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CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\nRUSH: Doug in Pittsburgh. Great to have you, sir. Glad you waited. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I just turned 70, and I\u2019ve been listening to you since your early days in Pittsburgh, PA.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh-ho-ho!<\/p>\n
CALLER: You\u2019ve been great ever since. My ray of hope. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, man, you\u2019re going back to 1971. (chuckling)<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh-ho!<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was driving up Bigelow Boulevard from Pitt University, and I was listening to my favorite station WAMO, W-A-M-O. A commercial came on, I turned the channel, there you were, and I said to myself, “That\u2019s history making.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow! (laughing) Bigelow Boulevard!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir!<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s all comin\u2019 back to me now.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling) Rush, the reason I\u2019m calling is — I hope I\u2019m not being redundant here — but this admiral that came before the committee, this Admiral Vindman —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Colonel Vindman.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. With the chest full of medals and uniform. He was wrapping up his testimony — and I think I heard this on blogs. But apparently somebody at the very end asked him, “Well, why did you go about it this way? What is your motivation for sharing this information before the committee,” blah, blah, blah. And he said, “My highest calling, my highest duty is to the interagencies.” Period. Okay? It didn\u2019t really dawn on me until I heard he\u2019s coming back before the committee, and then I thought a little bit about it.<\/p>\n
If I have this right, two days before Trump was sworn in, people like Brennan and Clapper and Hill — Susan Hill — and I think somebody from state went into Obama\u2019s office and had him put out an interagency directive lifting all the restrictions of firewalls between the agencies. I\u2019m just wondering, is that what admiral\u2019s talking about? So that now he could blab to anybody across interagency lines whatever he felt was going on?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, no. What he\u2019s talking about… If I\u2019ve understood your question, you said his loyalty, he said, was to the interagency group. That is a very well known, commonly used, very popular term in Washington. But outside nobody knows what it is. Let me tell you what it is and what Lieutenant Colonel Vindman was saying. The interagency group is the National Security Council and members. So it would be the CIA. It would be the State Department. It would be the DIA. It would be the military.<\/p>\n
All of those different agencies make up the interagency group. They do foreign policy. In their minds, they are foreign policy, not the president. So when Vindman was saying his loyalty\u2019s to the interagency group, they\u2019re his boss. That\u2019s who he works for. He\u2019s not loyal to the commander-in-chief. In his world, the interagency group — and I\u2019ll guarantee you, this is Brennan — is his master. He does their bidding. So, if somebody orders him to tell Ciaramella about the contents of Trump\u2019s phone call with the Ukraine president, he will do it.<\/p>\n
“But wait a minute, Rush, the command in chief…” No, no. No, no. Interagency group. These are people that are there regardless who the president is. Presidents come and go, but these people… Now, CIA directors are appointed, but Brennan hasn\u2019t been part of the CIA since Obama left, and he\u2019s still a central figure in this interagency group. These are permanent people in the so-called intelligence\/foreign policy community, and “interagency” just means all the different agencies that have people in it that are in…<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s call it the National Security Council just to simplify it. But basically the nucleus of this group is the National Security Council, the national security apparatus and any other agency that deals in it — which is pretty much the CIA, the FBI, and the DOJ. You have the military, State Department. Now, not everybody in these departments. The interagency group has representatives from those agencies that make up the interagency group.<\/p>\n
Vindman worked for them. It was to them and to that group that he was loyal, and from them that he took his orders. Not the president. In their pecking order, the president\u2019s beneath them. They do foreign policy. Trump has come along and he\u2019s not including these people on phone calls to foreign leaders. He\u2019s not including them in the formulation of foreign policy. He didn\u2019t include them in the decision to pull out of the Paris accords. They are livid!<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve been rendered irrelevant. They have been rendered purposeless. They have been aced out. “Trump is not gonna get away with this!” He\u2019s taken their reason for breathing away from \u2019em. He\u2019s taken away their bragging rights. He\u2019s taken away their self-esteem. He\u2019s taken away their identity. They\u2019re all a bunch of leftists for the most part, and they all work with Democrats and every other level of government to govern against the will of the American voter if necessary.<\/p>\n
And they are willing to go against the will of the American people insofar as overturning an election if they disagree with what the will of the American people was, which is exactly what this is. These people are simply trying to overturn and redo — undermine — the election results because of how it\u2019s affected them. They\u2019ve gone out and found a bunch of sympathetic Democrats who hate Trump anyway and are ticked off that Hillary lost, and it\u2019s a gigantic cabal.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s who it is, and that\u2019s who Vindman\u2019s loyal to. Now, Byron York has a story today at the Washington Examiner. I don\u2019t have the headline here. But it\u2019s basically four problems, four things that Vindman has done that are problematic for him. The headline came in the second page, and I didn\u2019t print the second page. I\u2019ll try to find it during the break. I got to take a break here anyway.<\/p>\n
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