A curious story of politics showed up in the Wall Street Journal today - and it says the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense have both pushed for removal of the Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Mike Rogers. This is less about doing something worthy of removal than the facts of life in politics. Rogers' crime was going to visit Donald Trump's Transition Team, doubtlessly for the job of Director of National Intelligence.
It's likely he was invited and didn't just go up to see if he could get in. So, what makes that a crime worthy of removal from your job? Of course, there is nothing that says a sitting military person cannot go an do an interview for a position in business or government without telling their bosses about it. So, it really can't be that. Somebody in the White House apparently felt strongly enough about it that they were able to influence two of the people who supervise him to call for his removal. There is only one person high enough to be able to pull that one off. Of course, we also have to wonder about his motivation for wanting to do that.
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