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Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted
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- keepamovin 2y agoMaybe in 70 years everyone will know the true reason ... hahahahaha ! :)
- hulitu 2y ago> Maybe in 70 years everyone will know the true reason ... hahahahaha ! :) There were some "rumors" about the "chinese" powning the "american" telecom network since years. Ah, and also breaching the "passwords are obsolete" company was interesting from a national (in)security POV.
- jll29 2y agoThe contents of the Trump administration's Signal groups are as likely to be backed up and handed over to the national archives as the contents of Hillary Clinton's or Ursula Van der Leyen's blackberries.
- croes 2y agoGiven how they violate archiving laws I doubt that
- bowmessage 2y agohttps://archive.is/DWCN1 https://archive.is/DWCN1 Wonder if he refused to install Signal?
- arcmechanica 2y agoprobably wouldn't take a bribe
- etiam 2y agoI'm thinking wouldn't turn the key on the turnkey tyranny.
- andy_ppp 2y ago[flagged]
- isoprophlex 2y agoNot an american myself, and I've always disliked the excessive gun culture and pro gun lobbying in the USA... but damn, these pasts months, that second amendment is suddenly looking extremely useful
- andy_ppp 2y agoHow will you use your gun to protect yourself when the government is kidnapping people? They are starting to test this power with foreign students. If you think it won’t be anyone who disagrees with them eventually this whole thing looks exactly like the 1930s except technology can make this much much worse.
- croes 2y agoNot if the guns are in the hands of the MAGA
- goatlover 2y agoI wonder if California were to pass Calexit in response to this administration's ongoing actions, what happens to the military bases and personnel in the state? Last year's Civil War movie by Alex Garland showed California and Texas with their own military fighting the US government. I took it to mean the military units in those states seceded with the state, instead of remaining part of the US Armed Forces.
- bernb 2y agoCountries in general have a strong dislike for regions trying to become independent. There's just no way California will be able to become independent. Not sure about the US laws though, but in Europe there isn't even a legal framework for achieving something like this.
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- treetalker 2y agoLoomered! > 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.”
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoAstonishing. Seth Cotlar put forward his "nuts, for now" theory, of utterly unbelievable craziest of crazy shit. Specifically calling out Loomer and Jack Posobiec as absolutely cracked individuals to have influence. > Laura Loomer and Jack Posobiec having massive influence over Trump's White House is a perfect illustration of my "nuts, for now" theory of GOP politics. If something seems "nuts" and hard to believe right now...just wait, because it's only "nuts, for now." https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social/post/3llwulmbb3s2c https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social/post/3llwulm... Such deep sadness.
- belter 2y agoBut Mikeyyy still has a job... "Mike Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal chats for national security work – report" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-mike-waltz-signal-groups https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-mike-w...
- belter 2y agoIf you're not familiar with the stratospheric level of derangement Laura Loomer operates on, let’s put it this way: In a sane world, she'd be on a watchlist, not a guest list. Security protocols usually prevent people like her from getting within 1,000 feet of a U.S. President… or a school zone… or anything flammable... :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer "...Loomer was banned from both Uber and Lyft in November 2017 after a day-long anti-Muslim tweetstorm, which included tweets about not being able to find a "non Muslim cab or @Uber @lyft driver". Twitter banned Loomer in November 2018 for violating its policies against hateful conduct. After the ban, she handcuffed herself to Twitter's headquarters in New York for two hours before police cut through the handcuffs at her request. In February 2019, Loomer was banned from PayPal, GoFundMe, and Venmo. In response, she said that "left wing terrorists and tech tyrants" were "trying to shut [her] down" and that she would "stop at nothing to make sure justice is served for the way Silicon Valley has disenfranchised me, falsely accusing me of being a white supremacist, a Nazi, anti-Muslim, a racist, a bigot, and every other smear in the book." Loomer was one of several right-wing activists banned by Facebook and Instagram in 2019 for using the platforms to post misinformation and extremism. In May 2021, she said she was banned from the social media app Clubhouse hours after joining..."
- rdtsc 2y agohttps://archive.is/DWCN1 https://archive.is/DWCN1 > 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?
- SanjayMehta 2y agoThe NYT always uses this language.
- croes 2y agoDo you really think the source would say anything if their name is in the news?
- rdtsc 2y agoBut without a name it looks no different than NYT just making stuff up.
- happytoexplain 2y agoYou are free to not trust any given news source.
- rdtsc 2y agoAnd I don’t and urge others not to either. They constantly skew and manipulate information to fit a particular agenda. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_c... In almost every decade or major event in history, starting with the Russian revolution, Holocaust and up to current events they were making stuff up, taking sides and spinning stories to fit some narrative. When I see an “US official” I automatically translate it to “we made stuff up”.
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- goatlover 2y agoHow does Laura Loomer have a say in who gets ousted?
- senectus1 2y agoTrump suffers from a critical condition known as "Who-ever-spoke-to-him-last-itis"... The ideas in his head are put there by other people... and when he feels ready to proclaim something the last person to speak to him is the one to put the idea into his head.
- goatlover 2y agoLike Secretary Esteban Sorrento-Gillis for the first two and half seasons of the Expanse? Is Putin or Vance the equivalent of Undersecretary Errinwright? Musk would be Jules-Pierre Mao. The protomolecule can be AI, I guess.
