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<\/a>The New York Times<\/a>: “The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia\u2019s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said,” just like every source for 2-1\/2 years on Russia collusion: “current and former government officials.” There\u2019s not a single source named in this story.<\/p>\n“In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia\u2019s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow\u2019s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections. … Advocates of the more aggressive strategy said it was long overdue … But it also carries significant risk of escalating the daily digital Cold War between Washington and Moscow.”<\/p>\n
Escalate…? (laughing) What do the Drive-By Media think they\u2019ve been doing if not running a Cold War between the U.S. and Russia for three years? If anybody has been destabilizing the United States, it\u2019s the Drive-By Media and this incessant, nonsensical pursuit of so-called Trump-Russia collusion! It\u2019s the same thing with tampering with electoral processes. The Democrats and the media have done more damage to the perception of our elections as honest than anything Putin could have ever thought of or Trump.<\/p>\n
Now the intelligence community — because Trump won\u2019t do it — is getting tough, ratcheting up cyberattacks on the Russian power grid. But they\u2019re not telling Trump about it, because they\u2019re not sure Trump would agree with it, given his close ties to Putin! This is such caca. Now… “Mr. Trump issued new authorities to Cyber Command last summer, in a still-classified document known as National Security Presidential Memoranda 13,” which gave “far more leeway to conduct offensive online operations without receiving presidential approval.<\/p>\n
“But the action inside the Russian electric grid appears to have been conducted under little-noticed new legal authorities, slipped into the military authorization bill passed by Congress last summer. The measure approved the routine conduct of ‘clandestine military activity\u2019 in cyberspace, to “deter, safeguard or defend against attacks or malicious cyberactivities against the United States.'” So this is all bunch of caca to continue this idea that the Russians tampered in the election in 2016!<\/p>\n
And so the intelligence community of United States without President Trump knowing is fighting back, getting tough with the Russians and laying down the law, not permitting them to do it again in 2018 or in the 2020 presidential election. And, meanwhile, President Trump doesn\u2019t know about it because we can\u2019t trust him with the knowledge. I mean, I\u2019m paraphrasing, but that\u2019s the essence of the story.<\/p>\n
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Well, here it is. \u201cTwo administration officials said they believed Mr. Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the steps to place \u2018implants\u2019 \u2013\u201d i.e., hacking \u201c– software code that can be used for surveillance or attack \u2014 inside the Russian grid. Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction \u2014 and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is all a setup! I don\u2019t believe a single word of this. This is all a media concocted and continued line of crap that is rooted in a pure falsehood that Trump colluded with Russia, that Russia affected the election outcome in 2016 and we\u2019ve got to pay \u2019em back and get even, but Trump won\u2019t. This is nothing more than a flailing attempt to keep what Mueller buried alive.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s designed to get little Adam Schiff and these other Democrats to add this to their impeachment inquiry. \u201cMy God, how bad can it be if the intelligence community can\u2019t even trust our own president with their actions.\u201d These people have got things so ass backwards here. If this is actually going on, if the intelligence community is running foreign policy in spite of the president\u2019s wishes, there\u2019s a word for this that\u2019s been tossed around all too frequently lately here, but this is — not a single source. And Trump was livid about this because he knows it\u2019s not true. He knows it\u2019s made up. There isn\u2019t a single source.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s demanding the New York Times give any kind of proof or evidence of this. They don\u2019t have to. The Drive-By Media and the rest of \u2019em run with the story, made a big deal out of it. ‘Cause it\u2019s made to order, everything about it. \u201cWe\u2019re getting tough with the Russians but Trump doesn\u2019t know, Trump can\u2019t know, Trump wouldn\u2019t authorize it, Trump\u2019s too close to Putin so we gotta keep it from Trump. Besides that, we can\u2019t trust Trump not to tell the Russians that we\u2019re doing it!\u201d<\/p>\n
The offshoot of that, \u201cWell, you remember the day after Trump fired Comey he had the Russian foreign investor in there and he\u2019s bragging about firing Comey, what a nutcase Comey was, things are gonna be better now that I fired \u2013” The establishment could not believe that Trump was bragging to the Russians about firing Comey!<\/p>\n
