The dismissal occurred a few hours after President Trump fired a number of high -ranking national security officials, following the right -wost activist on the dislike for the agenda “Make America Great”.
Mark Warner, Deputy Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, condemned the dismissal of Timothy Hau, the Director of the NSA, who also heads cyber teams, saying that he is “in uniform, with pride and difference, over 30 years.”
The Washington Post first reported the breakd. His Civilian MP in the NSA, Wendy Novbl, was re -examined to another Pentagon’s post, the report said.
The Pentagon and the White House did not respond to a comment request.
The NSA is the main American agency responsible for the collection of exploration, and the NSC is a White House bureaucracy, which advises the president on national security.
NSK hills occurred after the meeting between Trump And Laura Lumer, a human rights activist on social media and conspiracy theorist, who presented him with research of certain staff and urged him to remove them.
Their chief, national security adviser Mike Wals attended the meeting of the Oval Office together with Vice President J. D. Vens and other high -ranking officials, according to the New York Times, which was the first media reported.
One person acquainted with development, said at least three NSC officials were fired, including Brian Walsh, who was responsible for intelligence problems, and Thomas Budra, the director of legislative affairs, who had previously worked in Valtz when he was a member of the US Congress.
The White House also fired David Faith, the senior director of technology. The Fate Chinese hawk, who would play an instrumental role in promoting security measures against Beijing, including export control.
The second person said the waltz was under the increase in the pressure from the Magic camp, which he regarded it as neo -conservative with very hawerl foreign policy views on Iran to China. Another person said that the voices suggested that the waltz himself was increasingly on thin ice because he could not protect his people.
Press -Secretary for NSCBrian Hughes, refused to confirm or deny the shooting, saying only that NSC “does not comment on personnel issues.”
Asked about the dismissal, Trump told reporters on board the Air Force first: “We will always release people who do not like, or people who, in our opinion, can do a job or people who may have loyalty to someone else.”
He denied the dismissal of the officials to call Lumer. “It gives recommendations of things and people, and sometimes I listen to these recommendations as with everyone.”
Lumer also aimed at the Deputy National Security Advisor Alex Wang, and Ivan Konopati, the Senior Director of Asia in Asia. Both Dear China Hox.
Luer called Wong, a Chinese-American foreign policy expert, a “national security advisor” in a social media report. The activist sent to sofa, a retired fighter pilot because he worked for a consultation, which employs several senior Democrats who previously criticized the Trump administration.
Waltz was under pressure before the meeting on exposing that he created a signal chat, a publicly accessible messaging application to discuss the details of the Huti rebels in Yemen and invariably invited journalist, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg.
The Pentagon Observer, the Ministry of Defense of the Inspector General, announced on Thursday that she launched a probe from Defense Minister Pitt Hugset at the request of the senators Roger Viker and Jack Rid, the Supreme Republican and the Democrat, respectively, the Senate’s Mighty Committee.
“According to our long-standing policy, we do not comment on current investigations,” the Pentagon said.
Warner said he was “strange” that Trump would fire Hugh, “non -partisan, experienced NSA leader,” does not attract any member of his account for leakage of classified information about the commercial message application. “
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