The Dan Bongino Show - This Is Just The Beginning of the Spying Scandal (Ep 1250)

Episode Date: May 14, 2020

In this episode I address the disturbing new evidence that emerged showing that the spying scandal on Mike Flynn and the Trump team was more widespread than previously believed.  News Picks: Brenn...an, Clapper & Comey are on the scandalous unmasking list. New jobless claims continue to explode. “Judge” Sullivan goes all-in on tyranny and appoints another judge because he failed. The Supreme Court has already ruled on Amicus Briefs, and it isn’t good for “Judge” Sullivan.  A powerful piece by Andrew McCarthy about the atrocious behavior of the judge in the Mike Flynn.  Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino you know it's hard to rest yesterday after the show it's wednesdays i usually don't work out on wednesdays was kind of taking a little bit of a break was sitting down was actually going to read something outside of politics for a second and boom there it is as if a genie was unleashed out of the bottle we get the list what was the list it was a list of corrupt politicians bureaucrats and some intel officials who had requested the name of mike flynn to be unmasked it popped yesterday and man is it explosive there are nuggets on there here's what i'm going to go through today i'm going to go through what unmasking is why it matters paula requests this
Starting point is 00:00:50 morning how they get a hold of people's phone calls why this is so bad and why hacks in the media sadly all across the media spectrum are gaslighting you again all right welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you today Hey, man, I'm doing good. Y'all ready to roll? I take it. Yeah, yes. You got a lot going. Yes, Joe can obviously sense my eagerness to get this show going because there's a lot of info to put out there.
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Starting point is 00:02:33 All the parts your car will ever need, rockauto.com. No singing today because I got it. But all the parts your car will ever need, rockauto.com. All right, let's go. So the list came out yesterday, the list of hack Obama administration, politicians, law enforcement people, and intelligence folks who demanded the unmasking of Mike Flynn. Now, what does that mean? Paula said to me this morning, can you just explain to people what unmasking is quickly before we get this whole thing started
Starting point is 00:03:00 and why this matters? Folks, in order for a law enforcement officer or some people in the intel community, some, to listen to someone's phone call. In other words, General Mike Flynn, who is a US citizen, forget the Trump National Security Advisor, three-star general thing. Forget that for a moment. He's an American citizen. For a US entity, CIA, the FBI, politicians or whatever, to listen in or even get a transcript of the phone call. Because remember, whether I listen to Joe's call with little Joe or I get a transcript of it, I have the information. It doesn't really matter. I mean, outside of maybe if you're listening, hearing the tone
Starting point is 00:03:39 and some tone changes, the transcript is essentially the same thing. Everybody got that? Pretty simple stuff, right? For me to do that that for me to listen as a law enforcement officer there are only a few ways generally to do it i can get a traditional warrant you know the criminal warrant you know wiretap what we call just speaking you know in regular everyday parlance you'd say hey we're gonna get a wiretap to get a wiretap to spy on someone's phone calls, listen and get a transcript or listen live time, I have to go to a judge. I have to show this is important for a criminal one. All other measures have been exhausted.
Starting point is 00:04:12 This is important. You can't just walk in front of a judge in a criminal case and demand a wiretap. You have to show in a Title III wiretap, you have to show that you've exhausted all investigative avenues first because we're a country that tries've exhausted all investigative avenues first, because we're a country that tries, we used to before Obama, to protect civil liberties. We don't do that anymore. That's gone. Forget that. I'm really sorry. Obama destroyed all that and the media's all in on it. So you'll have to show you tried surveillance, you tried pen registers, you tried muds and luds subpoenas, you tried everything, confidential sources, whatever it may be, be and you're not getting what you need so now you need a wiretap everybody
Starting point is 00:04:48 clear so that's a traditional criminal warrant probably what you've seen a lot of detective shows and things you've watched on uh on on chat on tv a lot of the fiction non-fiction stuff get it there's another way you could go in front of a fisa court where you don't have to show all of those investigative means, a foreign intelligence surveillance court, which is still, they're US judges, but it's a different court. It's non-adversarial, meaning it's secret, meaning your lawyers can't go in there and demand information if you're the subject of it. You're out of luck. SOL, out of luck. You get what the S stands for, okay? Now, to go to a FISA court, you have to show, outside of the criminal, forget the criminal,
Starting point is 00:05:28 that's a different one. In the FISA court, you have to show that the person you're trying to spy on, the U.S. citizen, is an agent of a foreign power working on behalf of a foreign power, one. And two, in violation of U.S. law. It's not illegal to work on behalf of a foreign power. Lobbyists do it all the time. It is to do it in violation of U.S. law. It's not illegal to work on behalf of a foreign power. Lobbyists do it all the time. It is to do it in violation of U.S. law. Everybody get that?
Starting point is 00:05:49 The third way, which is what we're going to talk about now, is to reverse target someone, which you are not supposed to do is against the law. That's what happened to Mike Flynn. What does that mean? All three involve listening in on a phone call and getting a transcript. That doesn't change. Is everybody clear on that? That doesn't change at all. Whether it's FISA, a criminal warrant, or an unmasking request based on reverse targeting, you're getting a transcript or a call, or you're listening live time. Now, in an unmasking request, what would happen is our intelligence entities and some in law enforcement can listen in on the conversations of foreign powers. They don't need a warrant.
Starting point is 00:06:31 They don't have these foreign powers, don't have constitutional protections. Russians and Russia, we can listen in on all we want. They have no constitutional protections whatsoever. They're not U.S. citizens. They're not on U.S. soil. Tracking? They're not U.S. citizens. They're not on U.S. soil.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Tracking? The problem is if those foreign entities on U.S. soil we're listening to start talking to U.S. citizens who do have constitutional protections, we are supposed to mask the name, hide it, redact it. In other words, leave it as Nikolai Volkov in Russia is talking to U.S. citizen one. No name. Certain government entities in the interests of national security are allowed to request for a limited time to understand those conversations, that those names be unmasked, the U.S. Citizen One label lifted off, and the actual name put in there. The U.S. citizen one label lifted off and the actual name put in there. That's what they did to a three-star general. Or did they?
Starting point is 00:07:36 You understand, I just described to you three ways. A criminal warrant, a FISA warrant, or a reverse targeting operation. In other words, you pretend you're listening in on the foreigner, but you really know you're listening in on the foreigner, but you really know you're listening in on a U.S. citizen, and you're just pretending to listen in on the foreigner. No, no, I don't know how. It's incidental. It's routine. We just caught this guy in our net. Meanwhile, he was the target the whole time. Reverse targeting, it's called, because you pretend you're targeting the foreigner, but you're really not. You're targeting the U.S. citizen one on the other side of the phone,
Starting point is 00:08:06 and then you unmask them later. Joe, as audience referee, does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. We have these three buckets, criminal, FISA, and unmasking. The question about Mike Flynn, which everybody's enjoying, especially the grotesque, disgusting media, saying, this is all routine. Morons.
