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Home Front: Politix

NSA Director Adm. Rogers is likely pick for DNI Clapper replacement

2016-11-19

[Free Beacon] Donald Trump will likely appoint National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers as the administration’s director of national intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing two unnamed sources.

Rogers met with Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday.

The potential appointment of Rogers, who has headed the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command since 2014, could complicate Trump’s desire for closer ties with Russia. The NSA director reiterated earlier this week that Moscow was responsible for hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s computer network in an attempt to influence the U.S. elections.

Trump meanwhile has publicly cast doubt on U.S. intelligence officials who overwhelmingly concluded that Moscow had interfered with the election.

Posted by:Besoeker

#13 What we really need is Congress to take actual whistleblowers serious and subpoena them if there is an actual issue.

Posted by: newc 2016-11-19 18:25

#12 Keep an eye on this guy. He got to head up NSA under Obama. Ask yourself why.

Oldspook information is outdated. The reason Obama did not do more is that people quit and refused rather than go along with it more than you know. The publicly known

Program names deleted based on advice. We try to be extra careful here because while some Rantburgers (like me) are utterly civilian and ought not know about some things, other Rantburgers are active duty and have clearances of various sorts, and can get into trouble if they are in the presence of the mention of them. We had the same problem with Wikileaks -- though many things had been dragged into the public eye, those with clearances still were not able to be informed about them.

With many thanks for your consideration,
trailing wife at 4:53 p.m. ET

aluded to above are all threats to liberty in the wrong hands and nobody in the Congress wanted to examine the safeguards. Neither did the Obama regime. They only paid lip service and continued to do things the Chicago/Alinsky way.

We need the DNI to support whistleblowers that report abuse from the top down but stay inside the system. I do not mean mentally defective traitors like Bradley Manning. And definitely not Snowden. Snowden was not a whistle-blower. He was a Russian spy and deserves to face a trial and a date with the executioner if he is ever apprehended. All Snowden did was wrap himself in the flag afterward and the leftist press lapped it up and tried to turn him into a hero.

Posted via TOR for obvious reasons.

Posted by: Dark Lord of the Poles5514 2016-11-19 14:29

#11 aap uit die mou laat

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-19 13:56

#10 Winning is new for a lot of us. It sure is nice. I hope I never get tired of it.

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2016-11-19 13:55

#9 I'm new here Injun, still learning.

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-19 13:40

#8 Nah, Besoeker, you're just being a dick. Show some class, we won. Otherwise you're being like Obama rubbing peoples faces in things.

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2016-11-19 13:37

#7 Ag, must have tipped the poor wanker's sippy cup. Damned unrighteous of me. Some Louisiana Gold Wasabi may spice'n up that crow :-)

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-19 12:47

#6 Besoeker - that's off topic and not germane to this discussion. And I have already addressed it on FB and in the O-Club, with those who matter to me. Try Trump trolling elsewhere.

Get back on topic - the DNI.

Posted by: OldSpook 2016-11-19 11:34

#5 OS, any comments on.... "the only man who could not defeat Clinton?"

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-19 11:20

#4 I have no past or current experience with this officer, so I have no opinion, other than to stress that this is an appointment that deserves a lot of scrutiny no matter who it named.

Warning: this will be necessarily wordy.

As a former intelligence person, let me say that it is vital that we know our enemies plans before his actions, but it is also vital that we are not to impinge on our own liberty in achievement of that goal. And it is vitally important that the Director of National Intelligence and his subordinates (especially DIRNSA) set the example for the entire IC by being a strong ethical and moral voices against potential abuse of the system by anyone, but especially political operatives in furtherance of domestic political goals.

Consider these things:

There has been turnover at these agencies. Is there at reason for the turnover? I believe some of it is that the Obama administration is rife with unscrupulous people who don't give a crap about individual Constitutional rights. This is especially true if individual rights are keeping the political hacks from a Progressive political goal.

Also consider the potential for abuse of domestic information gathered by the Obama administration era NSA. The last PATRIOT Act legally expanded and extended DNI (Digital Network Intelligence) programs along with massive automated warrantless domestic voice intercepts and collection. This includes actual content including voice, but the real haul is in the DNI and associated metadata. There are safeguards against domestic abuse but they ultimately rely on people resisting the ability to misuse these databases and systems. In other words, your liberty hangs on the moral character and good will of people working in the IC and their ability to resist political pressure from above. Support from the highest levels is vital for these people to stand tall.

Finally, know that some left when the precursors of the current the programs first came online and were used domestically, and more left after the current CINC showed how he was going to run things.

That should give you an indication of just how important this appointment is.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- B. Franklin (per Bartlett in 1910)

Posted by: OldSpook 2016-11-19 11:17

#3 We need a ranking system for these picks, like 1 to 5 liberal tears

Posted by: Frank G 2016-11-19 09:01

#2 The latest IG report notes that the agency is still suffering from high staff turnover in sensitive info-security jobs and top management—including five Chief Information Officers in three years—as well as.....

Nobody wants to be an Information Management officer (IMO) of a system or non-compliant organization out of control.

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-19 09:01

#1 The NSA director reiterated earlier this week that Moscow was responsible for hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s computer network in an attempt to influence the U.S. elections.

I guess I haven't seen the Moscow indicators popularized as much as the Stuxnet pointers were. Then, everybody in the business wanted a say. Now it's quiet. I suppose to mask covert channels involved in the analysis.

However, after reading this, I'm not opposed to the conspiracy theory that the hack was perpetrated within the NSA et. al. environs

Posted by: Skidmark 2016-11-19 08:55

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