Overview

• Sen. Mark Warner, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s vice chair, said his long‑scheduled classified visit Friday to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in Springfield, Va., was called off after Laura Loomer targeted him and NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank “Trey” Whitworth online.
• Warner blamed “political appointees” for the decision and said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office made the call, arguing the move undermines routine congressional oversight of intelligence agencies.
• Loomer publicly took credit on X and urged Hegseth to fire Whitworth, extending a pattern in which she has claimed influence over personnel changes and policy moves inside the administration.
• The Pentagon disputed Warner’s characterization, saying the visit was not canceled but rescheduled to accommodate bipartisan participation; NGA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.
• Warner questioned how details of a classified visit reached an outside activist and warned that conditioning access on partisan loyalty risks further politicizing the intelligence community.