The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed it fired the head of the NSA, a move that has sparked anger at the alleged removal of security officials.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell issued a brief statement Friday acknowledging four-star Air Force General Timothy Haugh as a director of the National Security Agency (NSA), one of the government’s highest intelligence agencies.

Haugh also leads the U.S. Cyber ​​Command, which prepares and defends attacks in the digital realm.

“The Department of Defense thanks General Timothy Haugh for serving our country and ultimately as U.S. Cyber ​​Commander and Director of the NSA. We wish him and his family all the best.”

However, multiple media reports have shown that Haugh’s removal was based on the suggestion of a very clever internet activist Laura Loomer, who supported President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in 2024.

Democrats also seized on the fact that Trump has not fired people about recent controversy over the use of message app signals Discuss sensitive plans The goal of blowing up the Houthi in Yemen – This goal was discovered after accidentally adding reporters in a chat.

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly Write Friday on social media.

“By firing him, not holding anyone accountable for the threat we have to signal, Trump shows that he values ​​loyalty to his ability, which makes all of us less safe.”

Another Democratic Senator, Mark Warner of Virginia, responded to the sentiment, saying the situation was “so crazy, ignoring beliefs.”

“Trump’s refusal to fire someone who embarrasses the United States and riskes his life in the Signal Gate scandal,” Warner Write“but the nonpartisan national security expert General Hauge was fired under the advice of a self-proclaimed “pro-white nationalist.”

Hoy was just one of the planes launched this week after Trump met with Weaver at the White House.

Media reports suggest that Haugh’s civilian agent Wendy Noble, in the NSA, also started and redistributed from her position.

In addition, several members of the National Security Council seem to have been removed from their positions, including Brian Walsh, senior intelligence director and Thomas Boodry, senior director of legislative affairs.

Reuters estimates that more than a dozen security officials have been dismissed as part of the so-called purge.

Trump admitted that “some people” were fired when he flew to South Florida on Thursday but refused to provide details about the total.

“Always, we’ll let go of people – people we don’t like, or people we don’t think we can do the job or people who may be loyal to others,” Trump said from Air Force One.

He also spoke at a meeting with Loomer earlier this week, expressing high praise for the internet personality.

“Laura Loomer is a very good patriot,” he said. “She is a very strong person and I saw her for a while yesterday. She made suggestions.”

When paying homage to this, he admitted that Whibule not only advised individual hiring, but also fired. However, he did refute reports of Webule’s involvement in security officials.

Loomer himself said in his removal on Thursday that he accused the four-star general of insufficient loyalty to the Trump administration. She also tried to portray Haugh as an aide to former President Joe Biden, a Democrat in the 2020 election.

“National Security Agency (NSA) director Tim Haugh and his deputy Wendy Noble were unfaithful to President Trump. That’s why they were fired,” she said. Write.

“Their dismissal is a blessing to the American people. Thank you President Trump for accepting the review material provided to you and for your dismissal of these biden biden for their reservation.”

Weaver has long been a controversial figure in the American right. She once called herself “proud Islamophobia” and spread the debunked conspiracy theories that the September 11, 2001 attack was “internal work.”

Her approach to the president has attracted ripples of attention within the Trump administration and being caught is a criticism of Democrats.

House Intelligence Committee ranking Democrat Jim Himes asked for an “immediate explanation” of Haugh’s sack and believed that it made “all of us not very safe.”

“I know General Hogg is an honest and straightforward leader who follows the law and puts national security first.” Write. “I’m worried that these are exactly the qualities that might lead to his dismissal in this administration.”