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Sept. 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limboss serving humanity, executing a signed host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
Actually, actually, that may not be true.
I may have made a technical mistake moments ago regarding Hillary's emails, because I have I was I was misdirected by the staff.
Now, in days gone by when the staff screwed up, I took the hit.
I mean, I always thought it was a very small public person that blamed invisible staff for his own mistakes.
But I've taken so many of these hits over the years that I've decided that when the staff is really to blame, then they're gonna get it.
No, seriously, seriously here.
I think I might have mixed up a couple of things.
It doesn't change the ultimate meaning, but in that Hillary UN speech played the soundbite from March of 2015.
She was talking about her private email network when she said, well, she lied.
She said she said that she'd never emailed classified info.
Uh that I was not wrong about it.
She did lie about that.
I mean, famously so.
But the mistake I might have made, still up for grabs here, was comparing that to prove the lie, comparing that to something she said last night when she said she emailed classified information.
The context she was talking about last night was the official government classified system.
This was in response to the question she got from the retired lieutenant in the Navy, and he had set the parameters by virtue of the question he had asked, and that was uh government classified documents and the government classified system that everybody uses.
Uh when she said she email classified information in that system, uh that that was all true.
That may not constitute a contradiction of what she'd said at the UN.
So I I want to I want to make sure I'm expressly clear about that.
The UN speech, she was talking about her private server, not the government system.
And the still she lied.
I mean, she she said that she had never sent classified emails or documents or data on her private network, which she did, but it it may not have been necessary to bounce that off and compare it to what she said last night.
Now, about the about the headers, I've had some people say no, rush there.
Have nobody seen that.
If somebody had seen that Huma Abaddon and some other people were stripping headers, and that would be big news.
Well, I'm gonna have to go back on my reams of show prep today.
I I was because I didn't watch the forum last night.
I was racing through all kinds of written material today in the process of prepping the show, and I maybe I misunderstood what I what I saw.
Uh we we do know that the uh circumstance with Jake Sullivan uh to remove headers in a in a fax.
We don't have one email where she did ask Jake Sullivan to remove headers uh in a facts and send it over normal email lines.
That did happen one time, documented for certain, where she told an aide to scrub the headers and then send the email, which which the the headers again identified it as classified and show you the route that the email took to get where it was going, where it came from and how it got to where it ended up and had the the markings of various classifications of security in it.
There is one known instance where she did tell somebody to strip those out, and then that email was sent over non-secured systems.
Now, I'm told that there isn't any evidence that Huma and others in the office were routinely stripping headers out of emails.
If that's true, then I stand corrected.
I thought I had seen that this morning where that had had happened somewhere.
Maybe I heard somebody talking about.
I don't know.
I've got so many things going on here at one time.
I don't want to be wrong about this.
For example, this earpiece business.
I think it could just be a spare cough drop in there.
Uh rat rather than an earpiece that everybody thinks is in an earpiece in her ear.
Got to be very careful about this.
You know, during the one of the debates between George W. Bush and I think it was either Carrie or Al Gore, the Democrats said that Bush had a bulge in his jacket.
And they said that it might have been a receiver for a an earpiece or something that was hidden somewhere that Bush, because Bush was an idiot, you know.
That that was the conventional wisdom.
That was the press had put out that Bush was a cowboy Doomkoff and didn't know what to say and was being fed the answers.
That turned out to blow up in everybody's faces.
There was no there was no earpiece or private communication system.
Now, the reason why this is this is caught on with Mrs. Clinton is because of Mrs. Clinton's character.
The Clintons are documented to be cheaters.
Mrs. Clinton's health is also a factor.
She's not all there.
She's admittedly had a concussion.
She was out of commission for months at a time.
She claims she forgets this and forgets that.
She doesn't know this, she doesn't remember that.
And then you add to it the uh well, it can't be denied.
The age factor, you put all these things together, they have created the impression that we have somebody here whose health is fragile.
