{"id":248006,"date":"2017-09-21T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=248006"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:19:17","slug":"the-obama-regime-used-the-phony-russian-dossier-as-an-excuse-to-spy-on-the-trump-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/21\/the-obama-regime-used-the-phony-russian-dossier-as-an-excuse-to-spy-on-the-trump-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Regime Caught Spying on the Trump Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Samantha Power has been unmasking Americans in the last year of the Obama Regime at the rate of one American every working day. Two-hundred-and-sixty different Americans unmasked by someone not even in the intelligence community. She was a U.N. ambassador. It would be the equivalent of Nikki Haley today unmasking a bunch of people that she thought not — Now, I don\u2019t know that too many people know much about Samantha Power.<\/p>\n

\"\"Do you remember my in-depth explanation of the Washington establishment yesterday? She is it. She is a superiorist. She is a supremacist. She is a DNA socialist. She is arrogant and condescending. She is constantly suffering and in pain, a facial expression that makes it appear she\u2019s constantly in pain. When she\u2019s in Obama\u2019s presence, the facial expression is as though she\u2019s in the presence of God. She is married to a fellow traveler named Cass Sunstein. You may have heard that name mentioned here before. He is a classmate of Bill Clinton\u2019s going way back, and for all I know a classmate of Obama\u2019s.<\/p>\n

But it is Cass Sunstein who is responsible on the left for the view that the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. He may not be the originator of that take or belief, but he was, in the modern era, the man who popularized it in a scholarly way. And what that basically means is that people like Sunstein and his wife, Samantha Power, and all those people — Obama even talked about this — they look at Bill of Rights as a negative.<\/p>\n

What is the Constitution? And now given the way college students are being taught and what they think, I am confident that a wide percentage of college students does not know what the Constitution is. They do not know its history and they do not know its premise. The Constitution\u2019s premise is to limit government. That is its brilliance, and that is its uniqueness.<\/p>\n

\"\"Never before in human history has a group of people — Americans, a population, a country — never before has a founding group of people arranged the affairs of state in such a way that the state is limited in exchange for open freedom and liberty of the population at large. Another example of American exceptionalism, if you will.<\/p>\n

Well, leftists who believe in government being at the center of everyone\u2019s lives don\u2019t like the Bill of Rights when you get right down to it. It\u2019s not just amendment number two. They don\u2019t like the entire Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments, because they specifically limit government. They specifically spell out what government cannot do.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why they call it a charter of negative liberties, because to them government\u2019s the center of the universe. The Constitution is negative toward government. That\u2019s why we applaud it. That\u2019s why we love it. That\u2019s why we defend it. That\u2019s why we protect it. That\u2019s why we swear oaths to it. It is to limit an encroaching government to prevent the slow creep of tyranny and authoritarianism. That is its basic premise and the left is offended by that.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why from FDR on they have proposed a second Bill of Rights, which does the exact opposite of the Bill of Rights, and that is 10 amendments which would spell out what government can do. Now, they would say “for you,” but what it really means in their heart of hearts is what government can do to you, what governments can do for itself.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Samantha Power is one of those. And she is appropriately, as a leftist, living in constant fear of the right, constant fear of conservatism, constant fear that the left is going to lose. She thus believes that everybody on the right is corrupt by virtue of what they think, by virtue of what they believe. Their very existence is corrupt and poses a threat to the left\u2019s view of the proper way of life. And so she was acting rogue. I guess she was rogue. I haven\u2019t delved into it enough to know if she was under orders to do this. But I would think she wouldn\u2019t need to be, like Lois Lerner didn\u2019t need to be told to shaft conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status to the IRS.<\/p>\n

\"\"Obama didn\u2019t need to send her a memo. The fact that she was working for Obama was all anybody needed to know. She doesn\u2019t need to be told that conservatives are to be discriminated against. She doesn\u2019t need to be told that conservatives are corrupt. She doesn\u2019t need to be told to believe that conservatives pose a threat and therefore they should be penalized, limited, or what have you. She\u2019ll just do it. As Samantha Power would clearly, if she believes that, for example, opponents of Obama, be they in the Trump campaign or anywhere, just the very fact that they are opponents makes them suspects, the very fact that they oppose Obama.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a banana republic kind of thing. The very fact that there is opposition to Obama is a political crime. And the people practicing this crime need to be exposed, and that\u2019s what Samantha Power is doing and that\u2019s her mind-set. I\u2019ve never met her, I\u2019ve never talked to her, but I can tell you 99% that I\u2019m right, because I know these people, I know who they are, I know how they think. I\u2019ve heard her speak. This is their life every waking moment.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have fun at backyard barbecues. If they do backyard barbecues, it is to plot, strategize, discuss. They never just take it easy and relax and have a beer, watch a football game. No, no, no. Every waking moment is devoted to the cause. Do not doubt me. They rely on the fact that most people are not that way.<\/p>\n