Starting point is 00:08:26 More IQs in the single digits. The multi-million dollar question nobody's asking outside of this show and a few others out there are, well, was Mike Flynn really unmasked? Keep that in mind. Let's get to this. Let's go to who did the unmasking first now for me as a law enforcement or fbi official or a politician or a bureaucrat you know obama's a politician in fact he's the president united states he's still a politician and others for me to unmask someone's name i have to make a request and it leaves a paper trail and that's created
Starting point is 00:09:05 a big problem because you got to put your John Hancock on there. So Rick Grinnell declassified the list of people who after the election of Donald Trump, but before he takes office, that critical November to January period, 2016, 2017, Rick Grinnell, our terrific acting director of national intelligence, has now put out the list of the people sorry just trying to follow this the news is breaking by the minute a list of the people what are you laughing at i put out a list of the people who requested the declassification
Starting point is 00:09:40 uh of the unmasking of mike flynn Let's go to the list because there are some really fascinating names. It's going to be in three screenshots. Big hat tip to Catherine Herridge who broke this yesterday. These are screenshots of the documents. So page number one on the list. Keep in mind, these are people we already,
Starting point is 00:09:57 nobody's disputing these names are on the list. Page number one, we got, wow, Samantha Power. Samantha Power. Now, last time i checked samantha power was the ambassador to the united nations what the hell is samantha power's name doing on this samantha power is not a law enforcement or intelligence official she's a diplomat why is she submitting multiple requests to unmask mike Mike Flynn's name and essentially read or listen to his phone calls. James Clapper, the DNI's on there.
Starting point is 00:10:29 John Brennan. Wow. Not surprised by that. A whole bunch of other names, too. Treasury individuals, people from the Treasury. What the heck? What are they doing on there? Let's go to page two.
Starting point is 00:10:41 Gets even better. Oh, there are a whole boatload of people took an interest in Mike Flynn. Here's the deuce. Got other names on there. Adam Snublin there, Robert Bell. We have all this NATO folks in there. We have more chief of mission to NATO. The deputy secretary of energy?
Starting point is 00:11:02 The deputy secretary? Elizabeth Sherwood. What the hell is the deputy secretary of energy interested deputy say elizabeth sherwood what the hell is the deputy secretary of energy interested in in wiretapping basically a call from mike flynn getting his name unmasked what do they have to do with it but this was it here's the real mccoy let's go to page three some of you probably heard about this yesterday look at this list there are two absolute gems on this one. Oh, Dennis McDonough, Barack Obama's chief of staff. Nothing to do with intelligence or law enforcement whatsoever. The chief of staff to Obama, Dennis McDonough. Key date on that, by the way. And also at the bottom, there it is, ladies and gentlemen, the bombshell of all bombshells, Joseph Biden right there at the bottom on January 12th. Now, now that we have the list of the deep state snakes who listened in or viewed the transcripts of Mike Flynn's phone call, potentially in violation of U.S. law if they were doing it
Starting point is 00:12:01 outside of national security reasons, which is crystal clear they were. How do I know that? Because what you won't hear on a lot of cable news channels amongst really stupid talking heads who don't know any better is the FBI on January 4th had already in their case closing document was trying to close the case against Mike Flynn because they had, quote, no derogatory information and no other investigative methods were warranted. Their words, not mine. So why was Joe Biden on January 12th, after the FBI tried to close the case against Flynn on January 4th,
Starting point is 00:12:35 what legitimate investigative purpose would Joe Biden have if the FBI didn't have one? Simple question. Please chew on that one for a moment. Does anyone have an answer so just to be clear january 4th 2016 the fbi is trying to close the case they don't close it quote their quote not mine because of their own incompetence i'm not kidding the fbi administratively screwed up and failed to close it. That's the only reason the case against Flynn is not closed. That's their records, not mine. They screwed up administratively because Peter Stroke's a moron.
Starting point is 00:13:14 He says in his own communications, gosh, thanks to our own incompetence, the thing is still open. They've uncovered at this point nothing on Flynn. They have an exact quote, no derogatory information on Flynn, and no further investigative techniques are warranted. So what is Joe Biden doing seven days later on requesting the name of Mike Flynn and requesting to look at transcripts of his calls?
Starting point is 00:13:39 Of course, nobody in the media will question this because they're Soviets. These are Pravda-like Soviets. You understand that. They're all in on tyranny now, all in. A total joke and embarrassment that disgraced the humankind. So the key takeaways from this, especially about Biden, what I just said, who seven days after the FBI closes a case with no information whatsoever
Starting point is 00:14:03 indicating an investigation against Flynn is warranted. Biden seems to think so. Now, the media's talking point of this is, well, it was maybe Biden's office, maybe not Joe Biden direct. So let me get this straight. Let me get this straight. Your defense here, just to be clear is biden is so incompetent that his office spies on innocent american citizens for no good law enforcement reason whatsoever according to the fbi and biden's so incompetent he doesn't even know what's happening in his name it's his name on there that's your defense and you want this guy to be president you want this guy to be president whose You want this guy to be president whose office,
Starting point is 00:14:47 even if it wasn't, which I don't believe, of course Biden knew, but your defense is, no, no, Biden didn't know. He's so stupid. His office spies on people without him knowing. That's great. That's great. We should definitely make this guy president.
Starting point is 00:15:02 What numbnuts you people are if you believe this? Are you serious that's your defense well it may have just been his office here's a tweet from the washington examiner here's why biden's in a little bit of trouble despite again the pravda media's desperate efforts to cover up for this absolute buffoon tweet washington examiner here's a quote by Biden. A quote. That means quotation marks for the lips.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Meaning Biden said this. I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn. I was aware that there was, that they had asked for an investigation. So all Biden, Biden saying he knows, quote, nothing about those moves to investigate Mike Flynn. Let's go to the second tweet by the Washington examiner. Why Joe Biden's in just a little bit of trouble here. If you're a sane person, same meaning you're not in the media. So here's another one by the Washington examiner,
Starting point is 00:15:55 Joey B breaking Joe Biden and other officials in the Obama administration received unmasking information on general Flynn. So ladies and gentlemen, we now know either Joe Biden is so delirious out of it and has no cognitive abilities whatsoever to control his own office from spying on innocent American citizens, or Joe Biden is involved
Starting point is 00:16:17 in the most profound spying scandal in US history. Now, again, how do we know that? Because I have to sadly correct a lot of mass misinformation that's being put out there by talking heads who are so ignorant or so malicious they're to be ignored immediately.