And we have somebody here who also can't tell the truth to save her life.
And she's told so many lies that she can't remember to whom she's told or said what.
And so now we've got pictures, a close-up picture of something in her left ear last night.
And it looks like, well, you don't know what it looks like until others put the idea in your head.
So somebody says, that looks like a pearl earpiece.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Like a Rorschach test.
That's what it is.
It's a pearl earpiece.
Then somebody finds a tweet or an email from Huma Danger to Hillary saying, Do you have your earpiece or do you want me to get it for you?
And people are thinking, what in the world would she need an earpiece for?
Is she is she hard of hearing as well?
And if that's the case, why wouldn't they call it a hearing aid?
Uh and well, they might not call it a hearing aid because they don't want anybody know that she has a hearing disability.
That wouldn't look good.
Somebody running for president, so earpiece might be used.
Then there were a bunch of tweets that began last night after this close-up shot of Mrs. Clinton.
And there is something in her ear, like I say, I think it's a cough drop, a spare cough drop, but it could be an earpiece.
Then when you learn that these things are used on Broadway, they're used, well, not just in Broadway, but but actors on stage use these, particularly elderly actors.
You you'd be amazed, folks, at this.
Uh learning lines gets harder and harder as you get older, like Mrs. Clinton.
And particularly on television shows, they have cue cards next to cameras or earpieces.
They have people helping uh certain actors with their lines, particularly a very, very prominent, very successful, highly reputed actor that some TV show desperately wants, but the actor is near retirement age, and this is the days of really, really hard work are behind them.
So, in an effort to get the actor make it easy as they can, don't have to memorize the lines.
They have uh earpieces and other ways of cueing the actor when to say what.
And uh they hone this during rehearsal.
And it's used in Broadway.
People forget their lines, they're judged.
If they forget where there's to be on the stage, they're they're told.
So the system exists.
And it's well known to exist.
And if you put everything together, you have Mrs. Clinton with the way they have presented her.
Fragile health, concussion, memory challenges, memory problems.
Plus the Democrats.
They cheat.
You throw all that in the mix, and you show somebody a picture of Mrs. Clinton with what looks like a spare cough drop in the ear, and you tell them it's an earpiece.
Yeah, yeah.
And I've just seen this blow up a couple of times on people, like the George W. Bush example.
Now, don't misunderstand.
I I'm not, I'm not saying that they wouldn't do it.
I but I think something so patently obvious that everybody here has seen.
I just don't know that they are that desperate in the campaign.
I could be wrong.
Actually, I think they are that desperate.
I think they thought Hillary'd be at 70%, Trump would be at 30, and this would be over by now.
So I think there is boku concern on the Democrat side.
And I do think there are a lot of people that think she needs help.
And I think the Democrats cheat in any way they can to give her an answer.
But then again, look at it the other way.
If she's running around with earpieces, why is she lying so much?
If it if if she's got an earpiece, somebody could shoot her the truth.
Somebody could whisper what she should say that would not be a lie if they're actually doing all of that.
But you can see, if you follow this on Twitter, you can see how eagerly people have picked this up.
I mean, this is the kind of thing that develops a life of its own and it expands it mushrooms, it grows out there, and in many people's minds it is factual.
And all I'm telling you is that I am not ready to sit here and say with ontological certitude, yep, I think that's an earpiece.
And I think they're cheating, and I think they're whispering things in her ear to make sure she said the right things.
I just I just don't know.
And you you also have to take into account, you know, the original source for these kinds of things.
You have to weigh a lot of things in determining whether or not you want to sign on to something.
Now we're not a local show in uh in Tim Book 2.
Uh so there are very many precautions.
That's why I'm spending so much time here trying to get right.
Uh the whole idea that she may have been ordering people to strip headers out of emails.
I could swear I either heard that or saw that today, but I'm being told nope, only that one time that you talked about with Jake Sullivan.
What is probably uh far more likely that that happened here is that the Clinton office routinely transmitted information that they knew was classified, either from reading classified documents or attended attending briefings.
