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Report: Carter And Clapper Recommended Removal of NSA Chief Rogers

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

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Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Director of Nation Intelligence (DNI)) James Clapper have recommended that National Security Agency (NSA) director Adm. Michael Rogers be removed from his position, according to a Nov. 19 report in the Washington Post.The recommendation was delivered to the White House in October, the newspaper reported based on information of “several U.S. officials familiar with the matter.”Rogers has led the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command since April 2014. In that role Carter and Clapper both act as his…

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