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   NSA chief and US Cyber Command head ousted   
      
   Date:   
   Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:59:08 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   NSA reassignment could have lasting security implications across the US   
   government.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   President Trump has reassigned the Head of the US Cyber Command and the   
   National Security Agency, Timothy Haugh, with Wendy Noble, Deputy Chief of    
   the NSA, now transferred into the Pentagons office, and four other officials   
   removed.    
      
   Both agencies will reportedly be headed up by William Hartman for the time   
   being, although it's possible that Trump will split the dual-hat leadership   
   structure between the NSA and Cyber Command as he did last time he was in   
   office.    
      
   Far-right activist Laura Loomer claimed Haugh and Noble were fired because   
   they have been disloyal to President Trump, arguing the administration cannot   
   allow for a Biden nominee to hold the office of arguably the most powerful   
   intel agency in the world in the NSA.    
      
   In the firing line    
      
   The Vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, Mark Warner, took to X   
   (formerly Twitter) to speak out against the reassignment of Haugh, pointing    
   to the lack of action over the Signalgate scandal as a hypocrisy of the   
   administration;    
      
   It is astonishing that President Trump would fire the nonpartisan,    
   experienced leader of the NSA while still failing to hold any member of his   
   team accountable for leaking classified information on a commercial messaging   
   app  even as he apparently takes staffing direction on national security from   
   a discredited conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office.    
      
   Other high-ranking Democrats are reportedly deeply disturbed by the decision,   
   and say it jeopardises national security.    
      
   This recent round of firings follows mass federal layoffs, which a former NSA   
   cybersecurity director has warned will have a "devastating impact on   
   cybersecurity - continuing the instability in the department.    
      
   Loomer reportedly had a persuading hand in the decision, and lobbied against   
   numerous she considers disloyal, including against Deputy National Security   
   Advisor Alex Wong, who Loomer claimed added a journalist to the sensitive   
   Signal chat as part of a foreign opp to embarrass the Trump administration on   
   behalf of China.    
      
   Wongs wife also works at the Justice department and was involved in   
   prosecuting January 6 Capitol rioters, which might help explain Loomers   
   vendetta.    
      
   Via The Washington Post   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/nsa-chief-and-us-cyber-command-head-ousted   
      
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