They appear to have done this thousands of times, routinely transmitted information they knew was classified.
There's no question, I don't think that they did this.
She's a security risk out the wall.
She's arrogant, she is above it all.
She doesn't think much of the classification system.
She probably thinks a bunch of things that were said to be classified and secure really shouldn't have been, and I'm not going to take the time, and I'm not going to put my staff through all the the hoops.
I'm just, I got I need to send this to somebody, and I'm going to send it to hell with it.
Because she's above it all.
She's not going to be held accountable.
And Comey didn't.
And boy, is that looking even more and more curious.
Now, most of the time, when Mrs. Clinton emailed classified information, she was not emailing an actual classified document.
She was emailing, just like you would email with anybody else.
She was passing along information she knew to be classified.
This is an important distinction to make.
And this is one of her outs.
I never sent classified information.
I never knowingly passed on.
No, you just took the classified information and you trafficked in it.
That is what they do.
Let's say that let's say I had a security clearance and I attended a classified briefing at which I was told we're sending Ground troops into Aleppo tomorrow, being led by Gary Johnson.
Let's have a classified briefing, and that's what I am told.
Now let's say I leave the briefing and I come back here to the EIB Southern Command, and I get on my email system, and I send to my brother, you're not going to believe this.
You're not going to believe this.
We are going to send ground troops into Aleppo tomorrow, and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party is the commanding officer.
That's what she did.
She got a classified document or she got a classified briefing.
She collected the information, then she started she's unable to keep a secret.
It's as simple as that.
The actual classified documents themselves, uh not a whole lot of that being trafficked.
Now, when she did that, well, let's continue to use me.
Let's say I go to a classified briefing, and I hear that we're going to invade Aleppo.
We're commanding officer Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party.
I come back and I send an email to my brother, David, you're not going to believe it.
I'm not going to write classified on it.
I'm not going to say, hey, I got classified news for it.
I'm just going to pass along.
That's gossip.
Except this isn't gossip.
This is classified briefing information that she received, but she's now passing it on, like people pass on gossip.
She's gotten, she'd been caught doing this.
And now they're out there, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I never said anything classified.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I never said classified document.
That's where the rub is here.
So she didn't put classified on these emails where she's passing along classified information.
And she's not going to create headers with big bold font indicating that uh I wouldn't uh like what I'm writing here is is classified.
But there's still no doubt that if in this scenario I have unlawfully, unlawfully transmitted classified information, even though there were no markings in the email that that I sent my brother.
And that's what's happened here.
And I think that may be the best way to explain this to people who are having trouble getting their arms around and understanding why it's such a big deal.
I don't understand.
Well, so so what?
Well, it's just like what you do when you send gossip around about because if this isn't gossip, and she's Secretary of State, she's sending around government secrets to mention, and these are foreign leaders who knows how she's using this stuff to solicit donations to the Clinton Foundation.
She's taking American classified information and trafficking in it for her benefit, one way or the other.
That's essentially when you boil this all down, what this is about.
Back into second.
Back to the phones we go, San Antonio.
This is David.
Great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, thanks for having me on, Russ.
I want to say I'm a big fan.
Uh you're my daily dose of sanity and uh insane world.
I'm a 34-year-old millennial, I guess.
Um about to finish my master's degree in sociology, and uh I call myself a true libertarian, but I don't feel like anybody out there, whether in the university or political world really represents me or even wants me.
Um, and especially not Gary Johnson.
I don't know where he gets off calling himself a libertarian.
To me, he's like a Green Party reject uh liberal that's also an opportunist, like liberals.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm glad that you said that.
He's exactly right about that.
Yeah, I mean, he just thinks, okay, there's an opportunity, I'll run as a Republican.
Nobody's re representing the libertarians, I'll run libertarian.
But in actuality, he's just okay, free marrow or legalized marijuana, but a libertarian is for small government, and that's not Gary Johnson.
