The Man Who Saved America?

Admiral Rogers has announced his resignation. New York Magazine reports,

National Security Agency head Admiral Mike Rogers is retiring in the spring, he reportedly told staffers in a “classified memo” Friday.

The memo has since leaked to NPR and Politico, among others. It’s a fitting end to Rogers’s four-year tenure at the NSA, which was marked by high-profile intelligence leaks and his efforts to prevent them.

Brought on in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s bombshell NSA leaks, Rogers was tasked with making sure nothing of the sort ever happened again. But he wasn’t successful.

Rogers later ran afoul of the Obama administration in the waning days of 2016 when he met with then-president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower. The Washington Post reported at the time that Obama administration officials were lobbying the president to dismiss Rogers over the “unprecedented” move. He held on to his job though, which includes running the U.S. Cyber Command in addition to overseeing the NSA.

Read more here.

Also read the coverage and comments here, where Admiral Rogers is considered to be a true hero. Here is commenter konradwp1:

Imagine the pressure Admiral Rogers must have been under since mid 2016 when he first found out about the abuse of the 702 provisions of the FISA act and the plot against Trump. He acted honourably and appropriately through channels. His reward was the Deep State trying to smear his career and get him sacked to save their foul plot.

Imagine the pressure when he walked through the foyer of Trump Tower to inform the President Elect that he had been spied on, and the highly inappropriate nature of that spying. By then he would have known that DOJ, FBI and the CIA were all against him and would do anything they could to destroy him. But he did it anyway. Not for Trump, but for America.

True courage and true strength of character.

Admiral Michael Rogers. The man who saved America.