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RUSH ARCHIVE: [T]he FBI, New York Times story today, there\u2019s no question that it is trying to get ahead of the Horowitz report, which is looking into all of this. And the money quote from the piece: \u201cIt is unclear whether Mr. Horowitz will find fault with the FBI\u2019s decision to have Ms. Turk, whose real name is not publicly known, meet with Mr. Papadopoulos.\u201d … We\u2019re now on offense, they\u2019re on defense, and you can see them behaving in that way. Sending Clapper out today on CNN for no earthly reason. This New York Times story out of the blue, which is a CYA attempt if there ever was one.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 So she had a former Clinton spokesman by the name of Josh Schwerin, and he\u2019s supposed to rebut this idea that the New York Times and all these people were admitting that the FBI spied. Her question… You\u2019ll hear he pretty much proves my point, inadvertently.\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 “How much does this have to do with the upcoming release of the Horowitz report,” Josh, old buddy, old pal?<\/p>\n
SCHWERIN: I think the idea that it would be wrong for the FBI to conduct legal surveillance when they have one of our allied nations, in this case Australia, come to them and say a Trump aide says Russia offered to help.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, my God.<\/p>\n
SCHWERIN: They had to investigate that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: My God!<\/p>\n
SCHWERIN: To not investigate that would be a dereliction of their duty. So I hope that the FBI looked into all of these claims and took them seriously. In this case Russia was interfering with the election. Whether Papadopoulos ended up being an integral part of that or not, they did intervene in the election, they did commit crimes against our country, and I\u2019m glad the FBI investigated it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So the Clinton spokesman is admitting that the Obama administration was spying and trying to justify it. Well, what happened to all these outright denials like from Comey: Best I can tell it\u2019s made up. I don\u2019t find it possible. I know it\u2019s not true. Adam Schiff: There\u2019s no evidence to support any allegation. Josh Schwerin: Damn right we were spying, we had every reason to spy. This bunch was colluding with Russia. I\u2019m glad they spied.<\/p>\n
Wow. This is a 180. But he told a gigantic whopper. And again, I don\u2019t know if these people are just flat-out ignorant and have believed every step of the narrative that\u2019s been assembled or if they are knowingly lying. His outright lies is, “Hey, look. One of our allied nations, in this case Australia, came to the FBI. They say a Trump aide says Russia has offered to help. They\u2019ve got to investigate that.\u201d That\u2019s Alexander Downer and Papadopoulos. And how many times have you heard me say — you don\u2019t even need me to say it, you know what happened.<\/p>\n
Stefan Halper and Mifsud tell Papadopoulos the Russians have Hillary Clinton emails. They arrange for Papadopoulos to meet Downer in a bar in London. Papadopoulos happens to mention this \u2019cause he\u2019s been coached by Halper to tell Downer. Halper says, “Now, remember, George, remember the Russians have Hillary\u2019s emails.” So he tells Downer, and then Downer, who\u2019s in on the scam, calls the FBI, \u201dHey, there\u2019s a Trump guy here, Papadopoulos says that Trump knows the Russians have \u2013” and here\u2019s this guy from the Clinton campaign repeating that flat-out.\u00a0This is all going to come out. This has been known for over a year.<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s see, time is short. I want to get to Glenn Greenwald, sound bites 8 and 9. This is last night on Tucker Carlson, Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on the Fox News Channel. He\u2019s got Glenn Greenwald, a leftist. He founded the website The Intercept. Question: \u201cWhere is the part where we stop and assess what we have just seen for the past three years where we hold people accountable for it and learn something from it and move on?\u201d<\/p>\n
GREENWALD: The reason that you\u2019re seeing so much intense rage towards Bill Barr is because they know what he is now going to do, which is what journalists should be doing and at least some of us are, which is asking the question, which is now for me the central question in American politics, how is it that our discourse has been drowned out for almost three years by a conspiracy theory, or really a set of conspiracy theories, as inflammatory and as dangerous as you can possibly get that turned out to be totally untrue? Who started this conspiracy theory? How are the vast, invasive powers of the FBI, NSA, and CIA used to spy and infiltrate a campaign and spy on American citizens in the name of a conspiracy?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me tell you what rather bothers Greenwald. Greenwald is a journalist of old repute. He thinks journalists ought to be friends with nobody, and particularly powerful people in government. He thinks journalists need to be suspicious of the people in Washington who have power, and they ought to be doing everything to uncover every bit of corruption these powerful people are engaged in.<\/p>\n
