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Former NSA Director is Cooperating With Probe of Trump-Russia Investigation
The Intercept ^ | December 19th 2019 | Matthew Cole

Posted on 12/20/2019 2:14:33 PM PST by Jacquerie

RETIRED ADM. MICHAEL ROGERS, former director of the National Security Agency, has been cooperating with the Justice Department’s probe into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump presidential campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, according to four people familiar with Rogers’s participation.

Rogers has met the prosecutor leading the probe, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, on multiple occasions, according to two people familiar with Rogers’s cooperation. While the substance of those meetings is not clear, Rogers has cooperated voluntarily, several people with knowledge of the matter said.

Rogers, who retired in May 2018, did not respond to requests for comment.

Rogers’s voluntary participation, which has not been previously reported, makes him the first former intelligence director known to have been interviewed for the probe.

“He’s been very cooperative,” one former intelligence officer who has knowledge of Rogers’s meetings with the Justice Department said.

Politico and NBC News have previously reported that Durham intends to interview both former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. It is unclear if that has happened. Brennan and the Justice Department declined to comment. Clapper could not be reached for comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at theintercept.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: billbarr; brennan; clapper; connecticut; fisa; frednerks; fusiongps; higgins; higginsmemo; jamesclapper; johnbrennan; johndurham; michaelrogers; mikerogers; politico; pollutico; richardhiggins; richhiggins; russiagate; spygate
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To: hardspunned

Would you have trusted romney had he won? Didnt think so.


101 posted on 12/20/2019 7:28:15 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Worth repeating often.


102 posted on 12/20/2019 7:33:28 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

I’m not real sure what Romney has to do with anything about Rogers?


103 posted on 12/20/2019 7:34:48 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: Hugh the Scot

Read my comment. Then read the title of the thread. Then maybe it will make sense to you.


104 posted on 12/20/2019 8:11:06 PM PST by Revel
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To: SPRINK

People need to remember... if Rogers is the white hat why hasn’t he been on tv exposing this coup attempt.... Rogers may not be corrupt but he’s certAinly no hero
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National Security.
Rogers has been exposing this coup to everyone involved in legally stopping it. The general public would not be functiong very well the past few months if they knew how close we came to coup, and that it’s still being attempted. PResident Trump’s economic, international relations and jobs successes would not have happened in the midst of an open coup, but succeeded despite a veiled coup.


105 posted on 12/20/2019 8:11:55 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Jacquerie

I READ THE HEADLINE AND EXCLAOMED:

THAT’S ROGERS.

That is how much I was hoping that Rogers would SOMEDAY, SOMEWAY get some of the credit (there are otherers_)
for exposing this monster of a conspiracy by USA officials, to remove our President.


106 posted on 12/20/2019 9:16:11 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: Jacquerie

Admiral Rogers is a hero in all of this. A principled fish in an ocean of unprincipled sharks.

It was his decree to cut off all contractor access to the NSA database in April 2016 that made the conspirators try to find other ways to proceed, and opened them up to making discoverable mistakes.


107 posted on 12/20/2019 9:36:15 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: Hostage

Yes, you and I see Admiral Rogers the same way.


108 posted on 12/20/2019 9:36:47 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: hardspunned

Maybe Rogers held off going to the romney campaign fearing nothing would have been done.Didnt trust them?


109 posted on 12/20/2019 10:23:35 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: SPRINK; ransomnote

Sprink
I woke up this morning thinking I need to tell Sprink I am sorry for my knee jerk reaction!
.....and I am!
Then I read ‘ransomnote’s ‘ post to you .....
.....that post expresses dignity and truth.

We can all learn from each other

I just feel very protective for Admiral Rogers........someday our country and the world will realize the debt we owe him.
He IS a white hat!


110 posted on 12/21/2019 2:22:32 AM PST by Guenevere (Psalm 37)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

The earliest reference I’ve seen to Obama’s illegal spying has been 2012. We both know he started as soon as he figured out he could get away with it. Maybe Rogers can shed light on 2008 through 2012.


111 posted on 12/21/2019 4:37:32 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: Hostage

“ Admiral Rogers is one genuine deserving candidate for being awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom and Medal of Honor.

None of the Coup Plot would have seen the light of day had it not been for his courage and patriotism.”

BTTT


112 posted on 12/21/2019 5:42:01 AM PST by Track9 (When the products of liberalism meet you face to face, itÂ’s best to have a loaded weapon.)
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To: hardspunned

Agreed.I hope Rogers has a loyal security detail but the way things are heating up I put nothing past anybody.Merry Christmas FRiend.


113 posted on 12/21/2019 5:45:34 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Revel

“Read my comment. Then read the title of the thread. Then maybe it will make sense to you.”

No. That didn’t help.

I understood what was being said the first time. We clearly disagree on whether or not the “letter entity who cannot be named” is a white-hat (or even real)... I say no.


114 posted on 12/21/2019 6:58:33 AM PST by Hugh the Scot ("Jesus was a fundamentalist".- BipolarBob)
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To: Jacquerie

NSA has everything. If they choose.


115 posted on 12/21/2019 10:36:46 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: Karl Spooner
"Here is that clip about Graham threatening Rosenstein."

Thanks for posting that.

Not exactly as I remembered but the content is correct.

116 posted on 12/21/2019 10:38:07 AM PST by blam
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To: bkopto

I want to see perp walks yesterday. Hangings sometime this coming year.


117 posted on 12/21/2019 10:55:59 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Jacquerie.

118 posted on 12/21/2019 11:02:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Eleutheria5

From your lips to God’s ears.....


119 posted on 12/21/2019 11:48:46 AM PST by bkopto
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To: bkopto

Just got a note from on high:

DEAR E5: I HEARD THAT. TOO LATE FOR PERP WALKS YESTERDAY. I MUST RESPECT THE TIME-SPACE CONTINUUM THAT I CREATED, OR EVERYTHING WILL GO INSIDE OUT AND BACKWARDS. BUT AS FOR HANGINGS SOMETIME NEXT YEAR! OOOOH, YEAH! BRING IT ON!

SINCERELY,

THE BIG GUY


120 posted on 12/21/2019 11:56:28 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained)
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