Exclusive: NSA Chief Admits Donald Trump Colluded With Russia

[MelissaB]

Exclusive: NSA Chief Admits Donald Trump Colluded With Russia

When will Admiral Rogers say publicly what he told his agency’s workforce?
By John R. Schindler • 05/26/17 10:56am

President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey continues to reverberate in the KremlinGate scandal, which threatens to consume the Trump administration. By abruptly removing Comey, then mangling his excuses for why he did so, Trump created a needless crisis for the White House which shows no signs of abating.

The impartial observer might think that Trump fired Comey because he feared what the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the president’s contacts with Russia might reveal—as the commander in chief has essentially admitted. Moreover, Trump’s inappropriate efforts to secure Comey’s personal “loyalty” had fallen flat—the FBI director rightly assured the president of his honesty but abjured any fealty to Trump personally—after which the president is reported to have developed a palpable fear of the incorruptible Bureau boss. To protect Team Trump, Comey had to go.

But cashiering Comey was insufficient. True to form, Trump seemingly took the offensive against the FBI. According to multiple reports, the president approached top intelligence bosses to coax them into joining Trump’s personal war with Comey. In particular, Trump is reported to have asked Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence (DNI), and Admiral Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, to go public in denying that Team Trump had any ties to Russia during the 2016 election campaign.

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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, “I know you won’t like it, but I have to tell what I have seen”—a probable reference to specific intelligence establishing collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump.

More: http://observer.com/2017/05/mike-rogers-nsa-chief-admits-trump-colluded-with-russia/

[The Polack MSgt]

1. Nah bro, Libs are just dreaming up nonesense 'cause their skeered of Alphas

MAGA!

wow, I think I need to wash my hands after typing that

[emulatorloo]

3. But there is 'no evidence' of Russian interference! Trump & Greenwald told me so!

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Dang! Jill Stein told me the same thing.

[emulatorloo]

13. I saw it on Reddit too! Must be true!

[DK504]

2. I don't think can be called a "Gate"

this is a storm of collusion, assisting agents of a foreign hostile government, obstruction of justice, encouraging Russian hacking of Americans intell. agencies, and the RICO charges/indictment that need to be brought up on his entire inner circle.

This is much, much worsethan a "gate", the 'gate' meme has lost it's power to bring the people around to pay attention.

Maybe it's just me.

[emulatorloo]

4. Nope, not just you. Makes Watergate look like a traffic violation in comparison.

[The Blue Flower]

5. This is not a scandal--this is treason

Dismantling the social safety net and contract we've made with our fellow citizens is how you bring the US to its knees within a generation. This is treason.

[politicaljunkie41910]

10. Richard Stegal fmr Undersecretary of State, said this morning that Putin got more than he ever

bargained for. "He was looking for Trump to help with sanctions. He never imagined that Trump would refuse to invoke Article 5. He's destabilizing the Atlantic alliance which is ultimately what Putin's real goal is."

[Hoyt]

6. Didn't read every word, but I didn't see anything about Trump colluding with Ruskies to throw

election.

As much as I want there to be evidence that even a GOPer can't deny or spin, no one has provided any yet of Trump colluding with Russia to throw the election. Until then, Trump will remain in office. There might be a chance to get him on obstruction of justice, but the best way to take him down is to show prior to the election Trump conspired with the Ruskies. Alternatively, we might get him if he directed one or more of his aides to work with the Ruskies.

I'm not seeing that in all this. I don't doubt Russia meddled in our election, as we have done in their elections. But, somebody has to find evidence Trump directly colluded with them. Until then, we will have to be satisfied with knocking off a few aides, embarrassing the Trump administration, and the like. That, of course, ain't bad.

[justiceischeap]

8. I think the collusion will be found in the cover-up. nt

[Hoyt]

12. Yes. Cover-up is a problem, especially asking FBI to drop investigation. But, even that was about

activities after the buffoon was elected. Then again, no telling what will come out over the next few months.

[justiceischeap]

14. You have to wonder why he's working so hard to cover-up

Something he wasn't involved in.

If I didn't do something, I tell everyone and their brother, "Investigate away, please. Need more resources?" I don't run around asking people to make it go away.

[ATL Ebony]

7. K&R

[triron]

9. +1

[GeorgeGist]

15. Weak critical thinking skills on display here ...

“I know you won’t like it, but I have to tell what I have seen”—a probable reference to specific intelligence establishing collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump.

Thats all folks