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RUSH:  I thought I had adjusted to it, but I haven\u2019t.  It just makes me sick.  It depresses me.  It makes me sick all over again.  This Benghazi thing, it\u2019s so emblematic of what has happened to us as a country.  It is so enlightening as to what has happened to institutions that we need to be able to trust.  It exposes this administration as, gosh, I don\u2019t know, incompetent, uncaring, self-focused.  It\u2019s just, I don\u2019t know, folks. <\/p>\n

Greetings.  Great to have you here.  Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone.  Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882.  The email address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

We have two reports.  We have the full-fledged 800-page report put together by the committee chairman, Trey Gowdy.  We have a couple other Republicans, Mike Pompeo of Kansas and Jim Jordan, Ohio, and they put together their own summary of the 800-page report, which is — well, as you might imagine, it\u2019s pared down. It gets in, gets it, and gets out.  Both are really well done.<\/line><\/p>\n

Even without a press conference today and even without the frustration of looking at the media trying to change the narrative of this thing, just the substance, the details of what went on and how we were all lied to over and over again about the cause being a video, and the end result being four dead Americans and not a finger lifted to help them. And then ongoing lies for weeks and months in order to protect the reelection chances of Barack Obama and everybody in his Regime.<\/p>\n

To watch the media today after Gowdy and his committee went out there and they all made statements, announced the substance of their report, summary-wise, it was clear that the media is not interested in what\u2019s in the report, which doesn\u2019t surprise me.  I\u2019m just telling you.  They don\u2019t care what\u2019s in the report.  They\u2019re characterizing the report in two ways.  They\u2019re saying, A, nothing new, and, B, Hillary had nothing to do with it.  The committee does not indict Hillary Clinton.  The committee does not lay blame at the feet of Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n

So CNN, TIME Magazine, you name it, they\u2019re all running with the conclusion from this report that Hillary Clinton\u2019s innocent, she had nothing to do with it.  And the reason that happened is classic.  So after all the Republicans speak and shared with the media their various takes on the content of the report, here comes a Q&A.  And the Q&A is all about reestablishing a narrative away from the substance of the report and toward the motivations of the members of the committee, such as, “You keep saying that your report\u2019s about what happened to four people, but isn\u2019t it really about Hillary Clinton?” <\/p>\n

Trey Gowdy (paraphrasing), “No, no, no, no.  No, no, no, no.  I challenge you to read it.”  They\u2019re not gonna read it.  They don\u2019t care what\u2019s in it.  They think they already know.  There\u2019s nothing new in it.  That\u2019s the second narrative.  But they\u2019re not gonna read it.  Gowdy says, “Read it, read it.  You won\u2019t find one name mentioned.  You\u2019ll find four.”  And then he says, “Speaker Boehner, Speaker Ryan did not tell me to go out and find out who is ultimately responsible in terms of one name.  They asked me to find out why four Americans are dead.” <\/line><\/p>\n

So the effort was made — and look, I understand it, but it\u2019s an illustration of how this stuff ends up happening the way it does.  The Republicans are taking the high road, and they are hell-bent on not being mischaracterized by falling into what they think is a trap of aiming all of this at Hillary Clinton.  She\u2019s only the Democrat nominee for president.  But even today the effort was made to not focus on her, because, of course, we don\u2019t want to taint the substance and content of our report by making it look like there was any partisanship in it.  So we go out of the way to say, “No, no, no, no, it was not about one name.  It wasn\u2019t about two names,” meaning it wasn\u2019t about Obama, it wasn\u2019t about Hillary.  “It\u2019s about four dead Americans.” <\/p>\nWell, that gives the media a free and clear open road to write that Hillary is off the hook.  I<\/line>n fact, CNN\u2019s banner headline says, “Panel found no wrongdoing by Clinton.”  No wrongdoing by Clinton.  She\u2019s up to her knees, her hips in this.  No wrongdoing.  Now, I understand the committee, because I understand Republicans, and they start out on the defensive, and they believe that the media is going to target them as being partisan.  The guys that worked on this, the people that worked on this report are dead serious about it. It\u2019s very substantive. They spent a lot of time on it, taken very seriously, and they should be applauded for that.  Don\u2019t anybody misunderstand here. <\/line>\n

