{"id":213917,"date":"2016-07-06T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/06\/rush_interviews_former_federal_prosecutor_andy_mccarthy_on_the_fbi_investigation_into_mrs_clinton_s_email_scandal\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:09:34","slug":"rush_interviews_former_federal_prosecutor_andy_mccarthy_on_the_fbi_investigation_into_mrs_clinton_s_email_scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/06\/rush_interviews_former_federal_prosecutor_andy_mccarthy_on_the_fbi_investigation_into_mrs_clinton_s_email_scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Interviews Former Federal Prosecutor Andy McCarthy on the FBI Investigation into Mrs. Clinton\u2019s Email Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:\u00a0 We welcome Andrew McCarthy, who has become a good friend.\u00a0 He\u2019s a former prosecutor in the US attorney\u2019s office, Southern District of Manhattan, who — as you all know by now — was the co-lead prosecutor who secured a conviction against the blind sheik, has become an expert in Islamic terrorism, Islamic supremacism, and Sharia law, and is also an expert constitutionalist.\u00a0 And we\u2019re glad to have you here, Andy.\u00a0 How are you?MCCARTHY:\u00a0 Rush, I\u2019m doing great.\u00a0 How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 Now, okay we got the second day here.\u00a0 You\u2019ve had a day — we\u2019ve all had a day — to digest this.\u00a0 You had your piece at NRO yesterday that basically shredded the FBI director\u2019s claim that he couldn\u2019t find any intent here and, as such, no reasonable prosecutor would seek charges or would seek to prosecute the case.\u00a0 Where are you today after having an overnight to digest this, talk to people about it, and review your own thoughts?<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY:\u00a0 Well, I guess, because I think highly of Jim Comey — he\u2019s been a friend of mine and someone I have a lot of respect for personally for a long time — I try to find some silver linings in what otherwise is a pretty disappointing outcome.\u00a0 And the one that I keep coming back to, Rush, is that the normal way that this exchange between the FBI and the Justice Department goes is it happens, really, in secret, in private, and we never hear about it.\u00a0 And when a case basically gets tanked or not brought, you never know what the evidence in the case was.<\/p>\n

And the only upside I can see to what\u2019s happened here is he — in a very expansive, lavish way — laid out exactly what the FBI\u2019s investigation found so that at least the American people will have that before them when they go to the polls in November.\u00a0 Now, I should underscore that I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the FBI\u2019s job.\u00a0 I like the idea that the law enforcement people do law enforcement and leave the politics to the politicians.\u00a0 But I am grateful for the fact that at least we have a full accounting of what they found.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 You know Comey, so in that regard let me ask you: An analogy made here yesterday that others have made also is that this was strikingly similar to the Chief Justice John Roberts saying (summarized), “You know what?\u00a0 I don\u2019t feel comfortable finding a major piece of legislation of the president\u2019s that was voted in favor by the people\u2019s representatives…\u00a0 I just don\u2019t want… I\u2019m not gonna rule this unconstitutional.”\u00a0 So he changes it from the bench essentially to make it pass muster.\u00a0 And some people are saying that Comey has, in his own way, done the same thing here, that he just couldn\u2019t bring himself to have such a major impact on something as important as a presidential campaign by taking an action that might result in the nominee of one of the major parties being taken out.\u00a0 Any reaction to that theory?<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I like the comparison for a few reasons.\u00a0 I think, you know, one of the reasons that Chief Justice Roberts did in that opinion, very much like what Jim did yesterday, is with Tom Brady-like precision he moved down the field briskly and in a way that looked like he couldn\u2019t be stopped. And then once he got to the Red Zone, he moved the goal post, he moved the end zone, he changed the rules that would have otherwise led him to a different conclusion.\u00a0 So it\u2019s an interesting comparison.<\/p>\n

The other thing is, there are a lot of people like myself who were very disappointed in Roberts, just like I was disappointed in Comey, whereas there were other people in the Roberts rah-rah section who said that the chief justice was a diabolical genius, because while he seems to have come up short of doing what he should have done in this particular case, he sowed the seeds for undermining the jurisprudence of the Commerce Clause and therefore all of this federal expansion is potentially vulnerable to attack.\u00a0 I hate that kind of stuff.\u00a0 I just think it\u2019s too Machiavellian to me.\u00a0 I want the judges to judge cases —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY — I want the prosecutors to prosecute their cases, and I want the FBI to find facts, apply the law, and do the right thing in a case.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 It\u2019s akin to the theory somewhat related, that people say, “Go ahead, let the Democrats win the election so people will find out how bad they are! Go ahead, make Obamacare constitutional so people will learn how bad government expansion and intrusion is.”\u00a0 It never works out.<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 And we\u2019ve got it already, you know? (chuckling) How many more times do we need to do it?\u00a0 You know, message received!<\/p>\n