Gen. Timothy Haugh, who was chief of U.S. Cyber Command in addition to leading the NSA, was unavailable for comment. The White House and the NSA did not return requests seeking comment.

Timothy Haugh, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, after a recommendation from far right activist Laura Loomer last week. Concretely, Rep.

Defense One’s Meghann Myers reports, here. GOP rep slams Trump’s unexplained axing of NSA chief. The president’s abrupt Thursday firing of Air Force Gen. Tim Haugh as commander of U.S. Cyber ...

The Trump administration named Lt. Gen. William J. Hartman as acting director of the National Security Agency (NSA) late Thursday, just hours after dismissing top officials, an agency spokesperson ...

Lisa Franchetti, and Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan. Haugh’s deputy at NSA, Wendy Noble, was also removed without explanation. Concerns over politicization and cybersecurity strategy ...

NSA director Air Force General Haugh, who is also head of U.S. Cyber Command, was dismissed along with Wendy Noble, his deputy at the NSA, two sources familiar with the decision said. Two other ...

Democrats expressed outrage on Friday that President Donald Trump had fired the head of the highly sensitive US National Security Agency at the apparent urging of far-right conspiracy theorist ...

President Trump fired at least four senior National Security Council officials, including three with ties to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Far-right provocateur Laura Loomer, who regularly ...

Loomer, who is known for claiming that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, is reported to have pushed for the dismissal of various senior US security officials including NSA chief Timothy Haugh ...

Haugh’s removal as director of the NSA, the nation’s primary cyber espionage and electronic eavesdropping agency, comes on the same day at least three White House National Security Council ...

The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s explanation for how he was included in a Trump administration group chat discussing an imminent military ...

President Trump affirmed he won't fire National Security Adviser Mike Waltz despite a recent misstep involving a journalist in a private Signal chat. Amid reports that of Donald Trump being ...