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The United States Defense Department has confirmed that it dismissed the head of the National Security Agency, moving forward, causing outrage over possible cleaning of security officials.
On Friday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnel released a brief statement, recognizing the departure of the four -star Air Force General Timothy Haya from the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), one of the government’s best intelligence collection bodies.
Haugh also led the US cyber team preparing and defending against attacks in the digital sphere.
“The Defense Department thanks General Timothy Haug for his ministry for decades of our nation, culminating in the US Cybercrime Commander and the director of the National Security Agency. We wish him and his family good,” said Parnel.
Several media reports, however, suggested that Haugh’s Ouster has been suggested as the extreme right -wing internet activist Laura Loomer, who in 2024 supported President Donald Trump’s campaign for re -election.
The Democrats also used the fact that Trump did not give anyone involved in recent dispute over the use of a messaging app signal to discuss sensitive plans to bomb Houthi’s goals in Yemen – something appeared after a journalist accidentally attached to chat.
“General Hugh led NSA and cyber team with a smooth, effective leader,” Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona written Social Media Friday.
“By dismissing him and without any responsibility for threats to US pilots over the signal, Trump has shown that he assesses loyalty over competence – making us all less safe.”
Another Democratic Senator Mark Worner repeated this mood from Virginia, calling the situation “so crazy that it does not obey faith”.
“Trump refused to dismiss people who confused America and risked the life of members of the Signalgate scandal,” Warner written“But General Haugh, a non-partisan National Security Expert, was dismissed, described by self-white nationalist.”
Haugh was just one of this week’s shooting slate that came after Trump met Lomer in the White House.
Media reports show that NSA Vendija Noble, a civilian civilian, was also opened and postponed.
In addition, it seems that several members of the National Security Council have been removed from their positions, including Brian Waltz, senior director of intelligence, and Thomas Boodry, Senior Director of Legislation.
News agency Reuters estimates that more than a dozen security officials were fired as part of a possible cleaning.
When he flew to the southern part of Florida on Thursday, Trump spoke to rumors, admitting that “some” people were fired, but refusing to specify the total amount.
“We will always let people – people we don’t like, or people who, as we don’t think, can do the job, or people who may have loyalty to someone else,” Trump said from Air Force One.
He also spoke to his meeting with Loomer at the beginning of the week, offering a high praise for the Internet personality.
“Laura Loomer is a very good patriot,” he said. “She’s a very strong person and I saw her yesterday. She gives suggestions.”
Pressing what it meant, he admitted that Loomer not only recommends hiring individuals, but also firing. However, he rejected reports that Loomer was involved in cleaning security officials.
Loomer himself addressed Hauga removal on Thursday, accusing the four -star General’s insufficient loyalty to the Trump administration. She also tried to paint Haugh as former President Joe Biden, Democrat, who outperformed Trump in the 2020 elections.
“NSA director Tim Hauga and his deputy Wendy Noble have been disloyal against President Trump. So they are fired,” she writtenIn the area
“Their shooting is a blessing for the American people. Thank you to President Trump for taking on the test materials given to you and thank you for dismissing these Bidene’s retention.”
Loomer has long been controversial in the right side of the US. At one time, she called herself a “proud Islamophobe” and has spread the debated conspiracy theory that the attacks on September 11, 2001 was “internal work”.
Her proximity to the president has raised concerns about Trump’s administration – and it is alienated as a point of criticism of Democrats.
The Democrat of the Parliament’s Intelligence Committee, Jim Himess, demanded a “immediate explanation” for the dismissal of Haug, claiming that it makes “we all less secure”.
“I knew General Haugh is an honest and open leader who adhered to the law and first put national security,” Himes writtenIn the area “I am afraid that these are the qualities that could cause his dismissal in this administration.”
