybody\u2019s scared to death of these people once they get going.<\/p>\n<p>When they give you immunity and when they tell you that you\u2019re scot-free and that they\u2019re not ever gonna come after you if you just say what they want you to say, everybody in the world will do it \u2019cause nobody wants the federal DOJ coming after \u2019em. But for Toobin to say this&#8230; &#8220;Can I just respond to the president here? Federal prosecutors do not actually get people to lie.&#8221; According to Sidney Powell, it\u2019s de rigueur! It\u2019s part of the day-to-day workings of the DOJ is to get witnesses to lie, at least among cases she was familiar and writing about here.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s shocking.<\/p>\n<p>So Toobin goes on to say, &#8220;&#8230; a president of the United States shouldn\u2019t say, anyone who\u2019s informed about the way the American legal system works should know that that\u2019s just not how federal prosecutors work in this country.&#8221; Mr. Toobin, it\u2019s apparently you who don\u2019t know, who doesn\u2019t know how prosecutions work. All we have to do is look at the garbage that has been this FBI Trump investigation. You want to stand behind that? You want to defend that? Spies, informants embedded in the campaign, looking for a crime that nobody can find?<\/p>\n<p>Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, the thing to remember is we don\u2019t have a Republican Department of Justice, and we haven\u2019t had a Republican Department of Justice. We have an establishment Department of Justice, we have a swamp Department of Justice, like we have a swamp Department of State. We never have a Republican Department of State. I mean, the left is embedded in there after years and years and years of appointments and so forth. It\u2019d take a long time to exterminate \u2019em all out of there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-268418 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032118-DOJ-Smoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032118-DOJ-Smoke.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032118-DOJ-Smoke-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We have a retired federal prosecutor on the phone from Boise, Idaho. Hi, Chuck. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you. I agree with the vast majority of what you\u2019ve been saying today. I just wanted to qualify a little bit. I was a federal prosecutor for 30 years working in both D.C. under Joe diGenova and in Kansas City for the last 25 years. I actually retired a year early because I read the polls and thought Hillary was gonna win and I could not work for that department anymore. It had changed.<\/p>\n<p>I do want to say that in many aspects the department is like the FBI or what we hear people saying about the FBI, and that is that there is still a great deal of integrity at the lower line level and that it is the headquarters that is so politically polluted. I don\u2019t think the majority of federal prosecutors would suborn perjury, especially if it\u2019s not a case where politics are infecting it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a major drug case and there\u2019s no headquarters interest in it, no headquarters fingers in the pudding. I worked with a lot of very fine people, and I just want to make sure that we don\u2019t give the impression to your listeners that every case is as infected as the Enron one was or that as the Ted Stevens case was.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a good point. And I\u2019m glad that you got through here to throw that little splash of water on it. I probably was painting with a bit of a broad brush, but I was motivated when I played the sound bite of Jeffrey Toobin saying federal prosecutors do not lie, I have just read documented accounts where they not only lie, they suborn perjury. Did you say you worked in D.C. at DOJ headquarters?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No. I was in the field office. I was hired by Joe diGenova and was a line prosecutor there, and then I went out to Kansas City and finished my career there. I spent the majority of time there.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I should specify that &#8212; and you\u2019re right &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidneypowell.com\/shop\/books\/licensed-to-lie-book\/\">I\u2019m referring to things that I\u2019ve learned reading a book called Licensed to Lie by a lawyer named Sidney Powell<\/a>, who is &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And I\u2019m familiar with that case and I think the book is excellent. And one other aspect of it, I\u2019m not sure she gets into it enough, is that when all the abuses, the subornation of perjury and the concealment of exculpatory evidence came to light under Holder, even though it was a Bush prosecution, he tried to throw the line assistants in Anchorage under the bus even though it was some of his supervisors in Washington who had made those calls. And there were several of us in the association of assistant U.S. attorneys &#8212; it\u2019s not a union, just a loose association who had to go to bat for those guys to keep them from getting fired when they were not the culprit &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, one of the great ironies is that all of this stuff happens while George W. Bush is in the White House, and the Obama crew comes in and they get to play the knight on the white horse by &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; vacating the guilty verdict and coming in and looking, &#8220;We can\u2019t believe what this department did, and it\u2019s never gonna happen anymore. We\u2019re putting a stop, this is unbelievable.&#8221; They got to play knight on white horse and so forth when the other people had done it. But even with that, I have to tell you, I\u2019ve lived long enough now to not be Pollyannish. I was stunned, Chuck, when I read this book about the details of these Enron cases and the Ted Stevens case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-261523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FB-002-012418-Bush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FB-002-012418-Bush.