But the defensiveness is we don\u2019t want our work here to be mischaracterized as nothing more than a political attack.  So to prevent that, we\u2019ll go overboard, if necessary, to say it wasn\u2019t about Hillary, it wasn\u2019t about the Democrat presidential nominee, it wasn\u2019t about Obama, when of course it\u2019s about both of them. But they don\u2019t want to admit that because then the report will be nothing more than “Republicans attack Hillary in disguised report on Benghazi, which contains nothing new.” And they don\u2019t want that headline, either. <\/line><\/p>\n

So, the answer that we got was, “Read the report.  Read the report.  You\u2019ll see.  Read the report.”  The media\u2019s not gonna read the report.  The low-information voters are not gonna read the report.  The people that voted to leave the European Union in Great Britain are not gonna read the report.  It does have some new things in it.  It has some new context.  It has timelines.  Folks, it is really stunning. <\/p>\n

You go to page 30 of this baby. I\u2019ve got the Jim Jordan, Mike Pompeo, I\u2019ve got both versions, but I\u2019ve got the 56-page, 60-page version here. And while there isn\u2019t a whole lot new in it, this has been put together in a succinct narrative showing how systematically over and over they all lie.  You focus in on page 30 for the security assessment nine months before the attack.  The security assessment of the Benghazi compound, nine months before the attack a State Department witness called to testify before the committee, bluntly said (paraphrasing), “People are gonna die in Benghazi.  We don\u2019t have any security.  We don\u2019t have any protection.”<\/p>\n

Nine months beforehand, a State Department guy predicted people were going to die in Benghazi.  Hillary Clinton not only left them there after receiving that advice, after being told: (summarized) “People are gonna die there, Madam Secretary; it\u2019s not set up.  We have no business being there.”  But, of course, it\u2019s about Hillary and Obama because Libya was supposed to be the diamond in the rough.  Libya was supposed to be the great illustration and example of Hillary Clinton\u2019s mastermindful statecraft. <\/line><\/p>\n

We were going to use Libya to show how we had ousted a dictator.  We had gotten rid of a bad guy, and we had done it all without firing a shot, and we had converted Libyan population to supporters and allies of the United States.  And come hell or high water, nothing was going to change that narrative because it was setting up two different campaigns.  It was setting up Obama\u2019s in 2012 and now Hillary\u2019s in 2016.  And Libya was going to be the shining example of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s eminent qualifications to be secretary of state.<\/p>\n

So no amount of advice was gonna get her to shut down Benghazi.<\/p>\n

No amount of advice was gonna get her to go add security.  You can\u2019t go adding security and at the same time talk about what a great place you\u2019ve got there and what a great job you\u2019ve done and so forth.  It exposes the timeline of continuing with the lie that the video was responsible for this while lying to the parents of the four dead Americans, while telling the truth to foreign leaders and lying to us. While telling the truth to her daughter, telling the truth to foreign leaders that a video had nothing to do with it, and it was a planned terror attack.<\/p>\n

They knew it.  Now, all of you think you know, and you do. But to see it in this timeline is sickening.  It\u2019s infuriating.  It is sickening.  And it makes me regret that any of these people have ever ended up in power.  And it sickens me that one of them stands a good chance of being elected president this year. Hillary Clinton is an absolute, unqualified disaster: Incapable of telling the truth, never putting the country first, never putting the people who offer their lives in defense of this country first.<\/line><\/p>\n

Always putting herself first, always putting her party first, always putting her political calculations and desires — requests, dreams, what have you — first. And in order to preserve that, anything goes. And then you have a willing accomplice media right along with them, doing everything they can to shift the narrative of this thing.  So we\u2019ve got two narratives.  A. “Hey, you know what?  This Republicans found no wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton! No evidence of any wrongdoing in a report that contains no new information.”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the news.  That\u2019s the way they\u2019re covering it.  It\u2019s sickening.  It is infuriating.  And it\u2019s also a sitting duck.  It is a sitting duck.  I mean, it\u2019s waiting for the right people to come along and run with this ball all the way to the goal line.  Whether or not people like that exist on our side, time will tell.  But if you had watched the press conference — we\u2019ve got some audio sound bites.  Jim Jordan was fabulous, and he\u2019s coming up in just a second here.<\/p>\n