They rely on the fact that most people are not nearly as involved and therefore not nearly as suspicious, and therefore they are free and able to operate above the line and above the radar. They\u2019re able to operate in plain view. Nobody\u2019s gonna care, except the opponents, and they don\u2019t think we can do anything to stop them. The average, ordinary American, if this is learned, like it has been, the answer will be, “We didn\u2019t know she was doing it. I don\u2019t recall. But so what. So what. If she was exposing people, if she was unmasking, they deserved it.” That would be the reaction.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Catherine Herridge. We may as well start at the top. Catherine Herridge at Fox News is the source authority<\/a> for the realization that Samantha Power, Mrs. Cass Sunstein, has been unmasking Americans. It happened last night. Special Report with Bret Baier. She uncovered all this news during the day yesterday.<\/p>\n

\"\"HERRIDGE: Fox News is learning new information about the rapid pace of unmasking in the final months of the Obama White House. Two sources not authorized to speak on the record said the requests from Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, exceeds 260, with one request coming in the days leading up to the inauguration.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, for those again who might be thinking, “What\u2019s the big deal here, what\u2019s unmasking?” Unmasking is a crime, can be a crime. Michael Flynn — everybody knows that name now — Michael Flynn forced to resign from the Trump administration, he was unmasked.<\/p>\n

The way it happens is the intelligence community, the DIA, the CIA, the NSA, the whoever-A, the FBI, conducting wiretap or other kinds of surveillance on known foreign agents. For example, the Russian ambassador, whoever he is, is gonna be surveilled. The North Korean ambassador is gonna be surveilled, wiretapped. They know it. We know it. And so the Russian ambassador, the guy goes to lunch all the time, Kislyak, was under surveillance. And he talked to Flynn one day. Well, the intelligence people hear this. In this case it was Obama intel people. It was before Trump was inaugurated, and they hear Flynn, they hear the conversation.<\/p>\n

Flynn\u2019s not supposed to be made public. His side of the conversation\u2019s not supposed to go made public \u2019cause he\u2019s not the target of the wiretap. But if somebody comes along and unmasks him, which happened, then of course it ends up in the newspaper, like it did, and Michael Flynn is destroyed. He\u2019s considered to be an agent for a foreign government. He\u2019s talking to the foreign ambassador, the media deep state sources can run stories in the newspaper, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, put it on TV, and Flynn after a few weeks is destroyed.<\/p>\n

All of that is not legal. You have to get permission and there has to be a legitimate reason. The unmasking happens within the intelligence agency so they\u2019re never supposed to be public with this because these people are not the target. Unmasked names are people who were not targets. But Samantha Power thought everybody needed to know what they\u2019re saying and doing. And why? Because they\u2019re conservatives or because they\u2019re Republicans and because they\u2019re not Obamaites. And simply because of that they deserve to be unmasked. That alone will be enough for her.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s no different than the snowflakes on college campus that will engage in riots if somebody shows up and says anything that\u2019s unapproved. She\u2019s no different, that mind-set. And she\u2019s not alone.<\/p>\n

So 260 names. And of course Manafort we now learn was surveilled. That means Trump had to have been overheard talking to Manafort. Manafort was being wiretapped, he is talking about Trump. It is a foregone conclusion, it\u2019s inarguable that Trump was overheard and whatever.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now, Trump found out about it and claims that his wires were tapped at Trump Tower<\/a>. Everybody laughed and mocked and said he didn\u2019t even know how to say it. Your taps don\u2019t get wired. Your wires don\u2019t get tapped. Trump doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s talking about. But he always does. He always ends up being, to one degree or another, right.<\/p>\n

Now, people said, “No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Trump was not targeted.” Exactly. That\u2019s the easiest way out. Trump was not targeted. Manafort was. Well, Trump is still not wrong. It\u2019s a little overlap here. They might be able to credibly say that they didn\u2019t target Trump, that there were no wiretaps targeting Trump, but at the same time they would know they didn\u2019t have to target Trump in order to monitor what he was saying to certain people. You target those people. You get a FISA warrant to wiretap or surveil somebody, people you know Trump\u2019s gonna be talking to, and bammo.<\/p>\n

And since no negative reaction occurred, no penalties, no problems, no charges, nothing happened to any of these people that were leaking, say, and unmasking Flynn and others, then there\u2019s no reason to not unmask and release whatever you\u2019ve overheard Trump saying to people, or anybody else.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites here. This was March 5th on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd speaking with James Clapper, an elderly version of Mr. Clean, if you add some earrings in there. He was the Director of National Intelligence for Obama. Chuck Todd says, “If the FBI, for instance, has a FISA court order of some sort for surveillance, would that be information you would know?”<\/p>\n