{"id":226714,"date":"2017-03-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=226714"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:40:24","slug":"obama-surveilled-the-trump-transition-and-the-media-knew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/24\/obama-surveilled-the-trump-transition-and-the-media-knew-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Surveilled the Trump Transition and the Media Knew It"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Not only was there surveillance of the Trump campaign, not only was there surveillance by the Obama administration on the Trump transition, the media knew about it and was using the information they were being given from this surveillance in order to embarrass, humiliate, rip, criticize, Trump and his upcoming administration.<\/p>\n

The media was in on this! The media view is that Obama is pure. Obama is savior-like. Obama is godlike. Obama\u2019s incapable of making mistakes. He\u2019s incapable of doing anything wrong; he\u2019s incapable of doing anything damaging. So if Obama was surveilling Trump and his team, there had to be a damn good reason, because Trump is dangerous! Trump poses an existential threat. All of those stories back in November and December and January in the New York Times and at CNN and at the Washington Post where the word “wiretap” appeared and “intercepted communications” is proof the media knew!<\/p>\n

The media was being fed whatever this surveillance was revealing. The key to understanding it all is that what was being surveilled were foreign agents on purpose. The key to this really is remember the day that we learned — and it wasn\u2019t that long ago — that Obama late in his administration signed an order allowing the NSA to share everything they were learning with 16 additional intelligence agencies and countries. And once that happened, then the media had countless sources for whatever was being learned, because Obama had authorized the NSA to share it.<\/p>\n

\"\"So there isn\u2019t any question that the Trump team was being surveilled indirectly. It was other people — foreign spies, like that fat Russian ambassador and so forth — being surveilled, knowing that Trump people had to be talking to them. It was done specifically to pick up on Trump people while not targeting them. This is where the whole masking and unmasking aspect of this comes out and enters the scene. But there isn\u2019t any question. And every effort to talk about how Trump was colluding with the Russians is nothing more than an effort to throw smoke over all this and to hide what happened.<\/p>\n

And my instinct… By the way, my instinct I think is being proved correct and will be that much more established as time goes on. The salvo that Trump accused Obama of “tapping his wires”? You remember how everybody in the media went batty over that and they still are? They went literally nuts over it. Now, we\u2019re told the reason they went nuts is, “Because nobody dares insult our Obama that way! Our Obama is clean and pure! Our Obama would never do that. Our Obama is unassailable. How dare Trump?”
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\n<\/a>But that\u2019s not why they can\u2019t drop it and let it go. This whole business of Russian collusion is all a manufactured issue to explain why Hillary lost the election. If you go back to before the election, they thought they were gonna win, folks! They thought they were gonna win in a landslide! There was no complaint about the Russians whatsoever before the election. Zip, zero, nada. That was manufactured afterwards.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, there was an investigation of the Russians and the DNC, and they were talking about the potential involvement with Trump. But that was a defamation operation. The fact is they thought they were gonna win the election. They didn\u2019t think any of that was gonna have one negative impact on Hillary\u2019s election or her victory. And it was only after she lost that they came up and needed an excuse. Anyway, Trump throws that allegation of Obama out, and they start having kittens.<\/p>\n

And the reason they did is not because they were insulted that their boy, Obama, could be so insulted — that their lovable president, their unassailable figure, their great, great like-minded individual — could be attacked. It was because Trump was changing the definition of the game. He was changing the rules of the game — and he was, in the process, very, very close to exposing what has been going on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: James Rosen at Fox reported yesterday<\/a> that just groundbreaking news was going to reveal itself today from the NSA that would indicate Trump and his people were, in fact, surveilled. I got the impression that there\u2019s a whistleblower at the NSA or at least somebody who\u2019s made the evidence available.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I, frankly, think we\u2019ve already got the evidence and it\u2019s been published in the New York Times and Washington Post. I don\u2019t… I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt that the Obama administration was surveilling the Trump campaign and then the Trump transition. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about it. The proof is the fact that the fruits of that surveillance has been published for months in the New York Times and the Washington Post! We know that it was happening. What we don\u2019t know is was it direct surveillance or was it incidental? I\u2019ve told you what I think it is.<\/p>\n

I think the Obama administration was purposely and legally surveilling people like the Russian ambassador and other foreign actors. But when I read that Obama signed an order allowing our intelligence agencies to share everything they were learning with 16 additional intelligence agencies in other countries, I said, “Whoa.” And this was in November-December, after the election. I said, “What is this?” And then Flynn is unmasked. He was not targeted, but yet they got rid of him.<\/p>\n

