According to The Washington Post, the director of the wiretapping and cyber espionage service, who was also head of the US Cyber Command, was terminated along with Wendy Noble, Haugh’s civilian deputy at the NSA.
Noble was reportedly reassigned to a job within the Pentagon’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, which is in the same department as the NSA.
Lt. Gen. William J. Hartmann, who was the Cyber Command deputy, was named acting NSA director, and Sheila Thomas, who was the executive director at the NSA, was named acting deputy.
Last month, Trump adviser and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk toured the NSA’s Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters with Haugh.
Ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Jim Himes (D-CT) said in a statement, "I am deeply disturbed by the decision to remove general Haugh as a director of the National Security Agency. I've 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."
He added, “The intelligence committee and the American people need an immediate explanation for this decision, which makes all of us less safe.”
