{"id":309168,"date":"2019-05-14T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=309168"},"modified":"2019-05-15T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:29:24","slug":"barr-names-seasoned-prosecutor-to-investigate-the-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/14\/barr-names-seasoned-prosecutor-to-investigate-the-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep State Fright! Durham Tasked to Investigate the Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. Let me tell you the next thing to keep a sharp eye out for, folks, and that is people fleeing the country. If you see James Comey in Argentina, or if you see James Clapper somewhere where they can\u2019t be extradited, then you will know that we are getting close. When these people start leaving… I\u2019m half joking. It hasn\u2019t started yet, but, man, are they nervous, because the attorney general has appointed a prosecutor to look into the investigation.<\/p>\n

And not only that, Fox News is reporting that their sources are telling them that John Durham — who is the prosecutor, U.S. attorney from Connecticut, that William Barr has named — has been on the job for weeks all right, which does not surprise me. Here is a little rundown on this guy, and I\u2019ll just give it to you from a compendium of sources, including the New York Times<\/a>. They say that the attorney general has assigned John Durham, U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to examine the origins of the Russia investigations.<\/p>\n

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This guy has a long history. “Mr. Durham has a long history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoing among law enforcement and national security officials. He was appointed to the federal bench in 2017 by President Trump. Mr. Durham has even investigated the use or misuse of FBI informants.” In fact, one of his best-known investigations was an investigation of the FBI\u2019s handling of the mass murderer and Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. This is very significant.<\/p>\n

It was Robert Mueller III… Keep in mind (we\u2019ve talked about this a few times, but it\u2019s been a while, and I don\u2019t know how many of you are gonna remember this) it was Robert Mueller III, Mr. Integrity, Mr. Honorable, who kept four innocent people in prison for decades in order to keep Whitey Bulger from being exposed as an FBI informant. Four people. Four people who were innocent were kept in jail for years in order to protect the status of Whitey Bulger as an FBI informant.<\/p>\n

Back in the late 1990s, there were “allegations that FBI informants James ‘Whitey\u2019 Bulger and Stephen ‘The Rifleman\u2019 Flemmi had corrupted their handlers, [so] Attorney General Janet Reno named Durham special prosecutor in 1999 to investigate the FBI\u2019s Boston office\u2019s informants. In December 2000, Durham revealed secret FBI documents that convinced a judge to vacate the 1968 murder convictions of” four other FBI informants because they\u2019d been framed by Robert Mueller\u2019s FBI.<\/p>\n

“In 2007,” to help protect Whitey Bulger (that\u2019s what all those people were held in jail for) “the documents helped Salvati, Limone, and the families of the two other men who had died in prison win a US $101.7 million civil judgment against the government.” Robert Mueller III! How did the guy end up being the special prosecutor? He kept four innocent people in jail for years to protect the informant status of Whitey Bulger, a mass-murdering Boston mobster who ended up dying in California, and it ended up costing the government $100 million plus in civil judgments.<\/p>\n

So if you ask me, Barr could not have picked a man with better experience. Not only has Durham gone up against the FBI and won before and even Mueller, he has investigated the FBI\u2019s use of informants, which played a larger role in the inception of the FBI\u2019s case against the Trump campaign. This seems like an inspired choice. And as I say, Fox News is reporting that their sources are telling them that John Durham has been on the job for weeks.<\/p>\n

“The U.S. attorney appointed to examine the origins of the Russia investigation has been working on his review ‘for weeks,\u2019 a person familiar with the process told Fox News on Tuesday, to probe ‘all intelligence collection activities\u2019 related to the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.” So this has a lot of people very, very nervous. In addition to this, the just recently retired deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, is out making speeches, and he is unloading on James Comey. Just unloading on him.<\/p>\n

“Rod Rosenstein unloaded on former FBI Director James Comey<\/a> in remarks to the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) on Monday evening, slamming Comey\u2019s turn as a ‘partisan pundit,\u2019 reiterating that [Comey] deserved to be fired, and faulting him for trampling ‘bright lines that should never be crossed.'” This is, in large part, due to Comey\u2019s now-famous press conference on July 5th where he went out there and listed everything they had discovered in their investigation of Hillary Clinton, her server and her emails, and then announced they weren\u2019t gonna charge her and that no prosecutor would because they couldn\u2019t find any intent.<\/p>\n

