Trump fires National Security Agency director Haugh, sources say

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, according to two officials familiar with the decision, and congressional Democrats denounced the removal of the nonpartisan official from a top security post.

Haugh, an Air Force general who is also head of U.S. Cyber Command, was dismissed along with Wendy Noble, his deputy at the NSA.

"General Haugh has served our country in uniform, with honor and distinction, for more than 30 years. At a time when the United States is facing unprecedented cyber threats, as the Salt Typhoon cyberattack from China has so clearly underscored, how does firing him make Americans any safer?" Senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.