Aug. 11, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Tiger Woods is now nine shots off the lead. | |
| He's six over parr, the leader in the clubhouse, Trevor Emelman, at minus three in the PGA championships. | |
| I only mention this. | |
| I love Tiger. | |
| Don't misunderstand. | |
| I only mention this because this sports media in all of its glory once again said that the only guy that had even a prayer of winning was Tiger Woods. | |
| And he may yet. | |
| I mean, you don't know, but it just insults me that you got 149 other guys out there playing in the tournament, and they're not even given the respect of showing up by these lame brands in the sports media. | |
| Greetings and welcome back, folks. | |
| Here we are, Rush Limbaugh, America's anchorman, America's truth detector, America's Doctor of Democracy. | |
| I'm sitting here, the prestigious Attilda Hun chair, the senior fellow, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. | |
| Our telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at EIBNet.com. | |
| We were talking as the previous hour concluded about the pompous 9-11 Commission, this bunch of brainy acts out there thinking they're saving the world with their work on this commission. | |
| And their work basically was to what? | |
| The Commission on Connecting the Dots. | |
| They were out there trying to find out where the dots weren't connected, right? | |
| And now we learn that they missed a huge dot. | |
| This is the Abel Danger Group, the Defense Intelligence Agency unit that was surveilling Mohammed Atta, had him under surveillance, knew he was in Brooklyn with three of the other hijackers. | |
| One year before 9-11, 10 days before they issued their final report, they were warned, the commission was warned by a uniformed military officer that the account would be incomplete without reference to what he described as the secret military operation that by the summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat, Mohamed Atta, member of al-Qaeda. | |
| Now, there's a guy named Felsenberg out there, and he is the spokesman, the chief spokesman for the 9-11 Commission. | |
| And this guy, Felsenberg, by the way, this is all, we know all this because of the great work by Kurt Weldon, Republican member of Congress from Pennsylvania, who says he has multiple sources on this, not just one guy. | |
| And by the way, Weldon sent a letter yesterday to members of the 9-11 Commission, scathing letter, criticizing them in scathing terms, saying that its refusal to investigate Abel Danger after being notified of his existence and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly withholding information on it brings shame on the commissioners and is evocative of the worst tendencies of the federal government and the condition that the commission worked to expose. | |
| So basically what he's saying here is you're the connect the dot guys and you just missed a huge dot here and you're out there getting all puffed up and accepting all these accolades for the great work that you did. | |
| You got a bunch of pompous SOBs in the Democratic Party running around talking about how Bush didn't connect the dots and Bush is responsible for this. | |
| And you got the Jersey girls out there going crazy over all of this. | |
| And now we find out that the commission itself, supposedly connecting the dots, missed a huge one. | |
| Now this spokesman, Felsenberg, what is his first name out there? | |
| I can't, I think, is it Larry? | |
| Well, I can't find his first name. | |
| Anyway, Felsenberg, who served as the Commission's chief spokesman, said earlier this week that staff members who were briefed about Abel Danger at the first meeting in October of 2003 did not remember hearing anything about Mr. Atta or an American terrorist cell. | |
| On Wednesday, however, Felsenberg said that the uniformed officer who briefed two staff members in July 2004 had indeed mentioned Mr. Atta. | |
| So Felsenberg, the spokesman for the commission, is now changing his story. | |
| Yeah, we didn't know about it. | |
| Oh, sorry, we did know about it. | |
| Al Felsenberg, okay, Al is his first name. | |
| The Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday that the military was working with the Commission's unofficial follow-up group, the 9-11 Public Disclosure Project, which was formed by the panel's members when it was disbanded to try to clarify what had happened. | |
| Al Felsenberg, the spokesman, said that the Commission staff remained convinced the information provided by the military officer July 2004 briefing was inaccurate in a significant way. | |
| Felsenberg said he wasn't brushed off. | |
