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RUSH: We have to talk about what\u2019s going on in London. We\u2019ve had a number of near-misses over there with cars that are planted with explosives. The law enforcement authorities over there are doing yeoman\u2019s work. They\u2019ve evacuated Hyde Park. It\u2019s just a reminder, folks, of the world in which we live. Of course they\u2019re saying international elements are involved. That\u2019s right, international elements. Can\u2019t bring ourselves to say what\u2019s on everybody\u2019s mind, and that is that this is the religion of peace, Al-Qaeda or a related group. Now, I\u2019ll tell you, there\u2019s a little story. I just found this out this morning. For example, things have been going on here while we\u2019ve been focused on the amnesty bill. The House of Representatives passed legislation, I guess it\u2019s legislation. They passed a bill on Wednesday affirming that global warming exists. So now legislation can apparently supersede science. Global warming exists. The House of Representatives has said so. But another thing that that went on, the US Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments from inmates at Club Gitmo<\/a> who want to challenge their detentions in federal court. ‘The Supreme Court\u2019s agreed to hear a pair of cases that it had rejected in April. The justices over the objections of the Bush administration agreed to review a lower court decision that said a 2006 law validly barring federal judges considering so-called habeas corpus petitions filed by prisoners,\u2019 at Club Gitmo. So the court is going to hear the cases in its next term, which begins in October. First time in recent memory the court has reversed itself and agreed to hear a case that it rejected earlier. <\/p>\n

Now, you talk to anybody that watches the court, talk to anybody in the legal profession and they\u2019ll probably all tell you that the court probably would not have reversed itself on this and agreed to hear the case unless something had happened behind closed doors to make people think they\u2019re going to reverse themselves and they\u2019re going to do this. What\u2019s amazing about this, when we\u2019re going to give them habeas corpus, we\u2019re going to essentially give them US constitutional rights. These are prisoners of war at Club Gitmo. On the day that London is going through what it\u2019s going through and reminding all of us of the never ending possibility that something like that can happen here again, it\u2019s mind-boggling. Of course, we can trace one of the problems of this to something that\u2019s as simple as public relations. What a friend of mine is speculating here is that the John Paul Stevens has convinced Anthony Kennedy to come all the way on board on this, and that\u2019s why the court has agreed to hear this case. <\/p>\n

Now, you maybe saying, ‘So what, Rush?\u2019 Well, these are not US citizens, and if you bring them into the United States legal system, then once again you\u2019re prosecuting the war on terror as a crime rather than as a war. It takes us back to the way the Clinton administration was dealing with this. Club Gitmo is a good story to tell, the way it has helped us gather intelligence on people who are hell-bent on killing. But we\u2019ve allowed the Club Gitmo story to be the legal straits of the detainees, not the intel that\u2019s saving Americans. Once again, the people at Club Gitmo<\/a> are almost being treated like illegal immigrants. For some reason we feel a need to apologize for them, for some reason we feel that we\u2019ve gotta make it right with them, so the story line, the action line on what\u2019s going on at Club Gitmo has focused on, ‘Oh, how sorry we must be; how unfortunate it must be. Oh, this is bad; how could we do this to these wonderful little people?\u2019 One of the questions that people probably ask — and this leads to the PR problem — okay, we\u2019ve had these people down there for a number of years. Club Gitmo\u2019s been open and has served as a resort escape from jihad for many, many moons that\u2019s giving me a thriving merchandise business down there. But people even on our side occasionally will say, ‘What do you say to the argument that after several years we\u2019ve probably gotten all the intelligence we could wring out of these guys, and the need for intel is no longer a good reason to hold \u2019em, so why are we holding them?\u2019 What that indicates is a totally flawed understanding of how intelligence gathering works. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the fault of people who ask that question. It\u2019s a perfectly reasonable question. They\u2019ve been down there for years. If we had them that long we\u2019re probably going to get everything from them we\u2019re going to get. The reason this question sounds reasonable is because there hasn\u2019t been a proper explanation of how intelligence gathering works from either the people at Gitmo or in the administration. The war on terror goes on whether you want to be involved in it or not and whether you want to admit it or not. Military people, intelligence operations people, law enforcement people, continue to capture new terrorists, seize new evidence. If you have cooperative intelligence sources, and many of these Gitmo detainees have become cooperative. Don\u2019t believe all these stories about torture and duress, you keep going back to them, ‘Okay, who\u2019s this? Explain to me what this document means, does this new stuff that we found indicate the planning of attack,\u2019 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This isn\u2019t brain surgery or limited to the world of counterterrorism. <\/p>\n

