US President Donald Trump has fired Thimoty Haugh, the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command, and the deputy director of the NSA.
Timothy Haugh had been director of the NSA, the agency responsible for, among other things, American cybersecurity, for less than two years. 2023 under Joe Biden’s administration, the Senate promoted the career soldier with 34 years of service from deputy director to head of the American military cyber force.
The firing was confirmed by Senator Mark Warner, who claims the decision was made after lobbying by a political ally and admirer of the president, believed to be Laura Loomer, who has openly called herself a proud Islamophobe.
“It’s so absurd it’s almost unbelievable: Trump refused to fire the people who endangered military lives during the Signalgate scandal,” Warner tweeted. “Yet he’s firing General Haugh, a nonpartisan national security expert on the advice of a self-proclaimed ‘pro-white nationalist.’
‘Haugh is an honest and sincere leader’
Jim Himes, a US House Intelligence Committee member, also reacted with great doubts. Himes claims that this decision makes America less safe and demands clarification. ‘I know General Haugh to have been an honest and upright leader who followed the law and put national security first – I fear that those qualities were why he was removed from office under this administration.’
Also fired was the deputy director, Wendy Noble, who was COO of the NSA and worked at the US Department of Defense. Incidentally, in the last 24 hours, at least five members of the National Security Council have been fired after a meeting between Donald Trump and Laura Loomer.
Lt. Gen. William Hartman, a former platoon leader who became head of Cyber Command’s National Mission Force, will take over as NSA director interim.