Oh Look, Rep. Mike Rogers Wife Stands To Benefit Greatly From CISPA Passing... from the no-conflict,-no-interest dept

It would appear that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main person in Congress pushing for CISPA, has kept rather quiet about a very direct conflict of interest that calls into serious question the entire bill. It would appear that Rogers' wife stands to benefit quite a lot from the passage of CISPA, and has helped in the push to get the bill passed. It's somewhat amazing that no one has really covered this part of the story, but it highlights, yet again, the kind of activities by folks in Congress that make the public trust Congress less and less.

It has seemed quite strange to see how strongly Rogers has been fighting for CISPA, refusing to even acknowledge the seriousness of the privacy concerns. At other times, he can't even keep his own story straight about whether or not CISPA is about giving information to the NSA (hint: it is). And then there was the recent ridiculousness with him insisting that the only opposition to CISPA came from 14-year-old kids in their basement. Wrong and insulting.

Of course, as we've noted all along, all attempts at cybersecurity legislation have always been about money. Mainly, money to big defense contractors aiming to provide the government with lots of very expensive "solutions" to the cybersecurity "problem" -- a problem that still has not been adequately defined beyond fake scare stories. Just last month, Rogers accidentally tweeted (and then deleted) a story about how CISPA supporters, like himself, had received 15 times more money from pro-CISPA group that the opposition had received from anti-CISPA groups.

So it seems rather interesting to note that Rogers' wife, Kristi Clemens Rogers, was, until recently, the president and CEO of Aegis LLC a "security" defense contractor company, whom she helped to secure a $10 billion (with a contract with the State Department. The company describes itself as "a leading private security company, provides government and corporate clients with a full spectrum of intelligence-led, culturally-sensitive security solutions to operational and development challenges around the world."

 

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/16253022748/oh-look-rep-mike-rogers-wife-stands-to-benefit-greatly-cispa-passing.shtml

Ugggghhhhhhhh

 

All of this makes me want to go fashion a pitchfork and torch.

It's unsurprisingly and infuriating at the same time. How does this crap continue to happen?

Because there's no such thing as an honest un-corrupt politician anymore.

It's sad that the honest un-corrupt politician made me laugh.  True though.

Ok the honest one 99% of the time wind up dead

I think we need to Fawkes some shit up in Washington for any of this to change honestly.

I think we need to Fawkes some shit up in Washington for any of this to change honestly.

 

 Unfortunately this is probably the truth.  This crap surely can't keep going on without negative consequences eventually though...

It's unsurprisingly and infuriating at the same time. How does this crap continue to happen?

That's the worst part of it all. Blargasha. It was funny, because I had a conversation with my mum about it yesterday (she had no idea about CISPA) and I got to explain it to her. She was actually OK with it, saying "well if it makes us safer" and I basically just said "You read 1984, shit, you gave it to me to read when I was a kid"

 

She changed her mind pretty quick after that. I don't think people are thinking long term. Everything thinks, "oh, I'm not a terrorist, this won't affect me."