RUSH: In other lighthearted news, James Comey. Did you see? These are bizarre comments James Comey made yesterday at a cyber security conference outside San Francisco. By the way, does anybody find it strange that Comey is still out there weighing in on all this? He\u2019s been fired. He has been repudiated. He was discredited in a lot of this. Yet he\u2019s still out there. Clapper\u2019s still out there. Brennan\u2019s still… Well, Brennan\u2019s kind of gone underground.<\/p>\n
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But Comey was at a cyber security conference outside San Francisco. He got a question about Barr\u2019s comments about spying during his hearing and testimony on Wednesday. “Oh, I think there was spying.” Comey claimed again. He said, “When I hear that kind of language used, it\u2019s concerning, because the FBI, the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance. I\u2019ve never thought of that as spying.”<\/p>\n
Electronic surveillance? What is he talking about? If electronic surveillance is not spying… It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s court-ordered or not, doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s court-authorized or not. It\u2019s still spying. The vast majority of the spying in the world is authorized by some government or another. These people know, folks. I\u2019m telling you, they know, and they are quaking in their boots. And you know another reason, you know another way you can tell?<\/p>\n
Here comes Barr at his testimony on Wednesday. In response to a question, he says, “Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think there was spying going on,” and what was the reaction to it? “You can\u2019t say that! (sputtering) That\u2019s outrageous. That is off the charts! That\u2019s beyond the pale! That\u2019s beneath the dignity of the office! You can\u2019t say the FBI was spying!” As my friend Andy McCarthy pointed out, these are the same people who were calling Trump a traitor. They were calling Trump a Russian agent.<\/p>\n
They were calling Trump Adolf Hitler! So they can run around and they can say that Trump is a traitor, that Trump is a foreign agent, that Trump is a Russian spy, that Putin is running and controlling Trump, but Barr cannot say what the FBI was doing was spying? I think a lot of people are properly quaking in their boots about now. But it is especially preposterous to hear Comey claim that his FBI went to the FISA court four times for warrants to spy on Carter Page using a political opposition research document created by the presidential opponent of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
\nJames @Comey<\/a>: “I\u2019ve never thought of” electronic surveillance as “spying” pic.twitter.com\/OMspnuD8MN<\/a><\/p>\n
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