So what I think has been going on is that the Obama administration has been surveilling these foreign actors, picking up those foreign actors\u2019 conversations with Americans, Trump people as well, and I think they\u2019ve been unmasking them. I think that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been leaking to the media. And I think they have been violating the law. You\u2019re not supposed to reveal the names of Americans who your foreign targets are caught talking to.<\/p>\n

If they\u2019re not the target, you don\u2019t have a warrant for \u2019em, then they\u2019re referred to as American number 1, American number 2, however many Americans are in the transcript of the phone call, say, that you have intercepted. I think what\u2019s happened here is these Americans have been identified, and I think what they\u2019ve said has been leaked, unlawfully, to the media. And I think the media has unwittingly, by running that stuff in November and December and January, the media has unwittingly itself unmasked what was a surveillance operation of Trump people and maybe Trump himself.<\/p>\n

\"\"But it was never direct. Therefore, it never required a warrant, it never needed a FISA warrant because — well, not for Trump. Just get a warrant to surveil the Russian ambassador or anybody from Iran or Iraq who happens to be here or at home or what have you. You know, during a transition, the Trump transition team is gonna be talking to all kinds of people from foreign countries, you surveil \u2019em, you pick up what the Trump people are saying, and then you leak that there\u2019s collusion going on.<\/p>\n

You give that to the media; the media reports collusion, always saying somewhere in the story, “no evidence has been found,” but the story, the rest of it, the way it\u2019s written is designed to make you think that there\u2019s all kinds of collusion going on, and it\u2019s so obvious that you don\u2019t need evidence, and I think this is one of the — if this were ever proven, this is so much bigger than Watergate ever even attempted to be.<\/p>\n

And what\u2019s got everybody running around now like stuck pigs is Trump accusing them of it. He went specific in saying Trump Tower was surveilled, but that threw the ball right back at \u2019em. So everything here, every time this little pencil neck guy from California, Schiff, goes out there, it\u2019s designed to throw smoke over everything. The Democrats, whenever they speak about this, whenever they start talking about collusion between the Russians and Trump to screw the election, that\u2019s all a smoke screen to divert you from what was really happening.<\/p>\n

And what was really happening was Trump people were being surveilled, incidentally and then being unmasked. And even if they we weren\u2019t unmasked, these people were leaking to the media and the media was reporting what they were leaked. And they amplified it, made it sound like all kinds of illegal collusion was going on.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d already laid the foundation that Trump worked with Putin to steal the election from Hillary. They add this stuff on top of it. I don\u2019t think we need to whatever the NSA\u2019s gonna give James Rosen. It\u2019s already been in the New York Times. It\u2019s already been in the Washington Post. And it\u2019s been all over CNN.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, on to this surveillance business. Now, I\u2019ve already given many indications here on my overall opinion of this. But because of Devin Nunes and his announcement on Wednesday<\/a> that he\u2019s come across incidental intelligence sufficiently important that he thought the president had to know. So he takes it up there. This has led to shock and anger and outcries of malfeasance from that pencil neck on the Democrat side of that committee — Adam Schiff — and the media, and they\u2019ve been going nuts saying that Nunes needs to resign from the committee!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That\u2019s what the Democrats say about everything going on they don\u2019t like, “You need to resign. You have committed a crime. You have validated our systems and our principles and you need to go, you are unfit.” That\u2019s how they get rid of. They clear the decks, they don\u2019t like level playing field, they don\u2019t want anybody else on it. Nunes explained why he did it (paraphrasing), “The president\u2019s under assault, I found some evidence here the president should know.” Nunes has now taken another step.<\/p>\n

There was another House Intelligence Committee meeting that was scheduled for next week, and the Republican chairman has canceled that meeting. It was a further investigation into the activities of the Russians and our elections, and instead what has been scheduled in place of it is a private session, not public. It\u2019s called closed, a closed session with Comey! Nunes wants Comey to come up and answer some questions about things that Nunes has just recently learned.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s canceled the public hearing and its probe of allegations of Russian interference, saying the panel needed to hear from directors of the FBI and the NSA in a closed session instead. And pencil neck is having a cow over this. He went out and had his own press conference to talk about what a bad guy Trump is, what a guilty guy Trump is, how unfortunate all this is, and how Nunes is behaving unlike any chairman he\u2019s ever known. Here\u2019s a little bit about pencil neck. Grab sound bite 33 and maybe 34. After Nunes did his presser this morning, then pencil neck went out and did his, and this is just a portion of it.<\/p>\n

