Posted on 04/03/2025 10:25:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh had been both the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the NSA, a role he'd held since February 2024.
The director and the No. 2 official at the National Security Agency were ousted from their positions Thursday, according to a defense official and three sources with knowledge of the matter.
It was not immediately clear why Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh and his deputy were dismissed, the sources said.
The White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night.
Haugh was both the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency, a role he had served in since February 2024. Deputy NSA Director Wendy Noble was the agency’s senior civilian leader.
Both are career officials — Haugh with more than 30 years in the Air Force, primarily in intelligence and cyber jobs, along with a degree in Russian studies, while Nobles worked her way up at the NSA since 1987.
Congressional Democrats blasted the Trump administration over the firings.
"I have known General Haugh to be an honest and forthright leader who followed the law and put national security first — I fear those are precisely the qualities that could lead to his firing in this administration," Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.
“The Intelligence Committee and the American people need an immediate explanation for this decision, which makes all of us less safe,” he added.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called the removal of Haugh “astonishing.”
“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 said in a statement.
Larry Pfeiffer, a former senior intelligence official, called the dismissals “unprecedented.”
“America should worry when the politicians want to control the guys with the world’s most powerful eavesdropping capability,” he said.
He said presidents in the past have deferred to the advice of the defense secretary and the CIA director on appointments to lead the NSA.
Last month, Trump adviser Elon Musk visited the National Security Agency's headquarters and met with Haugh.
That visit came around a week after Musk remarked on his social media platform X that "The NSA needs an overhaul."
Earlier Thursday, NBC News reported that Trump fired at least three National Security Council officials this week after far-right activist Laura Loomer met with him and expressed dissatisfaction with some officials on his national security team.
Laura Loomer has become quite the high profile political influencer.
The fact that Democrats spoke out about this says Trump was right.
The firing is to be expected. President Trump doesn’t want to make the same personnel mistakes he made during his first term. Remember an Asst Secy in Dept of Interior during the early days of the Carter Admin headed out the door. When he was asked his location, he indicated he was on his way to fire holdover people.
Soon to have a lying, vengeful tell all book denouncing Trump, of course. Publishers and TV panel shows will allow any lies if they hurt Trump.
Yup.
Just like when Pence objects.
I was about to post the exact same thing.
“The fact that Democrats spoke out about this says Trump was right.”
Yep, and coupled with the fact that it was a Democrat junta that installed him.
Himes’ committee never did get to the bottom of the Pakistani IT scandal in his own party:
A Muslim Brotherhood Security Breach in Congress
Frontpage ^ | Feb 8, 2017 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 8/1/2017, 11:29:25 AM by Ray76
(Feb 8, 2017) Last year, eight members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a demand that their staffers be granted access to top secret classified information.
The signatories to the letter were Andre Carson, Luis Guiterez, Jim Himes, Terri Sewell, Jackie Speier, Mike Quigley, Eric Swalwell and Patrick Murphy. All the signatories were Democrats. Some had a history of attempting to undermine national security....
The fact that they were put in place under Biden is enough.
Yep.
Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh had been both the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the NSA, a role he'd held since February 2024.
IOW, he was yet another DNC mole.
If Himes and Warner are howling that means the administration hit the correct targets.
The NSA is behind lots of dirty stuff.
“Congressional Democrats blasted the Trump administration over the firings”
…this tells me everything.
Seeing Demoncrats go ballistic over the firings means
Trump did something spectacularly good for Americans.
The guy who really needs firing is Mark Warner.
Yet more MAGA progress. Great!
Thanks for confirming that the General is a leftist POS.
“The fact that Democrats spoke out about this says Trump was right.”
So true.
Why not just hang fire until the facts are out...like an intelligent person would do??
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