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Trump administration fires National Security Agency director
2025-04-04 08:00:43 / BOTA
The Trump administration has fired the director and deputy director of the National Security Agency.
The firing of Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, the military's offensive and defensive cyber arm, is a major shakeup for a U.S. intelligence community that has been undergoing significant changes in the first two months of the Trump administration. Wendy Noble, Haugh's deputy at the NSA, has also been removed, according to former officials and lawmakers.
The top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees, Senator Mark Warner and Representative Jim Himes, denounced the firing of Haugh, who served in those roles since February 2024.
Lieutenant General William Hartman, a veteran military officer and deputy commander of Cyber Command, is expected to serve as acting head of the command and NSA.
These decisions come in the wake of the dismissals of many staff members at the National Security Council.
Last month, Haugh hosted billionaire Elon Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency, for a meeting at the NSA and Cyber Command headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
Haugh was not in the now-infamous group chat on the messaging app Signal, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other senior officials discussed a sensitive military operation targeting the Houthis in Yemen while unaware that a journalist was part of the group. At a House Intelligence Committee hearing last week, where Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were concerned about the Signal group chat debate, Haugh testified that, overall, there are risks to using the app.
The NSA is one of the most powerful and critical spy agencies of the U.S. government. Its codebreakers and computer operatives conduct intelligence operations around the world that provide insights to the president and his top advisers. Cyber Command was created over a decade ago to combat growing foreign threats in cyberspace and has matured considerably in the years since.
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