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orangecrush

(24,056 posts)
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 08:37 AM Friday

Trump administration fires director of National Security Agency

In a social media post overnight Loomer said, “NSA Director Tim Haugh and his deputy Wendy Noble have been disloyal to President Trump. That is why they have been fired. As a Biden appointee, General Haugh had no place serving in the Trump admin given the fact that he was HAND PICKED by General Milley.” She went on, “Thank you President Trump for being receptive to the vetting materials provided to you and thank you for firing these Biden holdovers.”

Loomer did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment on Haugh and Noble’s dismissals, however, she told CNN on Thursday that it “was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my findings, I will continue working hard to support his agenda, and I will continue reiterating the importance of strong vetting, for the sake of protecting the President and our national security.”

Cyber Command and the NSA declined to comment and referred CNN to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which could not be immediately reached for comment. CNN has requested comment from the White House National Security Council.

Last month, Haugh hosted billionaire Elon Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency, at the NSA and Cyber Command headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Some current and former defense officials say there is a growing culture of fear inside the officer ranks within the Defense Department, among officials who worry that they could be fired at any moment for conduct deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/trump-administration-fires-director-national-security-agency/index.html

Let me guess.

Loomer is a cut out, and was handed a wish list by some Russian operative of whom Moscow would like to see go in the military leadership.



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We have a winner - you are spot on exboyfil Friday #1
Maybe the Intel Services of Allies Captain Zero Friday #2
From the Atlantic "Daily" orangecrush Friday #3

exboyfil

(18,189 posts)
1. We have a winner - you are spot on
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 08:41 AM
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I have to wonder if our "allies" might start revealing the impact of Trump's destruction of our intelligence community.

Captain Zero

(7,799 posts)
2. Maybe the Intel Services of Allies
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:01 AM
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Should tell us just who exactly in American government they know to be working for Russia ?

orangecrush

(24,056 posts)
3. From the Atlantic "Daily"
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 09:28 AM
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Last edited Fri Apr 4, 2025, 10:11 AM - Edit history (1)

Thursday, April 3, 2025







"Tom Nichols
Staff writer

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A fringe figure from the MAGA right was in the Oval Office yesterday and apparently got at least six National Security Council staffers fired.

First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:

Trump’s tariffs are designed to backfire.
Trump’s day of reckoning
Why Quaker parents were ahead of their time




A National-Security Fiasco
Mike Waltz and Laura Loomer
(Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty; Mark Peterson / Redux)


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For a few months, the Donald Trump White House managed, at least in public, to keep some of the right’s fringiest figures at bay. Until yesterday.

The far-right celebrity Laura Loomer was at the White House on Wednesday. If you don’t spend a lot of time online, you probably don’t know who Loomer is, and that’s healthy. To say that she is a “conspiracy theorist” is not quite enough: She has referred to herself as a “proud Islamophobe” and has claimed that 9/11 was an “inside job”; she has charged that some school shootings were staged, accused Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis of “exaggerating” her struggle with breast cancer, and questioned whether the “deep state” might have used an atmospheric-research facility in Alaska to create a snowstorm over Des Moines. (Why? So that foul weather would suppress the turnout in the 2024 Iowa GOP caucuses and hurt Trump’s campaign.)

Loomer has even alienated her ostensible allies in the MAGA movement, to say nothing of the hostility she has engendered among various other Republicans. (Peter Schorsch, a former Republican operative who now runs the website Florida Politics, described her to The Washington Post as “what happens when you take a gadfly and inject it with that radioactive waste from Godzilla.”) Indeed, Trump’s own aides found Loomer so toxic that they tried to keep her away from the 2024 campaign, as my colleague Tim Alberta reported last year. A source close to the Trump campaign told Semafor last fall that Trump’s people were “‘100%’ concerned about her exacerbating Trump’s weaknesses,” but that attempts to put “guardrails” around her weren’t working. Trump clearly likes the 31-year-old provocateur, and in Trumpworld, there’s apparently very little anyone can do once the boss takes a shine to someone."

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/the-conspiracy-theorist-advising-trump/682289/?lctg=67c262c0a6a72a302a0356ea

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