SCHIFF: I assume, without knowing any better, that what the chairman is talking about is he\u2019s looked at communications that were incidentally collected, that is, not targeted at the president. So no defense for the president, not a full validation or vindication of the president, not a partial validation of the president, a zero validation of the president, even if you accept what the chairman has said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then one more, sound bite 33.<\/p>\n

SCHIFF: The chairman in what appears to be a dead-of-night excursion obtains or reviews some documents that he has not shared with his own committee. And it\u2019s not just that he hasn\u2019t shared them with Democrats on the committee; he hasn\u2019t shared them with Republicans on the committee. All of us are essentially in the dark. But what was most concerning about that whole incident is taking that information to the White House.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Right. The reason that\u2019s disconcerting is \u2019cause that\u2019s not fair, that\u2019s not fair. You shouldn\u2019t be taking things up that exonerate the president. You shouldn\u2019t be taking things up that are exculpatory up before we get a chance to see it and distort it. Now, here is what I think, just to restate this, has gone on. And much of this we know. Much of this we already know. Much of this has already been reported. What I\u2019m gonna do is put it in a context of sorts.<\/p>\n

In the waning days of his presidency in November and in December and early January, President Barack Hussein O changed the rules regarding raw intelligence. He made an 11th-hour rule change allowing the National Security Agency to share certain raw information with 16 other intelligence agencies, many of them foreign countries. Why? Why do this on your way out the door?<\/p>\n

Raw intelligence is simply the result of things with mass telephone surveillance, things like Echelon, which is the massive computer hoover that the NSA has, sweeping up everything. And then there are the specific investigations of foreign actors, many of whom the Trump transition team would be communicating with as part of the transition. So you target the foreign actors, and in the process you overhear who they\u2019re speaking to. That is raw intelligence, and now Obama signed a rule change allowing 16 others to get it, 16 other intelligence agencies, many of them foreign countries, such as the European Union.<\/p>\n

The rule change was put into effect after the raw data was gathered about the Trump team, not before. The rule change was after the Obama embeds realized what they had. Now, was the rule changed in a desperate attempt to provide legal cover for what was already legally shared? Because by the time that Obama signed the rule to share this data, it had already appeared in the New York Times. It had already appeared in the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

All of those stories in November after the election, all the way through December and up to Inauguration Day that had unnamed intelligence community sources reporting on very bad things that they had seen, that indicated it was possible that there might have been a slight possibility that there might have been some collusion. It could have happened between the Trump campaign and the Russians.<\/p>\n

Read on and read on and read on and you find a paragraph where they say no hard evidence has yet been accumulated, but the investigation is ongoing. Well, the rule was changed I think in an attempt to provide legal cover for what had already been shared. I think Obama shared the stuff — remember, now, Hillary Clinton was gonna win. In their minds, Hillary was gonna win, and win in a landslide, and even on election night they thought so.
\n\"\"Now, when information about team Trump was, we\u2019re told, illegally gathered, the assumption would have been that any illegal activity would never be discovered, and they certainly wouldn\u2019t need to use it because Trump wasn\u2019t gonna win. Loretta Lynch would still be the AG, in any event. If Hillary had won and they had all this raw data, Loretta Lynch would still be the AG, Obama would be president through January 20th, and Hillary would take over, and whoever she put in to replace Loretta Lynch and whoever she replaced, if anybody, Comey with, the Democrats and the left would remain in firm control of all of this information.<\/p>\n

All that incriminating information, if they had to, could be destroyed. They can bury it. They can forget it. All of that illegal information, or maybe illegal on the fringes. It may have been legally collected. It might have been illegally disseminated because the Americans overheard should have been masked and not part of leaks. That\u2019s where the potential criminality is.<\/p>\n

The information gathered about Trump and his team may not be subject to normal wiretapping laws, but that doesn\u2019t mean rules don\u2019t exist. Warrantless surveillance is legally collected if it involves people abroad and those here at home. Once it\u2019s collected, that\u2019s when the rules apply. Innocent people\u2019s identity must be protected. But Trump\u2019s and his team identity were not. The media found out and reported whatever the intel agencies wanted to share of that raw data.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. The rule was changed. Obama changed the rule, began sharing all this raw data with 16 other intelligence agencies. That was on January 3rd. That was two days after New Year\u2019s Day, when people were still hung over. So he changes the rule on January 3rd, and the Flynn leaks occur after that.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d collected the data on Flynn all during December. They were surveilling the Russian ambassador and who knows who else. Flynn was unmasked and should never have been. There\u2019s a real crime that has occurred, and not just with Flynn, but all these others that were captured the way Flynn was.<\/p>\n