Starting point is 00:16:37 Either Biden's too dumb and his office is spying on people without his knowledge or Biden's in on it. Right. Or, Joe, there's option three, which I've heard the gaslighting is profound today because they know Obama and Biden were the most corrupt administration in American history. And they are desperately, desperately spinning now.
Starting point is 00:17:00 What I've heard today is this is routine. Even Trump makes a lot of unmasking requests. He made like 15,000. That has nothing to do with any of this. You may say, Dan, this is all about unmasking. It's not about unmasking. Unmasking stinks. It shouldn't be happening.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Get a warrant, period, full stop. Having said that, it is legal. It shouldn't be, but it is. Nobody's arguing it's illegal to unmask a name, to get a transcript and ask to see the name of who the foreigner's talking to. Clear? Period, full stop. Suggesting it's legal and routine does not mean this was done in the interest of national security. How do we know that? Because the FBI had already tried to close the case saying this guy was not a national security threat. Do you understand the difference?
Starting point is 00:17:52 Or are you so dopey, if you're a liberal, that you're unwilling to accept the truth? The FBI had already said there was no national security interest in Flint and had tried to close the case and failed to do so because Stroke is an administrative idiot. There was no national security interest in Flynn and had tried to close the case and failed to do so because Stroke is an administrative idiot. There was nothing. There is no reason for any of these people to have unmasked Mike Flynn. None.
Starting point is 00:18:17 And then his name and the conversation is illegally leaked to David Ignatius and some believe Adam Antios, two reporters, which is a felony. Do you see the distraction? Unmasking is routine. That's correct. It shouldn't be, but they're not lying to you. That's not the point. Criminal investigations into burglary are routine too. Sadly, burglaries happen all over the United States. Yet if I go set up and frame Joe Armacost and put burglars tools in his house and get his fingerprints on them and Joe didn't commit a burglary, the defense to me framing him isn't don't worry. Burglary investigations happen all the time.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Do you get it? Joe, does that make sense? I mean, sometimes we need analogies because Democrats and media people, their gaslighting is so obvious that if you're a plain thinker,
Starting point is 00:19:12 you'll see right through it. The minute your liberal friends say, this is routine, it happens every day, Trump's do it, period, full stop. You are absolutely correct. Do you have any evidence that this particular unmasking and spying on a
Starting point is 00:19:25 Flynn was done with a legitimate national security purpose? And what is that evidence? He was talking to the Russians. The FBI had already investigated that and already determined before Joe Biden's request that there was no information. Do you have anything else? No, I have nothing. Of course you don't. You're a liberal. You never have anything. you know it you're a liberal you never have anything now outside of biden this gets worse can we go back to page three of the unmasking request please because who else is on there oh dennis mcdonough barack obama's chief of staff what the hell is dennis mcdonough chief of staff an appointed deep state bureaucrat what is he doing requesting and unmasking what is he doing he is the chief of staff to the president he doing requesting an unmasking? What is he doing? He is the chief
Starting point is 00:20:07 of staff to the president. He's not an intelligence official. He's not a law enforcement official. He has no intelligence authority or law enforcement authority whatsoever. He is a glorified scheduler for Barack Obama. What the hell is he doing requesting the unmasking of Mike Flynn on January 5th? Oh, what else happened on January 5th? By the way, I didn't miss the January 12th thing with Biden either. I'm just trying to get to a lot. I'll tell you why in a moment that Biden is involved in January 12th.
Starting point is 00:20:36 But for now, what else happens on January 5th? The infamous meeting in Obama's White House Oval Office with Jim Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, Joe Biden, and others, where Obama tells Sally Yates about Mike Flynn's call. How did Obama know? And Comey suggests the Logan Act thing. In other words, the setup is hatched on January 5th, the exact same day Obama's chief of staff, this insider deep state hack, is requesting Flynn's name be unmasked. Oh, the takeaways here, ladies and gentlemen. Now, we're assuming in my intro to the show, assuming that Mike Flynn was unmasked, the government saying they have a transcript of the phone call. We're being told by the media, no, it's because they were listening to this Russian.
Starting point is 00:21:31 There was a name on it that was suspicious. We pulled the label off the name. We saw Flynn's name, and that's how we got the phone call. Was Flynn really unmasked? Oh, this is going to get good in a minute. I'm going to make the case for you now that there's a strong possibility Flynn was not unmasked. That something else happened.
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Starting point is 00:23:01 free shipping. Limited time only, get double your order double your order free right now go to jennysell.com that's jennysell.com use my code dan30 at checkout okay thanks jennysell so as i said folks we're assuming this whole time that mike flynn's name was unmasked as part of just routine incidental collection of foreigners talking to people in the United States of which Mike Flynn happened to be one well Mike Flynn is actually in the Dominican Republic but he's a U.S. citizen so his constitutional protections are valid no matter where he is everybody tracking we've been told that now I told you, even if that is the story and try to follow because this show
Starting point is 00:23:45 is going to be a primer on it all, even assuming that that's how they got a hold of Mike Flynn's conversation with the Russian ambassador Kislyak in December of 2016, which they're alleging he lied about. Even assuming that's true, I've already told you it's not for any valid national security reason. The unmasking, the pulling off of the label on his name. Because the FBI had already determined there was no legitimate investigative techniques warranted going forward. It's their writing, not mine. They'd already determined that the day before the Obama meeting, January 5th in the Oval Office. They found no derogatory information on Flynn. There is no reason to be spying on Flynn, even if that's true. But let's say for a moment that
Starting point is 00:24:30 it wasn't unmasking. Well, what makes you think that, Dan? What makes you think Flynn wasn't unmasked? Maybe they're hiding a more nefarious problem, let's say, where someone may have sworn something out in court that wasn't true. See, hiding behind unmasking, they could just say, oh, well, you know, we thought national security, my bad. But if you actually went in front of a judge and swore out a warrant to spy on Mike Flynn, or, or, oh, this is where it gets juicy. Get ready. Juicy fruit here. It's coming, oh, this is where it gets juicy. Get ready. Juicy fruit here.
Starting point is 00:25:04 It's coming, babe. Check this out. What if Mike Flynn's call was being spied on by foreign governments that then sent the call transcript or recording of it back to the United States through a back channel, creating kind of a rogue intelligence operation? Wouldn't that be crazy?
Starting point is 00:25:28 I thought we were unmasking. Oh, now you're telling me the obama administration intel officials may have been working with foreign governments i thought that was called collusion to record and spy on u.s citizens in violation of u.s law and then created a rogue back channel to get that communication to the united states that would be nuts wouldn't it to get that communication to the United States, that would be nuts, wouldn't it? Dan, there's no evidence of that. You're a conspiracy theorist. Okay, let's produce some evidence because the liberal media won't do any of this for you.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Let's go to this screen cap number one. This is, by the way, I have to give out massive hat tips. Walk of Fire, Rosie Memos, Techno Fog, Undercover Huber. A lot of these screen caps are from Twitter accounts I follow, You Should Too, that are really, really good and dig into the details. And their screen caps and highlights are terrific. So big hat tip to them all.
