Among those who get to stay is Timothy Haugh, head of NSA, who also leads the US's so-called cyber command. His civilian deputy, Wendy Noble, is also fired, according to sources including CNN and The Washington Post.
The National Security Council, NSC, a unit within the White House, is affected in a similar way. The media names several high-ranking officials, such as Thomas Boodry and David Feith, who are fired.
Met Loomer
The measures are described as a minor earthquake in the security and intelligence sphere in Washington, and many of the comments suggest that Trump continues to replace experienced officials with people who are blindly loyal to him.
On Thursday, Trump confirmed that he had fired "some" intelligence officials, the day after a meeting with Laura Loomer, a 31-year-old activist on the far right. She has said that she shared her "findings" with the president - without going into details.
Loomer is an influencer known for promoting various wild conspiracy theories, including that immigrants eat cats and that the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 were "an inside job". She is also known for her uncompromising stance, and has signaled that political opponents should be executed.
In Trouble
Among others, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, notes that Trump has simultaneously allowed NSC's superior Mike Waltz to stay.
Waltz has been in trouble for letting top-secret military information leak out via the messaging app Signal.
"It's astonishing that President Trump fires the impartial, experienced leader of NSA while not holding anyone accountable for leaking classified information on a commercial app - and apparently taking national security advice in the Oval Office from a mistrusted conspiracy theorist", Warner writes.
