{"id":26236,"date":"2014-03-30T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?p=26236"},"modified":"2014-03-30T14:57:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:57:21","slug":"congressman-future-talk-radio-host-mike-rogers-fcc-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2014\/03\/congressman-future-talk-radio-host-mike-rogers-fcc-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman (and future talk radio host) Mike Rogers: the FCC files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6knaMsSefEY\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>House Intelligence Chair <a href=\"http:\/\/mikerogers.house.gov\/\">Mike Rogers<\/a> (R-MI) is leaving Congress and taking a job as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2014\/03\/28\/rep-mike-rogers-to-retire-launch-national-radio-show\/\">national radio host<\/a> with Cumulus media. Rogers has established himself as late as a defender of the National Security Agency&#8217;s surveillance program. Just for kicks I rummaged around the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s databases to see what he&#8217;d sent them of late. Here are three letters Rogers submitted to the FCC in 2011 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get tough on Google Maps. <\/strong>In 2011 Rogers and John Barrow (D-GA) sent the FCC a <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/document\/view?id=7021690984\">fairly stern letter<\/a> regarding the agency&#8217;s investigation of Google&#8217;s collection of emails and passwords in the course of shooting panoramic photos for Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A serious inquiry into this matter requires hearing from the engineer that Google claims is responsible for the data collecting activity. Google&#8217;s Street View vehicles captured and stored over 600 gigabytes of data,&#8221; Rogers and Barrow wrote. &#8220;It is difficult to understand how just one individual could have been responsible for a data collecting operation of this scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protect Sirius\/XM from wireless interference<\/strong>. In March of 2010 Rogers and Fred Upton (R-MI) <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/document\/view?id=7020443652\">took sides<\/a> in the ongoing war between some wireless services and Sirius XM on possible interference (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2010\/03\/01\/will-the-fccs-national-broadband-plan-resolve-sirius-xms-little-war-with-big-wireless\/\">explainer here<\/a>). &#8220;Deployment of new broadband services must not threaten other established licensees or cause disruptive interference to millions of existing consumers,&#8221; they advised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t create net neutrality rules.<\/strong> Rogers was (and probably still is) an ardent opponent of FCC enacted net neutrality rules. In 2010 he <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/document\/view?id=7021025832\">warned then FCC Chair Julius Genachowski<\/a> not to vote for them at an upcoming Open Commission meeting. &#8220;If this vote is successful, I intend to work with my colleagues to immediately move to enact a disapproval resolution through the Congressional Review Act,&#8221; he wrote in December.<\/p>\n<p>. . . and Rogers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/michigan-rep-mike-rogers-won-rule-presidential-run-article-1.1739744\">still might run for President <\/a>. . . what fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) is leaving Congress and taking a job as a national radio host with Cumulus media. Rogers has established himself as late as a defender of the National Security Agency&#8217;s surveillance program. Just for kicks I rummaged around the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s databases to see what he&#8217;d sent them of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3451],"tags":[4231,1915,4232,2599],"class_list":["post-26236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fcc","category-policy","tag-mike-rogers","tag-net-neutrality","tag-nsa","tag-sirius-xm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26245,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions\/26245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}