The vice president of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, said Tuesday that he is being blocked from a scheduled supervision meeting after the interference of the extreme right -right activist Laura Loure.
Warner, D-Virginia, said that the meeting of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency scheduled for Friday was suspended after Loomer launched public attacks against him and the director of the NGA, Vicealm., Trey Whitworth.
“This naked political decision undermines the dedicated and non -partisan staff of NGA and threatens the principle of civil supervision that protects our national security,” Warner said in a statement.
“The members of the Congress carry out routine meetings and commitments on the site with federal employees in their states and districts; blocking and establishment of arbitrary conditions in these sessions establishes a dangerous precedent, questioning whether the supervision is now allowed only when the France of the extreme right is added,” he said.
Warner said the meeting was scheduled weeks ago and that it was an unpublished and classified visit.
Loomer took the credit for the cancellation in X. demanded that Whitworth be fired for planning to meet with Warner.
“The Senator Anti-trump Democrat programmed Whitworth with the anti-trump Democratic senator @markwarner Mark Warner!” She wrote.
She wrote that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “should fire Trey Whitworth for insubordination.”
Whitworth assumed the position of head of the Espionage Agency in 2022, during the administration of President Joe Biden. Before that, he was director of Intelligence of the Chiefs of Staff.
The NGA did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Warner said that he has routinely visited the offices of American intelligence agencies for years under Republican and democratic presidents and that visits were never questioned so far.
He said that the cancellation should concern the members of the Congress of both parties, nothing that the members meet routinely with federal government officials.
“The blockade and establishment of arbitrary conditions in these sessions establishes a dangerous precedent, questioning if the supervision is now allowed only when the extreme right strip pleases,” Warner said. “This should worry the Republicans and the Democrats: if routine supervision can be clogged for political reasons, no member of the congress is immune.”
In April, the director and official number 2 of the National Security Agency were expelled from their positions, and Lomer attributed the credit for the dismissals. He had met with President Donald Trump that week and thanked him for “being receptive to the research materials provided.”
