By Jon Dougherty
(TNS) In April when Washington insiders were making assessments about what Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz would say in his FISA abuse report — as well as when it would actually drop — one name that was mentioned as being tied to the investigation was former National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers.
At the time, former federal prosecutor and consummate political insider Joe diGenova noted that Rogers was instrumental in tipping off Team Trump to the fact that the deep state had the campaign under surveillance at Trump Tower, leading the president-elect to move his transition team to a ‘friendly’ environment in New Jersey.
Calling Rogers a “real hero,” diGenova said that the then-NSA director secreted to Trump Tower just weeks after the 2016 election to inform the newly elected president of the coup attempt that was underway. DiGenova said Rogers had also gone to the FISA Court and told them who the culprits were (not that it’s done any good; the FISA Court has thus far elected not to hold anyone at the FBI legally accountable for lying about Carter Page, the Steele Dossier, and the president’s non-existent “Russian collusion”).
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,” though he was never fired (for obvious reasons; not only was Trump on his way in, but firing Rogers so close to the transition would have set off heap big red flags).
By the way, as we also reported, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes became aware of the information that Rogers had, per closed-door testimony in the spring of 2017, when he was still chairman.
DiGenova is still on the Rogers bandwagon. In a Christmas Eve interview with WMAL radio station (audio is below), the former federal prosecutor explained how the FBI’s efforts to cover up its spying brought us “Crossfire Hurricane.â€
After Rogers discovered it and reported it to the FISA Court, diGenova said “she†stopped it (we assume “she†refers to FISC Judge Rosemary Collyer). He says adds that 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.â€
DiGenova noted further:
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.
That electronic spying that went on from 2012 through 2016 into NSA databases was used for unmasking people and then leaking that information to the press.
Asked if that included the unmasking by Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice and his AG Loretta Lynch, diGenova said “yes.”
He then shifted to a controversial press conference by Nunes in March 2017 (Trump had barely been inaugurated), where the then-chairman was heavily criticized by Democrats and their buds in the establishment media.
DiGenova explained that Nunes had just returned from the National Security Council where he saw loads of evidence that the Obama regime was spying on Team Trump.
He said what Nunes saw “were spreadsheets which had been produced by the White House of the intercepts, the illegal NSA intercepts, and on it were the names of people, telephone numbers, to and from information, which led to the unmaskings. That’s what this is all about. It is truly remarkable that we have finally gotten here.”
By the way, Nunes discussed all of this with Dan Bongino on Tuesday (audio here).
DiGenova was also asked if he thought that FISA Judge Collyer was doing enough in response to the revelations contained in DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on massive FBI abuses of her court.
In short…no:
This is too little, too late. This is grandstanding and save your ass kind of stuff by a federal judge. There should have been contempt hearings before the FISA Court already. She didn’t have to wait. She knew everything. She knew back in 2018 that there was illegal spying. She knew she’d been lied to in the Carter Page affidavit. She knew that the assistant attorney general for the National Security Division, John Carlin, had filed false annual certifications of compliance with minimization standards on 702 databases about Americans.
Let’s remember what this scandal is about…This is about spying on American citizens with no basis whatsoever. We now know the spying on Carter Page was completely baseless. He had nothing to do with the Russians. He was cooperating with the CIA. He was never charged with a crime…
As a result of this 702 database illegal spying by FBI contractors from 2012 through 2016, where they access telephones, emails, text message databases on Americans, not foreign nationals. Thousands of Americans were spied on. What did Judge Collyer do about it? Nothing.
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Now, I want to see every one of those five judges up there on Capitol Hill in a hearing. They need to testify about the Carter Page warrant.
When they saw in that first warrant there was a political organization involved in opposition research, that warrant should have been stopped right there.
Before Christmas, Nunes told Fox News’ Martha McCallum that he wrote to the FISA Court twice to inform those judges what he had discovered regarding the FBI’s fraudulent claims. Again, they have done nothing.
Explosive. https://t.co/WS9PpdigqK
— Jon Dougherty (@JonDougherty10) December 18, 2019
One final point: DiGenova reminded the audience that Rogers has met several times with U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a criminal probe of the origins of the Spygate scandal.
Listen:
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Over two years of investigation had been ongoing. A whole lot of buttpuckering going on in District of Corruption.
I bet they hang Brennan, and then Comey — as far as the order of the executed.