And then here came the innuendo. Just because Flynn was talking to the Russian ambassador proved, in quotes, in the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and CNN, that there had to be illicit discussions going on. They had laid the foundation that Trump and Putin worked together to steal election from Hillary beginning the day after the election, not before, when they thought they were gonna win, but the day after.<\/p>\n

Flynn was scooped up, he was hoovered up in an incidental bit of surveillance with the Russian ambassador and who knows who else. That\u2019s where the real crime is in all it is. The real crime has occurred in the Obama intelligence agencies, Justice Department, you name it. You want to start talking about Watergate style stuff, that\u2019s where it happened. And everything since then is designed to cover this up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, folks, it is with ontological certitude that we know the Obama administration intelligence agencies — operatives, spies, whoever — listened in on conversations involving Trump aides, campaign advisers, transition officials. We know it. How do we know it? Because their identities have been leaked! How do you know the name Roger Stone is involved in this? Why do you know the name Carter Page? Why do you know the name Paul Manafort? Those names are thrown out there like, “Well, everybody knows Manafort was double dealing.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Everybody knows Manafort got deals under the table with Ukraine and the Russians! Everybody knows that Roger Stone\u2019s doing dirty tricks with Russia, and everybody knows that Carter Page…” How does “everybody” know? Everybody knows because they\u2019ve been unmasked! The only reason the Drive-Bys know any of this stuff is because Obama intelligence operatives leaked the data, the information that was obtained incidentally, overhearing their conversations with targeted surveillance aimed at others.<\/p>\n

When that happens… In the normal flow of things, if you\u2019re surveilling Bad Guy A and Bad Guy A is a terrorist sympathizer in the U.K. So you\u2019re surveilling Bad Guy A; Bad Guy A just happens to be well connected in the British government, and he happens to be make a call to the Trump transition \u2019cause this guy\u2019s trying to ingratiate himself. One of the people he calls (pick a name) is Paul Manafort. So Manafort\u2019s on the call they\u2019re surveilling of Bad Guy A. Here\u2019s Manafort talking to him. When that happens, Manafort gets redacted. What he says gets redacted for the record, and he\u2019s referred to as American No. 1.<\/p>\n

The only thing as a matter of law that the intel agencies can look at, examine, and pass on is what Bad Guy A is saying. What happened here is the Obama embeds did not redact Manafort, and they didn\u2019t refer to him as American No. 1. They called the New York Times or the Washington Post or CNN, and they alluded… They might have even shared transcripts. I don\u2019t know. But they certainly told sympathetic reporters, “Hey, we\u2019ve got Manafort talking to Bad Guy A!” “Really?” “Yep.” “Can you tell us what they are discussing?” “I can\u2019t tell you that but they\u2019re talking Russia. They\u2019re talking Trump transition!” “Really?”<\/p>\n

Here comes a story: “Intelligence Officials Have Revealed…” and the New York Times builds it up, and they even might admit that the information was obtained from wiretapped information or intercepted communications. And then as this thing goes on, Manafort\u2019s name suddenly appears in one of these stories. Ditto, Carter Page. They may have nothing to do with anything nefarious, but that doesn\u2019t matter, either. The New York Times and the Washington Post and the Obama intelligence embeds will take care of that. It\u2019s very easy to create an illusion of malfeasance taking place, and the stories keep coming.<\/p>\n

There were lots of \u2019em in December, November; lots of \u2019em in January, the day of, the day before Trump\u2019s inauguration. By now, everybody knows the New York Times had that headline in the print version that used “wiretaps” in a headline story above the fold. Every one of these stories also contained a very small paragraph, unusually buried way down toward the end: “Officials have yet to find any conclusive evidence of” whatever the subject of the story is. Collusion, quid pro quo. There\u2019s never been any quid pro quo found.<\/p>\n