- belter 2y agoTold you. It was just news reporting...I can't put Trump as Marco Inaros because he is not as smart.
- goatlover 2y agoWinston Duarte was the real mastermind with Marco being his tool, if you've read the books. The show hinted at it, but didn't cover the last 3 books. Duarte was using Inaros to buy time to build up Laconia with alien weapons, while Earth/Mars dealt with the Free Navy and recovered from the attacks.
- rsynnott 2y agoBecause the US is run by an idiot. Like, people are inclined to overanalyse this sort of thing, but at the end it comes down to the fact that Trump has _no idea_ what he is doing, and doesn't particularly care to learn.
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- hayst4ck 2y agoThese is a timer to substantively act and it's soon coming up. 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.
- goatlover 2y agoBut people here would rather flag these posts than recognize the threat.
- watwut 2y agoThey recognize it, they just dont see it as a threat. They want it to happen. It is a feature. Their hope is that power abuses will go against left, democrats, trans, non conforming women and so on and so forth. And that no election ever will be able to change that anymore.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoAnd suppression of curiosity and engagement counts for infinity on HN, and all the interest in the world has no leverage, by the moderation system's rules.
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- belter 2y agoThe director of the NSA, who has an illustrious military and completely apolitical career of 30 years, has just been fired. According to those flagging, there is nothing here for curious minds to dissect :-)
- croes 2y agoThe bad (good) things is they replace these people by incompetent ones. It give me The-Great-Leap vibes. Escpecially RFK Jr.
- tempera 2y agoI just heard RFK Jr. wants to focus on vaccine injured to find cures for that. That is so subversive to the vaccine industry. Cures?
- croes 2y agoHe suggested infestation with bird flu which would kill 80% of the infected birds and creates the risk pf s new pandemic. He employed the guy who faked the vaccines cause autism study to research vaccine safety. He favors Vitamin A over vaccines for measles treatment. Worked out great https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574847
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- xnx 2y agoIt's confusing because she looks so much older, but Laura Loomer is only 31.
- croes 2y agoEver seen the movie Shallow Hal? Would explain it
- defrost 2y agoMar-a-Lago face always prompts a double take; is that an AI generated face or just uncanny botox++ work?
- TrackerFF 2y agoI know it is uncouth to discuss appearances of people, but I have noticed a clear pattern when it comes to the women that get sucked into core of the MAGA sphere: Obnoxiously overuse of fillers, too much (and too dark) mascara and eyeliner, straightened hair, use of botox which results in a deadpan face. My pet theory is that POTUS and his gang mostly enjoy younger women working around them, so anyone over 30 will do anything in their power to "look young".
- rickydroll 2y agohttps://www.glamour.com/story/the-maga-makeup-trend-explained https://www.glamour.com/story/the-maga-makeup-trend-explaine... MAGA makeup deconstructed.
- fallinghawks 2y agoThis is more dishy https://youtu.be/MJEngub8SHw?si=qc4ZDl43b-jQpmWj https://youtu.be/MJEngub8SHw?si=qc4ZDl43b-jQpmWj
- anigbrowl 2y agoWho's going to get those jobs, and how do you feel about them having access to all that data?
- tempera 2y agoLet them have all the data and feed it to Grok so it can come up with good optimizations for the citizens of US and non-citizens alike!
- votepaunchy 2y ago“NSA Wiretap Reveals Subject May Be Paying Too Much For Long-Distance” [2006] https://theonion.com/nsa-wiretap-reveals-subject-may-be-paying-too-much-for-1819568502/ https://theonion.com/nsa-wiretap-reveals-subject-may-be-payi...
- bananapub 2y agoahh, and flagged already! 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.
- belter 2y ago15 days ago... "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-c7a29a8ecb53fce636f9282b5c45ff5b 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.
- matthewfelgate 2y agoAre Americans in denial about the Russia-aligned takeover of their government or have they just stopped caring?
- TrackerFF 2y agoFrom a national security and intelligence perspective, this is awful. 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.
- e40 2y agoA disfunctional government is their goal. Nothing else makes any sense.
- Mr_Eri_Atlov 2y agoThe knee-jerk reactions of the incompetent sycophants further hemorrhaging actual talent. It's further indication that Donald Trump has descended into dementia plain and simple.
- madethisnow 2y agowhen did this place become /r/politics? This is a completely unserious claim
- belter 2y ago> This is a completely unserious claim Sure: https://youtu.be/UMYlO5eMhl4?t=15 https://youtu.be/UMYlO5eMhl4?t=15
- throw0101c 2y agoFor more on Loomer, perhaps see: > 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/archive/2025/04/the-conspiracy-theorist-advising-trump/682289/ https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/a...
- Balgair 2y agoA shock-jock for the twitter age. These people used to be consigned to the middle of your radio dial on the drive to and from work. Not the west wing.
- Animats 2y agoHere's NSA's own history of the confirmation process.[1] NSA director is a Senate-confirmed position. Trump can't just put someone into the job. 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%20DIRECTORS%20THE%20SELECTION%20AND%20CONFIRMATION%20PROCESS.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2022/Dec/01/2003123773/-1/-1/0/NSA...
- Animats 2y agoNo NSA director has ever been fired before. As military officers, they usually spend two to four years in a job and then go on to another job.