Rush: Another New York Times Story to Keep the Russia Lie Alive

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Another New York Times Story to Keep the Russia Lie Alive

Jun 18, 2019




RUSH: Now, there’s another story here that I had in yesterday’s Stack and didn’t get to it. The New York Times… This was what was supposed to be the big bombshell news story over the weekend. There has to be a “big bombshell story” at least once a week, and it has to be about Trump. The New York Times had the story that the United States was attacking the power grid of Russia and that we were escalating these cyber-attacks on the power grid in Russia, and the story went on to say that Trump didn’t know about it.

That the intelligence people kept it from Trump because they didn’t think he would approve of it because of his close ties to Putin, and they thought that Trump couldn’t keep the secret and may stop them. This led James Clapper to go on TV (impression), “Well, I — I do believe the intelligence community is hiding a lot from this president, uh, for the express purposes of making sure he doesn’t sabotage what the intelligence community deems necessary for the security of our country.” He’s actually out there saying this stuff: “Oh, I think intelligence community is doing much that they don’t tell the president about, just like this.”

The New York Times: “The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s 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’s not a single source named in this story.

“In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s 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.”

Escalate…? (laughing) What do the Drive-By Media think they’ve 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’s the Drive-By Media and this incessant, nonsensical pursuit of so-called Trump-Russia collusion! It’s 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.

Now the intelligence community — because Trump won’t do it — is getting tough, ratcheting up cyber-attacks on the Russian power grid. But they’re not telling Trump about it, because they’re 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.

“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’ 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!

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’t know about it because we can’t trust him with the knowledge. I mean, I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the essence of the story.

Well, here it is. “Two administration officials said they believed Mr. Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the steps to place ‘implants’ –” i.e., hacking “– software code that can be used for surveillance or attack — 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 — and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials.”

This is all a setup! I don’t 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’ve got to pay ’em back and get even, but Trump won’t. This is nothing more than a flailing attempt to keep what Mueller buried alive.

It’s designed to get little Adam Schiff and these other Democrats to add this to their impeachment inquiry. “My God, how bad can it be if the intelligence community can’t even trust our own president with their actions.” 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’s wishes, there’s a word for this that’s 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’s not true. He knows it’s made up. There isn’t a single source.

He’s demanding the New York Times give any kind of proof or evidence of this. They don’t have to. The Drive-By Media and the rest of ’em run with the story, made a big deal out of it. ‘Cause it’s made to order, everything about it. “We’re getting tough with the Russians but Trump doesn’t know, Trump can’t know, Trump wouldn’t authorize it, Trump’s too close to Putin so we gotta keep it from Trump. Besides that, we can’t trust Trump not to tell the Russians that we’re doing it!”

The offshoot of that, “Well, you remember the day after Trump fired Comey he had the Russian foreign investor in there and he’s bragging about firing Comey, what a nutcase Comey was, things are gonna be better now that I fired –” The establishment could not believe that Trump was bragging to the Russians about firing Comey!

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’s the Drive-By Media totally in bed with these nameless, faceless intel people who, up to now they’ve 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’re all in bed with current and former government and intelligence officials.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, this New York Times story, whether it’s true or not, if it’s true, then what’s going on is treason. What’s going on is a miniature coup, in a sense. When you’ve got the intelligence community running foreign policy, not telling the president precisely because you don’t 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’s just part of an ongoing effort to remove an elected president from office by making him look like the smart people in Washington can’t trust him. He poses an existential threat.

But, however you slice this story, if it’s 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’t true, if it’s made up, then it’s 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.

Where we starting on the phones? Indianapolis. Carl, it’s great to have with us on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.

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, “Hey, you don’t have to be coming in here every 30 seconds to respond to these cyberattacks, go and do it,” otherwise they’d just be asking his permission all the time. And it was his idea. He didn’t want to sit on his hands like Obama did and do nothing and now they’re turning it around to attack him and make it seem like he’s the collusion narrative.

RUSH: Wait a minute. I lost you when you’re talking about didn’t want to talk to him every 30 seconds. What are you talking about? Start again with your point and go a little slower so —

CALLER: These cyberattacks are so frequent and just day and night. And before Trump —

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait wit. Whose cyberattacks on who?

CALLER: Anyone, whether it be a rogue group —

RUSH: Meaning we’re constantly cyberattacking them and they’re constantly cyberattacking us?

CALLER: They’re cyberattacking us. And that’s the way it was under Obama, we were getting attacked constantly. And Trump said, “No more. We’re gonna respond and take an offensive measure. And when we get attacked, you don’t need to come to me to respond. Just do it.”

RUSH: Oh. When did you hear that?

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.

RUSH: Oh, so they’re using this to just go ahead and ratchet up these attacks and not tell Trump about it?

CALLER: Well, Trump didn’t 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 —

RUSH: I’m confused what your point is. You’re saying the story is right or the story is wrong? What is your point?

CALLER: The story is spun to make it look like they’re sneaking around behind his back when Trump gave them authorization to not tell him. He told them you don’t have to (crosstalk) just respond.

RUSH: The story says plain as day that they’re not telling the president for specific reasons. The reasons are not what you’ve cited. They’re not telling Trump because they don’t think he would agree with it — this is what the story says. I’m commenting on the story, not what is actually happening. Those are two different things, as is always the case when talking about the media.

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