| I'm not aware of anybody being brushed off. | |
| The information that he provided us didn't mesh with other conclusions that we were drawing from the commission's investigation. | |
| Oh, so they admitting now they were already drawing their conclusions and this late arriving news didn't mesh with what they were preparing to write. | |
| Felsenberg said that staff instigators, I'm sorry, staff investigators, a full paw there, had become wary of this officer because he argued that Abel Danger had identified Atta as having been in the U.S. in late 99 or early 2000. | |
| The investigators said Felsenberg knew this was impossible since travel records confirmed that Atta had not entered the U.S. until June of 2000. | |
| There was no way that Atta could have been in the U.S. at that time, which is why the staff didn't give the tremendous weight when they were writing the report, Felsenberg said. | |
| This information was not meshing with the other information that we had. | |
| Now, Mr. Weldon's chief of staff said that while the dates may not have meshed with the commission's information, the central comment of the officer's claim was that Mohamed Atta was identified as being tied to al-Qaeda in a Brooklyn cell more than a year before the 9-11 attacks, and that should have warranted further investigation by the Commission. | |
| Furthermore, if Mohamed Atta was identified by the Abel Danger Project, why didn't the Department of Defense provide that information to the FBI? | |
| Let's not forget that aspect of it. | |
| That information was not provided to the FBI because it wasn't allowed to be transmitted to the FBI. | |
| And one of the stories going around is, well, we couldn't because he was here in a legal visa. | |
| That's not why. | |
| There was a wall, folks. | |
| There was a wall that had been built up written by the Clinton Justice Department. | |
| Jamie Gorellik ran that department while Janet Rena was out there making it look like she was the head of the Justice Department, but she was the face. | |
| But Jamie Gorelik was actually doing the work all behind the scenes. | |
| And that wall, for a host of reasons, prevented connecting the dots, as we've discussed on countless occasions here. | |
| So lots of stuff was flying around out there. | |
| Felsenberg says, yeah, well, you know, lots of stuff was coming in over the transom. | |
| Lots of stuff was flying around. | |
| The end of the day, when you're writing a report, you have to take facts presented to you. | |
| Well, they ignored this fact and chose not to use it because it didn't mesh with what they already had. | |
| And, you know, folks, I don't know how much of this you remember. | |
| This 9-11 Commission thing, this was one of the many assaults in the spring of 2004 that was designed as an attack on the Bush re-election effort. | |
| Make no mistake about this. | |
| You could remember anytime somebody showed up at that committee and ripped the Bush administration, some witness, the Jersey girls in the audience would all stand and applaud. | |
| This was clearly a let's see if we can pin this on Bush Commission. | |
| And this information about Atta somehow, even though it was told the Commission staff, didn't make it to the Commission itself. | |
| Kurt Weldon is vowing now to find out who in the Clinton administration ordered a group of military intelligence officers not to tell the FBI about critical information on these hijackers that was obtained two years before they destroyed the World Trade Center. | |
| Folks, can I take you back just to remind you something? | |
| The Commission can say all it wants, that it didn't know what was out there. | |
| The Commission can say all it wants, that the dates didn't mesh. | |
| Well, let me tell you something. | |
| If it wasn't 9-11 itself, it was 9-12, we knew everything we could know about Mohamed Atta. | |
| One of the things that continually surprised me, I'd turn on the television, I'd read the newspaper, and lo and behold, we knew where he lived. | |
| We knew where he went to school. | |
| We knew where he went to flight school. | |
| We knew where he bought the airline tickets that he took to Boston that morning to hijack the plane. | |
| We knew how he bought the tickets. | |
| We knew he paid CAC. | |
| We knew everything there was to know about this guy. | |
| And I'm asking myself, if we know this much about this guy this soon after the event, how long have we known it? | |
| My point is that it is obvious a lot was known about Muhammad Atta before 9-11 happened, because it was too quickly assembled and put together and reported to everybody after 9-11 happened for it to have just been learned in one day. | |
