According to multiple media reports, former House Republican Mike Rogers is being considered for FBI Director.
There is three Mike Rogers, the one being discussed is the former Chair of the HPSCI, the Mike Rogers who protected Hillary Clinton.
First, all of the reports about a pending FBI Director announcement do not seem feasible. Current FBI Director Christopher Wray has not resigned and still has two years left on his term. President Trump does not take office until after inauguration in January, so he cannot appoint a nomination until after Wray resigns or President Trump (officially in office) fires him.
As a result, all of the reports of a “pending announcement” are seemingly moot. Unless something changes, there will not be one.
All of that said, President Trump is reportedly considering Mike Rogers, the 2024 Republican Senate candidate in Michigan who lost his election last week. [President Trump did endorse Mike Rogers, but he did not win his race.]
According to the media, one article below, President Trump is considering Mike Rogers for FBI Director. Mike Rogers was previously the Chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and has a very corrupt history of whitewashing an “unofficial report” on Benghazi, in order to protect Hillary Clinton. When Chairman Rogers was leading the HPSCI he was in full alignment with the Deep State.
FIRST ON FOX – Will the second time be the charm for one-time Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent and former Rep. Mike Rogers?
Rogers, the 2024 Republican Senate nominee in Michigan who lost his election last week by a razor-thin margin, met Thursday with President-elect Trump’s transition team regarding potentially serving as FBI director in the former and future president’s second administration, sources familiar tell Fox News. The meeting took place at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Rogers worked as a special agent with the FBI in its Chicago office and who served as chair of the House Intelligence Committee during the final four years of his decade-long tenure in Congress, was interviewed in 2017 during Trump’s first administration to serve as FBI director after James Comey was dismissed. (read more)
Unfortunately, Rogers is very connected to the Deep State intelligence community apparatus.
Devin Nunes replaced Rogers after the Michigan representative retired from congress in ’14. Rogers then went to work for CNN.
Mike Rogers together with Democrat Rep Dutch Ruppersberger, were infamous for generating the report that defended the CIA and Deep State during the Benghazi aftermath and protecting Hillary Clinton {GO DEEP}. 👀 CTH took apart the report that was created by Rogers and Ruppersberger without the other members of the intelligence committee participating.
Annoyingly, Rogers has a long history of helping to assist and create the national security “surveillance state.” SEE HERE and SEE HERE and SEE HERE.
Perhaps he has changed in the decade since he was one of the primary advocates for the Deep State and the creation of the 4th branch of government; however, I doubt it.
I also doubt that President Trump was advised about the nature of Mike Rogers and his ideological outlook toward supporting the National Security state. Rogers has a life-long history of supporting the very institutional actors who targeted President Trump, so it’s a little hard to see him supporting President Trump in the second term.
The 2014 Rogers/Ruppersberger Report was specifically designed, by wording, to provide political cover to both parties – Republicans and Democrats within the Gang of Eight particularly included and protected.
It is professional obfuscation in structure, content and wording. Here’s an example: Page #2

This is an excellent paragraph to show how the entire 37 page document is strategically worded.
…” no evidence […] wrongly forced to sign a nondisclosure agreement“
This wording intimates that none were signed. Not correct. We know nondisclosures were required. This phrasing simply says none were “wrongly forced“. Where the intelligence community/committee determines rightly and wrongly.
…”or polygraphed because of their presence in Benghazi“
Again, this doesn’t say that intelligence officials were not polygraphed, only that the auspices for their polygraphs was not a result of their knowledge in Benghazi. Again where the intelligence community (IC) determines the valid auspices.
…”The committee also found no evidence that the CIA conducted unauthorized activities in Benghazi”…
Parseltongue. The word emphasized is “unauthorized“, meaning all of the activity was known, active, and authorized. As expected, and outlined within The Brief.
…”and no evidence that the IC shipped arms to Syria“.
BIG parseltongue. Note the absence of the word “direct” or “directly“.
Of course we sent arms to Syria, the administration admitted to sending arms to Syria, just not “directly”, which is the keen distinction within the paragraph. This aspect was also critical to include because Hillary Clinton testified to a Rand Paul question about it.
Donald Trump just endorsed the worst Deep State candidate this cycle. @MikeRogersForMI is a never Trumper, and a card carrying member of the spy state that seeks to destroy Trump.
