{"id":332239,"date":"2019-12-20T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=332239"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:48:19","slug":"durham-zeroes-in-on-brennan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/20\/durham-zeroes-in-on-brennan\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Zeroes in on Brennan"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here is Mike in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir, Rush. Pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My feeling is, nobody in Washington\u2019s gonna get prosecuted on this entire affair because anybody that dares open their mouth is gonna suffer the same fate that Epstein did, and he had $500 million to protect him. And if I was being guarded by the Secret Service, I wouldn\u2019t be too comfortable, either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me make sure I understand. The reason there will not be any prosecutions, you mean even by Barr and Durham?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Barr and Durham my rear end. The guys smoke and that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we got some sound bites from Barr coming up, you may change your mind. But you think there are never gonna be any prosecutions because the people who might be prosecuted, put in jail, are gonna get killed and they will know they\u2019re gonna get murdered and so nobody wants to get killed and nobody wants to be the killer, so nothing\u2019s gonna happen?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: That\u2019s right. And Epstein had $500 million behind him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, he had more than that. He had at least twice that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, by the way, where are the tapes from his mansion and his Lolita island down there? They mysteriously disappeared.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know what you mean. And you\u2019re saying this because of who — isn\u2019t it amazing that one guy has taken the fall for all of this? This poor, hapless Prince Andrew guy? His mom cancels his 60th birthday party. And the Clintons, who are up to their underwear in this stuff are just walking around breathing free and easy and not even concerned about it. I understand the way you\u2019re thinking.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, there\u2019s a news report out, the New York Times is reporting that<\/a>, according to a person briefed on the inquiry, U.S. attorney John Durham, who\u2019s leading the investigation into how the Trump-Russia thing started, has requested John Brennan\u2019s communication records, including emails, call logs, and other documents from the CIA. Brennan\u2019s the former CIA director who led, at least visibly, led the entire coup to overturn Trump\u2019s election. So Durham wants his phone records, has asked the CIA for all of his communications records. Durham\u2019s team is said to be scrutinizing prior testimony given by Brennan.<\/p>\n

Now, according to the New York Times, Durham \u201cwants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.\u2019s views of the dossier,\u201d and other assertions about Trump and Russia. Which means he wants to find out who all was lying here. Who told who what? He\u2019s looking for evidence that Comey and Brennan have been lying. Durham is trying to determine if Brennan privately contradicted his public comments. Meaning, he\u2019s heard, he wouldn\u2019t be looking for this if he hadn\u2019t gotten some indication.<\/p>\n

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Brennan and Comey out publicly saying X, Y, and Z — Trump\u2019s rotten, Trump\u2019s a SOB, Trump\u2019s this, Trump colluded with Russia. We\u2019ve got four or five secret witnesses, we know this. He wants call records. He wants to hear what they were saying to themselves during all of this. He wants to find evidence of how they were strategizing to pull all this off. And my guess is he wants it because he knows it happened.<\/p>\n

There are going to be leakers. There are going to be, before this is all over, people that flip. Somebody, somewhere is gonna determine they don\u2019t want to go to jail to protect James Comey. Somebody in this chain is gonna decide they don\u2019t want to go to jail to protect Brennan. Now, this source also said that Durham has been examining the roles of the agencies which contributed to the 2017 intelligence community assessment. This is the January 6th meeting — Comey, Brennan, Clapper — with Trump. It was January 5th they got together to conspire with Obama. January 6th they had the meeting. They presented Trump with evidence in the dossier about the pee tape.<\/p>\n

And so Durham has been examining the roles of all the intelligence agencies who put that assessment for Comey to present to Trump together. That would include the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. The report concludes the Russians had meddled in the 2016 election and conspired to help Trump win the race. And Durham wants to find out who the hell asserted that, who said that, who included that, what\u2019s the evidence for it, because there isn\u2019t any, it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

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He wants to get to the bottom of who started this mess. And he\u2019s asked the CIA for Brennan\u2019s records. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s gonna have any good fortune in coming up with those. Now, Bill Barr was on Fox last night. He had some fascinating things to say about all this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the Bill Barr sound bites.  He was on the Fox News Channel last night, and the question:  “We really learned a lot about the FISA abuse situation with the Horowitz report, the inspector general.  Do you believe that Durham\u2019s investigation is broader scoped in terms of the intelligence agencies that are being looked at?”<\/p>\n

BARR:  Oh, yes.  You know, he\u2019s not just looking at the FBI.  He\u2019s looking at other agencies and also private departments and also private actors, and so it\u2019s a much broader investigation.  And also he\u2019s not just looking at the FISA aspect of it.  He is looking at all the conduct, both before and after the election.<\/p>\n

MACCALLUM:  So would that include the CIA, NSA?<\/p>\n

BARR:  It would include agencies that could have been involved in this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Well, that would definitely be the CIA.  That\u2019s Brennan.  We already know from the New York Times… (Snort!) (laughing) I say, “We already know from the New York Times.” We don\u2019t know diddly-squat if it\u2019s in the New York Times! (sigh) Anyway, we know that Durham\u2019s looking at the CIA.  We know he\u2019s looking at the… He wants communications records of Brennan.  I would love… I would so love this guy to get called out for his role in this, Brennan.  He\u2019s one of these guys on TV constantly.<\/p>\n

You go back and look at what these people were saying! “Trump is going down.  Trump ought to resign! Trump ought to be ashamed. Trump is an embarrassment to the morality of our country and the intelligence community. Trump is…”  This guy was filled with vitriol about Trump, and it was all lies. He was uttering all these predictions. “Trump\u2019s going down! Trump\u2019s finished, he just doesn\u2019t know about it.”  Comey was doing the same rotgut stuff.  Man, oh, man, I would love to see these guys called out.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget, we had this caller who doesn\u2019t think any of this is gonna happen because before any of these people could actually testify, “they\u2019ll be murdered like Epstein was.”  That\u2019s his theory.  He thinks we\u2019re never gonna learn diddly-squat about this.  I remain confident that this investigation is going to hit pay dirt and that we\u2019re gonna find out.  I don\u2019t know about punishments.<\/p>\n

But look, there\u2019s grand jury, and a grand jury means one thing: Indictments.  That\u2019s why you impanel \u2019em. Yeah, a prosecutor can indict without one, can level charges without one. But a grand jury is a much better way of doing it.  It\u2019s considered to be nonpartisan, of course, considered to be evidentiary — and there\u2019s only one reason you impanel a grand jury.  That is to hear evidence for the eventual handing down of indictments, and I think there will be.<\/p>\n

Now, what punishment, if any, there will be? (Snort!) Who knows?  Here\u2019s the next bite  The question (summarized):  “Are you surprised that James Comey is so convinced himself that all of this was completely aboveboard? He came out and said there was no treason, there\u2019s no spying at all, on [Trump].” None of this that Trump thinks happened to him, happened.  Does Comey saying all that stuff surprise you?<\/p>\n