What he knows is that the Washington press corps became complicit in this conspiracy to unseat Trump, and he\u2019s outraged by it. He thinks journalism has been dealt a tremendous blow to its reputation as an industry. I\u2019ve heard him say this. He doesn\u2019t understand how the entirety of the Washington press corps could end up as accomplices to the people who spread these lies for three years, this conspiracy that Trump colluded. We know it isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
And he cannot believe, he cannot believe there wasn\u2019t a single journalist in all of Washington who was not interested in blowing this up instead of becoming friends and buddies and accomplices of the people who ran it. Here\u2019s how he concluded his remarks.<\/p>\n
GREENWALD: As a leftist, somebody who is steeped in the history of the Church commission, the abuses of the FBI under Hoover, these are the most serious things that can happen. You want to talk about threats to democracy? How about spying on and listening in on the calls of American citizens by convincing a FISA court that they\u2019re Russian agents when then you unleash a prosecutor for 22 months who concludes that they aren\u2019t Russian agents, that there\u2019s no evidence to suggest that that was the case. That\u2019s the real scandal. And that\u2019s where the investigation is now going to turn. And that\u2019s why there\u2019s panicking about Bill Barr, because they know that he is going to unflinchingly pursue that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He\u2019s not gonna just pursue it. He\u2019s gonna find it. He\u2019s gonna find out who did this, he\u2019s gonna found out how all these media people ended up being complicit in it, they\u2019re gonna get to the bottom of it, who started it, why they started it, when it started, and it\u2019s gonna go very, very high in the Obama administration, folks. It\u2019s gonna go all the way up to Brennan, CIA, it\u2019s gonna involve the Brits and MI5 and MI6, you wait. And they all know it.<\/p>\n
They never dreamed any of this would happen. Trump is supposed to be lone gone by now. Trump is supposed to be so humiliated and embarrassed he\u2019s gonna resign long ago, and none of this has worked out the way they intended. They knew they were lying about this from the get-go and they ran the risk, and now it\u2019s about to blow up in their faces. But Greenwald is right. How in the world do people who are supposed to uncover this kind of corruption end up enabling it and becoming complicit in it?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is interesting, Wolf Blitzer on CNN\u2019s Situation Room last night.\u00a0 The New York Times story shook \u2019em up.\u00a0 I mean, out of the blue, here\u2019s the New York Times admitting the FBI spied on Papadopoulos.\u00a0 Now, Wolf Blitzer\u2019s take on this is that it was an “intelligence failure,” because the honeypot failed to get anything out of Papadopoulos.\u00a0 Listen to this!<\/p>\n
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BLITZER:\u00a0 According to Papadopoulos, the woman almost immediately began asking him questions about, uhh, Russia connections, possible Russia connections. (sputtering) Uh, eh, according to, uh, Papadopoulos, he walked out of the second meeting, uhhh, with her because of her line of questioning about Russia. (sputtering) W-w-w-was this an intelligence failure on the part of the U.S.?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 For crying out loud! What is his starting point? His starting point is even… This is after the Mueller report has come out, folks.\u00a0 The Mueller report says there was no collusion, and there was no obstruction.\u00a0 This has been out over a week. The New York Times story comes, and Wolf Blitzer hears that the FBI put a honeypot spy on Papadopoulos and that she got nothing.\u00a0 He thinks it\u2019s an intelligence failure!\u00a0 He\u2019s very, very worried. Did the FBI screw this up?<\/p>\n
‘Cause in Wolf Blitzer\u2019s world, Trump colluded with Russia. No matter what the Mueller report says, no matter what anybody says, in Wolf Blitzer\u2019s world of CNN, Trump colluded.\u00a0 Since the FBI had this honeypot who was deployed to entrap Papadopoulos and she didn\u2019t get anything, he says… Intelligence failure?\u00a0 You notice that Wolf Blitzer of CNN is not the slightest bit concerned that the FBI was, in fact, spying on the Trump campaign. In fact, in our montage that we played mere moments ago, audio sound bite number 4, Wolf Blitzer was the first one in it!<\/p>\n
“President Trump hammers away with his unproven claim that the FBI placed spies in his campaign.”\u00a0 So that\u2019s back in 2018 (May of 2018, around then), and Wolf Blitzer is outraged that Trump says that the FBI\u2019s spying on him.\u00a0 Now a year later, he learns the FBI was spying, and that doesn\u2019t seem to move him at all.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t feel the need to apologize to his audience.\u00a0 “You know, one year ago I and the rest of us at CNN thought it was ridiculous the president was saying he was spied on. But the New York Times today has admitted that they were spying on them, so I guess the president was right.”<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t strike him.<\/p>\n
