トランプ米大統領、国家安全保障局のスタッフ10人超解任＝消息筋
[ワシントン ３日 ロイター] - トランプ米大統領が、国家安全保障局（ＮＳＡ）のティモシー・ホーク局長を含めてホワイトハウスの国家安全保障部門の１０人を超えるスタッフを解任したことが分かった。消息筋が４日、明らかにした。
ホーク氏はサイバー軍司令官を兼任している。消息筋２人によると、ＮＳＡのウェンディー・ノーブル副局長も解任された。
別の消息筋２人によると、ホワイトハウスの国家安全保障会議（ＮＳＣ）では高官４人を含めて少なくとも１０人のスタッフが解任された。
解任の理由は不明だが、極右活動家で陰謀論者として知られるローラ・ルーマー氏がトランプ氏と大統領執務室で面会後に解任された。ルーマー氏は、トランプ氏への忠誠心が乏しい当局者のリストを面会時に手渡したとに投稿した。
ホワイトハウスはコメントを拒否した。
米国防総省はこれまでのところコメント要請に応じていない。
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Erin Banco
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Erin Banco is a national security correspondent focusing on the intelligence community. She covers everything from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to U.S. covert operations overseas. She previously worked at POLITICO as a national security reporter. Banco has a long history covering the Middle East region, from Cairo to Baghdad to Aleppo where she's reported on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, including the civil war in Syria and the rise of ISIS. Her 2017 book, Pipe Dreams, focuses on the development of the oil and gas industry in the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq. Banco attended The University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in Arabic and journalism. She earned a master's in public administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in 2014.
Patricia Zengerle
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Patricia Zengerle has reported from more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China. An award-winning Washington-based national security and foreign policy reporter who also has worked as an editor, Patricia has appeared on NPR, C-Span and other programs, spoken at the National Press Club and attended the Hoover Institution Media Roundtable. She is a recipient of the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.
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