{"id":331131,"date":"2019-12-11T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=331131"},"modified":"2019-12-12T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:41:14","slug":"former-fbi-agent-its-a-sad-day-for-the-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/11\/former-fbi-agent-its-a-sad-day-for-the-bureau\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI Agent: It\u2019s a Sad Day for the Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: To the phones we go somewhere in Virginia. This is John. It\u2019s great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine and dandy.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: You know, I gotta completely agree with you. Sad day because, you know, I spent my entire career in the FBI, and I know some of these players personally.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, wow, you did?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I did. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re retired now?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m retired, yeah. But what you\u2019re saying is right. I mean, 17 missteps, this just doesn\u2019t happen in the bureau. And, you know, it\u2019s one of those deals when it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it\u2019s a duck. And I don\u2019t know what else to say other than that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, tell me a little bit about your experience in the FBI. Were you a field agent? Were you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And a supervisor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you go to the Quantico school and all that —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, I did it all, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But what your audience needs to know is these Woods Procedures, which he\u2019s talking about frequently in the — I went through the summary last night. They\u2019re very meticulous and they happen everywhere. And their entire purpose is to ensure the accuracy of the FISA application. Because you don\u2019t want to invade somebody\u2019s privacy without due process, essentially. And it is rare to even have a single mistake in those things. And he\u2019s outlining 17 mistakes as you just said and as Mike Lee just said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Well, it\u2019s not just that. How many people have to sign off on a FISA warrant application? It\u2019s not just —<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Tons. And he lays out in his report, you know, that the director signed off on these things. This went all the way up the chain. But the mistakes, too, are what\u2019s really egregious. As he lays them out there, what we call material, which means they went to the heart of whether the FISA application would have been approved by the court if the information, full information, had been in the application. And they left things out like, you know, Page apparently was working for another agency and was considered reliable. They left things out like Page —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would be the CIA. He was working for the CIA against Russia.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They left things out like Page stating that he didn\u2019t even know these people, he had never spoken with Manafort. You know, you can\u2019t leave material things like that out of an application. It\u2019s just not done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. That\u2019s what I\u2019m telling you. That\u2019s why it\u2019s a very sad day for the bureau and it\u2019s even a sadder day for the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you this. We got the Steele dossier. We know today that it\u2019s literally manufactured and made up. Not a single thing in the Steele dossier. And folks, it\u2019s a lot of pages. It\u2019s not some little five or six page document. It\u2019s a very big piece of work. Not a single thing in it is true. It doesn\u2019t even get there to say it\u2019s not verified or corroborated. It couldn\u2019t be because it\u2019s made up and literally it\u2019s made up. Some of it comes from a guy making statements gossiping in a bar that one of Steele\u2019s agents overheard and just decided to put it in there, and he couldn\u2019t believe, he now says, that Steele used it.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m getting off the path. Specific question, you\u2019ve got this dossier that the FBI knows is bogus, that the people involved in using it to apply for a warrant to the FISA court know is bogus. And yet they lie. They convince the court that it\u2019s substantive, that it\u2019s dangerous, that it\u2019s potentially threatening to America. And the court buys it.<\/p>\n

What would have happened if they would have taken the dossier and told the court the truth about it? \u201cJudge, the Clinton campaign paid for this. We haven\u2019t been able to verify any of it, there\u2019s none of it that\u2019s true, and the guy that\u2019s responsible for this hasn\u2019t been to Russia since 1989 or something,\u201d what do you think the outcome would have been?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think the court would have signed it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They would have even taken it if they were gonna tell the truth about it.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: You know, the thing about that Steele dossier, anybody that has experience — and some of these people are not friendly towards the president. I\u2019m talking about Mike Morell, the former head of the CIA, he said, but anybody that has any experience, you look at that dossier, and you immediately say this is junk. This is trash. Because it\u2019s not just one source.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like six sub-sources of one source, and that\u2019s just not considered credible in law enforcement or intelligence purposes in those agencies. So to even look at that dossier and put any credence — you can take the information, you can stick it in the file for reference, but to then use that to brief the president of the United States and then to use that in the FISA application? You know, just my opinion, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is your opinion of the story of the origins, that George Papadopoulos, a peripheral player in the Trump foreign policy team who never even met Trump, is over in London telling people that just happened to be connected to the FBI that he knows and the Trump campaign knows the Russians have some dirt on Hillary?<\/p>\n