You have to ask yourself who gives Trump this awful advice?
Who’s next, John Bolton? pic.twitter.com/TZXRYLtFv6
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 11, 2024
The entire Rogers/Ruppersberger “Panel Report”, which is not to say the report was done by the entire House Intelligence Committee – because it was not, was similarly worded.
Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger together, and alone, pulled data from all of the various committee reports and assembled their own “panel report”. This key aspect was lost in the Benghazi conversation, only Rogers and Ruppersberger authored this report.
The reason for that key aspect of authorship missing, within analytical discussion of the content therein, begins the conversation of motive.
With Senate committees in 2014 about to come under Republican leadership, Rogers and Ruppersberger had a motivation to put out a report which could be used by their party allies to avoid scrutiny.
In addition, with Rep Trey Gowdy’s Chairmanship of a Select Committee on Benghazi starting up in January 2015, and with House Intel Chair Rogers exiting from congress, the authors of the report held a motive to proactively undercut Gowdy’s investigation into missing oversight that would normally be part of Rogers/Ruppersberger’s responsibility.
For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton was given a talking point shield she utilized for her future political ambitions; and boy howdy did she use it.
In exchange, for Republicans, House and Senate leadership gained a shield of avoidance from sunlight upon their own complicit knowledge.
In addition, it was reported in 2014 that Mike Rogers had ambitions to launch a talk radio show – this report allowed him to retain credibility and avoid sunlight upon his own complicity as a member of the “Gang of Eight”, and chair of the House Intelligence Committee during the State/CIA Benghazi operation. In short: Mike Rogers hid his willful blindness.
If you read the Rogers/Ruppersberger report, we invite you to look at the factual constructs of The Full Benghazi Brief. Within the brief you will see the fully connected dots which explain the risks, liabilities and willful blindness, trying to be hidden by publication of the Rogers report. CTH predicted exactly that outcome at the end of the brief.

After all of nominations so far (2 questionable) I seriously doubt that this Mike Rogers could possibly be in consideration for any position in this Administration.
Cleaning Out the FBI will take a high quality Sheriff.
Or a talented arsonist.
My vote.
Arsenic– whoops…
Quite so
I think about sometimes. we ARE DOING a righteous act….sometimes…MANY TIMES.
(we are at war…facing a formidable enemy that will cost US THE PEOPLE MUCH. MUCH…MUCH. …MUCH…
we only do this because it is right.
Wrong. This is justice. We have been called. To do that one thing that matters more than any other thing…to lay do THE LIFE that others may have life…to be free…to experience liberty in its truest form…the original form
I speak to GOD, daily..and my my calling is near.
God Bless America
do YOU see that…the killing is not done yet., the living is why we do this…we have life….but we are not death cult stupid. We do THESE THINGS because we believe in truth…God Truth..we are believers…obedient to defending those who cannot defend or who cannot defend against evil..these are our children…the lost and absconded ,,,but also angels of vengeance and WRATH to those who I have defied and BLASPHEMED against TRUTH.
never dare against God. Never do this. Always be truthful
Mike Rogers is Chris Wray 2.0 on steroids! OMG No!
“Current FBI Director Christopher Wray has not resigned and still has two years left on his term. President Trump does not take office until after inauguration in January, so he cannot appoint a nomination until after Wray resigns or President Trump (officially in office) fires him“
Completely forgot this “little” detail.
Sounds again like insiders trying to openly suggest falsehoods in an attempt to see if something/someone they prefer sticks.
While PDJT has historically stated that he “likes to be liked”, it would be important for the media, IC, establishment insiders, RINO’s, etc… understand that this is a very different & prepared POTUS getting ready to take the reigns on Jan 20th. Those tricks, traps & tactics won’t work this this time around.
Not only a very different and prepared POTUS, but also a very different and prepared group of advisors.
Rarely has a candidate for the presidency had as much time to think, strategize, observe, analyze, and study as has President Donald Trump, who knew in his bones (along with the rest of us) that he would return to the presidency if a little luck and patience were on his side. President Trump provided all the patience in the world, and God provided the rest, much to the great benefit of the history of the world.