Um, the federal government, to me, uh has two jobs foreign policy and and uh national defense.
And that's it.
Everything else should be left to the states.
Which is essentially keeping Americans safe.
And well, and defending the Constitution, don't forget that.
Oh, yeah, and defend yeah, but that's to me that that's national defense.
So, and I mean income tax, no, That should only be levied in time of war.
This is that is not what Gary Johnson is, and he doesn't represent me.
He doesn't represent people that think like me.
Well, I just Gary Johnson, all these people are in there as spoilers.
I mean, they're not really there to advance whatever you would call the libertarian view, worldview or ideology or what have you.
They're just in there as spoilers.
And that's why they're treated with such curiosity, respect and acclaim and so forth, because third parties are generally known to harm the Republican candidates.
Presidential quests.
So that's why he's getting acclaim.
It's not that the media loves libertarians, and it's not the media.
Oh, wow, it's really look at this great libertarians.
Not that.
Oh, wow, look at this guy that can hurt Trump.
Okay, we got to build this guy up.
And that's why you're very shrewd not to fall.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, let me mention one more thing about all of this email stuff with Hillary, because folks, it has been going on for so long, and there are so many different terms being used and allegations flying, that I think it's it's long ago gone way beyond the ability for most people in a casual way to understand it.
And the casual presentation is what's necessary.
This is not hard to understand.
It is being purposefully complicated or muddied purposely by the Clinton camp and and uh and her advocates to make it appear like it's so in the weeds that it's not even worth the time to understand it, because even if you did, there's nothing to see here.
And it's just the opposite.
This is a profound irresponsibility that she engaged in.
This is it is activity and behavior that put the country at risk.
It was arrogant behavior, it was behavior that she thought she was above and not accountable for.
As the retired naval lieutenant said to her in his question at the forum last night in New York City.
So the simplest way to understand what this is is don't get caught up in believing that Hillary Clinton saw a document that said classified top secret eyes only and was sending it all over the place.
That it happened, but not nearly enough to warrant all this.
Instead, what she was doing, it all boils down to having this private server to be able to act in ways that nobody could learn.
She wanted to be able to shield everything she was doing from public eyes.
Freedom of information act requests, because what she was doing and the way she was using this private server would not stand the light of scrutiny.
She was trading on her high government position and selling access to her using her government position, using these private servers and email accounts to do it.
She was selling access to herself while Secretary of State.
That's what pay for play means.
She was also raising money for the Clinton Foundation, which is really just a scheme to enrich the Clintons and all of the family and friends who work there and thus get paid by it.
All the travel and entertainment expenses, I mean the charitable donations they never talk about from the Clinton Foundation, because there aren't very many.
When you talk about something like the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, you donate a dollar, 99 cents gets donated.
If you don't donate a dollar to the Clinton Foundation, nowhere near 99 cents gets donated.
It's something like 30 cents does, if that She was using her position as Secretary of State, a cabinet-level position for personal enrichment, and selling government access, in addition to selling access to her future presidency.
That's why hundreds of millions, tens of millions of dollars, have been donated to the Clintons, because the people giving the money figure she's going to be president someday, and they are getting dibs on policy on the cum.
That's why she can't drop out.
She has to try to win this.
What are they going to do with that money if she loses?
It's it's it's thus been wasted.
So it's it stinks.
It is ethic violation after ethical violation after ethical violation.
It is it's the kind of it's an impeachable offense if she's still in office.
And maybe an impeachable offense even now.
It's that serious.
But it's important to understand exactly what she was doing.
It was not just this two things to make it real simple here.
She was not receiving actual documents.
Well, she was receiving them.
Classified eyes only, top secret, whatever was stamped on them, whatever the email markings were.
She was not actually sending those documents out routinely and regularly a couple times, but what she was doing was trafficking the information.
This was how she was soliciting.
She would receive classified information.
That's eyes only, ears only.
It's really tight.
Not everybody knows it.
