{"id":32580,"date":"2017-06-19T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=32580"},"modified":"2017-06-19T05:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:43:39","slug":"nsa-director-admits-in-closed-meeting-that-donald-trump-colluded-with-the-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/nsa-director-admits-in-closed-meeting-that-donald-trump-colluded-with-the-russians.html","title":{"rendered":"NSA Director Admits in Closed Meeting that Donald Trump Colluded with the Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSA Director Admits in Closed Meeting that Donald Trump Colluded with the Russians<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Observer reports this week that the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers, has admitted in a private town-hall-style meeting of NSA staffing that Donald Trump did, in fact, collude with the Russians.<\/span><\/p>\n

The story really begins when President Trump attempted to sway several top intelligence and security officials into joining his cause of derailing then FBI Director, James Comey. According to The Observer, these officials included, but were not limited to, Rogers and Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump was dealt a huge setback, however, when both of these men made it clear to the Trump that their loyalties were solely with their oaths to defend the United States Constitution, not with the President\u2019s political agendas.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a testimony last week before the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Coats declined to answer questions about Trump\u2019s attempt to undermine the FBI\u2019s investigation into possible collusion between Trump and Russia. He intimated the public setting would be inappropriate, and that he might be more forthcoming in a classified setting.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Schindler, a highly-experience expert in U.S. intelligence and security, and writer for The Observer, makes it clear how Rogers feels.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week\u2019s town hall event, which was broadcast to agency facilities worldwide, was therefore met with surprise and anticipation by the NSA workforce, and Rogers did not disappoint. I have spoken with several NSA officials who witnessed the director\u2019s talk and I\u2019m reporting their firsthand accounts, which corroborate each other, on condition of anonymity.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his town hall talk, Rogers reportedly admitted that President Trump asked him to discredit the FBI and James Comey, which the admiral flatly refused to do. As Rogers explained, he informed the commander in chief, \u201cI know you won\u2019t like it, but I have to tell what I have seen\u201d\u2014a probable reference to specific intelligence establishing collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rogers then added that such SIGINT exists, and it is damning. He stated, \u201cThere is no question that we [meaning NSA] have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians.\u201d Although Rogers did not cite the specific intelligence he was referring to, agency officials with direct knowledge have informed me that DIRNSA was obviously referring to a series of SIGINT reports from 2016 based on intercepts of communications between known Russian intelligence officials and key members of Trump\u2019s campaign, in which they discussed methods of damaging Hillary Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

NSA employees walked out of the town hall impressed by the director\u2019s forthright discussion of his interactions with the Trump administration, particularly with how Rogers insisted that he had no desire to \u201cpoliticize\u201d the situation beyond what the president has already done. America\u2019s spies are unaccustomed to playing partisan politics as Trump has apparently asked them to do, and it appears that the White House\u2019s ham-fisted effort to get NSA to attack the FBI and its credibility was a serious mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore high time for the House and Senate intelligence committees to invite Admiral Rogers to talk to them about what transpired with the White House. It\u2019s evident that DIRNSA has something important to say. Since Mike Rogers is said to have kept notes of the president\u2019s effort to enlist him in Trump\u2019s personal war with the FBI, as any seasoned Beltway bureaucrat would do, his account ought to be impressively detailed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/theproudliberal.org\/nsa-director-admits-in-closed-meeting-that-donald-trump-colluded-with-the-russians\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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