Starting point is 00:26:14 I never take information or even screenshots publicly available for people without hat tipping them. But let's go first. Again, what are we talking about here? The potential that maybe Mike Flynn and his call with the Russians wasn't unmasked at all. And there's a more nefarious explanation. Let's go to. Again, what are we talking about here? The potential that maybe Mike Flynn and his call with the Russians wasn't unmasked at all. And there's a more nefarious explanation. Let's go to ScreenCraft 1.
Starting point is 00:26:30 This is a document from the court case against Mike Flynn where Sidney Powell put in a motion. Sidney Powell's Mike Flynn's lawyer saying, hey, listen, if you're going to charge Mike Flynn with lying about his call with the Russians and you're claiming to have the transcript or a recording of the call, can we see that? And here we go, ladies and gentlemen. The government responds by saying, highlight here, the government further represents that it is not relying on any other recordings of any person for purposes of establishing the defendant's guilt or determining his sentence. Nor, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, am I reading this correct?
Starting point is 00:27:08 Paula, Joe, pay attention. Am I reading this correctly? Nor are there any other recordings that are part of the sentencing record? Oh. Yeah. Joe, I'm not crazy. You read that? You read that? You can see
Starting point is 00:27:23 if you're watching the YouTube, everybody can read ahead. I didn't read that wrong, right? There were no other recordings. So just to be clear, the government is charging, has now dropped the case, but it's charging Mike Flynn with lying about the contents of a December 2016 call with the Russian ambassador, and yet the government has no recordings? Hmm. Why would that be? I mean, I'm kind of curious. I've worked a lot of federal cases as a federal agent. I think that's my competitive advantage in this podcast space. And there's chains of evidence. When you have
Starting point is 00:27:59 recordings, you have originals. Then you have to label recordings from recordings. You have to sign an evidence log when you take it out of the evidence vault. The assistant United States attorney, if they take custody, has to sign it and date it to make sure the recordings aren't manipulated. You're charging him with lying about a recorded call you've never actually produced a copy of, claiming you don't even have it, or you're not making it part of the cake that's really interesting isn't it i thought the call was unmasked and it's routine joe they said that right it's routine this is the liberal talking point absolutely so if it's routine then why not just do the routine and go get the
Starting point is 00:28:37 call oh you don't have it as me scratching the remnants of my facial hair there. What are you looking at over there? I see you out of the corner of my eye. What's going on? Give me a look. Oh, let's produce more. This is getting fun, isn't it? Mike Flynn was unmasked.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Was he really? Can't seem to produce that recording. Strange. Let's go to Andy McCabe's testimony. Again, mega hat tips to everyone out there if rosie memos walk for climate audit stephen mcintyre another one i'd like to celebrate good people who do actual investigating unlike the multi-billion dollar mainstream media who can't seem to find any of this stuff joe here is a screenshot of andrew mccabe's testimony
Starting point is 00:29:20 when he was asked specifically about this intelligence product this transcript this recording that you know recording of the phone call mike flynn allegedly lied about i mean we're only threatening to send them to jail because he didn't say what was in this recording what recording the recording we don't have come on that one huh so they asked mccabe about this and mccabe's under oath here and they ask say, well, there was never any intelligence product. So no transcript or summary of Flint's conversation with Kislyak that were ever masked. And therefore there were no unmasking requests that could have been made for these non-existent reports.
Starting point is 00:29:58 McCabe responds, I think your description is accurate. Well, it's probably a misnomer to refer to it as a product. It wasn't an intelligence product as we use that term. Jeez. Can you put that up again for a minute? McCabe's under oath. They're asking him, where is this transcript and the unmasking requests? They're saying, listen, if it was ever masked, therefore there were no unmasking requests that could have been made because these reports don't exist. And Andrew McCabe, I think your description is accurate. I'm out of here.
Starting point is 00:30:33 Show's over. Thank you. What? The government has no recordings. McCabe says no such intelligent products exist. And when asked about the fact that how can there be unmasking requests on the intelligence product nobody has, he says, yeah, your description is probably accurate. Wait, I thought he was unmasked
Starting point is 00:30:50 and it's routine. I'm just going by the media. This is CNN. This is an Apple. There are commercials to read, this is CNN. This is a moron. And show CNN. You're not curious about why the government can't produce the recording they say they have and
Starting point is 00:31:11 they're charging flynn with purge excuse me with lying to a federal agent 1001 precision matters we want to be obama but you don't even have the recording and mccabe's like, no such intelligence product exists. Your description's accurate? So if the U.S. law enforcement community, the Department of Justice, and no one in the IC can seem to produce this recording of this call, you have to ask yourself, do they actually have a recording of this call or were they told about it by someone else? Oh, oh, that's the question, ladies and gents, isn't it? You may say, all right, Dan, that's kind of suspicious, but clearly that's not enough. OK, let's produce more. So Bob Mueller, here's from the Mueller report himself, you know, the golden calf on the left, Bob Mueller.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Previously, the FBI had opened an investigation of Flynn based on his relationship with the Russian government. Okay, so now we know, according to the Mueller report, that the FBI actually had an open case on Mike Flynn. So now we say to ourselves again, we know they opened up the case on August 16th of 2016 against Mike Flynn, 2016. So now we know the three buckets, right? How you can spy on an American's phone call, criminal warrant,
Starting point is 00:32:32 Pfizer warrant, or an unmasking request. If they're talking to a foreigner, nobody seems to be able to find these unmasking requests on the date of those actual calls. Paula, can you pull up a page one, two, and three of the unmasking requests on the date of those actual calls. Paula, can you pull up page one, two, and three of the unmasking requests? And ladies and gentlemen,
Starting point is 00:32:51 I want you to pay very close attention here. Very close. Pull up page one first. What's the date of the phone call? The phone call where Flynn is on the phone with the Russian ambassador.
Starting point is 00:33:00 The alleged phone call. Not the alleged, the phone call happened, we know that. But the phone call where Flynn allegedly lied about the contents. What's the date alleged phone call, not the alleged, the phone call happened, we know that, but the phone call where Flynn allegedly lied about the contents. What's the date of the call, folks?
