The National Security Agency has terminated its leading attorney following a report by the Daily Wire that brought attention to her prior work investigating President Donald Trump on behalf of the Democratic Party, along with her authorship of opinion pieces advocating for censorship and defending the intelligence community’s management of Trump associates like Carter Page.
The National Security Agency has also taken down its webpage that listed April Doss as general counsel, and several former officials have confirmed to The New York Times that she has indeed been dismissed.
This action indicates that the Trump administration is responding to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s assertion that documents expose a conspiracy involving “manufactured intelligence” aimed at undermining the president. As part of this initiative, the administration seems determined to remove individuals associated with the discredited investigation from significant intelligence roles, as reported by the Daily Wire.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), who previously held the position of the leading Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, engaged Doss to assist in linking President Trump to Russia. Warner has vocally condemned her dismissal, emphasizing her close connections to Democratic leadership.
“We should be outraged by the termination of April Doss, a highly principled public servant, seemingly due to her involvement in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan investigation into Russian election interference,” Warner stated, as reported by NBC.
“Her dismissal seems to stem from a politically motivated smear campaign orchestrated by a far-right conspiracy theorist, rather than any genuine concern regarding her conduct or qualifications,” he further remarked.
The apparent termination follows the Daily Wire’s report on July 23, which highlighted a number of errors made by Doss, including her repeated calls for the security state to address “misinformation” in cases where her assertions were later shown to be incorrect.
Among these were her attempts to rationalize crackdowns based on vaccine skepticism and her claim that Republican “extremists” were a significant threat.
Doss, who served under President Trump until this week, made unfounded allegations against him, claiming he incited an “insurrection,” even though no individual has been charged with that particular offense. She further characterized the January 6 protest as “deadly,” reiterating discredited assertions that protesters were responsible for the deaths of police officers. Moreover, Doss defended the government’s management of Page and Michael Flynn, both of whom played significant roles in the contentious Trump-Russia investigation.
The Daily Wire reported:
Doss’s vigorous support for censorship by the government and technology companies placed her in conflict with key policy positions of the Trump administration. The Federal Trade Commission under Trump has actively investigated advertising firms for their involvement in censoring what has been labeled disinformation, including the New York Post’s accurate account regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The article also detailed how NSA officials kept Doss’s hiring in 2022 from Congress, as officials and Democrats had obstructed the appointment of a Republican with a similar background to the same general counsel position during Trump’s first term, deeming it inappropriately political—a decision they understood would expose them to accusations of double standards if Doss’s hiring became public knowledge.
Similar to the discredited Russia investigation, the media and Democrats swiftly collaborated to disseminate misinformation following Doss’s termination.
Warner remarked that Doss “appeared to” have been dismissed due to Laura Loomer, after the Times employed the sub-headline “a far-right conspiracy theorist had amplified criticism of the lawyer and her previous work.”
A significant portion of the article’s narrative concentrated on the fact that Laura Loomer had shared a post on X summarizing The Daily Wire’s findings, while largely overlooking the actual conclusions of the report—except for mentioning that Doss had previously been employed by Democratic lawmakers.
Although the Times’ choice to emphasize a literal retweet rather than the substantive story was peculiar, much of the left-leaning establishment media quickly embraced it.