https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/ns...okers.html

Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter, Mr. Williams, a cybersecurity expert, was dismayed to discover that he had been thrust into the middle of one of the worst security debacles ever to befall American intelligence.
Mr. Williams had written on his company blog about the Shadow Brokers, a mysterious group that had somehow obtained many of the hacking tools the United States used to spy on other countries. Now the group had replied in an angry screed on Twitter. It identified him — correctly — as a former member of the National Security Agency’s hacking group, Tailored Access Operations, or T.A.O., a job he had not publicly disclosed. Then the Shadow Brokers astonished him by dropping technical details that made clear they knew about highly classified hacking operations that he had conducted.
America’s largest and most secretive intelligence agency had been deeply infiltrated.
“They had operational insight that even most of my fellow operators at T.A.O. did not have,” said Mr. Williams...."

...These leaks have been incredibly damaging to our intelligence and cyber capabilities,” said Leon E. Panetta, the former defense secretary and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. “The fundamental purpose of intelligence is to be able to effectively penetrate our adversaries in order to gather vital intelligence. By its very nature, that only works if secrecy is maintained and our codes are protected....”

Admiral Rogers, head of NSA, is the one intelligence leader Trump has retained.

Why did Adm Rogers meet Trump privately without authority?

This was in 2017? You need authority to meet with the head of the executive branch when you work in the executive branch? Where is that statute, exactly?

(11-13-2017 12:19 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  This was in 2017? You need authority to meet with the head of the executive branch when you work in the executive branch? Where is that statute, exactly?

No, it was under Obama in 2016.

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Saw the title, thought this would be a NSFW thread.

(11-13-2017 11:23 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  Why did Adm Rogers meet Trump privately without authority?

He's Russian. His surname is really Roginovich. Try to keep up.

This is a very dirty headline

Thought this was another Roy Moore revelation.

(11-13-2017 11:50 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Thought this was another Roy Moore revelation.

My money was on Bill Clinton.

(11-13-2017 11:02 PM)TechRocks Wrote:  

(11-13-2017 11:23 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  Why did Adm Rogers meet Trump privately without authority?

He's Russian. His surname is really Roginovich. Try to keep up.

you forgot the ties to the ISIS Vatican Illuminati (the real euro ms13 ganstas)....