All of this begins with the Clintons. They quite purposefully went three deep into the bureaucracy. That is what the Clinton Foundation was always all about, funding their political ambitions. By the time Rogers does his job and exposes the abuses of the Obama Administration, people such as Comey, Brennan and Clapper, Lynch, Rice and Obama’s wing man were already running wild weaponizing the IRS, Fire Arms Alcohol and Tobacco. Fast froward to Hillary’s campaign coffers and the Democratic National Committee’s cash contribution, Fussion GPS was funded, in turn hired Christopher Steele to both generate and then infuse the phony… Read more »
This might be a situation where the news organizations can be broken up as monopolies.
While they probably can’t be held accountable due to First Amendment Freedom of the Press protections, it may become obvious they’re engaging in monopolistic practices and it would be a place for the trust busters to come in a break up the news organizations into smaller, more independent entities.
Although there’s been consolidation due to the internet, electronic printing, electronic media, the news media are still businesses and there may be some protection of the public from monopolies.
Great post and ALL TRUE. Obama AND Hillary are totally corrupt, and both had “A Lot on Each Other”…..so HE guaranteed her that He’d “Put in the Fix” for her to waltz into the Whitehouse, so when Campaigner Trump declared, the Obama/Hillary Machines went to work to smear, attack and try to oust him….but, the further it went the MORE TRUMP resonated with ‘We the People, because we Knew that “D.C. is a Cesspool of Corruption and TRUMP WOULD DRAIN THAT SWAMP.” They needed to continue to try to REMOVE him even after his win, because they risked BEING EXPOSED… Read more »
p.s. Forgot to mention that I just Love Joseph diGenova and his wife, Victoria Toensing…Wish BOTH were in the Trump Administration…..they are the Best!!
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These people are the worst of all time. These 5 judges should be seeing what the inside of jails look like.
Didn’t Supreme Court Justice John Roberts appoint all of the FISA judges?
Don’t forget about the ‘Three Hops’ rule.
If the FBI is spying on one person, then they can also spy on
….everyone that the one person talks to (hop A)
….everyone that the ‘hop A’ people talk to (hop B), and
….everyone that the ‘hop B’ people talk to (hop C).
This likely gave them access to pretty much anyone in the whole Trump campaign…… and that is if (for once) they decided to actually OBEY the laws!
Isn’t is about time to face facts, and admit that Chief Justice John Roberts, and all of his FISC judges are involved in the coup d’etat, if only by acquiescence?
It is written down somewhere, someone made a suggestion to squeeze Roberts into fomenting the Treason with Obama to seize control of Healthcare. The fine that was both not a tax and a tax which came from the President instead of the House. There exists proof that Roberts was threatened either because of who he is, possibly a closeted homosexual, or, the Parent who bypassed well known rules to illegally adopt his two children from Ireland… Ireland has had a prohibition against foreign adoption for years…
It is truly frightening that the Judiciary is so deep in the Deep State. Chief Justice Roberts, where are you? We are on the verge of every institution of American governance being perceived to be corrupt. The swamp is deeper than I thought and I thought it was very deep.
I DO BELIEVE THE SHIT IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN. COYLLER NEEDS TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE LOCKED UP IN JAIL FOR THE REST OF HER MISERABLE LIFE.
The ones who scream about fascism are always the ones practicing it.
Iron Rule of Democrat Behavior: They are ALWAYS guilty of whatever they blame the other side for. Don’t believe what they SAY! …watch what they DO!!
Gotta love Joe. I wish he was able to assure us there will prosecution of these quizlings!
Why haven’t these judges been removed? They obviously can’t be trusted with FISA oversight any longer.
“…the FISA Court has thus far elected not to hold anyone at the FBI legally accountable for lying about Carter Page, the Steele Dossier, and the president’s non-existent ‘Russian collusion’…” LOL! Come on! The FISA Court is PART OF IT! Sheesh! I’m tired of everyone from the government to the media pissing down my back and telling me it’s raining!
Trump was right about the DEEP STATE! Turns out the FISA judges are part of it as well. We have plenty of laws. We don’t need FBI policy changes, Senate hearings, or Presidential Blue-Ribbon Committees. What we do need is ENFORCEMENT of the Rule of Law. There needs to CONSEQUENCES for their actions. Failure to hold people accountable will only lead to more bad behavior!! We need PERP walks for Comey, McCabe, Yates, Boente, Rosenstein, Strzok, Brennan and Clapper. They all lied. They were willful. This wasn’t just an accident or poor oversight. It wasn’t ‘seven layers removedâ€. They all… Read more »
I hope that Rogers has a lot of security and a food taster.
Awesome
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