{"id":228450,"date":"2017-04-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228450"},"modified":"2017-04-07T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T20:19:52","slug":"the-deep-state-stonewalls-investigation-of-obama-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/06\/the-deep-state-stonewalls-investigation-of-obama-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State Stonewalls Investigation of Obama Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: But here is Stewart in Clover, South Carolina, with a different take on it. What say you, Stewart?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stewart, are you there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. Yes. I\u2019m here. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. What\u2019s your theory on this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, my first reaction was what everybody else is thinking, too, like, “Oh, my gosh, he recused himself!” But like you just said, if they stay there and they come to the conclusion — the inevitable conclusion — that there\u2019s nothing there to this Russia probe, they\u2019re gonna scream and cry and say it was tainted and all that. But what people are doing, making the mistake of doing is combining the Russia probe with the surveillance scandal. Every other Republican on that committee should do the same thing that Nunes just did and recuse themselves.<\/p>\n

Say, “Fine, Democrats. If you want to keep pushing this…” We know that they\u2019ve been surveilled for a year now. Whether or not the White House and Susan Rice wants to admit that they were targeting the Trump team or whatever, we know that they were listening to \u2019em. If after all that, they still don\u2019t have any proof of any collusion, it\u2019s a futile effort. It\u2019s the Russian probe to nowhere. We should all do… They should is all do the same thing, say, “I\u2019m gonna recuse myself. This is going nowhere. We\u2019re gonna start an investigation into the real scandal,” and start by sending a subpoena Susan Rice.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: All right. Okay. I hear you. So Stewart\u2019s theory is: This Russian thing, there\u2019s nothing there. There is no collusion. There isn\u2019t any evidence. Nobody\u2019s ever found any evidence! There clearly was no way the Russians tampered with the vote. So this is going nowhere and it\u2019s taken a long time to get there. The real scandal is the Obama administration spying on the Trump people for a year. That\u2019s what needs to be focused on. That\u2019s the investigation everybody needs to go after. So Stewart saying, “Get rid of Nunes? Fine. There\u2019s nothing there anyway. This is a distraction.<\/p>\n

“We need to focus on the Obama administration spying of the Trump campaign, which we know happened.” And I very much admire and appreciate that thinking. Because the news continues to mount on this side that what was heretofore thought to be just not possible. “Are you kidding?” said the media. “Our beloved, godlike Obama spying on anybody? Why, that would never happen! And how dare you attempt to impugn our godlike president by saying that he would stoop to such thing!” Except that we know he has. He spied on Angela Merkel. Obama was spying on members…<\/p>\n

When I say, “Obama,” the Obama administration. They were spying on members of Congress. Members of Congress know it! There was surveillance of Israelis during an election campaign there. This is something that we know the Obama administration routinely did. And to now all of a sudden expect that it\u2019s not possible, that these allegations are something not being explained. It\u2019s entirely. This is how Obama won elections was by forcing private, classified, off-limits data — sealed court documents — to be released about his opponents, their divorce records and so forth. That investigation is just ramping up, and there is all kinds of effort to stonewall it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I want to go back to our caller who suggested that this Russian investigation is gonna go nowhere because there\u2019s nothing there and what really ought to be focused on is the Obama administration spying, that that\u2019s what really needs to be investigated. Anything that interrupts the Russian investigation — according to our caller named Stewart — is a good thing. “Fox News Reports Intelligence Community ‘Stonewalling\u2019 Investigation Into Obama Administration Leaks About Trump.”<\/p>\n

The story\u2019s from the Daily Wire<\/a>, but they\u2019re reporting what happened at Fox. “According to Fox News, legislators and investigators working with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees investigating allegations the [Regime] spied on Trump associates, claim intelligence agencies are stonewalling efforts to discover who leaked names and protected information to the media. Fox News reported, ‘Multiple lawmakers and investigators for the panel told Fox News the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency … are not cooperating'” with the investigation.<\/p>\n

\"\"It wouldn\u2019t surprise me. There\u2019s a bunch of Obama holdovers there. This is the now famous “deep state” that everybody talks about. “‘Our requests are simply not being answered,\u2019 said one House Intelligence committee source about the lack of responsiveness.” CIA, FBI, NSA. “‘The agencies are not really helping at all and there is truly a massive web for us to try and wade through.\u2019 A Senate Intelligence Committee source said the upper chamber had the same experience. ‘Any information that will help find the wide extent on the unmasking and surveillance is purposely not being provided,\u2019 said the Senate source.”<\/p>\n

