No reason was given for the removal of Gen. Timothy D. Haugh. The far-right activist Laura Loomer had called for his ouster in a meeting with President Trump, an official said.

Gen. Timothy Haugh, who was chief of U.S. Cyber Command in addition to leading the NSA, was fired by the Trump administration Thursday night.

In a post on X, Laura Loomer, who purportedly pushed for their removal, said they have been fired for being “disloyal to President Trump.”

Gen. Timothy Haugh had just last week testified​ on Capitol Hill about the Signal leak in which a journalist had been added to a group chat with high-ranking members of the Trump administration.

The director of the U.S. National Security Agency was fired on Thursday, the Washington Post reported, citing two current and one former U.S. officials.

The Trump administration ousted the chief of a powerful intelligence agency, and no one knows why. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who heads both the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, was terminated along with his NSA deputy Wendy Noble,

The Trump administration has fired the director and deputy director of the National Security Agency, the United States’ powerful cyber intelligence bureau, according to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees and two former officials familiar with the matter.