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Now, folks, this is a violation of so much. If you\u2019re not gonna charge somebody, you do not detail what you think they did. You don\u2019t destroy them! You don\u2019t ruin them if you think you don\u2019t have… Now, he wasn\u2019t doing that in Hillary\u2019s case. In Hillary\u2019s case, he was doing this to exonerate her. This investigation of Hillary Clinton was bogus from the get-go. They were never gonna find anything other than ways to exonerate her.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Comey did, and he took the position — actually assumed the role — of the attorney general, because in his mind, Loretta Lynch had compromised herself by meeting with Bill Clinton in the plane on the tarmac out in Phoenix. So she had corrupted herself in a sense. So Comey took it upon himself to go out there and announce the results of the investigation and he listed a number of things that Hillary had done that were illegal but that there was not gonna be any prosecution so he essentially exonerates her.<\/p>\n

Rosenstein, in his speech, says this is not the job of the FBI director. This flouts Justice Department guidelines in many ways. It is not the job of the FBI director to determine who gets charged and who doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s certainly not the job of the Department of Justice to hold a national press conference to air dirty laundry on somebody not being charged. Which, by the way, is exactly all that\u2019s happened to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

I mean, the violations of those guidelines and regulations continue to this day. “Rosenstein formally stepped aside as deputy attorney general two days ago.” I\u2019m sure he\u2019s been chomping at the bit to get out there and speak. “His speech specifically took aim at Comey\u2019s comments earlier this month implying that [himself] Rosenstein and Attorney General Bill Barr lacked the ‘inner strength\u2019 to ‘resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump.'” This is what Comey has been saying about both Rosenstein and Barr.<\/p>\n

As though he is Mr. Integrity, as though he is the definition of our national morality, as though James Comey is our national conscience — and it\u2019s obviously gone to this guy\u2019s head. Because these tweets that he sent out with these words are accompanied by Comey being pictured in the forest, in the woods, looking to the treetops for inspiration. All by himself, out alone amongst nature, and tweeting his belief that both Rod Rosenstein and Bill Barr lack the inner strength to resist the compromises necessary to serve Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Comey also derided Rosenstein\u2019s ‘character\u2019 and suggested his ‘soul\u2019 had been consumed ‘in small bites.'” This was during the CNN town hall the other night. On previous occasions, Comey\u2019s out there talking about these guys this way. He\u2019s the one who\u2019s been fired. He is the one who\u2019s been disgraced. He\u2019s acting like he\u2019s been martyred and is speaking as the ultimate victim, number one.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned, he “has taken to posting numerous photographs of himself in nature staring wistfully at trees and roadways since leaving public office, [and has] been showered with media attention in recent months, and his memoir earned him over $2 million.” Rosenstein said last night, “‘Now, the former director is a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul,\u2019 Rosenstein said.<\/p>\n

“‘That is disappointing. Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors. Generally, we base our opinions on eyewitness testimony.\u2019 Although Rosenstein emphasized that he ‘did not dislike\u2019 and even ‘admired\u2019 Comey in the past, he asserted that the former FBI head\u2019s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016 was a grievous and defining professional error.” You know, Comey has gotten a pass on all of this from the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

Here comes Rosenstein. For the longest time, people thought Rosenstein and Comey were are the same page. There were a lot of people who thought Rosenstein was in the hoax, in on the scam to get Trump because he had hired Mueller. Now Rosenstein is taking the occasion of his recent retirement or resignation from the Department of Justice to unload. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Now that Trump has named John Durham… Look, he\u2019s not called a special counsel, but he may as well be one — and let me reiterate.<\/p>\n

This guy\u2019s experience is investigating the FBI, investigating informants and their use, investigating the corruption in the FBI. Don\u2019t forget, he found that Robert Mueller kept four people — innocent people — in jail for years to protect the informant status of Whitey Bulger, and those people ended up suing, their families did. Two of them died in jail, by the way.<\/p>\n

Two of them got out once this was discovered, and there were a series of civil suits that cost the government a hundred million dollars. Well, a little tour of the audio sound bite roster today will show what a home run this choice is. First let\u2019s start on CNN today. John Berman bringing in the former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Question: “Do you think this kind of investigation is warranted, Mr. Clapper?”<\/p>\n

CLAPPER: You are gonna have to stand in line, take a number to do, uhh, investigation of the investigators. There\u2019s already one substantial investigation — which, as — as I understand, is nearing completion, being conducted — led by the Department of Justice inspector general. Now we\u2019re starting other investigations before that one is completed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n