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Mike Rogers: “It leads down this path until we get a really serious breach…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

A Conversation with Mike Rogers

Published June 6, 2023 | Video Starts at 13:38

But it's the same kind of motivation. I see something, I don't really understand it, but I want to show my friends I'm really important. And It leads down this path until we get a really serious breach of national security. Congressman, do you know how that can be stopped in the future? I mean, I'm not familiar with the whole system. You are. Is there a way that that can be prevented in the future? (13:38–13:45)

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“He was a specialist in the army, I believe, at the time.”
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“He didn't really understand the information, didn't, it wasn't designed for him to read it or analyze it or he wasn't trained on how to…”
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“Reached into that IT, and pulled it out and then caused it to be disclosed.”
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“Same here. This is a really interesting case, same kind of a thing.”
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“He saw information flying by. He was an IT guy, and he reached in and in his mind, in his world, not trained, doesn't understand analytics…”
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“There was some protocols broken there that allowed them to get those hard copies to be able to take a picture.”
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“It's the same kind of motivation. I see something, I don't really understand it, but I want to show my friends I'm really important.”
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“Somebody in their chain of command also should get in trouble for doing something that would be a little bit around the protocols.”
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“They're going to have to apply [protections in the civilian intelligence side for downloading, copying] throughout the whole entire DOD…”
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“I'm still a little concerned why it was up in a national guard unit in Massachusetts was seeing things that had to do with a source of…”
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“If you disclose one little piece of this, counterintelligence agencies in Russia, in Iran and China will kind of re-engineer it.”
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“If it was a human being that helped us get that information, you can imagine that somebody's life is in danger.”
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“I'm going to guess he's going to get charged with illegal removal of documents, being in possession of documents he didn't have authority to…”
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“He'll probably do get charged and everything packaged up probably around that ten to 15 year mark.”
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“The South Koreans were obviously very, very upset. The Egyptians were upset, Israelis were upset.”
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“This is a cleanup on aisle nine. We are going to have to reach out and work with these allies to try to regain their trust.”
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“It happened in the Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden. Those leaks really hurt us with our allies.”
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“He stole millions and millions of pages of equivalent of really sensitive information, downloaded it, and now is living in Moscow in the…”
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“Certain things that were taken gave clues on how we would react to certain kind of activities.”
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“That was part of the Edward Snowden materials that were stolen.”
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“Germany is a NATO country. It's an article five country.”
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“If they trigger article five under the NATO ruling, that means we would be going to war with them.”
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“Obama at the time he cut it off. He said, we're not doing anything like this anymore, even though that they had previously authorized all of…”
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“When the president of the United States travels, including Obama at that time, they have to take this big set of equipment, even in a hotel…”
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“The Russians helped [Snowden] get it out there, candidly.”
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“China is moving out and saying that they're going to push the US off the international stage.”
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“China is moving out. They're trying to take our global currency reserve status away, which will impact all of our standard of living.”
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“China is teaching their 8th graders quantum mechanics.”
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“Last year, two thirds of 8th graders in the United States couldn't read at grade level, the 8th grade level.”
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“Almost three quarters of [8th graders in the United States] couldn't do, perform math proficiently at the 8th grade level.”
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“We're coming back to New Hampshire again next week for a few days, and then we're going back in the first week of May.”
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“If you want to get to a carbon neutral, carbon free economy, you have to be energy independent.”
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“The current administration just turned down two of those mines, and guess what happens? It goes to China to be processed.”
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“So 90% of what goes into an electric car is now processed in China.”
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“In 2021, 10% of teenage girls attempted suicide.”
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“30% [of teenage girls] thought about [suicide in 2021].”
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“Marijuana psychosis events are on the rise in the United States.”
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“Medicare is going to go into cash deficit in 2028.”
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“The interest payment on the debt which we borrow is going to be larger than the Defense Department here pretty soon.”
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“Their navy is now bigger than the US Navy.”
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“They're the third largest and probably most modern nuclear fleet or nuclear arsenal country in the world.”
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“If you're not reading at the fourth grade, by the fourth grade, there's a 70% chance that you will be either on welfare or in prison.”
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“Last year we graduated about half, a little over half high school seniors couldn't read at the 6th grade level.”
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“This is a disability of which we can cure. We can solve it.”
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“Get our reading together, get our STEM students ready and prepared to compete against Chinese scientists and technologists.”
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