[TheBlackSphere] When I speak of the hero who brought down Obama and the Democrats, I’m not talking about the American people who elected Donald Trump.
I’m not even talking about Trump himself, certainly a good candidate for this distinctions.
Instead, I’m talking about a man whose name you likely haven’t heard (if you haven't been paying attention.)
Retiring NSA Director, Admiral Mike Rogers is the man of whom I speak. Rogers risked all as he courageously stood up against the most corrupt government in American history, overseen by the most diabolical president ever, Barack Obama.
Rogers blew the whistle on the illegal sharing of FISA information on people working in conjunction with the crooked Hillary Clinton campaign, as they plotted with the intelligence community to defeat Donald Trump.
Below is a full timeline of Rogers’ actions and the reason for this post:
November 2015-April 2016 ‐ The FBI and DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) uses private contractors to access raw FISA information using "To" and "From" FISA- 702(16) & "About" FISA-702(17) queries.
March 2016 ‐ NSA Director Rogers becomes aware of improper access to raw FISA data.
April 2016 ‐ Rogers orders the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance.
April 18 2016 ‐ Rogers shuts down FBI/NSD contractor access to the FISA Search System.
April-September 2016 ‐ Rogers continues his investigation.
September 26 2016 ‐ DOJ’s NSD Head John Carlin files the Government’s proposed 2016 Section 702 certifications. The filing does not disclose the FISA Abuses. Carlin is aware of Rogers’ compliance review. The 2016 certifications are scheduled for Court approval on October 26, 2016.
September 27 2016 ‐ Carlin announces he is resigning. Mary McCord will later assume his position.
October 15, 2016 ‐ Carlin formally leaves the NSD.
Mid-October 2016 ‐ DNI Clapper submits a recommendation to the White House that Director Rogers be removed from the NSA. Clapper’s effort fails.
October 20 2016 ‐ Rogers is briefed by the NSA compliance officer on the Section 702 NSA compliance audit and "About" query violations.
October 21 2016 ‐ Rogers shuts down all "About Query" activity. Rogers reports the activity to DOJ and prepares to go before the FISA Court.
October 21 2016 ‐ DOJ & FBI seek and receive a Title I FISA probable cause order authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC. At this point, the FISA Court is unaware of the Section 702 violations.
October 24 2016 ‐ Rogers verbally informs the FISA Court of Section 702(17) violations.
October 26 2016 ‐ Rogers formally informs the FISA Court of 702(17) violations in writing.
October 26, 2016 ‐ The FISA Court refuses to formalize the 2016 Section 702 certifications. A complete overhaul of Section 702 processes ensues.
November 17 2016 (morning) ‐ Rogers travels to meet President-Elect Trump and his Transition Team in Trump Tower. Rogers does not inform DNI James Clapper.
November 17 2016 (evening) ‐ Trump Transition Team announces they are moving all transition activity to Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey. Continues. I sincerely hope former NSA Director Rogers is one day awarded the National Intelligence Cross.
#1
After Trump was sworn in many serious leaks to the media occurred that were meant to discredit the administration. For a long time people could not figure out how those leaks occurred. There were many phone conversations leaked, phone conversations that were supposed to be secure.
Every local area phone network, every local area computer network has one familiar face that many people take for granted is trust worthy, the Network Administrator dude.
The same network protocol used for computer networks (TCPIP) is similar to voice networks (VOIP). That traffic can be captured by tools accessible to the network administrator. Donald Trump is most likely not familiar with this stuff and would be vulnerable to those who are.
I contacted one of Trump, Jr's top people and explained all of this as well as someone at Ivanka's company in a way that would make sense that they need to look at what the White House network administrators are up to these days.
Almost immediately the leaks were dramatically reduced. I assume they must have investigated that angle thoroughly enough to put a lid on it. I would not be surprised if players in the FBI were behind the leak effort via the network administrators as well.
I come not to defend Roseanne Barr nor to bury her. I really don’t give a hang about what some actress says or thinks, and my only question is why is this world news, including being on BBC. Why in hell is what some random American actress, not particularly well known overseas, said or what she meant a reason to create a hue and cry in England? Except of course the left thinks it supports their narrative.
I really couldn’t care less about Roseanne. In fact, I had to look up her last name before I wrote this. If I ever saw her in anything at all, I don’t remember. Which is no big deal. I never remember actors. As my family has been known to say, "If mom starts recognizing actors and actresses, it’s time to look in the basement for pods, because that ain’t mom."
The language, though, and the freedom to use it? That I care passionately about. And I’m getting sick and tired of words that are okay in certain circumstances and not in others.
So, this Valerie Jarret thing. Roseanne Barr apparently said she looks like a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.
She’s not wrong. Jarret doesn’t have particularly simian features, at least to my eyes, but her eyes have that curious flat, "odd" look of the actors in planet of the apes. I don’t know why. I mean, I know why in the actors. The makeup creates a certain immobility that gives the eyes a fixed stare. I don’t know why in Jarret. Botox, maybe? As for the Muslim brotherhood, that’s harder to defend. We know Jarret has family ties to it, but what does the Muslim brotherhood look like? Perhaps really angry? Which Jarret tends to look. Like she’s barely keeping from yelling at you.
So?
So furor erupts because apparently Jarret’s father is black. Guys, I’m pretty well plugged in to politics, and I did not know that. Not a clue. Jarret doesn’t look it. Hell, I have more African features, as does #1 son. (But then the technical term for black people whose ancestors have been in America very long is "Caucasian." By the characteristics used in SA to determine the race of a foundling of no known parentage, most of American Blacks, from texture of hair to eye color at birth are white. Never has so much been made of such a tiny difference.)
So was Roseanne being racist? Who the f*ck knows? She’s an actress. She was being noisy and bombastic, after her kind.
The indications are, though, that no she wasn’t trying to be racist. If she were she would not have immediately apologized. And also, for someone who lives in the public eye, she would have "revealed" herself long before now.
The fact is that there is vanishingly little racism in America (trust me. Take a tour of Europe or yeah the middle East and you’ll see racism.)
#6
When your Inner Totalitarian is screaming to surface even the thought that a popular TV character can be "on the Enemy Side!!!11!!!" is intolerable.
#7
Rosanne is crazy. ABC had to have known about the Hitler baking photoshoot before they put her on the air again, they knew she'd eventually implode and wanted to have it both ways. They were right.
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