Former Rep. Mike Rogers Already Leaving the Trump Transition Team..

GRR Spartan wrote:Didn't agree with Mike Rogers on numerous issues but never questioned his reasons for being a Congressman.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:can't believe he didn't want to be associated with white nationalists, the KKK, bigots, xenophobes, misogynists and an admitted sexual predator..  

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Rogers Parts Ways With Trump Transition Team

LooseGoose wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:can't believe he didn't want to be associated with white nationalists, the KKK, bigots, xenophobes, misogynists and an admitted sexual predator..  

(caution: mainstream media article below)

Rogers Parts Ways With Trump Transition Team

Supposedly all the Christie picks are getting broomed.


PS I do admire the strange new respect of Rogers from GRR and BobS now that he's off the TrumpTeam. I imagine we'll see more of that going forward.

NigelUno wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Supposedly all the Christie picks are getting broomed.


PS I do admire the strange new respect of Rogers from GRR and BobS now that he's off the TrumpTeam.   I imagine we'll see more of that going forward.

Would that be like your new respect of Trump?

GRR Spartan wrote:Didn't agree with Mike Rogers on numerous issues but never questioned his reasons for being a Congressman.

tGreenWay wrote:

GRR Spartan wrote:Didn't agree with Mike Rogers on numerous issues but never questioned his reasons for being a Congressman.

This. Rogers is a good guy with good intentions. I never questioned that he wanted the same good things for America; just that we disagreed on how to get there.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA H.R. 3523 (112th Congress), H.R. 624 (113th Congress), H.R. 234 (114th Congress)) is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and manufacturing companies. The stated aim of the bill is to help the U.S. government investigate cyber threats and ensure the security of networks against cyberattacks.[1]

The legislation was introduced on November 30, 2011, by Representative Michael Rogers (R-MI) and 111 co-sponsors.[2][3] It was passed in the House of Representatives on April 26, 2012, but was not passed by the U.S. Senate.[4] President Barack Obama's advisers have argued that the bill lacks confidentiality and civil liberties safeguards, and the White House said he would veto it.[5]

In February 2013, the House reintroduced the bill[6] and it passed in the United States House of Representatives on April 18, 2013,[7] but stalled and was not voted upon by the Senate.[8] On July 10, 2014 a similar bill, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), was introduced in the Senate.[9]

In January 2015, the House reintroduced the bill again.[10] The bill has been referred to the Committee on Intelligence, and as of February 2, 2015 to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations and Subcommittee on Constitution and Civil Justice to see if it will come to the House for a vote. In December 2015 a version of CISPA was hidden in the total federal budget.

CISPA had garnered favor from corporations and lobbying groups such as Microsoft, Facebook, AT&T, IBM, and the United States Chamber of Commerce, which look on it as a simple and effective means of sharing important cyber threat information with the government.[11] It has however been criticized by advocates of Internet privacy and civil liberties, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, Free Press, Fight for the Future, and Avaaz.org, as well as various conservative and libertarian groups including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, TechFreedom, FreedomWorks, Americans for Limited Government, Liberty Coalition, and the American Conservative Union. Those groups argue CISPA contains too few limits on how and when the government may monitor a private individual’s Internet browsing information. Additionally, they fear that such new powers could be used to spy on the general public rather than to pursue malicious hackers.[12][13]

Some critics saw wording included in CISPA as a second attempt to protect intellectual property after the Stop Online Piracy Act was taken off the table by Congress after it met opposition.[14] Intellectual property theft was initially listed in the bill as a possible cause for sharing Web traffic information with the government, though it was removed in subsequent drafts.[15]

GRR Spartan wrote:I'll clarify.  I didn't see Rogers as bought and paid for .  

There are plenty of Democrats who could couldn't wait to approve funds to establish Homeland Security either.

It would appear that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main person in Congress pushing for CISPA, has kept rather quiet about a very direct conflict of interest that calls into serious question the entire bill. It would appear that Rogers' wife stands to benefit quite a lot from the passage of CISPA, and has helped in the push to get the bill passed. It's somewhat amazing that no one has really covered this part of the story, but it highlights, yet again, the kind of activities by folks in Congress that make the public trust Congress less and less.

GRR Spartan wrote:Update

Rogers was asked to leave / fired.

Mike Rogers is week on foreign policy? Who knew?

LooseGoose wrote:Gosh I remember when Trump didn't know how to name a Cabinet......and of course the lemmings were on here parroting the Press.

Philip Bump ‏@pbump 3h3 hours ago
Since 1980, no one has had as much of his Cabinet picked as does Trump. http://wapo.st/2gKY663

Robert J Sakimano wrote:oh - and I don't think people are talking about Trump's lack of expeditiousness as it relates to selecting a Cabinet.. I'm just chuckling at his picks..

here's our Secretary of Energy..

LooseGoose wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:oh - and I don't think people are talking about Trump's lack of expeditiousness as it relates to selecting a Cabinet.. I'm just chuckling at his picks..

here's our Secretary of Energy..

Looks like a great fit - full of energy. I know you prefer people like Dingy Harry running things....

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Looks like a great fit - full of energy. I know you prefer people like Dingy Harry running things....

I'm just glad you don't support Trump.