See, my problem with that is that Strzok and his texts with Lisa Page go all the way back to 2015. They were arrayed and aligned against Trump from the moment he got in the race, which was June of 2015. Their texts happened months before this so-called official beginning in July of 2016.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hmm. Well, I mean, it sounds very strange to me and very fishy to me. I can\u2019t put it my finger exactly on what was there, but, you know, the thing that Horowitz points out in his report is that Papadopoulos later said that nobody in the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia. And they didn\u2019t include it in the application. You must include things that are exonerating of the subject —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, that\u2019s another point. They purposely left out exculpatory information in the application.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The court must have the full scope of information to make a judgment because FISA and any wiretap is considered the most extreme invasion of a citizen\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no damage done. No damage. There wasn\u2019t any bias here, so no damage.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s very sad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Another day at the FBI. No bias.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s the part that bothers me, you know, you serve, there\u2019s so many people, the rank-and-file are so good, they follow the rules meticulously. And then you have senior people come through and do this, and I don\u2019t blame anybody in your audience for believing that we\u2019re corrupt. But we\u2019re not. That\u2019s the point. This is so outrageous and egregious in the bureau that it\u2019s just unbelievable to those of us that have served.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ve gotten to know some FBI agents over the course of my life, and the one thing I\u2019ve noticed about them, they really do believe — and this is not derived from my perception of their ego. They really do think they are elite agents of law enforcement. They are the best of the best, that the things they go through at Quantico, the training that they undergo, the qualifications they have to have to even get to Quantico, they really do think they are the elite of the elite when it comes to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\"\"Like the Rangers and Special Forces, the SEALs are the elite in military Special Forces, FBI agents consider themselves to be the best you can find in the area of law enforcement, criminal investigation, and just tracking down people that commit crimes and the crimes they commit and so forth.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s gotta be something that I would think bothers you as you say it does because of the — the worst thing that can happen to any agency that takes itself seriously and has a lot of devoted people to it in it, is to have something like this come along, \u201cAh, they\u2019re just as corrupt as everything else in government.\u201d It\u2019s the last thing in the world you want to hear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and I would say even, sure, maybe we think that we\u2019re elite, things like that, but I say on top of everything else — and this is no different than you or many of your listeners — those that have served in the military, we consider ourselves patriots. And, you know, the president is a democratically elected president. And these things you just do not — they\u2019re just very dangerous for the country, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019m glad you waited. I appreciate your patience. That\u2019s John somewhere in Virginia, a retired FBI agent. Folks, it was beyond lying to the FISA court. The FBI, quote, unquote, told the court that the primary sub-source who created the dossier appeared highly credible, but they didn\u2019t tell the court that he said all the info was gossip and hearsay and jokes heard in a bar.<\/p>\n

It goes beyond lying. As John pointed out, they covered up damning information about the dossier, and they covered up exculpatory — for example, they did not tell the FISA judge that Papadopoulos is denying anything, is denying everything, he\u2019s denying that they knew anything about the Russians, that there was any Russian involvement in the foreign policy apparatus of the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

And Papadopoulos, by the way, for all of this, I mean, if Papadopoulos is the origin of this investigation, he goes to jail for 14 days for lying to the FBI. What\u2019s up with that? Here again it\u2019s time for some accountability. We\u2019ve had some people lying to the FISA court, FBI, management people in Washington lying to the FISA court. We\u2019ve had FBI employees lying under oath to Congress. You lie to them and six months in the slammer for you. Ask Martha Stewart or anybody else.<\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019ve had so much lying on the part of government officials about this. And this report makes some of that lying clear. Even though there wasn\u2019t any bias at all, evidentiary, testimonial, documentary evidence. It just means that nobody confessed it. I wish somebody would ask this guy this point-blank: “What do you mean when you say that there\u2019s no testimonial or documentary evidence? You just mean nobody admitted it to youm, right? You\u2019re not saying there wasn\u2019t any. You just didn\u2019t get anybody to admit that\u2019s what drove them, right?” That\u2019s all he\u2019s saying here. And he\u2019s hanging his hat on it because that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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