Twilight Struggles in a Wilderness of Mirrors: Admiral Mike Rogers, the NSA, and Obama-era Political Spying

Information Processing blog ^ | December 21, 2019 | Steve Hsu

[karpov]

I believe that if the full story is told about Obama-era political spying, Admiral Mike Rogers (former head of NSA) will emerge as a hero. Sources say Rogers has been cooperating with the ongoing Durham investigation. Look for significant developments in the case as we approach the 2020 election...

Below is a Rogers timeline covering illegal spying using NSA data. This illegal use of data is a matter of record -- undisputed, but also largely unreported. The FISC (FISA court) report on this illegal use of data appeared in April 2017; the author is Rosemary Collyer, the head FISA judge. The report was originally classified Top Secret but was later declassified and released with redactions. Collyer uses the phrase "institutional lack of candor" when referring to behavior of federal agencies in their dealings with FISC over this issue.

Just this week, Collyer ordered the FBI to report on its abuse of FISA in surveillance of the Trump campaign, as documented in the Horowitz DOJ IG report.

More background on the earlier abuses here: The court learned in October 2016 that analysts ... were conducting prohibited database searches “with much greater frequency than had previously been disclosed to the court.” The forbidden queries were searches of Upstream Data using US-person identifiers. The report makes clear that as of early 2017 NSA Inspector General did not even have a good handle on all the ways that improper queries could be made to the system.

Timeline: November 2015-April 2016 – The FBI and DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) uses private contractors to access raw FISA information using “To” and “From” FISA-702(16) & “About” FISA-702(17) queries.

[DPMD]

“Obama-era political spying.” Obama political spying. Fixed it.

[PGR88]

I believe that if the full story is told about Obama-era political spying, Admiral Mike Rogers (former head of NSA) will emerge as a hero

If things are indeed fully revealed, at some point in the future, after the present political climate has cooled and shifted, Rogers will be given a Congressional Medal of Honor (as Rogers was active duty military) or perhaps a Presidential Medal of Freedom. He created enough speed bumps for the corrupt coup plotters - Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Carlin, Strzok - that they had to leave many tracks to cover themselves. Those tracks are being followed now.

[Montaignes Cat]

These with a thousand small deliberations
Protract the profit of their chilled delirium,
Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do
Suspend its operations, will the weevil
Delay?

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this omitted reality of Admiral Mike!

He created enough speed bumps for the corrupt coup plotters - Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Carlin, Strzok -

that they had to leave many tracks to cover themselves. Those tracks are being followed now.

[rbg81]

On some level, it still stuns me how NO ONE in the MSM will touch this story. Sad how far the “profession” of journalism has fallen.

[hal ogen]

These leftist news whores truly are in the “oldest profession”.

[knarf]

[Eagles6]

Unlike the demonrats Adm.Rodgers is a true patriot and hero.

[DPMD]

Wow. Just wow. Merry Christmas to you and yours from this mob.