Meaning all of this talk about these Trump people dealing with the Russians, there hasn\u2019t been one payback for the Russians yet. The Russians haven\u2019t had one thing accrue to them as a benefit of Trump winning the presidency. So, folks, we know this happened, and we know it because the media told us. This is why Nunes has canceled the public hearing on Tuesday and rescheduled it as a closed session to bring Comey and the NSA guy back. Because Nunes, I\u2019m sure what he saw on Wednesday was evidence of what I just told you.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s why he called it “legal,” because the surveillance was the foreign bad guys, and he called it “incidental” because it was incidental that Trump people were caught up in it. They were not targets, so the media and everybody can say, “It\u2019s silly! Trump wasn\u2019t targeted. He\u2019s insane. Obama would never do that.” Wrong. You don\u2019t have to target Trump to overhear him in a phone conversion. You just have to know who he\u2019s talking to and target them. Same thing with anybody in his transition team. Just know who they\u2019re talking to, and even if you need to get a FISA warrant, who knows?<\/p>\n

But as we also know, Obama was famous for warrantless wiretaps. Just go surveil \u2019em. In the waning days of the Regime, change the rule and allow 16 other agencies… That allows the information to get out. If you share your raw intel with 16 other intelligence agencies, you\u2019re guaranteeing somebody\u2019s gonna leak it. You might not even have to. You might not have to have your embeds leak it. They\u2019ll give it to some foreign country that hates Trump. Give it to some intelligence individual who hates Trump. You can target who gets it; you can make sure the people that get the raw intel you\u2019re sharing hate Trump.<\/p>\n

The media doesn\u2019t care. They\u2019ll take it. They hate Trump! Whoever gives it to \u2019em has automatic credibility, because the narrative\u2019s already written: “Trump cheated, stole the election from Hillary, worked with Putin to do it,” starting the night of the election. It\u2019s really important to remember that the day of the election, before the election — all those days before — there was never one allusion to the Russians tampering with this to screw Hillary, \u2019cause they were gonna win! Remember, they were going to win in a landslide. It was gonna be the greatest election! It was gonna be so celebratory. They were so happy!<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t talking about the election being stolen. To the extent they were talking about being stolen, they were talking about Trump doing it because he was refusing to accept the election results. Remember, they were so certain that they were gonna win, that they were on Trump\u2019s case for not admitting in a debate that he would accept the election results. They weren\u2019t talking to anybody about themselves getting screwed.<\/p>\n

But shortly after 9 p.m. election night when the first indications that a major heart attack was to happen to the American left\u2019s body began to be indicated, first indications started to show up, that\u2019s when they began to set the narrative, “Our elections have been tampered with, our democratic elections.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Never forget that every one of these people — Comey, to the admiral at the NSA, everybody — “Is there any evidence the Russians tampered with the vote?” No. “Any evidence the Russians tampered with the counting of votes?” No! “Is there any evidence the Russians have tampered with voting?” No! “Is there any evidence the Russians had lawyers –” No! “Is there any evidence whatsoever that the Russians knew what voting –” No! “Is there any evidence whatsoever that the Russians helped count the elections in certain states, Wisconsin and –” No!<\/p>\n

There is no evidence whatsoever that the vote, which is what an election is, was tampered with. So, therefore, what did these guys do? What was all this collusion with the Russians aimed at? Well, they told us to steal the election, but that couldn\u2019t happen. And I\u2019m telling you when Shifty — that\u2019s my new name for Adam Schiff — when Pencil Neck Shifty goes out there, starts wringing his hands about how bad a guy Devin Nunes is and all that, everything that you\u2019re seeing reported about this story now is designed to deflect attention from where the real criminality might have occurred here, and that is in the collection of incidental intelligence on Americans and unmasking them, and that happened in the waning days of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

And so therefore everything the media is doing, every Democrat that speaks up about this, is designed to deflect your attention away from that. And they\u2019re using Trump\u2019s tweet about Obama tapping his wires at Trump Tower as a main attraction. “What an idiot, that\u2019s absurd. Obama would never. He\u2019s too classy. He\u2019s too perfect. Obama\u2019s too sophisticated. Obama couldn\u2019t care less.”<\/p>\n

See, that is to throw ridiculous suspicion on the whole premise. Everything they\u2019re saying about it is a smoke screen and a deflection operation. But we know it happened. And we know it happened because the media told us it happened because the media reported on it happening. No investigation\u2019s needed to find out what happened. The investigation needs to focus on who did it, who authorized it, who authorized the unmasking of these Americans who were not surveilled. Who gave the order to surveil people so that these Americans could be surveilled? Who did all that?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where this investigation needs to go. And that, I predict, is where it will end up going. And even Bob Woodward of Watergate fame said that if that investigation starts, it\u2019s gonna look bad for Obama administration people, and it is going to obliterate whatever Watergate was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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