Rogers has met the prosecutor leading the probe, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, on multiple occasions, according to two people familiar with Rogers\u2019s cooperation.<\/em><\/p>\n While the substance of those meetings is not clear, Rogers has cooperated voluntarily, several people with knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n Rogers, who retired in May 2018, did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n [\u2026] Rogers\u2019s voluntary participation, which has not been previously reported, makes him the first former intelligence director known to have been interviewed for the probe.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been very cooperative,\u201d one former intelligence officer who has knowledge of Rogers\u2019s meetings with the Justice Department said.\u00a0 (read more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n BACKSTORY:<\/strong>\u00a0 When Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes\u00a0explained his concerns<\/a>\u00a0in March 2017 -about what he saw from a review of 2016 intelligence gathering, reporting and subsequent unmasking- the issue behind his concern was clouded in mystery. Indeed the larger headlines at the time were about demanding a special prosecutor and driving the Russia conspiracy narrative.<\/p>\n 1.) \u2026\u201dOn numerous occasions the [Obama] intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition.\u201d<\/p>\n 2.)\u00a0 \u201cDetails about U.S. persons associated with the incoming administration; details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n 3.) \u201cThird, I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition members were unmasked.\u201d<\/p>\n 4.) \u201cFourth and finally, I want to be clear; none of this surveillance was related to Russia, or the investigation of Russian activities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe House Intelligence Committee will thoroughly investigate surveillance and its subsequent dissemination, to determine a few things here that I want to read off:\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u201cWho was aware of it?\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u201cWhy it was not disclosed to congress?\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u201cWho requested and authorized the additional unmasking?\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u201cWhether anyone directed the intelligence community to focus on Trump associates?\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u201cAnd whether any laws, regulations or procedures were violated?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have asked the Directors of the FBI, NSA and CIA to expeditiously comply with my March 15th (2017) letter -that you all received a couple of weeks ago- and to provide a full account of these surveillance activities.\u201d<\/p>\n ~ Devin Nunes, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Immediately after Nunes expressed those concerns during a press conference the media went bananas and Nunes became target #1.<\/p>\n In hindsight, and with information from our assembled timelines of 2016 though today, we can now revisit those March 2017 concerns expressed by Chairman Nunes with a great deal more perspective and information. Understanding the information helps us all understand the totality of Nunes\u00a0original frame of reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sometime in early 2016 Admiral Rogers became aware of \u201congoing\u201d and \u201cintentional\u201d violations of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Section 702(17) surveillance. Specifically item #17 which includes the unauthorized upstream data collection of U.S. individuals within NSA surveillance through the use of \u201cAbout Query\u201d.<\/p>\n Section 702 \u2013 Item #17 \u201cAbout Queries\u201d are specifically the collection of electronic messaging, emails and upstream phone call surveillance data of U.S. persons.<\/p>\n The public doesn\u2019t discover this issue, and Director Rogers action,\u00a0until May 2017<\/a>\u00a0when we learn that Rogers told the FISA court he became aware of unlawful surveillance and collection of U.S. persons.<\/p>\n Put into context, with the full back-story, it appears that 2016 surveillance was the political surveillance, the stuff Chairman Nunes was questioning. The dates here are important as they tell a story.<\/p>\n As a result of Rogers suspecting FISA 702(17) surveillance activity was being used for reasons he deemed unlawful, in mid 2016 Rogers ordered the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance.<\/p>\n Again, 702 is basically spying on Americans; the actual \u201cspying\u201d part is 702. Item 17 is \u201cAbout Queries<\/a>\u201c, which allows user queries or searches of content (messaging, email and phone conversations) based on any subject matter put into the search field.<\/p>\n The NSA compliance officer identified several strange 702 \u201cAbout Queries\u201d were being conducted. These were violations of the fourth amendment (search and seizure), ie searches, privacy violations, and surveillance without a warrant.\u00a0 As an outcome of the notification Rogers initiated a full compliance audit and then blocked all contractor access to the NSA database on April 18,2016, while the audit was ongoing.<\/p>\n Admiral Rogers was briefed on the audit results by the compliance officer on\u00a0October 20th, 2016<\/strong>.\u00a0 Admiral Mike Rogers ordered all \u201cAbout Query\u201d activity to be disabled, reported the activity to the DOJ, and then went to the FISA court.<\/p>\n On\u00a0October 26th, 2016<\/strong>, full FISA court assembled, NSA Director Rogers personally informed the court of the 702(17) violations.\u00a0 Additionally, and as an outcome of the NSA systems inability to guarantee integrity, Rogers also stopped \u201cAbout Query<\/a>\u201d permanently.<\/p>\n [Things to note:<\/strong>\u00a0♦Note the sequencing; ♦note that Rogers a career military person, followed the chain of command; ♦note the dates as they align with the\u00a0Trump FISA application<\/a>\u00a0from the FBI and DOJ-NSD, (ie. early\u00a0October 2016<\/strong>); ♦and note amid this sequence\/time-line the head of DOJ-National Security Divsion, John P Carlin\u00a0resigns.<\/a>]<\/p>\n IMPORTANT \u2013 WATCH The first two and a half minutes of this video:<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/rogers-condor-11-e1515385767118.jpg?w=299&h=340\")
<\/a>(Via Intercept<\/a>) Retired Adm. Michael Rogers, former director of the National Security Agency, has been cooperating with the Justice Department\u2019s probe into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump presidential campaign\u2019s alleged ties to Russia, according to four people familiar with Rogers\u2019s participation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Admiral Mike Rogers became NSA director in April 2014.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/fisa-abuse-error-rate-v3.jpg?w=640&h=430\")
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