His sound bite pretty much explains all this.  He was just fabulous in this press conference today.  But watching the media trying to switch the narrative, knowing full well they don\u2019t care about… Gowdy was so intent that they know the substance. So intent. “Please read it. Just read it, and you\u2019ll find out your questions are baseless. Read it and find out your questions have no point.  Read it, and you\u2019ll find out your premise is inaccurate.  Read it!  Just read it.  You won\u2019t find anything in it like you have just asked me.” <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re not interested in the substance.  This is all about changing the narrative from the substance.  The whole point of the media covering this today is to provide cover for Hillary Clinton.  And they were given a boost by the fact that the Republicans didn\u2019t want to appear as though they were focusing on or aiming at Clinton. So now the Drive-Bys are able to say that the Republican committee gave her a pass, which they didn\u2019t do.  If you read the report, they didn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the narrative. <\/p>\n

So I want to take a time-out here.  We\u2019re gonna come back and I\u2019ve got some sound bites of Jim Jordan, who put together a summary report of this with bullet-point highlights and paragraph explanations.  Jim Jordan from Ohio (I said Illinois; he\u2019s from Ohio), and Mike Pompeo of Kansas.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  And there\u2019s the CNN banner headline again:  “GOP-Led Panel Finds No New Clinton Wrongdoing.”  Jim Jordan went after Hillary Clinton, according to others in the Drive-By Media.  By the way, there\u2019s a third report.  The Democrats — trying to preempt this today — issued their own report yesterday, and they gave up something.  They revealed the relationship between Hillary and Sidney Blumenthal, that he was advising her, and being paid 200 grand for it.  And do you know this? <\/p>\n

The Democrats\u2019 report on Benghazi mentions Donald Trump 23 times. (interruption) Well, you laugh.  He had absolutely nothing to do with Benghazi, but they mention him 23 times.  And, of course, since he\u2019s mentioned 23 times, the Drive-Bys are gonna focus on what Donald Trump had to do with Benghazi.  And probably what it\u2019s gonna be is how Trump, once again, was out of his mind making mindless, insane accusations about our brave Democrats in the administration trying to save American lives, and Trump once again illustrating his lack of temperament. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they put Trump in the report, to give the media free reign in going after Trump.  We of course say, “No, no, no, no!  We will not do anything of the sort.”  You want to know how bad this is?  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jim Jordan.  Here we have exactly what I didn\u2019t want to happen has happened, but I ran into that third story on the report by the Democrats.  So we\u2019ll use this as a setup for what\u2019s coming.  Jim Jordan this morning on Capitol Hill, House select committee on Benghazi, held a press conference to detail exactly what happened here.<\/p>\n

JORDAN:  At 10:08 that night, with Tyrone Woods still on the roof of the annex fighting for his life, Secretary Clinton issues this statement, the official statement on Benghazi, the official statement of our government that evening: “Some have sought to justify is this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material on the internet.”  We know that statement was misleading because an hour later she told her daughter, “Terrorists killed two of our people today.”  The next day she tells the Egyptian prime minister, “We know the film had nothing to do with it.  It was a planned attack, not a protest.” And this public-private contrast continues for days, publicly telling the American people it was a video-inspired protest, privately telling the truth that it was a terrorist attack.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right! After hearing that, you see a headline on CNN that says, “GOP Exonerates Hillary.”  That\u2019s how it works.  Yep.  There\u2019s more.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I\u2019m gonna do it again.  I\u2019m gonna play it again.  I\u2019m gonna keep \u2019em in order here. It\u2019s very powerful stuff.  I want to set it up here again.  I\u2019m gonna play the sound bite from Jim Jordan again.  Just to give you an idea, the minute I saw him testifying, I said, “Cookie, I want this. Jim Jordan right now is awesome.”  We\u2019ve got three of him, we got Mike Pompeo, we got a montage from the old days to put all this in perspective.<\/p>\n

You gotta keep in mind now, they go out and they think the members of this committee, particularly Jordan and Pompeo, their summary\u2019s 51 pages.  I just told Koko to link to it up there at RushLimbaugh.com.  It\u2019s not hard to read this thing.  It\u2019s a PDF, it\u2019s a Word file, however you want to download it.  It\u2019s not legalese.  It\u2019s pointed and direct.  The Gowdy report is 800 pages.  You just need to read this 51 page job by Jordan and Pompeo. <\/p>\n

But to put it in perspective, they come out today and they\u2019ve got maybe not new information, although I think there is some new stuff in here, but they really assembled this in timelines and contextual ways that just nail this administration, just nail \u2019em as incompetent, uncaring, lying. I mean, purposely strategically lying. From Susan Rice on those five Sundays shows saying it was the video, to Hillary Clinton saying it was the video, to Barack Obama saying it was the video when they all knew that it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The very same day it was happening, members of the administration from Obama and Hillary on down were characterizing it as a terrorist attack, not a protest.  They even lied about a protest in Cairo earlier the same day spawning this, and the root of both was that video.  They knew it wasn\u2019t.  They were lying through the teeth.  The report proves conclusively they were lying.  If that\u2019s not new, I don\u2019t know what is.  Then they\u2019ve got the context and the timelines in inarguable presentations.  There\u2019s no way out of this. <\/line><\/p>\n