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FB-002-012418-Bush-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And I was paying attention. We were talking about those cases on this program when they were happening. I was stunned. The general reporting during the time of each of those cases got nowhere near what had really happened. It got closer in the Stevens case, but the Enron case there was so much, the media had drummed up so much hatred for anybody and anything Enron that nobody cared what kind of tactics were used to nail \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, you\u2019re very correct again, and, you know, it\u2019s an axiom in the law: Bad cases make bad law. I have found that the more politics are involved, the more money is involved, the same thing holds true. And there are unethical prosecutors out there who go around saying you can\u2019t appeal an acquittal and they will take every shortcut and every dirty trick to try and get the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>I had one experience with that in the line out of 29 years, actually, and I was actually a second chair on the case, and a witness left the courtroom crying, and I went out and asked her what was wrong, and she said he made me lie. And I marched her right back in, interrupted the proceedings, put her back on the stand and had her correct her testimony.<\/p>\n<p>And when the prosecutor who was the first chair in the case asked me what the hell I was doing, I said, &#8220;We\u2019re gonna correct her testimony, and if you stop me I\u2019m gonna knock you into the next county.&#8221; I don\u2019t make that statement just to glorify myself, but because I think that is the attitude that most of the line prosecutors had and still have.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, this is what we\u2019re hearing during this period where the FBI leadership is coming under severe analysis and criticism. We hear, &#8220;Yeah, but, man, most of the people at the FBI, the agents, the analysts, they are the cream of the crop, and if they could speak out, they would tell you how outraged they are by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And I know \u2019em. And they are outraged by it. As I am outraged by Rod &#8212; the guy I called rotten Rosenstein, because if any of us had signed off to a FISA application knowing that it was based in the slightest part on a false affidavit, rotten Rod and company would have fired me in a New York minute. And yet there\u2019s a different standard for this crew at the top, and there has been for several years, which is, again, why I left a year early because, like Sidney, I was writing my own book. I\u2019m not seeking a plug or anything, but I knew if I published it I would be out on the street in a heartbeat. The things that she gets into in those two specific cases are really just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what she says.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-277996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-062818-Rod-Rosenstein.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-062818-Rod-Rosenstein.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-062818-Rod-Rosenstein-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: And at the end of the book she says that despite learning all this, despite exposing it, nothing\u2019s really changed.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, that\u2019s again at the headquarters level. I do not still believe that it bleeds down into every day casework. I think there\u2019s lots of people with ethics and who still believe a prosecutor\u2019s job is to seek the truth. Maybe I\u2019m Pollyannish in that regard, but I don\u2019t think so based on what I saw all of those years when I was with the department.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s what everybody believes. Everybody\u2019s been raised to believe that. Everybody\u2019s been raised to believe that the law enforcement people are out for justice, not scalps and convictions to climb the ladder and so forth. But people are people. People can be corrupted. People can be corrupt. And the idea that we have any government agency that is immune from this is absurd. But the Department of Justice for the longest time has gotten the benefit of the doubt. But it\u2019s an incredible amount of power these people have, particularly at headquarters. You can\u2019t compete with them just in terms of money alone. If they want to get you, they\u2019ll find a way. And you hope that the people they want to get deserve to be gotten.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not what you read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidneypowell.com\/shop\/books\/licensed-to-lie-book\/\">when you read this book Licensed to Lie<\/a>. Folks, I didn\u2019t even intend to bring this up today. It\u2019s just something I\u2019m reading in my spare time. I\u2019m not reading it for show prep. Something happened today in the first hour that made me reference this. And I didn\u2019t intend for it to become as much a discussion topic today is it has.<\/p>\n<p>But it is relevant because a lot of the people that are exposed as corrupt in her book are working right now with Robert Mueller trying to nail Donald Trump. They\u2019ve gotten away with everything they did, despite being cited for contempt, despite being investigated, they\u2019re still being highly prayed, some of them went into private practice, Mueller brought \u2019em back from private practice to run his operation.<\/p>\n<p>And the 16 primary lawyers and investigators on Mueller\u2019s team are all Hillary Clinton Democrats, which is why Trump keeps talking &#8212; Trump is wise to continue to tweet about this. He is extremely wise to continue to tweet about this, because he\u2019s doing something nobody ever has the guts to do when they\u2019re up against a Justice Department, that\u2019s fight back. That just makes \u2019em &#8212; look at Cohen. Great example. This is Michael Cohen. Look what he\u2019s doing today. Cohen, whatever he\u2019s facing &#8212; we don\u2019t know &#8212; he is scared to death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-228392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>He\u2019s out praising the prosecutors. He is thanking the prosecutors. He is telling the world that he is assured the prosecutors are gonna be fair, that they only want what\u2019s just and right. He\u2019s scared to death of \u2019em! And he thinks that he cannot confront them at all, no matter what he really thinks they\u2019re doing. And maybe they are behaving in ways that he\u2019s accurately described. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just telling you that the natural tendency is, when powerful people are coming at you, don\u2019t provoke \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s the opposite of what Trump does. Trump is provoking them and taking them head on because he\u2019s not gonna sit there and be victimized by this without saying nothing and doing nothing. I think he\u2019s wise in these tactics that he\u2019s employing by challenging the honor and the integrity of what\u2019s going on based on what we know of the people Mueller hired.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I gotta take a break. I appreciate the call very much, Chuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It&#039;s four years old. It&#039;s from 2014. 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