Agreed, in fact Waters interviewed one of his advisors this evening who was with his administration in 2016 & was with his 2024 campaign & will be in his administration again. While I can’t remember her exact quote she profoundly commented that this “4 year pause” they/we had allowed Team Trump to be better & fully prepared to essentially already be in place & hit the ground running immediately after Election Day & not waiting til January 20th.
Thank you notes are in order to the Democrat 2020 Election riggers. Back better than ever. The pause that refreshed and tempered Trump’s steel to not break.
vigil vigilance vengeance justice..power
Trump is all in this time and time is very short this time. He had four years in the wilderness to prepare for this moment. Plow through the entrenched dross. America gave him a mandate. They too know time is short to get this right.
Sundance what is going on w some of his Picks. Im beginning to think we are seeing Paybacks? We are living in never seen before times. times we never would never have dreamed for our future
Not sure if you’re complaining or applauding?
I hope it’s the latter as most, if not all of these appointees look to be wolverines.
I was hoping for wolverines in the MIC, and he’s delivered. Except 90% of them are warmongers. Will we ever end the forever wars that are bankrupting our country, fiscally and morally?
I agree. Trump seems to have completely ditched any notion of ending the empire building insanity of the neoliberals.
Kash or Tony Shaffer.
Tony Shaffer should absolutely be in the mix … that is one great man!!!
Shaffer is a Neocon!
Tony, PLEASE!! And Mike Benz, in some capacity.
Huge mistake if Trump were to put this guy in any job within his administration. LEOPARDS don’t change their spots.
There’s a calculation to this appointment. There always is. I trust my President.
“When asked if the world would be better with Qaddafi in power, Trump said, “100%.” IOW the US screwed up going into Libya.
He was right then and he hasn’t changed since. And Mike Rogers would agree with him and that’s why Mike Rogers is in play for an assignment.
The reason Mike Rogers lost his senate bid was because his uneducated political opponents painted him as kissing Hilary’s ass over Libya. Wrong
Maybe I need to read this a third time.
You can overlook what he did for Hillary and covering up Benghazi? That was a horrible incident that should never have happened and this guy tried to smother Hillary’s part in it. No way should he be anywhere near the highest parts of our govt. let alone in a Trump (who he was totally against)administration.
Bannon went to Mar a Lago today. I’m sure he’ll clear up any misconceptions.
Bannon. Stone. Flynn, et als.
There should be a five bell alarm going off all around PDJT about this possible selection. Just as there was about Pompeo.
It is hardly subtle why this would be a bad pick.
trump was just teasing brennan and the boy’s.
Comment deleted!
In other news – this rock star is back on the Trump Team… President-Elect Trump Appoints Campaign Spox Steven Cheung as WH Communications Directorhttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/breaking-president-elect-trump-appoints-campaign-spox-steven/
To round out your knowledge of how corrupt this guy is do a search on his wife.
EVERYONE Should Read about the Entanglements Between His Elected Position and HER Career.
GOOD Monies MADE.
HOPING This Vetting Process EXPOSES ALL the UGLY
Just plug Bongino in as FBI director.
Or Nunes or Paxton
Nunes anywhere would be good. Paxton would be perfect for FBI!
TX needs Paxton, to keep it from going blue.
Nah, Bongino, REGARDLESS of his comments to the contrary, would actually DO WELL as USSS Chief. IF DJT ASKS HIM!
This clown is a piece of garbage.
I think this rumor is nonsense, but I guess we’ll see.
“According to multiple media reports”. And “considered”. That is clue No. 1. that this is a media-driven rumor meant to rile the waters.
Past is prologue for the last week. And all of PDJT’s elections so far have been well thought out. This poor choice would be a radical departure from that recent practice.
Rule No. 1 also applies: unless PDJT specifically states a selection, don’t rely on it.
I don’t think we are going to see this selection as reported by the media. It defies logic and the good practice of the past week..
And as Sundance also pointed out to me yesterday, there needs to be an opening at FBI for this to even matter. 😉
no wonder he was not elected.. his constituents remembered him
WTF? Rogers is Chris Wray Part 2.
Unless this is some kind of a trial balloon, will have to trust Trump on this one. On the surface, seems like a very bad pick for what Trump and America needs in a new FBI Director.
I’ve been saying it’s more like Romney 2.0.
Entertain what was most likely a requested interview then politely say “now go pound sand”.