| And all this happens. | |
| All of this happens. | |
| The building of the wall and the what would you call it? | |
| The suppressing, the suppression of this information on a guy, all happened during the Clinton administration. | |
| There has to be reasons why. | |
| I'm not going to sit here and speculate. | |
| You all can do that on your own. | |
| But there have to be reasons why this wall was built. | |
| There have to be reasons why the Clinton Defense Department didn't want it known after the fact that they knew Mohamed Atta was in the country a year before 9-11. | |
| Weldon said, what bothers me is two things. | |
| I'm told that they couldn't share this information with the FBI. | |
| How far up the chain of command did that go? | |
| Did it go to the White House? | |
| And if so, who ordered it? | |
| Asked about reports that restrictions on intelligence sharing implemented by Jamie Gorellik played a role in the disastrous intelligence breakdown. | |
| Weldon said, I think that needs to be investigated. | |
| There's no reason not to share this information with the FBI, he said, except that the firewalls that existed back then were so severe they wouldn't let those agencies talk to one another. | |
| Well, now, hell's bells here, folks. | |
| The 9-11 Commission was a commission to find out about connecting the dots. | |
| Why didn't we connect the dots? | |
| Does anybody remember in their report a whole lot of attention being spent on the inability and the wall? | |
| There was some paid to it, but they didn't go very deep because one of the commission members herself was the architect of the wall. | |
| I thought all along she should be a witness and not a member of the commission. | |
| But don't forget, the Democrats got to pick the Democratic members of the commission. | |
| The Republicans got to pick the Republicans. | |
| And I'm telling, I do not believe it is coincidence at all the Democrats chose Jamie Gurelik to sit on the 9-11 Commission. | |
| This is going to bubble up. | |
| This is going to effervesce. | |
| And there will be more that comes out about this because Weldon's on the warpath and he is intent on finding out about it. | |
| And now the commission members and say, oh, well, we're very embarrassed about it. | |
| We have some sound bites to play for you. | |
| We come back after this break. | |
| We have here a montage of statements made by the co-chairman of the 9-11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, who spoke to the press last night. | |
| It could be a very crucial incident in terms of the lead up to 9-11. | |
| It could reveal flaws in the intelligence sharing or the lack of intelligence sharing that we have not yet focused on. | |
| We had no information that the United States government had under surveillance or had any knowledge of Muhammad Atta prior to the attacks. | |
| Yes, you did. | |
| Your staff did. | |
| See, this is this, who does the work on these things? | |
| You know, this is something that we need to talk about, too. | |
| These commissioners out there, they get all the FaceTime on TV to ask all the questions, but they don't sit in on all of these interviews of various witnesses, only the ones on television. | |
| And the staff is largely responsible for writing the report. | |
| Staff does a lot of interviews. | |
| Staff didn't pass this along. | |
| And, you know, the staff is bipartisan, too. | |
| You've got Democrat staff members. | |
| You have Republican staff members out there. | |
| But how about this? | |
| Yeah, it could be a very crucial incident. | |
| In terms of the lead up, it could reveal flaws in the intelligence sharing or the lack of intelligence sharing that we've not yet. | |
| You didn't focus on it? | |
| They didn't focus on that? | |
| That's the whole thing. | |
| The whole thing was about connecting the dots. | |
| And they didn't focus on it? | |
| Well, let's go back. | |
| Let's listen to these guys talking about all the great work that they were doing. | |
| This is an April the 8th, 2004 montage of 9-11 Commission members Timothy Romer, Richard Ben Vanista, Slade Gorton, Bob Kerry, and Jamie Gorelic all reacting to the testimony they got from Bill Clinton, of all people. | |
| Pretty typical of President Clinton. | |
| We had excellent time with him. | |
| It was more than three hours. | |
| It was actually probably three and a half. | |
| Former president was very helpful, very effusive. | |
| He was very open to some of our tough questions. | |
| I think he took the criticism well. | |
| He indicated that he didn't feel that he had quite enough proof to take action. | |
| President Clinton was very helpful. | |