Believe me. These intel people and the Clappers and the Brennans of the world, I guarantee you they had to go home and chew socks that night to keep from getting insane with Trump doing that in the Oval Office. And so this is just payback. Here\u2019s the Drive-By Media totally in bed with these nameless, faceless intel people who, up to now they\u2019ve not respected and they have actually opposed the intelligence community, the CIA. Go back and look. The left-wing Democrats have hated the CIA up until Donald Trump, including the media. Now they\u2019re all in bed with current and former government and intelligence officials.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, this New York Times story, whether it\u2019s true or not, if it\u2019s true, then what\u2019s going on is treason. What\u2019s going on is a miniature coup, in a sense. When you\u2019ve got the intelligence community running foreign policy, not telling the president precisely because you don\u2019t think he will agree with it, what else would you call it? If it is not true, if this whole thing is made up, it\u2019s just part of an ongoing effort to remove an elected president from office by making him look like the smart people in Washington can\u2019t trust him. He poses an existential threat.<\/p>\n
But, however you slice this story, if it\u2019s true, the New York Times is revealing a national security secret. If it is true, we have the continuation of a coup against a sitting president. If it isn\u2019t true, if it\u2019s made up, then it\u2019s designed to be put in the impeachment files for Jerry Nadler and little Pencil Neck and whoever else decides to conduct an impeachment hearing. Actually, both instances could be true, whether the story is fake or not.<\/p>\n
Where we starting on the phones? Indianapolis. Carl, it\u2019s great to have with us on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Hello. Thanks, Rush. This story in the New York Times is so much idiotic spin. The president is the one who authorized the intelligence community, said, \u201cHey, you don\u2019t have to be coming in here every 30 seconds to respond to these cyberattacks, go and do it,\u201d otherwise they\u2019d just be asking his permission all the time. And it was his idea. He didn\u2019t want to sit on his hands like Obama did and do nothing and now they\u2019re turning it around to attack him and make it seem like he\u2019s the collusion narrative.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. I lost you when you\u2019re talking about didn\u2019t want to talk to him every 30 seconds. What are you talking about? Start again with your point and go a little slower so —<\/p>\n
CALLER: These cyberattacks are so frequent and just day and night. And before Trump —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait wit. Whose cyberattacks on who?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Anyone, whether it be a rogue group —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Meaning we\u2019re constantly cyberattacking them and they\u2019re constantly cyberattacking us?<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019re cyberattacking us. And that\u2019s the way it was under Obama, we were getting attacked constantly. And Trump said, “No more. We\u2019re gonna respond and take an offensive measure. And when we get attacked, you don\u2019t need to come to me to respond. Just do it.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh. When did you hear that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that was the legislation they were talking about in the article. There were two different pieces of legislation that allowed the military to respond immediately to an attack in the same way they would if they were getting shot at in the field.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, so they\u2019re using this to just go ahead and ratchet up these attacks and not tell Trump about it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, Trump didn\u2019t want to be told about it. If he were being told about every time United States was under cyberattack, they would be in his office every 30 seconds —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m confused what your point is. You\u2019re saying the story is right or the story is wrong? What is your point?<\/p>\n
CALLER: The story is spun to make it look like they\u2019re sneaking around behind his back when Trump gave them authorization to not tell him. He told them you don\u2019t have to (crosstalk) just respond.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The story says plain as day that they\u2019re not telling the president for specific reasons. The reasons are not what you\u2019ve cited. They\u2019re not telling Trump because they don\u2019t think he would agree with it — this is what the story says. I\u2019m commenting on the story, not what is actually happening. Those are two different things, as is always the case when talking about the media.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Somebody help me out here. Did I appear to be biting the head off of that caller? Did I appear to be impatient? The reason I was impatient with him… Well, I had time constraints. But he was basically saying that the New York Times story is spin because the president had already granted authority to the intel community to hit back on various cyberattacks, because they happen all the time. We get hit, they get hit — and this is true, by the way. I mean, the idea that the Russians tampered in the election and it\u2019s the first time ever tampered in anything? The Russians are constantly trying to infiltrate all kinds of things, the Soviets before them, the ChiComs, the North Koreans.<\/p>\n
Everybody\u2019s bombarding us. There\u2019s nothing unusual about what happened in 2016, despite the lies that everybody made trying to make it look like it was unique. So the story does acknowledge that legislation was passed last summer that authorized the intelligence community to hit back rather than have to tell the president every damn time because it happened so frequently. So the caller\u2019s point was that that\u2019s the primary point in the story, and so they\u2019re spinning the fact that Trump doesn\u2019t know. It\u2019s not that.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s absolutely true, and let me read to you the relevant portion here. “Mr. Trump issued new authorities to Cyber Command last summer, in a still-classified document … giving [Cyber Command] far more leeway to conduct offensive online operations without receiving presidential approval. But the action inside the Russian electric grid appears to have been conducted under little-noticed new legal authorities, slipped into the military authorization bill…” Meaning… “Slipped into” means it was not negotiated. It was not really debated.<\/p>\n
