The head of the National Security Agency is in the running to be the next director of national intelligence, according to reports.
Adm. Mike Rogers, who also leads U.S. Cyber Command, is the leading candidate to replace James Clapper under President-elect Trump, sources familiar with the incoming president’s transition told the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
Clapper announced his resignation Thursday during a House Intelligence Committee hearing. Both Clapper and Rogers accused Russia of trying to disrupt the U.S. political process to help elect Trump during the final months of the 2016 race.
“This was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily,” Rogers said of the Democratic National Committee email hack, which has been linked to Russian government officials, at a conference this summer. “This was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect.”
Rogers met with the president-elect at Trump Tower on Thursday.
