Mike Rogers is watching you

2001

He “helped author” and voted for the Patriot Act.

2008

He voted for a spying law that let the government collect the calls and emails of people overseas without a warrant. Americans’ messages got swept in too. When people warned it would spy on Americans, he called that “fear mongering.”

2008

He voted to protect phone companies from being sued for helping the government spy on customers without warrants.

Three times

He voted against making the government get a warrant before wiretapping Americans.

2013

The House voted on stopping the government from collecting millions of Americans’ phone records. Mike Rogers helped lead the fight to keep collecting them. It lost by 12 votes.

2014

He voted against a bipartisan plan to stop the government from searching Americans’ emails, texts, and photos without a warrant. It passed the House anyway. House leaders later dropped it, so it never became law.

2011

He wrote a bill that would have let companies hand your emails, chats, and browsing history to the government, including the NSA. It also would have protected those companies from lawsuits. Groups on the left and the right fought it. It never became law.

$103,000

Companies and groups that lobbied on that bill gave him at least $103,000.

$360,000

He joined the board of a cybersecurity company started by the former head of the NSA, Keith Alexander. It gave him more than $360,000 in stocks and compensation in two years.

$94,000

He advised a phone company that admitted helping Nicolás Maduro’s government spy on Venezuelans. It paid him more than $94,000.