Intelligence Meeting Canceled After Attacks By Far-right Activist Laura Loomer, Democratic Senator Says

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner said Tuesday that he is being blocked from a scheduled oversight gathering aft interference from far-right activistic Laura Loomer.

Warner, D-Va., said nan National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency gathering scheduled for Friday was called disconnected aft Loomer launched nationalist attacks connected him and nan NGA’s director, Vice Adm. Trey Whitworth.

“This nakedly governmental determination undermines nan dedicated, nonpartisan unit astatine NGA and threatens nan rule of civilian oversight that protects our nationalist security,” Warner said successful a statement.

“Members of Congress routinely behaviour meetings and on-site engagements pinch national labor successful their states and districts; blocking and mounting arbitrary conditions connected these sessions sets a vulnerable precedent, calling into mobility whether oversight is now allowed only erstwhile it pleases nan far-right fringe,” he said.

Warner said that nan gathering was scheduled weeks agone and that it was an unpublicized and classified visit.

Loomer took in installments for nan cancellation connected X. She demanded that Whitworth beryllium fired for having planned to meet pinch Warner.

“Whitworth’s scheduled September 5th fireside emotion fest pinch anti-Trump Democrat Senator @MarkWarner Mark Warner has been CANCELED!” she wrote.

She wrote that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "should occurrence Trey Whitworth for insubordination."

Whitworth took complete arsenic caput of nan spy agency successful 2022, during President Joe Biden’s administration. Before that, he was head of intelligence for nan Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The NGA did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Warner said that he has routinely visited nan offices of U.S. intelligence agencies for years nether some Republican and Democratic presidents and that nan visits were ne'er questioned until now.

He said nan cancellation should interest members of Congress from some parties, thing that members routinely meet pinch officials successful national government.

"Blocking and mounting arbitrary conditions connected these sessions sets a vulnerable precedent, calling into mobility whether oversight is now allowed only erstwhile it pleases nan far-right fringe," Warner said. "This should interest Republicans arsenic good arsenic Democrats: if regular oversight tin beryllium obstructed for governmental reasons, nary personnel of Congress is immune."

In April, nan head and nan No. 2 charismatic astatine nan National Security Agency were ousted from their positions, and Loomer took in installments for nan dismissals. She had met pinch President Donald Trump that week and thanked him for "being receptive to nan vetting materials provided to you."