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RUSH: Let me ask you a quick question, just quick. Do you know what the 17 items are?<\/p>\nRUSH: Upper West Side in Manhattan. This is Bill. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. I gotta get in everything fast. I got three points. I forgot to tell Snerdley the third. I want to help you make the complex simple and understandable for the people in Rio Linda. The chances of 17 things, like in the IG report, all going in one direction pointing to intentionality instead of honest screw ups is like taking a fair coin and tossing it 17 times and coming up 17 heads in a row, and that is roughly one in 131,000 times, and that\u2019s very, very slim.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me ask you a quick question, just quick. Do you know what the 17 items are?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t \u2019cause I —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stand by. I\u2019m gonna tell you what they are in the next segment. What\u2019s your next point?<\/p>\n
CALLER: The next point is about Carter Page. During the interview with Chris Wallace Comey yesterday said this was way down on the list, all these lapses. There were other things more concerning. And I think that Lindsey Graham should invite him behind closed doors, let\u2019s find that out.<\/p>\n
And the third thing is I know FISA judges are top secret, their identities are concealed. When you were talking about imagining the most deceitful thing that could happen to you, isn\u2019t at least one of those judges incensed and white hot over this and can he not or she not come out of the shadows, say, “I\u2019m done with the FISA court”? I want an explanation for this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is curious why — and that may have happened. You know, this is the thing about the FISA court. It\u2019s secret and it\u2019s very private. In fact, these people, do you know we\u2019ve had — we\u2019re tracking down Saudi people on military bases, and there are people, \u201cYou can\u2019t do that, that\u2019s bias, that\u2019s prejudice,\u201d and so forth.<\/p>\n
The FISA court may have already had that kind of reaction, we wouldn\u2019t know. Some judge on the FISA court may have blown his gasket over this internally and we wouldn\u2019t know. And if the media found out they would suppress it, cover it up, and not report. I understand, though, if I were one of the FISA judges and I find out all this stuff after the fact I, too, would be livid and I\u2019d want some scalps beyond that.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, these 17 incidents that the inspector general found, these incidents of curious behavior — and as our caller from the Upper West Side pointed out, all 17 went against Trump! All 17 of these — what were “mistakes” — just happened to be mistakes committed at Donald Trump\u2019s expense.\u00a0 As the caller pointed out, that\u2019s like having a coin and tossing it seven times and getting heads every time, or tails.\u00a0 What are these 17 incidents?<\/p>\n
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James Comey says, “Well, you know, they\u2019re kind of minor in the big scheme of things.\u00a0 There were lots of more important things we were dealing with than this investigation.”\u00a0 Folks, I really can\u2019t emphasize the expansive, constant, never-ending, bald-faced lies that were this investigation, this coup, and they are what propels impeachment to this day, which is why I\u2019m focusing on this.\u00a0 I got a piece by Julie Kelly at American Greatness just savaging Comey that I want to share with you before the program ends today.<\/p>\n
Chris Wallace, I think, undressed Comey yesterday.\u00a0 Comey doesn\u2019t know it.\u00a0 Comey, in his arrogance and conceit, thinks he gets away with saying, “Well, these things, I guess I was wrong. There was some sloppiness in the FISA applications.”\u00a0 Sloppiness?\u00a0 There wasn\u2019t any sloppiness.\u00a0 That\u2019s the point.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t sloppy.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t incompetent.\u00a0 It was intentional, and it was false, and it was done for one purpose: To railroad an American citizen.<\/p>\n
Actually two — Carter Page and Trump — and everybody they could touch with Trump, like Flynn and Manafort.\u00a0 Look, I don\u2019t want to offend anybody here. I really don\u2019t, and please don\u2019t misunderstand.\u00a0 Folks, you know when I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt — and I knew it practically from the get-go. But you have… At every stage of one of these bogus things, there are new discoveries, new things you see that convince you even more than you were that something is bogus or whatever you think it is.<\/p>\n
When I saw the 6 a.m. raid on Roger Stone\u2019s house, that\u2019s what told me they\u2019ve got nothing.\u00a0 And then when I saw them go after somebody named Jerome Corsi, I said, “They\u2019ve got nothing.\u00a0 They are just trying to destroy anybody they can to make it look like Trump\u2019s done something, that Trump is guilty, and that they\u2019re getting close by nailing all of these ancillary figures.”\u00a0 Don\u2019t make me say any more.\u00a0 I\u2019m just telling you that going after those two guys and some others…<\/p>\n
There was Assange, and there were some other ancillary figures that the left might think are very powerful conspiracy movers on the right, and they\u2019re privately just a bunch of jokes.\u00a0 What are these 17 incidents?\u00a0 Well, there were two groups that made up 17.\u00a0 The first is a group of seven things; then there are 10 more.\u00a0 The specifics cited by Horowitz in his report, specifically, quote, “Based upon the information known to the FBI in October 2016…”<\/p>\n
This is a month before the election. “The first application for a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page contained seven significant inaccuracies and omissions, among them,” among these significant inaccuracies and omissions, “the FBI concealed that Carter Page had been working with the CIA in his dealings with Russia, and that Page had notified CIA case managers of at least some of those contacts after he was approved as an operational contact with Russia.”<\/p>\n
In other words, they\u2019re getting a warrant to spy on somebody in the Trump campaign they claim is working for Trump and colluding with Russia who was actually a CIA operative working for the United States.\u00a0 They knew that!\u00a0 They knew Carter Page was not a Russian agent, they knew he was a CIA agent, and they asked for the warrant to spy on him anyway because all they could do was make up a case.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t have a case.\u00a0 That\u2019s incident number one.<\/p>\n
Comey wants to say: Well, these are minor things. Uh, they really had no great impact on anything.\u00a0 “The FBI application lied about the timing and the substance of Page\u2019s relationship with the CIA.\u00a0 The FBI overstated the value and corroboration of Steele\u2019s prior work for the U.S. government to make him appear more credible than he was, and they held from the court every reason they had to doubt the reliability of the key source that Carter Page used.”<\/p>\n