Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticeThe Trump administration Department of Defense has reportedly removed a prominent Obama administration official and Trump critic’s name from an auditorium at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington. “The Thomas Knowlton Leadership Hall at Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) headquarters honors a true American warrior whose legacy is inseparable from the birth of our nation’s intelligence profession,” Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez told The Hill. “James Clapper disgraced himself and his career as an intelligence official. His name will no longer be honored at the Defense Intelligence Agency auditorium,” an unnamed senior defense official told The Daily Caller, which first reported the name change.