| He was candid. | |
| He was engaging. | |
| And he stayed and answered every question. | |
| President Clinton was just wonderful. | |
| He gave us one hour more than the time was scheduled for, and his advice and his thoughts will be extremely valuable. | |
| It was a very substantive, very engaged, and extremely helpful presentation. | |
| Everyone got their questions in with him, and he actually answered questions we hadn't asked, and it was very full and rich. | |
| And that was, of course, Gorelik herself there. | |
| And remember what else was said when this was all over? | |
| He was brilliant. | |
| He was alone. | |
| He did it all without notes. | |
| This man is in total command. | |
| Blah, Yet when Bush went, they made fun of him for taking Cheney along. | |
| Well, we came to find out later that Clinton took Bruce Lindsay in there and two other people. | |
| Clinton had an entourage when he was talking to these people. | |
| Yet the media tried to make it out that Clinton was so confident and so competent. | |
| He was able to go in there and wind these people around his little finger all by his little self. | |
| And here they were thinking, wow, we're doing such great work. | |
| Why, this guy told us everything we needed to know. | |
| Bamo, Bamo. | |
| What a sham. | |
| What a sham this whole thing was. | |
| A bunch of self-inflated, important people from Washington, all inside the Beltway people, playing to the cameras, having an effect on the election, they hope. | |
| The Jersey girls in the audience standing up and applauding every time the Bush administration's ripped to shreds. | |
| And now we find out that they didn't even look into the primary problem that everybody thought we had, and that was not connecting the dots, not sharing information. | |
| By the way, there's a new al-Qaeda documentary out there, Press Goongaga, over this. | |
| This is just, it's another example. | |
| For we get the czar Zarkawi Zawahiri, whatever his name was, video. | |
| And boy, they stop and play that, and they give him that propaganda platform of the world. | |
| You know what I saw the other day? | |
| Somebody said, you know, look at that gun that he's got. | |
| They start analyzing the gun, and they figured out the gun he's got in that video, Zawahiri, brand new gun that could not have come from anywhere other than a superpower-like country like China. | |
| And people were saying, you know, this guy's, I mean, there's some pretty powerful people still supplying these people. | |
| Yeah, right. | |
| So we're going to propagandize this little runt all over the world with his video. | |
| Now we got it all over again. | |
| These al-Qaeda, endless parade of human debris known as al-Qaeda. | |
| Now they've come up with a documentary. | |
| Ooh, folks, a documentary. | |
| Maybe it'll win an award at Conn. | |
| Maybe it'll be nominated out there at Hollywood. | |
| A new, we have a portion of this documentary features an al-Qaeda terrorist speaking in English. | |
| Oh, people of the West, don't be fooled by the lies of Blair and Bush, that you are Free Nations, for the only freedom that you have is the freedom to be slaves of your whims and desires. | |
| Don't be fooled with the lies of Blair and Bush. | |
| Well, that sounds like Michael Moore. | |
| Sounds like many Democrat talking points. | |
| Sounds like Democrat websites. | |
| Don't be fooled by the lies of Blair and Bush. | |
| Chuck in Philadelphia. | |
| Nice to have you on the program, sir. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Thank you, Russ. | |
| It's truly an honor to be there. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Yeah, on this Kurt Welding thing, and I was listening to him because it was on our local station. | |
| And he said that in September of 00, this information came out and it went nowhere. | |
| And what I'm wondering is, two months later, in November, Bush is elected. | |
| Okay, and then three months later after that, Bush is sworn in. | |
| Why wasn't this brought up again? | |
| Why didn't the people on the Pentagon bring this up and get it cleared out? | |
| That way, when Condor Lisa Rice gave that memo to George W., Al-Qaeda intends to attack the United States, it would have done something. | |
| I mean, this is important. | |
| Why didn't the Bush administration change the rules? | |
| Clinton's out of office. | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| Well, don't, let me, let me answer your question. | |
| And I'm, for one thing, the wall was still there. | |
| And the reason they hadn't been able to tear down the wall yet was because of the Florida aftermath. | |
| Bush didn't even get his cabinet fully confirmed until June. | |
