> In a statement, [Senator Mark Warren of Virginia] praised General Haugh’s leadership and said his removal would not make the country safer, jabbing at the White House for sharing sensitive material on a commercial messaging application and ousting members of the National Security Council staff at the urging of Ms. Loomer.

> Amid such actions, Mr. Warner said, the firing of a “nonpartisan, experienced leader” like General Haugh is “astonishing.”

Wonder if he refused to install Signal?

This document is from 2022, so it goes up to the NSA director appointed during Trump's first term, and discusses the politics. So far, the NSA director has always been a military general officer, but that's not a legal requirement.

The way it has worked in the past is that the uniformed services have recommended candidates for the job, and the Secretary of Defense and the President picked one. There's no history of anyone unqualified going into that job.

Worth reading.

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Dec/01/2003123773/-1/-1/0/NSA...

You now have people like Loomer, that are seemingly fully occupied with sniffing out "hostiles" of Trump - which just translates to the people in the government that aren't 100% sucking up to him. It is like internal McCarthyism.

Imagine trying to run a functional government, when you have people like this running around.

It's further indication that Donald Trump has descended into dementia plain and simple.

> 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.)

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/a...

in a previous age, say two months ago, it would be a career ending scandal for anyone senior to fire anyone based on what some fucking lunatic from Rumble said, but this is how eighty million Americans wanted the country run last year, and is how every single Republican politician wants it run now - if they didn't, they'd be speaking out and supporting impeachment.

Right now the government is avoiding truly unpopular unjustifiable policy while it is purging the old government and placing loyalists into positions of power, something anyone would recognize as a coup if it happened in a foreign country.

The administration is mildly bound by law so long as they don't do anything to provoke into action those who took an oath to protect this country from enemies foreign and domestic and to act in service to the constitution... but once people in positions of enforcement are replaced by loyalists, the constitution truly becomes just a piece of paper. Laws and ideals are just words on paper. It is the enforcement mechanisms which turn those ideas represented on paper into something that interacts and molds physical reality.

It give me The-Great-Leap vibes.

Escpecially RFK Jr.

> a U.S. official briefed on the matter said Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and outside adviser to President Trump, called for General Haugh’s removal

Which official briefed on the matter claimed this?

"Musk meets with head of National Security Agency to ensure it is aligned with Trump, spy agency says" - https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-nsa-cybercommand-doge-...

And since when the firing of the NSA director, is not something worthwhile to discuss for HN? @dang @tomhow please unflag this.