Starting point is 00:33:10 December 29th of 2016. Now, if you're watching on YouTube right now, youtube.com slash Bongino, you'll notice looking at page one of the people who requested this alleged unmasking. Paula, do you see any
Starting point is 00:33:24 on December 29th? December 29th page one uh no no that's weird wait joe wait i thought flynn's phone call on december 29th was unmasked yeah paula i'm not crazy right joey there's absolutely none not on december 28th you can't joe can't see it either so we got we got three sets of eyes. We have six eyeballs looking at this and page one. Clearly it's on page two. Flynn's calls on December 29th. The call was allegedly unmasked.
Starting point is 00:33:54 Let's look down that list again. The 14th, the 15th, the 14th, the 15th, the 14th, the 15th, the 16th, the 16th, the 15th, the 16th. I don't see it. I don't see December 29th. I don't even see December 30th. Matter of fact, I don't see it. I don't see December 29th. I don't even see December 30th. Matter of fact, I don't even see January 1st. I thought, come back to me for a second. We got to go to pastry. I thought we were told
Starting point is 00:34:14 it was unmasked. The call is December DEC 29TH 2016 for the liberals. I know you have a problem with that. I thought it was that the media told us the call was unmasked and that it's routine.
Starting point is 00:34:30 Where's the request? I see a whole lot of December 15th, 16th, and 14th. Now again, for liberals who don't do chronology and calendars and stuff, December 14th, 15th, and 16th is before the December 29th phone call. So how you can put an unmasking
Starting point is 00:34:44 request in for a call that hasn't happened. I haven't figured that out yet, but I'm sure you have in your heads. This makes perfect sense. What about masking? Definitely. It's on page three. That's where we're hiding it. It's all a joke.
Starting point is 00:34:59 I'm just setting you all up for failure, right? I don't see it again. Amazing. setting you all up for failure right i'm look i don't see it again amazing now we have won the day before the call december 28th amazing they unmasked the call that hasn't even happened yet that's that's incredible uh but there again we have nothing matter of fact we don't have a request until january 4th so i'm just just a question i'm just throwing this out there for my brilliant audience. And I'm not kidding. I am not. You guys and ladies send the best emails ever.
Starting point is 00:35:31 That's how I came across the 279. How the hell did they unmask a call on December 29th without an unmasking request and without a recording nobody can seem to find and with an unmasking request that, according to Andy McCabe, doesn't even exist on an intelligence product, he's not even aware of. How did that happen? It didn't. That's the story. There's no unmasking request on Flynn's phone call,
Starting point is 00:36:01 which means either it was a criminal warrant for a crime that never happened. Either it was a FISA warrant possibility. We just saw the Mueller report that FBI had an open case on Flynn counterintelligence case or someone overseas in a massive intelligence black op was feeding the Obama administration wiretap phone calls of American citizens in absolute violation of intelligence rules to back channel it. There is no unmasking request on the 29th. You may say, well, there was one on the 4th. Was that it?
Starting point is 00:36:48 I thought you just told me this guy was such a dramatic threat to national intelligence that they thought he was colluding with the Russians, that they had to unmask his name. So if they knew about the call on December 29, the threat was so bad, they waited five days? They didn't seem to be that concerned about waiting in early december when they're unmasking flynn like mad dogs now he's on the phone with the russians your whole case and you forget joe they took they were on a lunch break it just took five days
Starting point is 00:37:15 they were they were eating slim jims beef jerky and and quarter drinks purple drinks and maybe an onion roll from tommy's deli inale. Remember, that's where I grew up. Onion rolls on Saturday with butter. It was great in a Slim Jim. That was my Saturday. Maybe a Yoo-Hoo if I was lucky. Oh, my gosh. Are people so sad?
Starting point is 00:37:37 Why? Why do we have to live with 20% of the population that's so dumb they can't see the obvious? Flame is unmasked. Where's the unmasking request? Well, it doesn't exist. But there's a recording. Where is it? The DOJ doesn't have it.
Starting point is 00:37:51 I don't know. It's somewhere. Somewhere. How come the FBI doesn't know about it either? Now, you may say to yourself, you will because you're smart. Not the dunces who watch the show, the liberals, of course. They'll say, well, what evidence do you have that maybe foreigners were running a massive black op in coordination with some of the Obama intelligence heads to spy on our people? What evidence do you have of that?
Starting point is 00:38:21 The answer is, all I got to do is tell you about the media's own reporting the media's already reported on it oh oh oh oh this is gonna get good all right last sponsor of the day because i want to roll through this because this is gonna get just plain old juicy fruit maybe the white spearmint remember that what? What was the green one? Do you remember? Peppermint. Peppermint, of course. Come on, screw that up. Wrigley's.
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Starting point is 00:40:42 safely right to your door. Go to omahasteaks.com, omahasteaks.com, enter Bongino in the search bar and unlock massive savings for absolutely delicious food stock up today. Okay. So I think, self-praise thanks, but I think we've made a decent case so far that this wasn't an unmasking request. This is a bigger scandal than that. And that's the next shoe to drop. The only question now is, was Mike Flynn the subject of a FISA warrant to spy on him? Remember what you need for a FISA warrant, acting as an agent of a foreign power and in violation of U.S. law. Here's the problem. If they were spying on Mike Flynn and that's how they got the call?
Starting point is 00:41:29 With a FISA warrant? Was that FISA warrant relying on a dossier too? Oh, oh, wouldn't that be bad? Not only did you spy on Carter Page using a dossier-based FISA warrant that they lied about. This is true. Did you verify it? Absolutely none of it.
Starting point is 00:41:46 Did they use a dossier to spy on Mike Flynn, a three-star general too? Oh, that could be touchy. That could be really bad. So they're only out now is to, of course, claim it was unmasking despite very little evidence that anything was unmasked around Flynn's call. There are no requests. Bizarre, isn't it? Well, what evidence do you have, Dan, that, okay,
Starting point is 00:42:13 it may have been a Pfizer one, but it may have been an Intel one. Let's go to this CNN article. Don't take my word for it. It's CNN. You know, CNN, remember, this is an apple. Remember their dopey ad? CNN, those bastions of truth. It's hilarious. This is their own article. Still up there, by the way. Anyone can, Joe, Paula, anyone can Google this article right now. It's never been retracted. Views this article of, and this is from April of 2017,
Starting point is 00:42:36 by Jim Sciutto, Pam Brown, and Eric Bradner. British intelligence passed Trump associates' communications with Russians on to U.S. counterparts. They did. Let's go to the piece and see what they have to say about that. Aren't there rules about that stuff? Says British and other European intelligence intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump. Was one of those guys Mike Flynn?