| I mean, he still didn't have his administration fully staffed until like May or June. | |
| He was still undergoing the kind of things that would normally be done from November to January. | |
| He couldn't even start on those things until January because of the Florida aftermath. | |
| And so what about Ashcroft? | |
| Well, Ashcroft, yes, right. | |
| Ashcroft had to be in place to tear the wall down. | |
| And Ashcroft went through this long, elongated confirmation period. | |
| What was it, March before he was confirmed Attorney General? | |
| So I think the answer is that the Bush administration didn't get settled in really until the summer 2001. | |
| We'll be back after this. | |
| Well, bad news for the cable networks. | |
| They caught that renegade, renegade pair that had escaped from that jail. | |
| And the female, I guess, allegedly shot the guard or whatever. | |
| But Cable Net's hoping that would go on for at least a week. | |
| But the pair surrendered last night. | |
| So now they're left with Aruba again. | |
| But things will look up. | |
| Something will happen out there to be able to get weeks' worth of mileage out. | |
| That one didn't pan out, but there will be other stories that will. | |
| Speaking of which, ladies and gentlemen, what was the date Ashcroft was confirmed? | |
| February 20th. | |
| He was confirmed. | |
| So Ashcroft. | |
| Okay, I was wrong. | |
| He was confirmed earlier than I thought, February 2nd of 2001 is when Ashcroft was confirmed. | |
| You remember yesterday we had some fun talking about this ludicrous, ridiculous, absurd ban by the NCAA on Indian mascot names not being allowed anymore in postseason tournaments. | |
| And this has caused a hubbub. | |
| And, you know, it's just, it's fascinating. | |
| There's such a disconnect with the media and the real people of this country. | |
| You watch sports media and they think it's only a matter of time before these guys have to eat their dirt. | |
| The Redskins are going to change their name and it's about time because this is offensive and it's insensitive and it's horrible and rotten. | |
| And yet the vast majority of the American people don't see it this way at all. | |
| In fact, I got a funny email from a Minnesota Vikings fan. | |
| He said, you know something? | |
| I'm listening to all this talk about how we can't have teams named after Indians. | |
| Well, the fact is teams named after Indians are beating my Vikings every season in the NFL. | |
| And I'll tell you what, we Vikings are going to be upset because if these guys, if the Vikings keep losing, we're going to demand they get rid of our name because they're a bunch of wimps. | |
| They're making us look bad, which I thought was sort of funny. | |
| And then I was also thinking about this. | |
| Lawrence Tribe. | |
| Lawrence Tribe, a darling of the liberal left, he is a law professor at Harvard, and he is one of these guys that would just love to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. | |
| I'm just wondering if Lawrence Tribe will be able to use his own name if he goes to any NCA playoff games. | |
| Will he be allowed to buy a ticket under his own name, Lawrence Tribe? | |
| Or will he have to change his name to Lawrence Wasp, you know, in order to buy a ticket? | |
| You know, it's just, it's, what happens if Lawrence Tribe, by the way, ends up flying on an Apache helicopter to handle a case involving a lawsuit at the Indian Point nuclear reactor? | |
| And why does he fly? | |
| Because he's vacationing in the Indian Ocean. | |
| What are we going to change the name of the Indian Ocean now? | |
| You want to see how absurd this could get. | |
| We could have some real fun with this if we wanted to, and we may yet do so. | |
| Now, have you seen the polling data? | |
| Janine Pirro and Hillary. | |
| They've already taken a poll. | |
| This was a Marist, I think, NBC poll. | |
| Janine Pirot is still at 28%, but Hillary's down like 10 points or 8 points, something like that. | |
| And it's going to happen. | |
| You know, I'm amazed again at all these commentators. | |
| Yeah, this can't hurt Hillary. | |
| Why is Piro doesn't have a chance to win? | |
| Why is this ridiculous out there? | |
| Who does Pirot think she is? | |
| Hillary's going to win this thing in a slam dunk. | |
| Let me tell you, every time a poll comes out and Hillary Clinton's numbers fall, doesn't matter what Perrault's numbers are, Pirot's numbers are. | |
| The fact that Hillary's fall is a deal. | |
| That's something that matters, and she's not going to like that. | |
| But, but, I wish to throw something else into the wash here. | |