It's therefore worth a lot to a whole lot of people who are willing to pay for it.
So how does she sell it?
Well, the way she sells it, she accepts a donation, she accepts a stipend or whatever to her foundation or to her presidential campaign.
In exchange, she takes the classified information that she's learned, either from a briefing or from a series of documents, and just passes it on.
But she doesn't tell anybody in an email.
She'll send an email from her private server.
And my example.
She goes to a briefing.
She's been told we're going to invade Aleppo tomorrow.
Gary Johnson's a commanding general.
Okay, that's private, super secret, worthwhile information, both to people in Aleppo and at ISIS and wherever in the Middle East.
So she's got clients, she's got donors, she's got whatever in the Middle East who would love to know that.
She gets the information of classified briefing, composes an email, like you and I would compose an email.
Sends an email back to one of her donors or to whoever else and says, wouldn't it be funny if tomorrow there's an invasion of Aleppo by Captain Gary Johnson or whatever?
And she doesn't write that she's trafficking in classified information.
She just is acting like she is super powerful and in the know and is kind of whispered.
Guess what I just learned?
She's trafficking in classified information.
She's trafficking in top secret stuff, not the actual documents.
She's learning it.
And because she's been willing to take donations on the basis of sharing it, people pay for it.
It really isn't complicated.
And this is what's been going on.
That's that's why so many people are paying so much attention, is because it's atrocious.
And for the FBI to say that we couldn't find any intent.
The private server is the intent.
The effort to hide what she's doing is the intent.
But I know what that was about.
The FBI director did not want to be the guy in all of American history known for taking action that eliminated the Democrat Party's presidential nominee in the year 2016, and that it was Hillary Clinton as an added problem.
I don't want to be the guy.
So he goes, he has his press conference, and he details everything she did and leaves it up to the voters as the jury to try the case with the election being the trial.
Rather than recommend she be indicted.
She wasn't going to be indicted anyway, no matter what Comey did because the DOJ and uh Loretta Lynch were never going to indict her anyway.
They're going to send a Democrat gallows over this.
This is how they traffic.
Now, one other thing, just to bring this home.
Because you're going to hear her say, or you may remember her saying, I've I've never trafficked and classified it for I don't know.
I took it very seriously.
I would not know who me.
Why I love America?
Why no, I wouldn't do that.
Okay, we need to find an easy way to expose her as lying on that.
And the way to do it is this.
Any official, Secretary of State, Under Secretary of State, third tertiary undersecretary for public affairs at state.
Anybody, any public official who has a security clearance, but especially a high-ranking official like Hillary.
Secretary of State has the authority to designate anything as classified.
It's not that she's just a recipient.
Anything she's dealing with, with the security clearance that she had, she could designate anything as classified.
Okay.
Well, then you might ask, well, what gets classified and what doesn't?
Well, she is expected to know that.
There are certain categories of information that are basically presumed to be classified.
These are, and you and I would know what they are.
They're national secrets.
Anything that's a national secret.
Anything that if somebody knew it would put somebody or something or the country at risk.
And when you're Secretary of State, pretty much anything should be classified.
There are things you are not supposed to talk about.
There are things you are not supposed to transmit.
And particularly on a non-secure system, which hers was.
Everything she was doing was on an unsecure personal system.
She had to know that if her emails referred to any of these categories of classification, whether they were marked or not, they were classified.
She had to know.
She's the smartest woman in the world.
She's more qualified to be president than anybody who's ever been president, said Obama.
She's more qualified than him.
She's more qualified than Bill.
George Washington, FDR.
She's been the smartest woman in the world for 30 years.
So don't, you know, she plays this ignorance card or this victim card, a sympathy card.
I didn't know.
Nobody told me.
I didn't know.
I mean.
Obama even issued an executive order outlining these categories.
And I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine stainfingers.
The relevant section.
It is section 1.4, classification categories.
And it's exactly what anybody with any measure common sense would think.