I can’t believe this is real. I think this story was initially leaked, and I’ve been thinking that it’s got to be a leak trap. As you say, this would absolutely be like Wray #2, and this guy would absolutely work to undermine AG Gaetz and DNI Tulsi. There are much better, non-DS options.
An old reveal on Rogers from the New American.
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“The House Intelligence Committee is headed by one of the most outspoken and enthusiastic cheerleaders for the surveillance state, Representative Mike Rogers (shown, R-Mich.).”
Hearing on NSA Surveillance Little More than Love Fest
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/congress/hearing-on-nsa-surveillance-little-more-than-love-fest/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/never-trump-mike-rogers-fbi-director-sen-rand/
WTF Trump, so you never learn?
Relax, highly unlikely this is accurate more likely contrived to create chaos in MAGA Nation.
Mike Rogers is just gaslighting us with this publicity probably. You know, the Comey trick. Put out a story in the news cycle and whe n it is published use it a source to get a warrant.
What was it Sydney Powell wrote this morning..? Oh yeah.lol..
Who knew that nominating Cabinet officials would become a highly entertaining national spectator sport?
laughing so hard I leaked
A bad choice if true, but it seems FBI director reports to AG (Gaetz if he gets in) and DNI (Tulsi). Wouldn’t Rogers have two good folks looking over his shoulder?
why bother appointing someone you have to watch?
Rogers would have the AG so tied up in investigations it would hardly matter who the AG is.
The Mike Rogers I would support was ADM Rogers who was running the NSA prior to DJT winning the FIRST time.
Yes!
That would be the ultimate is political trolling/gamesmanship.
Leak the name Mike Rogers which would appease the IC & other deep-staters then when the pick is officially announced it’s PDJT Dios the hammer & names Admiral Mike Rogers.
Mike Rogers-Freedom Index (Constitution)
https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/legislator/r000572/
This is awful, really, who is giving Trump this advise?
He hasn’t appointed him. It’s just a rumor at this point.
Mike Rogers is a RINO!! Bad choice!! How about Kash Patel?
Sundance if you have any contacts within Trump world please 🙏 let them know this would be a drastic mistake!! 💁🏻♀️
What Admiral Mike Rogers
did in giving the heads up to President Trump was incalculably invaluable!
Mega-Kudos Admiral!
I hope you reading this sight…
“ your reading this site”.
Maybe you were and it played a role 😏😉👍
You’re. If you’re going to correct someone…
Floating Rogers as the pick for FBI makes no sense unless it is all just a tactical ploy to use the rumor for some other purpose. If so, identifying who is floating these rumors would tell us how they were being used.
If the rumors were coming from the Deep State or from Rogers himself, it could be an attempt to steer Trump’s pick.
But if the rumors are coming from the Trump transition, it could be a ploy to give Chris Wray hope the Deep State would still have a champion. Use the rumor as a way to make Wray amenable to resigning before the inauguration. Then after Wray quits, Trump could announce a real pick for his replacement.
Devious!
🤔
Your last paragraph has merit. This may very well be an intentional misdirection by the transition team for that very purpose. See if the snake takes the bait?
A real pick with the same name, save a d.
No way this is true, fake news
Yep!
Too many people named Mike Rogers.
First one I thought of when I heard the name was Admiral Mike Rogers, the one who warned Trump about the wire tapping back in 2016?
Thanks Sundance. Agree this “nomination” is not a real one coming from Trump. Wonder where this Mike Rogers as FBI first came from? TV? Newspaper? X ?
Can’t be real. I’m sure they made a mistake . It’s probably that other great repug from Michigan…Fred Upton.
It seems so simple, all the left has in its bag of tricks is disinformation and deceit.
I am only aware of two Mike Rogers – the Mike Rogers who was in the US Navy
and then this Mike Rogers:
born and raised in Michigan
was an FBI agent in Chicago
was in Congress and chaired the HSPCI
had a job with CNN and CNN also cooked up a special program for him to host, “Declassified”
was offered the FBI Director job in 2017
link to the Wikipedia article: Mike Rogers (Michigan politician) – Wikipedia
Mike Rogers (R-AL). Current Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
This Mike Rogers was the one that went after Matt Gaetz during the House Speaker selection. Richard Hudson (R-NC) had to restrain Rogers.
Thank you!