But because in the Q&A when the reporters demanded of Trey Gowdy that he admit that this was all about getting Hillary.  “No, no, no.”  Now the Drive-By reports are, “GOP panel finds no new evidence involving Mrs. Clinton. No wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton.”  And so that is the narrative out of this.  Nobody\u2019s gonna read it.  None of the people we need to read it are gonna read it.  None of the people who need to find out what a bunch of lying skunks this Regime has in it.  None of the people that need to find out that they can\u2019t trust these people that they\u2019re entrusting their entire lives to.  They can\u2019t do it.  It would be the absolute biggest mistake we could all make, to elect Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n

This document is just one bit of evidence that could lead anybody with an open mind to that conclusion.  But because it\u2019s reported that the panel found nothing here to be concerned about, Mrs. Clinton, it\u2019s gonna be a ho-hum yawner.  So, once again it\u2019s up to us here in the alternative media to ring the bells and sound the alarms and plead and cajole and encourage and try to inspire people to go out and read this. <\/p>\n

And in that vein, here are the Jim Jordan sound bites.  And again, we\u2019re gonna play number one just to have \u2019em all three run as one, \u2019cause he just went on it on.  We had to divvy this up into three different bites and there\u2019s still more that we don\u2019t have here, but this is the nut of it.  And in this first sound bite he is explaining inarguably how Hillary Clinton knowingly lied about the video and about the knowledge of what happened and who was behind it and why it happened. <\/p>\n

And when you get down to that level and you find out that not a single finger was lifted to save four Americans who thought help was coming, and then you realize, you read page 30 of the Jordan-Pompeo report, and you will see a State Department official warning the State Department and Hillary Clinton, somebody\u2019s gonna die in this place, Benghazi, somebody is gonna die \u2019cause you don\u2019t have any security set up. <\/p>\n

Remember, Libya was the crown jewel.  Libya was Mrs. Clinton\u2019s foreign policy, and it was going to set the stage for her campaign to show how qualified she is.  So here we go.  Jim Jordan, number one.<\/p>\n

JORDAN:  At 10:08 that night, with Tyrone Woods still on the roof of the annex fighting for his life, Secretary Clinton issues this statement, the official statement on Benghazi, the official statement of our government that evening: “Some have sought to justify is this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material on the internet.”  We know that statement was misleading because an hour later she told her daughter, “Terrorists killed two of our people today.”  The next day she tells the Egyptian prime minister, “We know the film had nothing to do with it.  It was a planned attack, not a protest.” And this public-private contrast continues for days, publicly telling the American people it was a video-inspired protest, privately telling the truth that it was a terrorist attack.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Now, let me address something.  You in this audience, because you\u2019re in this audience, know that this excuse that all this happened because of the video, you know it\u2019s bogus.  You know it is a lie, and you know that everybody who told the lie knew it was a lie.  You know that Obama knowingly lied.  You know that Hillary knowingly lied.  You know that Susan Rice knowingly lied on five separate occasions.  You know that it went on for two or more weeks.  And all this time you might think, “Well, it\u2019s so obvious, everybody know.”  No, they don\u2019t, folks. <\/p>\n

See, that\u2019s the rub.  The people that consume only the Drive-By Media or only what they get on Facebook or Twitter or at Yahoo News, the president it says it was about a video, that\u2019s what they think.  Hillary says it was about the video, that\u2019s what they think.  They don\u2019t know that they\u2019re lying about it and they don\u2019t ever assume their president lies to them unless he\u2019s a Republican.  They never assume it.  And if they find out their president\u2019s lied to them, he had to do it in order to beat back the Republicans.  And that\u2019s how it becomes justified. <\/p>\n

This is the epitome of the frustration.  You and I and a certain number of millions of Americans know full well what a gigantic lie all of this is, never mind four Americans died, the Regime in charge of guaranteeing their safety and trying to protect them didn\u2019t lift a finger.  You know that, and the frustrating thing is millions and millions of Americans still have no idea.  They believe it was a video.  They believe that Hillary and Obama did everything they could to save these people.  They have no idea that Hillary lied to the parents. When the bodies were flown back to the United States they were draped, coffins draped with the American flag, and Hillary is lying to their parents that they were gonna get the guy that did that video, and he\u2019s gonna pay for what he did. <\/line><\/p>\n

