Posted on 08/17/2021 8:57:17 PM PDT by bitt
Last week, it was reported that Admiral Mike Rogers, who served as President Obama’s National Security Advisor, has been cooperating with U.S. Attorney John Durham’s criminal inquiry into the origins of the Trump/Russia collusion investigation. This was big news for two reasons.
I wrote about the first reason in a recent post, in which I called Rogers the “Unsung Hero.” He was one of the few Obama administration officials who actually had integrity, a man who noticed that something was amiss and acted. It was this man who traveled to Trump Tower on November 17, 2016, to brief then-President-elect Donald Trump that communications from the building were being tapped. He did not notify his superior, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, beforehand.
Later that day, the Trump transition team announced they were moving their operations to a new location in New Jersey. Within days, the Washington Post reported that “James Clapper and Defense Secretary Ash Carter had recommended the removal of Mike Rogers from his NSA position.” Rogers was not fired, for obvious reasons.
The second reason predates the FBI’s application to the FISA Court for a warrant to spy on Carter Page by a couple of years, but in light of IG Horowitz’s report, this story becomes even more relevant. Rogers discovered that American citizens were being spied upon and drew attention to the abuse of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the Obama administration. According to former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova, Section 702 allows the government to essentially weaponize the NSA’s ability to collect data and surveil private U.S. citizens.
Used as intended, it has been a useful law enforcement tool. Abused as it had been by Obama administration officials up until Rogers’ discovery in 2014, it became a weapon. DiGenova said, “For more than four years before the election of Donald Trump, there was an illegal spying operation going on by FBI [private] contractors — four of them — to steal personal information, electronic information about Americans and to use it against the Republican Party.”
In a Christmas Eve interview with WMAL radio station (audio below), diGenova explains how the FBI’s efforts to cover up the 702 spying brought us “Crossfire Hurricane.” Rogers discovered it and reported it to the FISA Court and said “she” stopped it (I assume “she” refers to FISC Judge Rosemary Collyer). DiGenova says it led to the “crescendo of activity by Comey, Clapper, and Brennan. It led to the so-called Crossfire Hurricane investigation to cover-up the previous spying that had been going on.”
Rogers has an electronic trail of all the spying that went on over five years. He has personal notes – like Jim Comey – only this time they are not self-serving notes, they are the truth…I have described Mike Rogers as the Rosetta Stone of this investigation…I can be fairly confident now in saying there will be a substantial criminal conspiracy indictment against a lot of people with the electronic spying.
.......more
I understand your scepticism, but it was Admiral Rogers who alerted Trump about what Obama was up to. If he is working with Durham, there might be a glimmer of hope.
But, then, I once thought Barr was a straight shooter.
So, am prepared for the worst but hoping for better.
.
There is no possible explanation for waiting all this time and then doing something. Is someone going to suggest he wouldn’t cooperate a year ago?
Remember the attacks on Ken Starr?
You’d see an avalanche of attacks and deep state leaks about Rogers and Durham.
Why no attacks from the Party in Power?
.
I guess my brevity wasn't quite understood.
ADM Rogers was the director of the National Security Agency, not the National Security Advisor. The former is a military appointment that requires congressional approval to head a spy agency and military command at Fort Meade, Maryland. The Director of the NSA isn't even the highest ranking intelligence official in the US government, or the one with the President's ear. Pre-9/11 that was the director of the CIA, now it's the Director of National Intelligence, or DNI, which is a cabinet level official.
Nobody calls this person "NSA Rogers" ever not in news stories, not in interoffice memos, never... unless they don't understand what they're talking about.
The National Security Advisor is a political appointment which does not carry any obligation for congressional approval. The person who sits in that position frequently acts as one of the closest advisors to the President within the White House and while not a cabinet official, acts at that level of the food chain.
If you are going to run a blog/journal/news site and run articles that touch on national politics, and you demonstrate that you don't know the damned difference between the two positions in the first two sentences, there's zero credibility in anything that comes afterwards.
Either the article's author is absolutely uninformed, the site's editorial process is garbage, or it's a personal blog rehashing something posted on Conservative Treehouse or Gateway Pundit two days ago.
One serious problem conservatives have, is we know most of the news is represents the establishment of both parties. The catch is, a lot of conservative news is just as bad, and panders to fears and prejudices to get clicks and ad revenue. They are often factually more ignorant than the mainstream news and far less subtle about the propaganda. Filtering out real news from click bait has been much harder over the last few years.
oh!!! Here we go again!!! For crying out loud, how many times do you have to get screwed before you recognize you’re gonna get screwed? OH! I’d LOVE to be wrong about this. But, I’ve been around long enough to have the exact taste and flavor down pat. If you have you’re hopes up, you’re a child or a fool. Don’t get your hopes up... disappointment is a bummer. Accept “REALITY”
Don’t give up hope.....
....I’m praying too!
I have this ‘word picture’.....courtesy of the movie Braveheart...
‘hold......hold......hold.....’
.....NOW!
Apparently quite a few still do. Sad.
Who is this durham fellow that this article speaks of? Do I need to put the sarc after this?
I am not holding my breath.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
bump
I’m smiling...good answer.
That’s what I’m hoping for, after all there are millions of Patriots.
The thing is, the Left has managed in their madness...to scare people. We must be strong. It appears Rogers is one of the strong ones.
Judge Collyer got caught. This entire exercise is to save the FISA Judges. They were caught more than once. Then backdated many arguments and made everything Classified. Can’t see the light of day.
Judge Contreras was working with the FBI(Strzok). Roberts is fully involved. Nothing will ever happen. It can’t. There is plenty of evidence. Judges sealed everything. Think the same situation(s) with Judge Sullivan and General Flynn. This would take down Mueller’s Team also. Meanwhile Sullivan was to retire but is now running certain parts of the country.
Wow. You sure gutted my hopes for being held to the law by the law.
I don’t mean to sound simplistic but how can they do that?
Thank you! Speaks volumes about any meat on this bone. sigh Oh! And the 'bama Admin worked tirelessly to get Adm. Rogers fired from NSA. A presidential security advisor is just told to pick up his final paycheck, and don't let the elevator door... well, you know.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.