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It was just added in there and kind of like earmarks are. “The measure approved the routine conduct of ‘clandestine military activity\u2019 in cyberspace, to ‘deter, safeguard or defend against attacks or malicious cyberactivities against the United States.\u2019 … [A]ction inside the Russian electric grid appears to have been conducted under little-noticed new legal authorities, slipped into,” i.e., the president may not know. See, the Times is separating this out because the point they are making is that this is being purposely withheld from Trump because he\u2019s not trusted.<\/p>\n
Here is how the Times says that: “Pentagon and intelligence officials described [to the New York Times] broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he might countermand it,” i.e., tell \u2019em not to do it, or tell them it was happening, “as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in Syria to the Russian foreign minister. Because the new law defines the actions in cyberspace as akin to traditional military activity on the ground, in the air or at sea, no such briefing would be necessary, they added.”<\/p>\n
So little-known deal slipped into military authorization bill, gives these guys the ability to launch offensive attacks on Russia and not tell Trump precisely because they don\u2019t trust him! They don\u2019t think he would agree with it. They don\u2019t want him saying “no,” and they don\u2019t trust him to keep it secret! He\u2019s not the guy with the unsecured basement server like Hillary Clinton had who was trafficking in all kinds of classified data and was exonerated for doing so! Trump is not that.<\/p>\n
(impression) “Well, but everybody knows, Mr. Limbaugh, that Trump has a very close personal relationship with Vladimir Putin. Why, at the snap of his fingers, some prostitutes will show up at a hotel room to pee on a bed for him.” They won\u2019t let this stuff die! All of this stuff has been pooh-poohed. It has been rendered defunct, and they keep it alive, and now Trump can\u2019t be trusted. I don\u2019t care how you describe this. If this story is right, then we\u2019ve got treasonous activity. We\u2019ve got the intel and the defense people openly defying knowingly a president.<\/p>\n
“Well, he might not agree with it.” (chuckling) Well, then, buddy, you have no business doing it! “We can\u2019t tell him because, hell, we can\u2019t trust the president.” He\u2019s not the one leaking to the media about all these operations, you people are! The intel people are leaking all this, not Trump. Now let\u2019s go to James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence for Barack Hussein O.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here James Clapper. He was on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon last night. Question: “American national security officials are declining to share Russia-related intel with the president because they view him as a security risk. How serious is this?”<\/p>\n
CLAPPER: As an intelligence guy, you know, y-you kind of cringe when you see articles like that. And if the president didn\u2019t know about this, uh, uh, program, uh, with the Russians, uh, assuming the — the New York Times article\u2019s accurate, well, he sure does now. I do know, uhhh, there are other instances of where there have been, uh, concerns about, uhh, U.S. intelligence capabilities, particularly when it comes to Russia, uh, since there is some mystery about just exactly what the relationship is —<\/p>\n
RUSH: See?<\/p>\n
CLAPPER: — particularly personally between, uhh, President Trump and — and Putin. So I think it\u2019s, uhh… You know, can\u2019t confirm or deny, but it\u2019s certainly, uhh, plausible, and I do know there\u2019s concern in the intelligence community about that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Right, because you people talk to each other as you concoct these schemes. The way it works is these former and current intelligence officials concoct a scheme. They bring Clapper in and say, “Okay. Clapper, your mission, is you go on CNN and you validate everything that story\u2019s gonna say, including the fact that Trump and Russia are so close that we can\u2019t trust either of \u2019em. We don\u2019t know what the relationship is,” even though — if you look at United States policy aimed at Russia — it\u2019s not anything born of friendship. (chuckling)<\/p>\n
Why do you think Putin\u2019s succeeds up to Xi Jinping of the ChiComs? Xi Jinping the other day just said Vladimir Putin\u2019s his new best buddy. He\u2019ll tell that to Kim Jong-un when he gets in North Korea too. But Vladimir Putin\u2019s his new best friend. This really, folks, is so beneath the pale here. (impression) “Well, as an intelligence guy and all, you kind of cringe when you see articles like that.” No, we were cringing when you held the Office of Director of National Intelligence.<\/p>\n
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Now Facebook\u2019s eating into \u2013 I mean, this was the lifeblood. After the concept of the newspaper began to fade and online access of news began to pick up, advertising became the way to make the freight because things on the internet started out as free. You could read the New York Times for free, or the Washington Post for free for the longest time, the longest time. Advertising paid the freight.<\/p>\n