| Remember Paul Hackett, the Democrat candidate in Ohio who lost the election, and yet the Democrats hailed his loss as a victory because he only lost by four points. | |
| Of course, on hardball, even without Chris Matthews, they treated him as he actually won this race. | |
| I mean, he was on last night and actually treated him as a winner. | |
| Well, the left has thus now established new standards. | |
| Lose an election and you win it? | |
| Lose an election by four points, eight points, whatever. | |
| Wow, that's big. | |
| And no Republican seat is safe from now on out. | |
| Well, given these new standards, the new rules established by the left, what happens when Janine Pirro loses? | |
| Might it actually mean that Janine Pirot won? | |
| And if Pirot wins, can Hillary still win even though she won? | |
| I mean, these things can easily be turned around on the Democrats. | |
| You know, I mean, Hillary's numbers keep falling, regardless what Janine Pirot's do. | |
| Wow, wow, we didn't expect it to be this close. | |
| Why, we thought this was a safe seat. | |
| So under the new rules established by the Democrats, I think Janine Pirot can win even if she loses. | |
| And Hillary loses even if she wins. | |
| And we can thank the Democrats for this new way of counting the results. | |
| Here's Mike in Richmond, Virginia. | |
| You're next, sir, the EIB network. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hey, Rush, Megha Dennos from a fellow former ESPN employee. | |
| How are you doing today? | |
| Fine, sir. | |
| Thanks very much. | |
| Quick comment. | |
| You know, the whole thing about the 9-1-11 Commission investigating, and they had to get to the truth. | |
| They had to find out what happened, and they have to figure out how to stop it from happening again. | |
| Well, considering the fact that they've basically blown off and ignored information, do we now need a 9-11 Commission to investigate the 9-11 Commission? | |
| Hmm. | |
| Well, I don't think that the Commission can investigate itself. | |
| Oh, I realize that, but I mean, if they have to take this so seriously, which I agree it should be, well, then, you know, we should investigate why this information is. | |
| Well, I think this is a good, actually, I think this is a good question. | |
| We should, you know, get an inquiry into Chairman Hamilton, Chairman Kane, and say, given what we've learned, should there be an investigation of the 9-11 Commission investigation? | |
| Exactly. | |
| I mean, should we increase? | |
| Which, hey, we do. | |
| Then why was this not considered? | |
| Well, I mean, we know why. | |
| I'll tell you why it's not considered. | |
| The 9-11 Commission is considered holy. | |
| The 9-11 Commission and its work is considered holy, and it's untouchable. | |
| But the lid's blown now. | |
| And yeah, I think we need hearings. | |
| We need an investigation and a hearing into the investigation of the 9-11 Committee. | |
| I mean, that's how they do things in Washington. | |
| Something gets screwed up, you investigate it. | |
| Okay, 9-11 Commission screwed up. | |
| We better investigate that to see how it happened. | |
| So we'll have a 9-11 committee investigation of the 9-11 Committee. | |
| And this bring the Jersey girls back, the whole thing. | |
| Just redo the whole thing, except this time the witnesses are the staff and the committee members themselves. | |
| And we have all new committee members investigating led by Kurt Weldon of Pennsylvania, who could be the new chairman of this. | |
| That's a great idea out there, Kurt. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Great idea that you had. | |
| What was his name? | |
| Mike from Virginia, Curtin, St. Louis. | |
| You're next. | |
| Welcome to the program, sir. | |
| Yeah, hi, Rush. | |
| Hi. | |
| With the recent revelation of information about the 9-11 Commission, I think it's one time that we conservatives can find ourselves strangely in agreement with Senator Clinton because I want to know what did he know and when did he know it? | |
| I'm lost here. | |
| What Clinton are you agreeing with? | |
| Senator Hillary Clinton. | |
| She asked the question, what did he know and when did he know it? | |
| And I'm in agreement with her. | |
| I want to know what he knew and when he knew it. | |
| Oh, Well, let's ask her, too. | |
| She was in the White House. | |
| Yeah, she should know the answer. | |
| What did she know and when did she know it? | |
| And, you know, what did Clinton know and when did he know it? | |
| That'd be an interesting question. | |
| Yeah, we need to reinvestigate Clinton. | |
| We need to re-interview him for our new investigation of the investigation. | |