Starting point is 00:43:01 Gosh, who knows? And Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign and passed those communications on to their U.S. counterparts. Sources told CNN, here we go. The communications were captured during, quote, routine surveillance of Russian officials and other Russians known to Western intelligence. Wait, so just to be clear now. So there's no official formal intelligence product
Starting point is 00:43:34 from our Five Eyes intelligence partners. New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom. There's the Five Eyes part. There's no official intelligence. The UK. We have an intelligence sharing agreement with those five partners. There is a channel for them to share intelligence. It's a formal channel. As Congressman Devin Nunes, who has actually seen the documents, has stated repeatedly,
Starting point is 00:43:57 there is no formal intelligence coming from any of them. In other words, that channel was never activated. But that's not what that CNN piece says, folks. That's not what it says. That CNN piece, clear as day, says the United Kingdom was passing intelligence as part of this routine channel to the United States, and it was just incidental collection. Well, where is that intelligence? On the formal channel.
Starting point is 00:44:24 Nobody can find it. Was one of those people they were spying on, those foreign partners, Mike Flynn? And if they were, as CNN said, where is it? And the answer is nobody can find it. Was this a black op? Was this a rogue operation being run by the upper echelon of the CIA led by John Brennan to use foreign intelligence to spy on US citizens and run it through a back channel in the United States? Is that how they got the transcript? I'm just asking questions. Questions CNN, you would think, given that they wrote the article, would ask themselves.
Starting point is 00:45:04 Questions like, well, so we know the UK was passing information to the United States. Where's the documents? Oh, we don't have any. Oh, they were? What do you mean? It was like a back channel? Isn't that illegal? Yeah, kind of.
Starting point is 00:45:15 And who exactly are the Trump associates the UK was spying on? We're not allowed to ask that question either, apparently. question either apparently now if they were if they were passing this on to central intelligence agency agency officials led of course by hack grotesque human being john brennan and brennan was running an intelligence black op how else would we know it was a black op well one of the ways we know again is Nunes would have no record of it. We have, folks, there is a Five Eyes intelligence channel. There are records of all the information they pass. That's not in there.
Starting point is 00:45:54 Nobody can find it. CNN can't find it, apparently, either. They're not interested. But what's interesting is among that Five Eyes Intelligence Channel, where if they're spying on Mike Flynn for John Brennan, which is what I'm hinting at here, in case you're not picking up what I'm putting down, and it's not in that formal Five Eyes Intelligence Channel file, then the FBI wouldn't have seen it either
Starting point is 00:46:20 because it's being hidden. It's what black ops do. It's what black ops do. It's what rogue operations do. They try and keep the paper trail to a minimum. Well, then Lisa Page from the FBI's testimony here, which I've used a thousand times, would make a whole lot of sense, wouldn't it? So Lisa Page is asked by Mark Meadows about,
Starting point is 00:46:43 hey, you guys got any information from like basically the CIA on this and this information channel they seem to have? And Page says, well, if Director Brennan got the information from our source, right, the FBI got the information from our source. Well, if the CIA had another source of that information, I am neither aware of that, nor did the CIA provide it to us. Because if they did, because the first time we, and Meadows cuts her off. Meadows says, we do know there are multiple sources. Page says, yeah, I do know that. I do know that the information
Starting point is 00:47:11 found its way to a lot of different places in October of 2016. But if the CIA, as early as August, in fact, had those same reports, I'm not aware of that. And nor do I believe they provided them to us.
Starting point is 00:47:22 And that would be unusual. nor do I believe they provided them to us. And that would be unusual. Seem to be a lot of unusualities about this Flynn-Trump campaign targeting case, no? They're charging him with lying about a call. They claim to have the
Starting point is 00:47:41 transcript, though, but nobody can seem to locate. Nobody has a recording. The DOJ won't attest to have the transcript though but nobody can seem to locate nobody has a recording the doj won't attest to using the recording the doj won't produce the recording to flynn's lawyer when andy mccabe is asked about the recording of the call that was unmasked where they found mike's and mike flynn's name as being on that call mccabe seems to have no idea what they're talking about page seems to be unaware idea what they're talking about. Page seems to be unaware of how the CIA is getting this information while CNN's reporting that the Brits are giving information to the Obama administration about Trump team associates,
Starting point is 00:48:14 but nobody can find any formal record of it. Man, isn't that strange? Oh, it gets better. It always does. Here's a letter by Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Chuck Grassley, two Republican senators who have taken an active interest,
Starting point is 00:48:36 and I have to hat tip them, have done a very good job of trying to nail the intelligence bureaucracy at the top that was engaged in this rogue operation to the wall. So Johnson writes a letter to the Intelligence Community Inspector General, effectively the Internal Affairs for the Intelligence Community, saying, hey, there used to be Michael Atkinson, who has his own issues, who's gone now, thankfully, but that's a whole other issue.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Here's what they write in this letter. Oh, this is fascinating. Johnson, Grassley, quote, we write to you today to highlight other information regarding the FBI's apparent awareness of leaks by other agencies or entities to the media. Specifically in a December 2016 text message between FBI agent Stroke and FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Starting point is 00:49:21 Stroke tells Page, listen to this in this text message. This is at the beginning of December stroke quote. I think our sisters have begun leaking like mad scorned and worried and political. They're kicking it into overdrive. Come back to me. So we know this is in the first half of December of 2016, where Stroke sends this page about their sisters, obviously talking about an Intel agency,
Starting point is 00:49:51 most likely the CIA, have begun leaking to the media like mad because they feel scorned. Scorned by what? Scorned that their efforts to destroy Trump didn't work. This is just, what, a month after the election? Trump is the president-elect. They're all terrified.
Starting point is 00:50:11 Stroke suspects, based on media stories, that someone in the intelligence community is leaking like mad. But how are these people in the intelligence community now getting this information to leak to the media can you go back to page one what else happened in early december oh look at that mike flynn's name appears on unmasking requests december 14th december 15th december 14th december 15th december 14th if i go to page two, this is amazing. You have all these Intel officials' names redacted, assuming they're operatives whose names have to be redacted
Starting point is 00:50:50 because they're Intel. December 14th, December 15th, December 16th, December 14th. So there are massive unmasking requests for Flynn. Gosh, what does that tell you? What does that tell you? what does that tell you tells you the back channel Brennan the black op he's running with foreign intel to spy on Flynn isn't working how do we know because Trump won the election you dunce Brennan freaks out what happened after the election well you, you may say, Dan, you're arguing that before the election and at certain points, things were unmasked. Yes, I'm arguing they threw every single tool in the toolbox at Flynn.
