Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the general whose agency angered President Donald Trump over its assessment that his Iran strikes may not have ‘obliterated’ the country’s nuclear program.
Hegseth axed Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, who led the Defense Intelligence Agency, as part of a spree of Friday firings that sent an unmistakable message through the Pentagon’s ranks.
The Washington Post first broke the news on Friday.
In June, Trump made the surprising announcement that he went ahead and bombed three Iranian nuclear sites amid Israel’s fighting with Tehran.
The U.S. military used 12 massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs and 30 Tomahawk missiles to attack Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
But days later CNN reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency’s initial assessment was that the strikes did not destroy core components of the sites and may have only set Iran’s nuclear program back a number of weeks.
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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