Let me briefly read it to you.
Information shall not be considered for classification unless it's unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause identifiable or describable damage to the national security in accordance with section 1.2.
It pertains to one or more of the following.
Are you ready?
Here are the categories.
Military plans, weapons systems, or operations, foreign government information, intelligence activities, including covert, like what the spies are doing, intelligence sources or methods, cryptology, anything that is encrypted.
Foreign relations, scientific, technological, or economic matters relating to national security.
It's all common sense stuff.
And Obama issued an executive order defining the categories.
She's out there claiming Ignorance or unawareness or whatever.
She's saying, I didn't know that C. I I I thought that was uh I thought that was for paragraph C. Well, there weren't any markings.
It didn't say classified anywhere on.
Well, that's that's because it's not necessary.
Anybody at her level of government would understand for the most part it all is.
And she was trafficking in it anyway.
The scope of the lying here is broader than anything she has ever lied about in the you add Benghazi to this.
The lie about the video and the lie about what caused it and the lie about everything.
I mean it's it it's it's almost incalculable.
The scope and the potential danger and and the ramifications of the lying this woman routinely engages in.
But particularly in these areas of national security, it's just astounding.
And all of this is getting lost as it gets complicated and tied up in exclusive language that diplomats use and security officials use.
And if you finally say, I'm tired of it, I don't want to hear anymore, leave me alone.
I don't want to it's not that hard to understand.
Here I take a break.
I hope this is back in just a second.
Back to the phones, Williamstown, Kentucky.
This is Roger.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor, and uh I just want to make an observation that's been guided by your theorem about how the President Obama has always stayed away from the fray and not taken any never taking the political hits when he should.
If I take you back to before when this all started when President Clinton uh met with Loretta Lynch, we were all wondering if Loretta Lynch was going to indict.
And then there shortly after, the FBI director had a press conference where all of a sudden the the blame shifted to him for no indictment.
And I think that the narrative that most of the people use to defend Hillary is that the FBI, using their great credibility, uh chose not to indict when the reality is it's the it's it's Loretta Lynch and it's it's President Obama who have not pursued this.
And if it would have been uh Loretta Lynch standing up saying we're not going to indict or we're not going to, you know, we're not going to pursue this, I think the American people would have seen the absolute corruption that actually is.
Yeah, you are very shrewd because what you have highlighted here is another irregularity.
In the normal ebb and flow of the FBI working with the Justice Department on the investigation of potential criminal activity, we never get what Comey did.
The FBI's recommendations and presentation of whatever evidence is had it has happens privately.
And if they recommend prosecution or not, we never know.
The DOJ announces they're going to prosecute something, or if we don't even know what's going on, they never we just never know about it.
But but rarely does the FBI director go public and say, I'm recommending no prosecution, we couldn't find any of this.
So rarely does this happen.
And what you are shrewdly observing is in the process, the FBI, the director takes the hit.
He takes all of it off of Lynch, all of it off Obama, all of it off the DOJ, and gives all these Hillary acolytes a free reign to say, hey, look, the FBI, and as you say, they're highly respectful.
The FBI said nothing there.
Nothing there.
Now you're exactly exactly right.
Yes.
And uh obviously I don't think uh the President Obama was going to risk his legacy with this.
I think they solved this.
They completely changed very shrewd of them, uh, Rush, because uh it allows him to get out there and speak with Credibility if he wants to campaign for him.
But if the narrative in the media really was honest, and they placed responsibility on her.
It's something that's that's not said about this is exactly right.
By Comey doing what he did, it takes the heat off everybody, focuses all on him, where the FBI has unassailable credibility.
Anyway, I I wish I could continue, but I can't because I don't have any more time.
Folks, I don't know about you.
I I'm getting a little tired, if I could express this correctly.
Of news being made on Twitter.
If you know what I mean, maybe you don't know what I mean.
I'll try to explain what I mean when we get back.
I don't know.
I'm gonna try.
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