Former Congressman Mike Rogers wants to be President-elect Donald Trump’s director of the FBI, but plenty of folks are offering compelling reasons why that would be a mistake.

In the wake of Rogers’ tight loss to Congresswoman Elisa Slotkin, D-Mich., in the U.S. Senate race to replace Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the former FBI agent and House Intelligence Committee chairman recently met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago to ponder his future, Fox News reports.

“Mike Rogers would make a ton of sense as FBI Director for President Trump,” a “source familiar” with the Nov. 14 meeting told the news site. “Mike’s years of service for the bureau as well as his time as House Intelligence Chairman make him highly qualified for the position, one that I’m sure he would be honored to serve in under this administration and help bring integrity back to the DOJ.”

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Many clearly disagree, offering evidence that highlights Rogers’ establishment credentials, past efforts to undermine the 47^th POTUS, and longstanding support for government programs used to spy on Americans and suppress their free speech.

Wikileaks took to X on Tuesday to call out Rogers’ work as a co-founder of the “never Trump” deep state group Alliance for Securing Democracy, which formed in 2017 and focused on tying Trump’s campaign to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump FBI head aspirant, former congressman Mike Rogers, was co-founder of deep state “never Trump” group.

The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), founded in 2017, became a central player in efforts to tie President Donald Trump and his supporters to Russian interference in… pic.twitter.com/VhfxRNfAhi

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 19, 2024

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Wikileaks notes the bipartisan ASD concocted a controversial Hamilton 68 project poised as a tool to track Russian information on social media that ultimately targeted over 600 Twitter accounts.

“However, many of these accounts were not linked to Russia but were instead ordinary Americans, journalists, and Trump supporters expressing dissenting political views,” according to the Wikileaks post.

“Despite this, Hamilton 68’s data was widely cited to support claims of ongoing widespread Russian interference and to insinuate that various policies, events or movements were backed by secret Russian operations,” the post read. “The project reinforced a narrative that Trump’s presidency was compromised, even as Hamilton 68’s methodology and conclusions were later exposed as deeply flawed and misleading.”

Rogers’ penchant for protecting the deep state was also highlighted in a clip posted to X on Wednesday by Jack Posobiec, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer and senior editor for Human Events.

Fmr. CIA Director Michael Hayden says he considered putting Edward Snowden on a kill list.

Fmr. FBI agent Mike Rogers (currently running for Senate): “I can help you with that.”

“Oh there’s cameras here…forgot about that…”

At the time (2013) Rogers was Chair of the House… pic.twitter.com/nOIooGLtfu

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) May 30, 2024

The clip features Rogers alongside Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA and NSA director, and others in an interview with The Washington Post, as Hayden joked about assassinating Edward Snowden, the former NSA intelligence officer who revealed numerous global surveillance programs.

“I must admit, in my darker moments over the past several months, I had also thought of nominating Mr. Snowden, but it was for a different list,” Hayden said, which prompted hysterical laughter from Rogers.

“I can help you with that,” Rogers said. “Oh, there’s cameras here, too. I forgot about that.”

Still others online pointed to Rogers’ interview with NPR in 2018 regarding the release of a memo from the House Intelligence Committee detailing the FBI’s bungled Russia investigation.

Rogers argued the “Nunes memo,” drafted by then committee chair and Trump ally Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., should have been kept from the public.

“So what they’re purportedly alleging is going to come out in the memo today is that there was some misconduct on behalf of FBI agents and some DOJ officials, lawyers at the Department of Justice, in application for something called the FISA, which is the secret court that does counterintelligence, espionage cases, terrorism cases, where it needs to be in a classified setting,” Rogers said.

Releasing the memo “at the angst of all of the intelligence community and the FVI I argue is probably not the best way for the public to figure out what the heck is going on,” Rogers argued.

There’s also Rogers’ voting record during his 14 years in the lower chamber.

Rogers helped write and voted for the Patriot Act, passed by Congress following the 9/11 terrorist attack to expand the federal government’s ability to conduct warrantless surveillance against Americans, according to The Detroit News.

“Rogers also has a lengthy history of defending federal phone and internet surveillance programs, and he also lobbied for a long-term extension of the Patriot Act in 2011,” The ‘Gander reports.

Years later, in late 2014, Rogers united with other Republican House committee leaders to block the creation of a select committee to investigate the Obama administration’s handling of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, according to the Daily Beast.

That was the same year Rogers voted to spend $1.1 trillion through an omnibus spending package Heritage Action for America warned offered “nothing to stop President Barack Obama’s unilateral, unlawful actions which include granting quasi-legal status to those who are in the country illegally.”

Rogers among at least two contenders for Trump’s FBI nomination, with the other, former U.S. National Security Council official Kash Patel drawing praise from some of Trump’s most valued advisors, including Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr., Semafor reports.

Those backing Rogers for the FBI post include more establishment figures in the Republican Party, such as Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., John Cornyn, R-Texas, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and others.

“If they aren’t bloody, if they don’t have scars from one of the get Trump ‘scandals,’ then they’re for Rogers,” a source close to the transition team told Semafor.

Trump fired FBI Director James Comey during his first term and replaced him with Christopher Wray, whose term runs through 2027. During Wray’s tenure, the FBI has interfered in elections to help leftist candidates, targeted parents at school board meetings, and labeled Christians as “domestic terrorists,” according to The Federalist.

Those issues and others, including the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022, have convinced many in MAGA world the agency needs an outsider to right the ship.

“Rogers is a typical D.C. institutionalist who has spent his entire political career funding and safeguarding the very agencies being weaponized to target citizens who refuse to bow to Democrats’ Marxist agenda. His priority has never been, nor will be, the interests of everyday Americans who continue to suffer as a result of his disastrous decision-making,” The Federalist reports.

“The last time Trump hired a federal careerist to lead the FBI, the agency’s authoritarian tactics got exponentially worse, and he and Americans suffered as a result. Let’s hope he doesn’t make the same mistake this time around.”