No, what strikes him is the FBI blew it! This is… (chuckles) It\u2019s hopeless with these people.\u00a0 It\u2019s literally hopeless.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re brain-dead, if they\u2019re dumb, stupid, uninformed, or if they know exactly what\u2019s going on and they\u2019re just still involved in carrying forward the big lie.\u00a0 At any rate, they went and got one of the writers of the New York Times story to come in and tell Wolf that it was not an “intelligence failure,” because there wasn\u2019t any collusion. See, the news anchor ought to be sufficiently informed to know that and be able to conclude that.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Mark Mazzetti reacting…<\/p>\n
MAZZETTI: In… I mean, right now it doesn\u2019t seem that way because we now know that there wasn\u2019t some big mother lode of information that George Papadopoulos could have offered.\u00a0 I mean, they were clearly prodding to find out, “Was he a key link between the Trump campaign and Russians?”\u00a0 We now know that he wasn\u2019t so it would be card to characterize that as a failure, because it doesn\u2019t seem like a key piece of information, in this case, was missed.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Translation: “Wolf, you idiot! It can\u2019t possibly be an intelligence failure because he didn\u2019t know anything because there wasn\u2019t any collusion, Wolf!”\u00a0 What hope does the CNN audience have if after the official conclusion is “no collusion” between Trump and Russia, CNN is still reporting as though there was and somebody\u2019s still lying about that, and the FBI really goofed up by failing to get the goods from Papadopoulos?<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s go to the Papadopoulos himself — who, by the way, I\u2019m gonna be interviewing next week for the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter.\u00a0 He was on with Chatsworth Osborne Jr., last night, Tucker Carlson.\u00a0 The first question: George, “Briefly describe your experience with [this honey trap that] you believe was sent to spy on the Trump campaign by the Obama administration?”<\/p>\n
PAPADOPOULOS:\u00a0 She was very suggestive, as you can understand. Younger — you know, very flirtatious — and I right away understand that this wasn\u2019t a Cambridge assistant.\u00a0 She barely spoke English.\u00a0 She was very flirty and was trying to do two things.\u00a0 One, two extract information about my professional connections in the Middle East. And, two, to see if I had any information that she could potentially extract from me about Trump and Russia — which, of course, is nonsense.<\/p>\n
She is then introduced to me again the next day with Stefan Halper where she goes from this suggestive young lady to now pouring us coffee, and Stefan Halper is very belligerent.\u00a0 He invited me to basically castigate me about my policy positions.\u00a0 Azra Turk then took me to dinner and was just basically trying to extract information.\u00a0 I was very suspicious.\u00a0 Now, of course, the New York Times reported that she was some sort of agent, but I don\u2019t think she was FBI.\u00a0 I think she was CIA.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. So how do you interpret this? Stefan Halper and Mifsud are the two FBI spies, implants, embeds, that worked on Papadopoulos. They both told him that the Russians had Hillary Clinton emails. They set him up with Downer. And they set him up with this honeypot.<\/p>\n
And the honeypot was supposed to be able to get even more out of him as the seductress, you know, the honey trap, you know, very attractive, foreign intrigue, foreign language, accent. Here you are, George, you can look at it, maybe touch it, but you can\u2019t have it, and if you dazzle this babe, George, who knows what worlds might open to you, ahem, ahem, ahem.<\/p>\n
So the three of them, Halper and the honey trap and Papadopoulos get together, and they get together the next day, too, \u2019cause it apparently went well. And she\u2019s introduced to him by Halper, and then she starts acting like his assistant, starts pouring his coffee and so forth, but then he starts getting very belligerent to her.<\/p>\n
Halper is attempting to make Papadopoulos feel sorry for her, sympathetic. When they get together by themselves he\u2019s supposed to feel bad for her that this evil guy mistreated her, and it\u2019s all part of a trick designed to loosen lips by creating a bridge of connectivity via sympathy.<\/p>\n
He was mistreating the honeypot, Halper was, so that Papadopoulos would feel sorry for her and open up. And it didn\u2019t work. She took him to dinner, and then the pretense in it, she point-blank started trying to get information, which there wasn\u2019t any. He didn\u2019t have any. He got very suspicious, decided to end the whole thing.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s one more question from Tucker Carlson. “So she was dispatched by the Obama administration, Barack Obama was the president, lead the branch including the CIA and FBI, every other agency, spying on the Trump campaign. Am I missing something. Isn\u2019t that what\u2019s happened here, George?”<\/p>\n
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