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UNSUNG HERO: Admiral Mike Rogers, Obama's NSA Chief, Discovered Administration's '702' Illegal Spying Operation and Briefed Trump About
Surveillance of Trump Tower
I once posted about an Obama administration official 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. This man's name is Mike Rogers. He
served as the head of the National Security Agency (NSA).
But Rogers' role went beyond informing Trump about the surveillance being
conducted at Trump Tower
<https://stream.org/important-
-abuse/> .
A couple of years earlier, 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
<https://www.youtube.com/watch
continue=2&v=0Qx5Yz_BweA&featu
DiGenova, Section 702 allows the government to essentially weaponize the
NSA's ability to collect data and surveil private U.S. citizens. In light of
IG Horowitz's report, this man's story becomes even more relevant.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, in an April 2019 appearance on Laura
Ingraham's show, reported
<https://stream.org/important-
-abuse/> :
On that same day, the Trump transition team abruptly announced they were
leaving Trump Tower and moving their operations to Trump National Golf Club
in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Two days later, the Washington Post reported that James Clapper and Defense
Secretary Ash Carter had recommended the removal of Mike Rogers from his NSA
position. That didn't happen, but Rogers announced his retirement on January
5, 2018...after heading the National Security Agency for nearly four years.
Below, DiGenova refers to the Obama administration's use of "Section 702.
DiGenova said
<https://www.youtube.com/watch
continue=2&v=0Qx5Yz_BweA&featu
He [Rogers] discovered the illegal spying. He went personally to the FISA
Court and briefed the Chief Judge and worked with her for months to uncover
the people who did it. The FISA Court has already told the Justice
department who lied to that court and that has been given to [Attorney
General] Bill Barr already.
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.
Section 702 allows the Attorney General and the Director of National
Intelligence to "jointly authorize surveillance
<https://www.heritage.org/terr
elps-america-thwart-terrorist-
Use of 702 has actually helped the U.S. thwart planned terrorist attacks.
When used as intended, it is a valuable tool.
<https://www.redstate.com/cali
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It's when information is collected on U.S. citizens, either by accident or
by design, that it becomes questionable. If the government is surveilling a
foreigner with suspected ties to terrorists, the data of any American who
communicates with him or her will be collected. "If two Americans
<https://www.usatoday.com/stor
rveillance-program-and-why-sho
with one another and mention the name of a foreigner who is under
surveillance," their data will be collected.
The reason
<https://www.usatoday.com/stor
rveillance-program-and-why-sho
law are so upset is that the program essentially gives law enforcement
agencies a "backdoor" to search Americans' data without having to get a
warrant. Under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans are
protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. Law enforcement officials
typically have to go to court and ask a judge to issue a search warrant.
They must show probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime will be
found.
The information becomes part of a database that the FBI or other federal law
enforcement agencies could then search to find evidence that Americans are
engaged in domestic crimes that have nothing to do with terrorism. For
example, it could be used to find evidence that an American citizen isn't
paying his or her taxes or has committed a minor drug offense, according to
the ACLU and other civil liberties groups.
Patrick Toomey <https://thehill.com/people/pa
attorney in New York, told <https://thehill.com/people/pa
Today that "Americans should be alarmed that the NSA is vacuuming up their
emails and phone calls without a warrant. The NSA claims it has rules to
protect our privacy, but it turns out those rules are weak, full of
loopholes, and violated again and again."
Clearly, the potential for abuse under the 702 program is great.
Dating back
<https://www.youtube.com/watch
RuZcmEWG> to 2012, the 702 program was used to spy on Americans, which is a
violation of the Fourth Amendment.
The Epoch Times' Jeff Carlson wrote a detailed article about this entitled
"An American Hero and the Death of a FISA Narrative
<https://themarketswork.com/20
narrative/> " in January 2018. (He also provides a precise account of the
Obama administration's violations of the 702 program.)
Carlson, in the above-mentioned article, speculates that Obama
administration officials didn't obtain the FISA warrant to spy on Carter
Page for the purpose of collecting information, but rather, because they had
already spied on the campaign, they needed it to "explain" the information
they had previously collected.
Carlson explains
<https://stream.org/important-
-abuse/> :
The implication being, the Trump Dossier was not created to allow for spying
on the Trump Campaign. The Dossier was created to obtain a FISA Warrant to
cover surveillance activity that had already taken place.
That may well have been the origin of the Trump Dossier creation - to create
a rationale for previous illegal surveillance activity. But heroic actions
taken by Admiral Mike Rogers stopped the plan from being implemented. The
FISA Court had been warned.
Our entire intelligence apparatus was weaponized to alter a Presidential
Election," it concludes. "The chain of activity may rise all the way to the
top. How does a nation prepare itself to deal with that level of
criminality?
Carlson made these remarks nearly two years and he's been proven correct.
From a recent episode of Dan Bongino's podcast (which I posted on here
<https://www.redstate.com/eliz
critical-new-information-ig-re
learned that Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos had been spied upon
even before he joined the campaign. He had been working with the Ben Carson
campaign. This leads to the obvious question, Was the FBI involved in
surveilling the campaign members of Trump's rivals? I'll explore that in a
post later today.
https://youtu.be/0Qx5Yz_BweA?l
(Note: The video is unavailable on YouTube, however,
BlackConservativePatriot.com includes the most noteworthy clips in the video
below. Relevant segment begins at 11:10.)
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