[Cats Pajamas]

The news comes as Rogers is being considered by President-elect Donald Trump to be his nominee for director of national intelligence to replace Clapper as the official who oversees all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower. That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters. The White House, Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment. The NSA did not respond to requests for comment. Carter has concerns with Rogers’s performance, officials said. The driving force for Clapper, meanwhile, was the separation of leadership roles at the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and his stance that the NSA should be headed by a civilian.

[DannyTN]

So what is Snowden getting at?

It doesn’t make sense for Obama to remove the head of NSA 2 months before the inauguration of a new president. And I don’t see where they have raised any serious issues with Clapper.

It’s not like Trump couldn’t talk to the guy for a smooth transition.

I don’t get this whole story.

[Yo-Yo]

Direct link to the WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-and-intelligence-community-chiefs-have-urged-obama-to-remove-the-head-of-the-nsa/2016/11/19/44de6ea6-adff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html

[Nam Vet]

So ------ what is the hidden earthquake? I'm not informed about Rogers and what all this implies.

Nam Vet

[maggief]

FYI

[BraveMan]

If you read some of his previous tweets it becomes apparent Snowden is concerned Trump is going to go full throttle with the surveillance state apparatus Obama tacitly approved.

I rather think there are persons within the organizations concerned Rogers has his own Harold T. Martin III information boxed set.

[HarleyLady27]

I watched a documentary on channel 10 last night about ISIS the building of it, the reasons for it, and you know something:

Right there was Rogers leading his troops into arms way, they over took the city and President Bush told them to ‘stand down’, if they had gone across they would have ended ISIS right then and there, but again our government didn’t have a spine...

To think that today, if Rogers and his Marines had run ISIS to the ground, we wouldn’t be in this situation...tells me a lot...and I hope Trump picks Rogers, the man knows what he is doing and with a Leader like Trump over our Military, no one will ‘stand down’ again!!!

[Robert357]

You got to put yourself in the position of the Big Zero.

NSA has all the electronic information or at least access to it. The Biz Zero, Hillary, the IRS, the DOJ, the FBI EPA all have a huge trail of emails that are smoking guns of illegal activity.

A new NSA director with a new DOJ and FBI director could easily collect all the evidence they need to send the Entire Obama Cabinet to jail.

Obama needs a couple of months to find and purge all electronic records before he leaves office and anyone who stands in his way will be asked to leave or killed.

If you thought Hillary deleted 33,000 emails was a big deal, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Rogers is on the ground at NSA and if named early can cut deals with people to preserve their careers who will stand up to Obama threats on purging evidence.

[GOPJ]

Is Clapper doing the country a favor by staying put UNTIL OBAMA’S OUT OF OFFICE? Is that what’s happening? Maybe it’s NOT a action against Trump?

The NSA story is being leaked to the press - but it seems the liberal press hasn’t figured it out. Anyone with a clue?

[pierrem15]

There were claims that the NSA had records of Clinton's missing emails, so I wonder if the NSA doesn't have lots of evidence of the Obama administration's criminality.

Seeing Trump ahead of time might be to inform him of this, and to let others in the NSA know that they will not be able to get away with destroying evidence already in the NSA's possession.

Or it might just be Rogers conniving for an appointment.