It reminds me of a cute movie from 1951 starring Jane Wyman, “Three Guys Named Mike” (co-starring Van Johnson, Howard Keel and Barry Sullivan).
Due to confusion over the three fellows with the same name, she came up with a way to identify each one: Mike, Michael and Mickey (I don’t think the guy getting the “Mickey” moniker liked that very much).
The Admiral who helped Trump is Mike Rodgers.
A sledgehammer approach to the FBI is a non starter in my opinion.
Too many 6’ways bad optic outcomes.
That the MSM will natural look at as writing itself in the blame game headlines/clickbait.
The best way forward is get the DOJ house in order, put a strong 4th Constitutionalist department leader at the helm and let those hard working folks at the FBI eat their own. That is career advancement through weeding out bad middle management actors that have entrenched themselves to patronage to the political side of the FBI.
Six foot under looks a bad outcome?
Furthermore, I consider that the Derp State MUST be destroyed!!
I still say.
Ric is a natural choice.
Not because he has a burning desire to be Director to the FBI.
But because if he was asked to do this as the place to best service the President. He likely would say, yes.
He just has the right mindset, diplomacy and political instincts to set straight the tone to the rank and file. To cut through the patronage crap that is very likely at the heart of the many of the problems at the FBI
Just image, a pencil neck like Strzok walking into Ric office with an operation hurricane crossfire type outline.
Saying the DOJ already threaded the legality side of the task force.
Strzok would still be orbit to this day.
That is what is need at the FBI.
I’m liking Kash Patel of Tony Shaffer!
I, yi, yi!!!
If somebody on the transition team brought this idea forward, they should be f@@king shot.
You don’t put Gates in as AG and then sabotage him with a deep state tool.
Gates will be in the dock.
Gaetz will put him there.
😁
This would be a very tough one to swallow for any of us I think. He seems to be as deep state as one can get. I’m hoping PTrump,if he was at all looking into hiring this guy for any position, that he realize what he’s getting here. One of the previous opposition members, a Hillary Clinton protecter and a deeply embedded deep stater for the IC. FBI leader is way too important to entrust to this type of guy with the huge history of helping the wrong people who targeted PTrump from day one.
noting: these are the marginal wars…the edge..what you want it to be but cannot
BE VERY CAREFUL OF YOUR MIND IN THESE MOMENT>
that is all
God Bless America
Sundance, Sundance Acolytes, Treehouse Audience– etc.– it has been said many times, and many ways before —
I hope there are those in the inner circle who read the input from the Sundance analysis.
None of us know the myriad of –who is who and what is what– in this massive government beast.
I just hope there are those in the inner circle that we care about who read and listen.
I’ll never buy it until it is confirmed because you can’t tell me PDJT doesn’t know exactly what MI Mike Rogers is and I’m hoping it’s actually Adm Rogers
This is a head fake. Something for appearances sake, that the President would be “reasonable” in selecting a new director. As soon as I saw his name I didn’t need anyone to tell me he was DS. But I always appreciate SD’s analysis.
God help us… we all know the FBI is the American version of the Gestapo and as corrupt as the dept of Injustice.
What’s the logic behind this? Quid Pro Quo in play here?
For the answer see the first word in your name.
Does DS Rodgers have 30pence’s endorsement?
How much is true or false, including his records as per reporting from many websites accusing him of saying this or proposing that for his work regarding Iran and Chinese access to US markets; as well as proposing changes to Social Security and Medicare. Political fact checks on these have returned many such as ‘false’.
Example : https://heartlandsignal.com/2024/07/03/michigan-gop-senate-candidate-mike-rogers-connected-to-saudi-companies-including-one-with-nuclear-ambitions/
Nominating Rogers would be like recalling Comey!
This would make it impossible to ever have sympathy for Trump once he would inevitably start complaining about being persecuted.
Since nothing can be done re FBI before inauguration, hoping this is part of a dog and pony show to deflect from the real choice. Rogers is a yuge No!
Rogers then went to work for CNN.
To sum up.
A swamp critter that went to work for CNN. Not only for the lifeline gimme that the 1st affords those in the media. Specifically for those in such a need on exiting public service.
But, to also position himself as a self-actualized mouth piece to obscurate and advance the interests for a 4th Amendment violating State.
Merely Makes for weekend Sunday Morning Chatter on Airwaves