A friend of mine was doing Mafia cases in New York in the eighties and nineties. They had mob turncoats who continued to be used as sources for information for over ten years. It\u2019s like they become your expert sources for explaining how things work from the outside. In fact, they\u2019re the best experts, because they really were inside. So is the case with these Al-Qaeda types down at Club Gitmo. I think if somebody would just take the time to explain how this works, explain how intelligence gathering works, that it never ends. And that as a add new people to population, you\u2019ve got people that you\u2019ve converted, you\u2019ve spun, whatever you\u2019ve got them on your side, you\u2019re acting as informants, who is this guy, who is that guy? So they question, ‘Okay, let \u2019em go or give \u2019em their rights or whatever, we\u2019ve had them down there for too long,\u2019 misunderstands the whole process, but it\u2019s understandable people would misunderstand the process because it\u2019s not being explained. Instead, Club Gitmo is a legal black hole, or it\u2019s presented as a torture chamber, rather than an intelligence success story. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the frustrating things about this administration. They\u2019ve had a lot of success stories that they just don\u2019t publicize or explain. This story would not have been anywhere near the top of the stack today were it not for what\u2019s going on in London today. The idea that the Supreme Court may now grant these guys habeas corpus in the midst of what\u2019s happening in London today can drive you nuts. <\/p>\n

RUSH: We have some audio sound bites here from the Drive-By Media, explaining what\u2019s going on in London today and why. We have three of them. First up is the Pentagon correspondent for CNN, Barbara Starr.<\/p>\n

STARR: You know, since Iraq, it\u2019s really the case that this type of very basic bomb technology has really spread around the world.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Iraq is where this started? I shoulda known. Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize to you, it\u2019s because I\u2019m exhausted and tired today. I should have known that what\u2019s going on in London today has to do with our presence in Iraq. Why, if we had never gone to Iraq these clowns would have never invented the bomb. Do you realize that? This is the first time these kinds of bombs, these IEDs are being used. Oh, I know terrorists have been strapping themselves with explosives for decades and blowing themselves and other people up, but did you know that since we went into Iraq is when this stuff really started happening? I should have known this. Why, what\u2019s happening in London today would not be happening if we had not gone into Iraq. Up next, ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross.<\/p>\n

ROSS: All of this comes just three weeks after what was described as an Al-Qaeda terrorist graduation ceremony, with suicide bomb teams dispatched to the United States and Europe. Based on the earlier sketchy details from Scotland Yard, this car bomb was potentially lethal but relatively crude. The great concern now is if it is Al-Qaeda, something which is still not known, but if it is, there would likely be other vehicle bombs in the works.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I have no doubt that there are other vehicle bombs in the works, here, there and everywhere. Just weeks after an Al-Qaeda terrorist graduation ceremony. And of course Al-Qaeda wouldn\u2019t be recruiting new terrorists if we weren\u2019t in Iraq. Al-Qaeda would have just gone away and been hunky-dory about the situation they find themselves in the world. But it\u2019s because we were in Iraq and we are in Iraq, ladies and gentlemen, that all this came up. It won\u2019t be long, I will bet you before the end of the day, that some kook either on cable TV or some blog actually says this whole thing was a stunt, that Bush set this up in order to distract people\u2019s attention and to set up the idea that we\u2019re still in the war on terror, because Reid and Pelosi, by the way, are going to introduce another get-out-of-Iraq bill soon. They\u2019re just relentless. They don\u2019t go away. Finally, Jeanne Meserve, CNN Newsroom this morning with Tony Harris, who said, ‘As we continue to watch this situation in the Park Lane area of London, the Department of Homeland Security, how concerned is that department over the possible threat that terrorist groups might turn to car bombs as a way to target some of these what we call soft targets like nightclubs in the United States?\u2019<\/p>\n

MESERVE: I\u2019ll tell you, frankly, Tony, there\u2019s a great deal of surprise that it hasn\u2019t happened already. Likewise, surprise that there haven\u2019t been suicide bombers in this country already. Of course, as has been mentioned repeatedly, these techniques have been perfected in Iraq. There\u2019s been concern that they would migrate from there elsewhere. Also there\u2019s the fact of the Internet. The fact that you can log on and get very specific information about how to do all sorts of nasty things, and that has allowed people elsewhere on the globe to benefit from the knowledge being gained in Iraq.<\/p>\n

RUSH: These things are being made in Iran. We all know this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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