So Obama Regime officials are stonewalling. They\u2019re not participating. They\u2019re continuing to leak, and they\u2019re continuing to do the unmasking and reporting, but they\u2019re not cooperating. New York Times. Maggie Haberman of the Democrat National Committee and Matthew Rosenberg: “Trump, Citing No Evidence, Suggests Susan Rice Committed Crime.” That\u2019s another way it\u2019s done: “Trump, Citing No Evidence…” CNN runs graphics like that all the time. “Trump, despite no evidence claims such-and-such had Cheerios for breakfast,” or whatever it is.<\/p>\n

They always throw in “despite having no evidence.” Well, excuse me, but isn\u2019t it the New York Times that has had no evidence for every allegation they\u2019ve been making about Trump and Russia? Excuse me, but isn\u2019t that the case, is that every single story that they have run on this featuring leaks from deep in the intelligence community? Has not every story said, “But so far there is no clear evidence suggesting a link”? All we have is the leaking and all we have is the supposition and the speculation. No evidence.<\/p>\n

So couldn\u2019t you say — and be accurate in doing so — that every New York Times article cites no evidence when they report what they report? So Trump has thrown another grenade, and I just want to remind you: When Trump throws these grenades<\/a>, as frustrated as people get — even Trump supporters. As time passes, Trump ends up being much more right than he is wrong, such as when he lobbed that mortar into the Democrats about Obama tapping his wires at Trump Tower.<\/p>\n

Remember, they had a fit over that, and as time passed… Now, everybody\u2019s acknowledging that the Obama administration was indeed spying, that there was “incidental capture” of Americans, and those Americans were unmasked. Everybody\u2019s admitting this now. The only question is who did it. Susan Rice is denying it for political purposes. She\u2019s admitting it happened but, no, not for political purpose, which is a big laugh. So Trump was right. Now he\u2019s out there saying Susan Rice may have committed a crime.<\/p>\n

This is kind of a push-back Democrats are not accustomed to, nor is the media. Now, Catherine Herridge at Fox News has what I consider to be even more blockbuster news about this. The unmasking of Republicans — Trump people — incidentally captured when foreign objects were being surveilled? Apparently, the information that has been collected on these Republicans is massive and detailed about things in their everyday lives. Peter King, Republican congressman from New York — he\u2019s on the House Intelligence Committee — said that he\u2019s seen some of this.<\/p>\n

He said, “This information is about their everyday lives. It\u2019s sort of like in a divorce case where lawyers are hired and investigators are hired just to find out what the other person is doing from morning until night. Then you try to piece it together later on.” Another pull quote from the story: “While not commenting on the individual case, a former senior intelligence official explained the request must be approved by the NSA. Rice would have understood that there is an extensive government paper trail…”<\/p>\n

I mean, we\u2019re not just talking about the transcripts of phone calls. Once these people are unmasked, a full-fledged investigation of them begins. What Susan Rice has ended up seeing is detailed! I\u2019ll put it a different way: She is seeing countless details about these people\u2019s everyday lives, not just what they happen to be saying on a phone call with a surveilled subject like the Russian ambassador. It\u2019s information about their everyday lives, which leads to the possibility of blackmail.<\/p>\n

I mean, who knows what they\u2019re collecting and what they have? It says here that Susan “Rice would have understood that there is an extensive government paper trail” on these people incidentally captured “that can be audited within the NSA, that shows who requested the unmasking, [why], and whether it was granted. This raises more questions about Rice, her motivation and whether it was authorized higher up,” which we are not doubting that it was.<\/p>\n

Now, “If approved…” If the request to unmask is “approved, the former senior intelligence official said, only the requester, in this case [Susan] Rice, would receive the information. Based on Fox News\u2019 reporting, the information was shared beyond Rice, but it is not clear if those who received it had a ‘need to know.'” So the question is: Who told her to do it? Who asked her to request the unmasking? And then who, therefore, did she report to after getting the data that she got on people? This is potentially bigger than Watergate stuff, the way this is all falling out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Based on Fox News reporting, the information was shared beyond Rice, but it is not clear if those who received it had a 'need to know.'" So the question is: Who told her to do it? Who asked her to request the unmasking? And then who, therefore, did she report to after getting the data that she got on people? This is potentially bigger than Watergate stuff, the way this is all falling out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"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":"\nThe Deep State Stonewalls Investigation of Obama Spying - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/06\/the-deep-state-stonewalls-investigation-of-obama-spying\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Deep State Stonewalls Investigation of Obama Spying - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Based on Fox News reporting, the information was shared beyond Rice, but it is not clear if those who received it had a 'need to know.'" 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