The Trump administration has fired Gen. Timothy Haugh, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), and Wendy Noble, the agency’s civilian Deputy Director. A senior defense official confirmed the dismissals to Fox News early Friday, though the reasons behind the firings remain unclear.
Haugh, who also served as the head of U.S. Cyber Command, was dismissed from that position as well. Noble has reportedly been reassigned to the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, according to The Washington Post, which first broke the news Thursday evening.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, called Haugh’s firing “deeply disturbing,” praising him as an “honest and forthright leader” committed to the law and national security. “I fear those are precisely the qualities that could lead to his firing in this administration,” Himes said in a statement. He demanded an “immediate explanation” for the decision.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, echoed the concern, describing the firing as “astonishing.” “General Haugh has served our country in uniform, with honor and distinction, for more than 30 years,” Warner said. “At a time when the United States is facing unprecedented cyber threats, as the Salt Typhoon cyberattack from China has so clearly underscored, how does firing him make Americans any safer?”
Warner also criticized Trump for allegedly dismissing Haugh while failing to hold “any member of his team accountable for leaking classified information on a commercial messaging app.” He further suggested the president is taking national security cues from far-right activist Laura Loomer, who has reportedly presented Trump with a list of allegedly disloyal National Security Council (NSC) staff.
While several NSC employees were fired Thursday, Trump has denied that Loomer had any involvement in those dismissals.
As of Friday morning, the White House has not provided a public explanation for the firings of Haugh and Noble.
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Looks like Trump learned his lessen from his first term. You can’t run the country with those you don’t trust, no matter how good they are at their job.
If these guys have been around do many years and allowed 911 to happen it’s time to fire then. Trump 2028
Fired after the meeting with his chief conspiracy theorist. The U.S. is in great danger from the degenerate adulterous clueless felon.
welcome back rt
You mean he got rid of holdovers from previous administration like every president does within the first six months of their administration?
This is a stupid article on a stupid nontroversy.
The mass firings have begun. Next come the mass quitting. To work for Donad. J. Trump for too long is not possible: ask Bill Barr.
Most of the national security establishment came up in an era of what was sometimes called a “Freedom agenda” or the fight against the “Evil Empire” or the “Axis of Evil”. The new foreign policy is the isolationist “America First” which tends towards wanting to avoid conflict with anti-democratic (small “d”), expansionists such as Russia, Iran, China and North Korea, and deliberate indifference to what pro-democracy foreigners want. The people from the “ancien regime” won’t fit in, so it is reasonable they will be replaced. It should be noted that in the last election, the isolationists crushed globalists in the Republic primaries, and most Democrats aren’t too thrilled about a globalist pro-democracy foreign policy (e.g. capitulation in Afghanistan, tepid support for Ukraine, cheering for Hamas after Oct. 7).
rt: Bill Clinton is also degenerate and adulterous. And he was impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. And perjury and obstruction of justice are felonies.