Rogers is just running damage control on orders from the King
Then at any point in the future, if a target phone number becomes of interest (an arrested suspect’s cell phone, for example,) they can go back and query this massive database and find out every phone call made to or from that target number. Then they can track down those numbers and find out who is behind them.
Problem is, once you've been granted a warrant to get all the information at the start, you don't need to go back and ask a court permission to mine that data later. So what may be used to track down a known terrorist's other cell members today can be used by a political operative to get dirt on a potential opponent tomorrow, and there is no court or congressional oversight.
Senator Kirk. He asked holder this earlier in the week.
Seems that Holder when asked by Senator Kirk today had a great response.
“Can you assure us no members of the Capitol building were monitored?” asked Kirk. When Holder said he wouldn’t be able to answer that question in an “open forum,” Kirk interrupted him. “I think the correct answer is ‘we stayed within our lane and we did not spy on members of Congress.”
I see a great future for subspace radio! Those old boys will be needing to go back to shaving heads and tattooing messages otherwise!
This will become a cause celebre. The only question is whose.
Sorry Rogers, but as head of the Intelligence Committee you were involved up to your eyeballs in all this... you are going to be toast.
Flashback to 2011:
Rank-and-file reject Patriot Act
GOP struggles for PATRIOT Act votes
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered a stern warning to his fellow lawmakers in a closed conference meeting Wednesday at the Capitol Hill Club: Don’t you dare vote no unless you attend Mueller’s briefing and ask your questions.
Bachmann defends vote for Patriot Act after fielding complaints about government over-reach
A reporter does not have all of the information? Golly gee whiz. I bet this Congresscritter and Senator Feinswein do not have all of the information either. Did Congresscritter know the IRS was targeting all political foes of the Bamster? No? Well, why not? I am sure the Bamster kept everyone informed of what was going on in his administration.
It doesn't matter how it works...what matters is the power it gives a corrupt president.
It matters because Obama will do with the NSA just as he has done with the IRS and the EPA and the military. He will use it for political purposes.
Obama said, "the war on terror is over" as it pertains to jihadis. The only war he is now concerned with is one against those Americans who call themselves patriots and teapartiers and lovers of the Constitution.
Rogers is a Big Government supporter, not a patriot. He needs to be primaries ASAP.
The law didnt grant the NSA unlimited powers to spy on all Americans in the U.S., so the NSA needs to be prosecuted for violating the law.
Not the whistleblower.
If Rogers is in a truly Republican district, they really should find a way to get rid of this fake. He has to be an Obama supporter who they got past the voters.
I had a thought watching the show this morning. There were a lot of real liberals there. Are they realizing the Democratic Party would be in better shape for them in the future if Obama and his implants weren't running their show?
But I know how that government thing works..
They vet the enemy and it is us.
Michigan-based blogger Debbie Schlussel has had Rogers’ number for years:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/tag/mike-rogers/
He doth protest too loudly....