Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) criticized President Trump’s ouster of the director of the Nationwide Safety Company, arguing that Gen. Timothy Haugh’s firing will hinder the nation’s Cyber and Indicators Intelligence (SIGINT) operations.
“General Tim Haugh is an outstanding leader and was doing a superb job at Cyber Command and National Security Agency,” Bacon said in a Friday morning post on social media platform X. “He was fired with no public explanation. This action sets back our Cyber and Signals Intelligence operations.”
NSA chief Haugh, alongside together with his civilian deputy Wendy Noble, had been ousted late Thursday, not too lengthy after the administration fired a number of high White Home Nationwide Safety Council (NSA) staffers earlier within the day.
Haugh, who has over three a long time of expertise within the Air Power, additionally led the U.S. Cyber Command. His termination drew rebukes from Democrats in Congress.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the highest Democrat on the Home Intelligence Committee, wrote that he was “deeply disturbed” by Haugh’s firing.
“I have known General Haugh to be an honest and forthright leader who followed the law and put national security first—I fear those are precisely the qualities that could lead to his firing in this Administration,” Himes stated, including that the Home Intelligence panel and the general public “need an immediate explanation for this decision, which makes all of us less safe.”
The firing of a bunch of NSC staffers got here after Trump met with far-right activist Laura Loomer on the White Home on Wednesday. Loomer stated the NSC staff weren’t aligned with Trump’s agenda.
She additionally criticized Haugh, writing Friday on X that the overall “had no place serving in the Trump admin given the fact that he was HAND PICKED by General Milley, who was accused of committing treason by President Trump.”
In his criticism of Haugh’s firing, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the highest Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, referenced the Sign chat leak incident, arguing the president has not held anybody accountable for it.
“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,” Warned stated in publish on X, referring to Loomer.
