{"id":226257,"date":"2017-03-20T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=226257"},"modified":"2017-03-21T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:01:06","slug":"comey-on-hillary-vs-comey-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/20\/comey-on-hillary-vs-comey-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey on Hillary vs. Comey on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"RUSH: Back to the phones, Maria, Jacksonville, Florida. Great to have you on the program. How you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I want to know, why was it possible for Comey to investigate all of Weiner\u2019s emails in a week\u2019s time and he can\u2019t even commit as to when he can give Congress any updates into any of his current investigations?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, because this is a never ending investigation.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: In fact, a Democrat congresswoman asked him to explain the process of an ongoing investigation. He said, “Well, that\u2019s pretty much what it is, it\u2019s an ongoing investigation.” She said, “Well, can you tell us how long it will take?” “Well, no.” “Well, can you give us the average time of an ongoing investigation?” “Well, there is no average time. Each investigation is its own investigation, and we never limit or prejudge. We follow the facts. We follow the evidence.”<\/p>\n
Well, they\u2019re following a lot of nothing right now. Because there isn\u2019t any evidence. None whatsoever. Now, I get your point, though. Let\u2019s go back and review something. I don\u2019t know, were you as impressed as I was about how serious James Comey was about how serious a crime it is to release classified information? Trey Gowdy really pumped him on this today. And these guys don\u2019t seem interested in finding who leaks this stuff. They\u2019re not interested. They don\u2019t want to discuss it. They don\u2019t want to go there. They\u2019re not interested in who unmasked, for example, Mike Flynn.<\/p>\n
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Now, the way Flynn was caught, Flynn was not being surveilled. I knew this was the case. The Russian ambassador is being surveilled and so what happens, the NSA is monitoring whatever the Russian ambassador does, and there\u2019s a phone call with Flynn, Mike Flynn, and they hear it. Now, when something like that happens, and Flynn\u2019s not the target, they\u2019re supposed to ignore it unless what they hear constitutes without question serious criminal offense. It\u2019s part of the protection built in.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re gonna be monitoring foreign actors and they have dealings with Americans who are not targets, not persons of interest, when you hear them, you\u2019re supposed to ignore \u2019em and nobody\u2019s supposed to tell anybody what was said. Well, we know everything Flynn — well, we don\u2019t know. That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve got the transcript of the phone call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador, but they leaked a bunch of it that made it look like he was discussing the lifting of sanctions and all that, when he wasn\u2019t. And so he was being asked, Comey was, “Well, well, well, who would be in charge of unmasking the technique or the term for hiding the identity of an American on a transcript of an intercepted call that is not the target is masking?”<\/p>\n
You have to unmask that person if doing so is warranted by evidence and circumstance. And so Trey Gowdy was asking of the unmasking of Flynn, but Comey said, “I can\u2019t comment on individuals. I can\u2019t comment on what\u2019s in the news. I can\u2019t comment on the media reports, I can\u2019t comment.” So Gowdy had to ask generic questions about theoretical circumstances to get Comey to even play ball.<\/p>\n
It was clear that Comey didn\u2019t want to say anything about that, except how serious a crime it is to release classified information. He said it over and over again. He stressed it so much that I couldn\u2019t help but think this is a different James Comey from the FBI director who said that no prosecutor would prosecute Hillary Clinton for releasing classified information in her email. That\u2019s what she did, and Comey\u2019s the guy who said (paraphrasing), “I couldn\u2019t find an illicit motive, an absolute illicit motive, there\u2019s no reason to prosecute her.” And yet look what we\u2019re doing here. It\u2019s the exact opposite of the way Comey said he had to deal with Hillary.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: James Comey said that he couldn\u2019t confirm that there would ever be an investigation of the leakers, while admitting it\u2019s a felony.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t act interested in pursuing that investigation whatsoever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: I couldn't help but think this is a different James Comey from the FBI director who said that no prosecutor would prosecute Hillary Clinton for releasing classified information in her email… Look what we're doing here. It's the exact opposite of the way Comey said he had to deal with Hillary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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