Surely this is an old case, old at least by newspaper standards. The condition had occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper, i saw that it hadnt been covered at all and the reason was that brian regan was arrested two weeks before 9 11 and he was convicted one month after the us invaded iraq so it was almost this story was kind of book ended bythese two major events. And it was sort of lowhanging fruit for me to go after. To rewind a little bit, your interest in going to this cryptology us, do you have a background in science writing so you were comfortable solving into it. As you get to the cryptology section, i think everyone except that hardcore cryptology us are going to say, let me get a cup of coffee, this is serious. Can you talk about what was your interest in cryptology before that . Were you working on something . I didnt really have a specific interest in cryptology. Im a science writer, i worked at Science Magazine for many
United states and we had to find it. As a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee. I had oversight of all 16 of our nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. I had access to classified information gathered by our operatives. People who risked everything for the United States and our ph families. You dont know their faces or think names. You dont know the real stories for the people that live the fear and the pressure until now. Spying is beyond anything i can comprehend. I dont know how you could spy if you thought you were going to get somebody killed. Thats putting our military people in jeopardy. Thats putting our operations in jeopardy. My job was always to safeguard secrets of the United States and i took that very seriously. They are secrets for a reason. If one part of this fell into the wrong hands, lives are lost. Ive been involved in espionage cases since 1983. My quad at tsquad did espionage with unknown subjects and we got word in dece