And even though the family members are out saying, “No, Hillary lied to us,” the sad reality is that millions and millions of Americans, however you want to characterize it, had no idea.  They believe whatever comes out of Obama\u2019s mouth or Hillary\u2019s mouth, with one caveat:  If Obama or Hillary lie in order to thwart Republicans, then it\u2019s okay, then it\u2019s fine.  In fact, we applaud that.  In the next bite, this is Jordan talking about how Libya was supposed to be the crown jewel of the Clinton State Department, that they did everything they did to guarantee the legacy of Hillary and Obama and that they found emails from Sidney Blumenthal admitting that.<\/p>\n

JORDAN:  Libya was supposed to be the crowning jewel of the Clinton State Department foreign policy and the Obama administration foreign policy.  This was their example of how it works.  No boots on the ground, ousted dictator, help the Arab Spring.  This was supposed to be how it works.  Sidney Blumenthal, few days after Khadafy has been removed, he sends an email to the secretary, and he says: “This is a big moment, you should do a press event, even if it\u2019s in the driveway of your vacation home.” And he finishes the email with this statement: “This is a big moment.  You are vindicated.  Don\u2019t wait.  Help Clio now.”  Clio, of course, is the goddess of history.  So they were committed to this.  They were invested in this.  This was it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  He\u2019s talking about things that happened before Benghazi here.  The Blumenthal email was sent to Hillary after Khadafy was vanquished and that was where they were supposed to make the case that this is how smart diplomacy works.  This is how smart foreign policy works.  We got rid of Khadafy with no boots on the ground, meaning to weapons. We didn\u2019t fire any guns. There was nobody killed.  We ousted a dictator. We helped move along the Arab Spring.  That\u2019s how it can happen.  <\/line><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need to have boots on the ground everywhere to get done what we want to get done, and Blumenthal was advising her to go out take credit for it right now. Help Clio, the goddess of history.  And so Jordan\u2019s point here is that Blumenthal was, in hindsight, admitting what this was all about, and that was establishing Hillary\u2019s legacy as the greatest secretary of state that we may have ever seen, and that\u2019s why when Benghazi came along, they had to lie through their teeth, because Benghazi blew up every notion of Hillary Clinton\u2019s greatness.<\/p>\n

Benghazi blew up every notion of Hillary Clinton\u2019s competency.  Benghazi blew up every supposition about our foreign policy in Libya and how brilliant it was.  Benghazi blew it all high sky.  But to protect the legacy… And you might say, “Well, but, Rush, Republicans would do the same thing.”  Yeah.  Maybe.  The point is, they wouldn\u2019t get away with it.  There would be investigative forces all over Washington trying to get to the bottom of this, and they wouldn\u2019t dare let any Republicans get away with legacy building on the backs of four dead Americans. <\/p>\n

But with Democrats involved?<\/p>\n

Hell, yes! We\u2019ll do that. No big deal.  Not even a question.  Hillary Clinton\u2019s legacy as great secretary of state versus four dead Americans? Sorry, the Americans are dead. What difference it make now?  And that\u2019s exactly what Hillary\u2019s attitude was: What difference does it make now why they died, what caused it?  I tell you, it\u2019s sickening.  I\u2019m sickeningly frustrated to relive this all.  So Romney blew up his chance to go after them on this.  And because of our desire to avoid appearing partisan, the media\u2019s able to run stories today that Hillary Clinton\u2019s off the hook, despite Jim Jordan. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s the next sound bite from Congressman Jordan…<\/p>\n