Starting point is 00:51:34 They did unmask his name. I'm just suggesting regarding the Kislyak call that I don't believe that one was unmasked. I believe that was the subject of something different, a black ops channel. I believe there may have been a FISA on Mike Flynn. They threw the entire kitchen sink at Mike Flynn. So what happens? Why not just continue to use this intelligence back channel with the United Kingdom after the election? Oh, oh, think this through. Think this through. I have on very good authority, ladies and gentlemen, very good authority that after the election,
Starting point is 00:52:15 our foreign intel partners freaked the out. Drop a little F-bomb in there if you know what I mean. And we're like, holy shnikes. We just spied on the now incoming president of the United States. What do we do now? So your intelligence back channel that CNN reported on, UK is passing intelligence to the Obama administration, through a back channel,
Starting point is 00:52:39 because we can't seem to find it on official channels. It all dried up. Dried up like that Slim Jim beep jerky we were talking about. But Brennan wasn't going to give up. No, we're his intel people. So what do they do? Put up page two of them. In early December, they start unmasking Flynn's name in reverse.
Starting point is 00:53:05 Listening in on every foreign phone call they have, picking up Mike Flynn, pretending they're targeting foreigners, and unmasking his name like crazy to basically wiretap him, knowing they can't get a warrant on him now because they found nothing, and knowing their foreign partners won't feed them information. Look at the dates. Right around the time Stroke figures out that this is what they're doing, and they're getting the information, and they're leaking it to the media. You know what's also convenient? Pointed out by the great at John W. Huber on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:53:33 Put up a undercover Huber's tweet. That you know what's really fascinating? That the Flynn unmasking requests in early December ramp up right around the time that the stroke page texts start to go missing. If the IG hadn't forensically retrieved some of those texts, the gap in text would have been from then until the day Mueller was appointed as a special counsel. Wait, remember that? You forgot forgot that story didn't you
Starting point is 00:54:06 s is why you gotta go listen if you're researching this case and you're not on twitter you're making a huge mistake because the mainstream media is is seriously three four years behind this remember the stroke page text that went missing we still haven't found all of them don't you find it awfully weird that the dates they're missing are right around the time Stroke starts texting Page about how the CIA may be leaking like mad? That's who he's talking about? What else were they texting about from December to May that's now missing? Did they find out it was the CIA and text about it and nobody wants you to see that? text about it and nobody wants you to see that, that the CIA has been shut down by their foreign intelligence partners from spying on the Trump team because Trump won and our
Starting point is 00:54:48 foreign intel partners are freaking out knowing they'll have to tell the Trump administration about it. So what do they do? They start unmasking Flynn's name, peeling the name off, reverse targeting Flynn in total violation of the unmasking procedures. And then taking the stories and giving them to the media. I'm going to go a little over today. Forgive me.
Starting point is 00:55:14 But this is important. You may say, well, I don't know about that. Okay, I'm going to produce some evidence in a moment. Media stories. This is hat tip fool Nelson, by the way. It was another good account. I don't know where these people are. I just know they have really good stuff. I'm going to get to that in a second, but I want to get to a couple of videos here just to show you how they bounced around the Intel community from using foreign Intel to potentially a FISA warrant on Flynn to when none of that worked out to just unmasking
Starting point is 00:55:45 his name by listening in on foreign phone calls and pretending they were targeting the foreigners while they were targeting Flynn. Jim Clapper was asked last night on CNN, hey, why did you, you know, you're on that unmasking, Jim. He's on that January 4th request, Jim Clapper, to unmask Flynn's name. Why'd you do that? Listen to Clapper's answer. I mean, he's very, he gets right to the point and gives details because surely you would remember why you unmasked the three-star general who was the incoming national security for right? You would think common sense.
Starting point is 00:56:17 Clapper gets to the bottom of it right here. Check this out. I don't recall what prompted a request that was made on my behalf for unmasking. I don't remember the specifics or what it was in the SIGINT report that was suggestive enough that I was concerned and felt that I should know who was actually involved. Don't worry, folks, the acting of excuse me, the former director of national intelligence, Jim Clapper, has no idea.
Starting point is 00:56:49 Joe, was it the Sergeant Schultz saying, I don't know nothing about nothing about nothing? What is it? Was that, am I right? Yeah. Nothing. He knows nothing. He knows that. Jim Clapper doesn't remember.
Starting point is 00:56:58 Yeah. You would think you'd remember that while you were wiretapping, essentially, the phone calls of the incoming national security advisor. Jim, don't worry, folks. Jim Clapper just doesn't remember. He has no recollection of that at all.
Starting point is 00:57:11 What a dunce this moron is. You think we believe you that you don't remember that? Now, this is where it gets good. Hat tip to conservative treehouse, by the way. Point me to this clip a while ago. I've been meaning to use it. I've been holding it. But here's Clapper up on Capitol Hill with Sally Y clip a while ago. I've been meaning to use it. I've been holding it. But here's Clapper up on Capitol Hill with Sally Yates a while ago. And here's both of them asking
Starting point is 00:57:30 questions about the unmasking of Flynn in that phone call. And Lindsey Graham says to him, I'm running out of patience with Lindsey Graham, by the way, but this is a good question. Was this really unmasking or was this a FISA warrant? Because this just seems kind of weird. And watch Sally Yates and Clapper like, are you talking to me? They look like they're constipated, like they need some like Dulcolax or something. Check out this little gem. So there's two situations that we would have found out what General Flynn said to the Russian ambassador. If there was a FISA warrant focused on him, was there? Was there?
Starting point is 00:58:11 Yes, either one of you. Again, I think you know I'm not going to answer whether there was a FISA warrant, nor am I even going to talk about whether General Flynn was talking to the Russians. Okay. Well, I have to, obviously, I'm going to go along with that. Well, if he wasn't talking to the Russians we've had a hearing for no good reason so clearly he's talking to the Russians and we know about it so if there is no FISA warrant I'm going to find out about this by the way the other way that we know what he was talking about the Russian if he was incidentally surveilled so those are the two
Starting point is 00:58:41 options do we know who unmasked the conversation between the Russian ambassador and General Flynn? Was there unmasking in this situation? Are you looking at me? Yes, sir. I don't know. Do you, Ms. Yates? I can't speak to this specific situation, but can I try to clarify one point on this unmasking thing? Very quickly. Okay, I'll try to do it quickly. As a consumer of intelligence, I would, for example, I would
Starting point is 00:59:09 receive intelligence reports from various agencies. I get that, no. Now, oftentimes the names are already unmasked by the intelligence agency. The bottom line here is I want to know how it got to the Washington Post. Sally's like, hey, I don't know about unmasking. I don't know nothing about nothing. Sometimes I get them and the names were already unmasked. How did that happen? I thought that you, what?
Starting point is 00:59:42 Nobody seems to know anything about anything about this unmasking. And did you hear her freak out when asked about the FISA warrant? One, she stumbles through it because she looks back at him, hope you're not asking me that question. And then she responds back, well, I'm not going to talk about that here. Of course you're not.