| And bring him in. | |
| We've learned some new things, President Clinton. | |
| Bring whoever you want with you. | |
| Did you know that the Pentagon had reported they were keeping tabs in Muhammad Ada? | |
| And did your wife know and so forth? | |
| What did you know? | |
| Yeah, yeah, it sounds logical to me. | |
| These are questions people have. | |
| And Kurt Weldon raised this himself. | |
| He said, I want to know how high up the chain the knowledge of this went. | |
| I want to know if it went up to the White House. | |
| And if so, who in the White House? | |
| I want to know. | |
| Somebody. | |
| And I'll tell you something. | |
| I did raise this yesterday. | |
| And I think it's relevant too. | |
| You can't take the Sandy Burglar burglary out of this either. | |
| Sandy Burglar, you know, he has to go into the National Archives to prepare himself for his period of time before the commissioners. | |
| And we have learned that Sandy Burglar went into the National Archives and stuffed things in his pants and socks and walked out and then came back in. | |
| And everybody was focused on what did he take out? | |
| More curious to me is what did he put back? | |
| What did he put in there? | |
| What was it? | |
| Obviously, something's going on here. | |
| And, you know, this is all speculation. | |
| But now that we learned that we knew Otta was here, somebody knew it. | |
| And it was during the Clinton administration. | |
| And now you got Sandy Burgler, who, by the way, he pled guilty and got a $10,000 fine is all for this. | |
| But we knew he was in there. | |
| And we knew he took documents out. | |
| And, you know, the surprising lack of outrage over that, the surprising lack of curiosity over that. | |
| I think maybe people will be refocused on that incident now as attempts are made to find out what who knew and when they knew it and why nobody else was told about it. | |
| Quick time out. | |
| Back with more in a jiffy. | |
| Okay, three things here. | |
| Folks, before we go back to your phone calls, glad to have you with us, by the way, on the one and only EIB network, Rushland Boy, your host for life and America's Anchorman here behind the golden EIB microphone. | |
| Now, the New York Times typically got another hit piece here on Janine Pirot. | |
| Pirot starts her race for Senate with attack on Clinton. | |
| Janine Pirot got her U.S. Senate campaign off to a fiery but rocky start yesterday. | |
| Well, wait till you hear what was rocky about it. | |
| Broadly assailing the Democratic incumbent Hillary Rodham in three speeches across the state while grappling with questions about abortion, taxes, Iraq, and her husband. | |
| Officially kicking off her campaign two days after disclosing her plans to run, Ms. Pirow took pains to portray herself as an independent political spirit, differing with Mrs. Clinton on terrorism, yet breaking with President Bush on abortion rights and stem cell research as well. | |
| She showed some of her trademark pluck, trying to take Mrs. Clinton down a peg by calling her simply Hillary and challenging her not to stoop to negative character assassination. | |
| Pirot drew scrutiny for some gaffes and judgment calls. | |
| She paused awkwardly for 32 seconds while reading her kickoff speech as she searched for a page of text, finally asking an aide, could I have page 10? | |
| And the campaign's decision to keep her husband Albert away from the announcements only seemed to invite questions. | |
| Of course, nothing in the story about Mrs. Clinton's famed husband and his absence periodically from more than periodically. | |
| Anyway, so apparently the what was it? | |
| The rocky start was the 32-second pause reading her kickoff speech as she searched for a page of text, finally asking an aide, could I have page 10? | |
| Well, she produced it. | |
| They produced it in 32 seconds far faster than Hillary's billing records showed up in the map room of the White House. | |
| So I thought, oh, Rocky start my ass. | |
| Pardon my French here, folks, but somebody just forgot to put page 10 in there. | |
| Somebody had it, brought it out to her. | |
| This is called a rocky start. | |
| And yet, 32 seconds, man, it's a snap of the fingers compared to how long it took Hillary to produce her own little billing records. | |
| And when they showed up, nobody knew how they got there. | |
| Famous Rose law firm billing records. | |
| Now, the media, are you aware of, I'm sure you are, the media and their willing accomplices and the leftist fringe activist groups have been demanding that Club Gitmo be closed. | |
| They've been demanding Club Gitmo be closed because it's just horrible what's going on to people down there. | |
