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2019-12-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Joe DiGenova Calls Admiral Mike Rogers' Cooperation With Durham Team to Be the ‘Biggest Single Development' in Case, Here's Why
[Redstate] Last week, it was reported that Admiral Mike Rogers, who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Obama, 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."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 01:05|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 This is nice. But now we need to see indictments. And orange jumpsuits.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-27 01:11||   2019-12-27 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 "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."

I believe this may be new information.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 01:16||   2019-12-27 01:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, right, good catch.

So this a) goes back to the Romney campaign in 2012, and b) has plausible deniability thanks to the plumbers "FBI contractors"
Posted by Lex 2019-12-27 01:26||   2019-12-27 01:26|| Front Page Top

#4 One must wonder if Steele's Orbis Business Intelligence, Ltd was the 'contractor.'

WIKI Steele had been a paid confidential human source for the FBI before preparing the Steele dossier, and the FBI found "Steele's information to be valuable and that it warranted compensation", with Steele receiving $95,000 from the FBI between 2014 and 2016 for information on previous matters unrelated to Trump.[99] From information in the report...

Emphasis added.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 01:33||   2019-12-27 01:33|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC the FBI used Steele to nab the FIFA thief around that time - forget his name... that Sub Blotto or Stub Bladder guy
Posted by Lex 2019-12-27 01:37||   2019-12-27 01:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Kind of ironic that the maroons squealing about Russia "collusion" are likely the same sh!ts who would have spied on the GOP candidate whom Zero mocked for his "cold war" "1980s" foreign policies that were too tough on Putin-- the ones that lacked a certain, so to speak, flexibility.

What despicable clowns.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-27 01:41||   2019-12-27 01:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Using an MI6 cutout (Orbis), to collect intelligence on US Persons (USP)? Kicking FISA and 'FIVE EYES' sharing and EO-12333 circumvention up a notch I'd say. Could be viewed by some as treason.

It would appear that at some point someone crossed the line and Admiral Rogers dropped the flag.

It just gets interestinger and interestinger.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 01:42||   2019-12-27 01:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Pelosi must be pooping her Depends.

What hath Schiff wrought?
Posted by Lex 2019-12-27 01:49||   2019-12-27 01:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Well the foking Intelligence Community (IC), Brennan, Clapper, and associates, gave themselves away early on. They must have known that it would only be a matter of time until the 'Joe DiGneova's' of the world assembled the social network.

Key takeaway here is; it appears to have all taken place on Soetoro's watch and would have likely never have seen the light of day had the Hildebeest defeated the Orange Man.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 01:56||   2019-12-27 01:56|| Front Page Top

#10 What did Zero know and when did he know it?
Posted by Lex 2019-12-27 02:04||   2019-12-27 02:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Seriously? Nobody will talk about it at all. Al Gore's CALEA Wiretap Law of 1994 is the base of all future attacks from that date on US Citizens.
It required the phone and cellular companies to fork their communications streams and send 1/4 of all voice communications and all data to the FBI!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on CALEA
Posted by 3dc 2019-12-27 06:02||   2019-12-27 06:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Think about that. All the missing emails and data on everybody have been quietly copied to the FBI and they never raise their hand and say "WE HAVE IT".

Seriously, if your computer crashes, the chance is high enough, that somewhere in the FBI archives should be everything to restore your data!
Posted by 3dc 2019-12-27 06:06||   2019-12-27 06:06|| Front Page Top

#13 That would include: every virus, every email from a Nigerian Prince, every requested and unrequested piece of Pr0n. every Hillary email, every Microsoft update .... everything...
Posted by 3dc 2019-12-27 06:08||   2019-12-27 06:08|| Front Page Top

#14 It also requires the FBI in one shape or other (contracts etc) to be the prime hard drive/storage user on the planet.
Posted by 3dc 2019-12-27 06:11||   2019-12-27 06:11|| Front Page Top

#15 ...also requires competent people in long term handling, storage, and preservation. If it's physical, it deteriorates. Nah. NASA can't even read its old stuff anymore. Come on guys, we're talking civil service employees here.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-27 07:52||   2019-12-27 07:52|| Front Page Top

#16 Time to pull the handle on the toilet and flush as many times as necessary. A plunger might be needed.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-27 09:07||   2019-12-27 09:07|| Front Page Top

#17 for those wondering, ADM Rogers was not part of the DOJ IG report because the IG had very limited jurisdiction to interview outside the DOJ.
Posted by lord garth 2019-12-27 09:38||   2019-12-27 09:38|| Front Page Top

#18 Garth, I wonder what the intelligence community IG might know. He seems to be part of the Deepstate and "O" regime.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-27 10:48||   2019-12-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

#19 A very big rock has been turned over and suddenly long standing misbehavior is being exposed. The people whose careers and even freedom and being exposed have amongst them ruthlesswand dangerous people who exercise powerful systems in the Law Enforcement and intelligence are suddenly threatened. Some will flee, some will cower and a few might cause fireworks. Long overdue exposure of people who thought they were a protected elite.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-12-27 11:32||   2019-12-27 11:32|| Front Page Top

#20 One must wonder if Steele's Orbis Business Intelligence, Ltd was the 'contractor.'

When "contractors" accessing the NSA database was first revealed, speculation was Fusion GPS (think Nellie Ohr).
Posted by Unager Johnson6603 2019-12-27 12:05||   2019-12-27 12:05|| Front Page Top

#21 More likely Steele if pre-2015. I don't believe Fusion GPS had yet been formed. IIRC Glenn "F---ing Hack That I Am" Simpson was still whoring writing for Politico at that time
Posted by Lex 2019-12-27 12:13||   2019-12-27 12:13|| Front Page Top

#22 Ref #17: .....for those wondering, ADM Rogers was not part of the DOJ IG report because the IG had very limited jurisdiction to interview outside the DOJ.

ADM Rogers had a severe case of cooties. My guess is he would have likely been the very last person the IG would have interviewed.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-27 12:25||   2019-12-27 12:25|| Front Page Top

#23 JohnQC

both the CIA and the office of the Director of National Intelligence have IGs

but their jurisdiction does not extend to departed officials, (e.g., Brennan, who was CIA chief and Clapper who was Director of Natl Intel) unless those officials volunteer to be interviewed


Posted by lord garth 2019-12-27 12:32||   2019-12-27 12:32|| Front Page Top

#24 Key players spoiled rotten by huge bonuses paid by Zero.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-12-27 17:01||   2019-12-27 17:01|| Front Page Top

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