Starting point is 00:59:58 God forbid. Was there a FISA warrant on Flynn? Why did you unmask Flynn after the Pfizer warrant you may have had on Flynn didn't work out? And if the Pfizer warrant didn't work out, were you working with foreign intelligence to spy on Flynn in violation of US law? Why did you freak out about Flynn in early December?
Starting point is 01:00:22 Paula, can you cue up the Powell memo for you? This is important. I know I'm going out of order, but it's important. Give me a thumbs up when you're ready. Why the increase, the Sidney Powell one, why the increase in early December in massive unmasking requests around Mike Flynn's name in early December of 2016. Why did he become such a massive threat? Well, let's go to Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn's lawyer, who delivered this little memo here to the court and said, hey, a letter delivered by the British embassy
Starting point is 01:00:57 to the incoming national security team after Donald Trump's election, that was in November for the liberals, and to outgoing national security advisor, Susan Rice, big on Masker herself, the letter apparently disavows former British Secret Service agent Christopher Steele calling his credibility into question and declares him untrustworthy. When did Flynn get that letter? Was it in early December when these Obama officials on this unmasking list start feverishly foaming at the mouth and spying on him by unmasking his name and getting transcripts of his calls?
Starting point is 01:01:32 Is it because Flynn knows? Flynn knows Steele's full of crap? You know, we know from the IG report, we know that Flynn starts asking Comey questions on January 6th at a briefing. Comey briefs Flynn and Trump about the dossier on January 6th. We know from the IG report, because Comey's dumb enough to email his FBI counterparts the next day, he emails them that a national security representative for Trump started asking a bunch of questions about Steele. Who was that person? That's Mike Flynn. In December, they know Mike Flynn knows about the dossier. Mike Flynn probably knows about the intelligence channel overseas. Mike Flynn
Starting point is 01:02:13 probably has an idea about a FISA warrant on him as well, or has some inklings of it. And they're in a panic. So in early December, they start unmasking his name. Don't let the name confuse you. They're listening in on his calls. That's it. The unmasking thing is a procedural thing the left is using to distract you. They're using one of those three mechanisms, unmasking, to listen in on his calls.
Starting point is 01:02:35 Why so feverishly in early December? Because Flynn knows. So what do they do? They listen in on his calls, and they leak the contents and the information in there and other stuff to the media. Look at the unmasking requests and how they marry up almost perfectly. On December 2nd, Samantha Power and Jim Clapper, Jim Clapper, the former DNI under Obama, make an unmasking request.
Starting point is 01:03:01 Look at this New York Times article. Check this out. This is right around December 2nd. You got it? There we go. Don't edit because I don't want any delays. Just send it right over. Drew will figure it out.
Starting point is 01:03:16 The audience will figure it out. Because if we have to edit that, folks, I don't want it to show out there. Stat. Kushner and Flynn met with Russian envoy in December, White House says. Well, December 2nd, Clapper's got an unmasking request to listen on his calls. Well, what day was that? What December? Okay, go to the screenshot from that New York Times piece. What happened on December 2nd? So we know that Jared Kushner from the Trump orbit met with the Trump team. Oh,
Starting point is 01:03:42 they were meeting with the Russian ambassador. The meeting in December came at a crucial time, just as the Obama White House was preparing to sanction Russia and publicly make its case that Moscow would interfere with the 2016 election. Oh, perfect. So right around the time the Trump team, which is perfectly appropriate, is meeting with a foreign government about, you know, things like nuclear war and stuff like that the president might be involved in. All of a sudden, right around that same time frame, Obama's people are making requests to basically wiretap Flynn's phone calls. Weird, isn't it? Let's go to the CNN piece.
Starting point is 01:04:17 We have a whole boatload, as you saw on December 14, of requests to listen in on or read Mike Flynn's phone calls through unmasking. December 14th, we have this CNN article here by Manu Raju. Exclusive. Susan Rice told House investigators why she unmasked senior Trump officials. Let's see some dates in that one. Let's go to the screenshot from that because this could be another doozy here. December 14th, there's all these requests.
Starting point is 01:04:42 So who are they meeting with on December 14th? Oh, the UAE! The Trump Tower meeting came shortly before the UAE brokered a meeting to open lines of communication with the U.S. and Russia, according to reports. A senior Middle East official told CNN, the UAE did not mislead the Obama administration. Ladies and gentlemen, this happens right around the same time in these massive unmasking requests.
Starting point is 01:05:04 You understand the Trump administration is meeting with foreign governments in a perfectly appropriate role for an incoming president, national security advisor, and the Obama administration is listening to the whole thing? Now, as I told you,
Starting point is 01:05:18 here's the coup de grace on this thing. I had mentioned January 12th. Bizarrely, Joe Biden himself, the now de facto Democrat nominee for the presidency, Joe Biden himself, suspiciously seven days after the FBI tries to close the case against Mike Flynn because they have nothing on him, no derogatory information. Seven days later, Joe Biden himself appears on an unmasking request. I really need to see Mike Flynn's phone calls. And more. On January 12th.
Starting point is 01:05:51 What else happens on January 12th? Look at this Washington Post article. Oh, January 12th, 2017. David Ignatius. Why did Obama dawdle on Russian hacking? Look what's buried inside the article. Who leaked this? Was this someone from Joe Biden's office?
Starting point is 01:06:04 Buried inside the article. Question three. What discussions has the Trump team had with Russian officials about future relations? Trump said Wednesday, this relationship with Putin is an asset, not a liability. What was in the next paragraph? Retired General Mike Flynn. Trump's choice for national secure advisor cultivates close Russian contacts. He's appeared on Russia Today and received a speaking fee from a cable network. Ooh. Interesting. How the same day the Washington Post
Starting point is 01:06:33 starts writing about Mike Flynn and a speech he gave in Russia, which was approved, by the way, by his former employer. It's the same day Joe Biden's name appears on an unmasking request. Isn't that convenient?
Starting point is 01:06:46 All right, folks. I've gone way over. I haven't even touched Judge Sullivan's new tyranny. He's now appointed a outside entity. Judge Sullivan, who is judging Mike Flynn, has now determined he's not competent enough to rule on the case himself. So he appoints John Gleeson, a Clinton acolyte, who wrote an op-ed trying to wreck Mike Flynn's life a week ago. I'm going to get to that tomorrow, the jobs report.
Starting point is 01:07:08 But this today is just damning. And I hope you understand what I'm getting at. Sum up the whole show. There's only one of three things. They either had a criminal warrant on Flynn. They either had a FISA warrant on Flynn. Or these unmaskings were done for the sole purpose of leaking to the press. Or option number three, sub B,
Starting point is 01:07:25 they were doing it by getting it from foreign intelligence partners, not as an end around, around official channels. Devastating. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Please share the show. I'd appreciate it. And subscribe to my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Bongino. It's all free. We appreciate it. I'll see you all tomorrow.

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