US NSA director Timothy Haugh fired, Washington Post reports

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The director of the wiretapping and cyber espionage service, the U.S. National Security Agency, was fired on Thursday, the Washington Post reported, citing two current and one former U.S. officials.

Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, the newspaper said.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

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