JORDAN:  It\u2019s a terrorist attack, and it\u2019s a terrorist attack on September 11th, 2012. Days before Vice President Biden had said, “GM\u2019s alive, bin Laden\u2019s dead.” The president had this narrative that “Al-Qaeda\u2019s on the run,” but now they got a terrorist attack, and they have to mislead the American people because it\u2019s 56 days before an election, their legacy\u2019s on the line, and she has the goddess of history lookin\u2019 over her shoulder.  So they mislead the American people.  You look at every step of this, and I am convinced just as sure as I\u2019m standing here, it happened because of political concerns this administration had.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yeah.  And he again implored the members of the members of the media, “Read it! Just read our report! Just read it.”  Not gonna happen.  They\u2019re not gonna read it.  They don\u2019t want to read it.  They don\u2019t want to find out anything other than how can they get Hillary off the hook, which they are in the process of doing.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Let me give an example of what I\u2019m talking about.  Press conference, Q&A with reporters.  Dana Bash is asking a question to Trey Gowdy, who is the chairman of this subcommittee.  She says, “Mr. Gowdy, because you chose not to draw conclusions, does that suggest that you don\u2019t have the goods on placing any blame on the administration, specifically the woman who wants to be the next president of the United States?”  Let me repeat her question, \u2019cause this is designed to create the narrative for the rest of the day on CNN. <\/p>\n

“Mr. Gowdy, because you chose not to draw conclusions…” ‘Cause he\u2019d previously said, “I\u2019m not into drawing conclusions here.  I don\u2019t do the ‘why.\u2019  I do the ‘who, what, when.'”  That\u2019s what he said., “I do the ‘who, what, when.\u2019 Just the facts, ma\u2019am.  The conclusion, you can draw your own after you read the report.” So he said that couple, three times.  So her question, “Mr. Gowdy, because you chose not to draw a conclusion, does that suggest that you don\u2019t have the goods placing any blame on the administration, specifically…” If you had read the report, if you had the modicum of knowledge of what goes on, you couldn\u2019t ask this question.<\/p>\n

Of course, everything that happened here is “the goods placing blame on this administration.”  Here\u2019s Gowdy\u2019s answer…<\/line><\/p>\n

GOWDY:  Dana, shockingly, that was not what the House asked me to do.  Look at the resolution.  The resolution doesn\u2019t mention Secretary Clinton.  Speaker Boehner nor Speaker Ryan has ever asked me to do anything about 2016 presidential politics.  Speaker Boehner asked me to find out what happened to four of our fellow citizens, and I believe that that is what I have done.  You are welcome to read the report.  I hope you will; I know you will.  If you, at the end of reading that report, can conclude that it is about one person instead of about four people, I will be shocked.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  So the answer is, “What, us?  No, no, no!  No, no!  This isn\u2019t by political.  No, no, no, no.  We\u2019re dead serious.  We want to get to the bottom what happened here.  No, no, no.  This is not about going after Hillary Clinton.”  Oh, really?  You\u2019re not going after Hillary?  Okay, fine.  Because you didn\u2019t find anything wrongdoing with her anyway, right?  No, because we didn\u2019t draw any conclusions.  Okay, so Hillary gets a pass.  The panel found no wrongdoing.  Then there was an unidentified reporter got in on this and here\u2019s how that sounded…<\/p>\n

REPORTER:  There are bumper stickers and T-shirts all over this country that say, “Hillary Clinton Lied. People died.”  Is that true?<\/p>\n

GOWDY:  Uh, you don\u2019t see that T-shirt on me, and you\u2019ve never seen that bumper sticker on any of my vehicles, and you\u2019ve never heard me comment on that.  I\u2019m asking you to read it.  I\u2019m not… I\u2019m not gonna tell you what to be on the lookout for.  I actually trust you to read the report for yourself.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  They\u2019re not gonna read it!  They don\u2019t care what\u2019s in it.  All they want out of this press conference is to be able to walk out of there saying that they have no goods on Mrs. Clinton.  Like this there are bumper stickers and T-shirts all over the country, Hillary.  You ever hear them worry about that when that was true of George W. Bush?  And Gowdy, you know, wasn\u2019t gonna go there. “No, no, no! I\u2019m not saying she lied.  I\u2019m not…” The report says she lied from beginning to end.  Finally Mike Pompeo, he worked on the summary report with Jim Jordan.  He had a Q&A. The reporter said, “Mr. Pompeo, is Hillary Clinton\u2019s leadership morally reprehensible?”<\/line><\/p>\n

POMPEO:  Yes.<\/p>\n

REPORTER:  It is?<\/p>\n

POMPEO:  Absolutely.  We worked our tails off to develop every fact we could, to tell the American people everything we could possibly glean, and we have been obstructed every step along the way in that effort, including by the very Democrats today who are calling us political.  With respect to my statements about Secretary Clinton, I believe them in my heart.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Meaning she\u2019s reprehensible, morally reprehensible.  Why would she be characterized as morally reprehensible if they found no wrongdoing?  But that\u2019s their story.  That\u2019s their narrative, and they\u2019re sticking to it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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