| It's just absolutely horrible. | |
| Although, if you were with us, my friends, at the top of the program, what you have learned is that the U.S. military plans to ease conditions for some detainees at Club Gitmo, housing them in a renovated section with televisions, stereos, and views of the Caribbean. | |
| This, according to Club Gitmo's commanding officer, in court papers, the renovations scheduled to be finished around August 15th, and some of those designated no longer enemy combatants will be able to live in communal housing with air conditioning, unlimited showers, and additional food. | |
| So it's getting even better than it already was for the people at Club Gitmo, and yet these leftist groups have been demanding that Club Gitmo be shut down. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| Washington Post says the Bush administration is nearing agreements with 10 Muslim governments to return their detainees held at Club Gitmo, part of an effort to quicken the pace of transfers and increase the role of countries whose nationals are alleged terrorists. | |
| Washington hopes to conclude the agreements within the next two months. | |
| Well, does it not look to you like the activist groups are getting what they want? | |
| Seems to me. | |
| However, however, now that they're getting what they want, they don't seem all that happy about it. | |
| The Washington Post says a human rights group welcomed the U.S. effort to return detainees, but said the administration's setting up a double standard about where they can be sent. | |
| They're two sides of the coin. | |
| It's definitely good to be sending detainees home with proper assurances of humane treatment, but there's no way to get credible assurances from a country where torture is standard operating procedure, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, said Tom Alanowski, Washington director for human rights watch. | |
| They're doing the right thing with the Oldiers and the Uzbeks, but they should do the same with the Saudis, either find a third country or keep them. | |
| Oh, what is this? | |
| We're supposed to release them? | |
| Except if they're going to go somewhere worse, we're supposed to keep them? | |
| Well, if there are places worse, why do we have to get rid of them in the first place? | |
| These people have stepped in it big time, folks. | |
| Put a bag of excrement in front of these leftists, and I will tell you, I will guarantee you they'll step in it. | |
| You got to close Club Gitno. | |
| It's mean fair. | |
| Okay, we're going to send most of them back to their native country. | |
| You can't do that. | |
| Why? | |
| It's worse there than at Club Gitmo. | |
| Oops. | |
| They've been nailed. | |
| And the Washington Post, willing accomplices, don't even realize the pure folly of reporting the story. | |
| Back in a moment. | |
| Oh, one of my all-time favorite tunes, folks. | |
| Definitely the top 10. | |
| Al Wilson. | |
| And the title of this tune is Show and Tell. | |
| Al Wilson, he got a great song, too, called The Snake, called this program once. | |
| Thank us for playing his tunes. | |
| Was trying to get control of his songs again and his masters, the label he recorded for still controlled them. | |
| Listen to this, listen to the Washington POST. | |
| Now you have to understand. | |
| And this is about shifting prisoners out of Club Gitmo, and they've been demanding it, along with Ted Kennedy and all the other Democrats and the activist groups. | |
| You're going to close it down. | |
| It's cruel and unusual. | |
| Remember what Dick Durbin said about the place. | |
| Washington POST, in an editorial yesterday, said shifting the indefinite detention of enemy fighters from Guantanamo could therefore end up meaning worse treatment for the detainees. | |
| For this reason, it is essential that the administration receive serious assurances of humane treatment, including access by international organizations, not just the sort of paper pledges as it's gotten in some instances. | |
| So you just have to laugh because for all this to send them home, Gitmo is the absolute hellhole of the world. | |
| Bush administration, okay, we'll get rid of them. | |
| You can't send them back there. | |
| Why, it's going to be even worse than Gitmo. | |
| You've got to get promises that they won't be. | |
| It's just, it's patently absurd. | |
| Classic illustration. | |
| Bush has trickered them up again, folks. | |
| It just, it never fails that they'll always step in it or on that bag of excrement when you put it out there in front of them. |
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