NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers has decided he will retire this spring, two former U.S. intelligence officials told POLITICO, ending a near four-year tenure bookended by major leaks that rattled the agency.
It’s expected that President Donald Trump will nominate Rogers’ successor this month, putting a final Senate confirmation vote two to three months away. The pending departure ends well over a year of rumors that the NSA chief was on his way out — willingly or not.
The Navy admiral was brought in to head the NSA in 2014 after former government contractor Edward Snowden made the agency’s spying tools front-page news. He was immediately tasked with implementing some internal surveillance restraints amid outcries over the country’s collection of Americans’ personal information.
But Rogers — known around Washington for a gruff style — has struggled at times both to regain the public’s trust and to keep more secret details about the government’s spying tools under wraps. And morale at the agency has reportedly suffered, with many senior hackers and analysts leaving to collect big paychecks in the private sector.
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NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers has decided he will retire this spring. https://t.co/JQvUAEdiaE pic.twitter.com/fYaNvZ5p0L
— POLITICO (@politico) January 5, 2018
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