Hegseth fires Defense Intelligence Agency chief, other senior Pentagon officials
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expelled the president of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), who made an assessment of strikes against the US nuclear facilities and other senior military officials.
A senior defense official told Fox News Digital on Friday, Lieutenant Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as the head of DIA.
The ignition, months after the DIA, the details of the preliminary assessment of the hammer operation at midnight were leaked to the news media. The evaluation questioned the effectiveness of strikes in Iran’s nuclear areas.
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After the June strikes, President Donald Trump said that Iran’s nuclear program was “completely and completely destroyed”. However, DIA found that the strikes brought Tehran back only a few months.
At a press conference after the strikes, Hegseth entered the media and accused the press of misrepresenting the facts.
“You, the press, especially you, the press corps, because you are very cheerful against Trump,” he said. “As you do to cheer against Trump in your DNA and your blood, because you want it not to be so successful. You should cheer against the effectiveness of these strikes. Maybe you should hope that they will be effective.”
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“You mean destruction to him, you want to defeat, you want to destroy – choose your word. This was a historical successful attack.”
In addition to Kruse, hegseth lifted the rear Adm Milton Sands, a navy sealing officer who controls the Navy Reserve Chief Nancy Lacore and Navy Special War Command.
Lacore led approximately 59,000 substitute components in Navy and Marine Infantry. As a sea aviator, he has 1,300 flight hours on military aircraft and became the commander of the US base in Djibouti before he became Navay Reserve Chief. The reason for being confessed is unknown.
Sands was a navy seal in both Iraq and Afghanistan. USA Special Operations Command, US Special Operations Command and Naval Service Training Command Command. The reason for being confessed is unknown.
Trump, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. And the highest -level officer of the Navy expelled other military officials, including the best lawyers of the Air Force and the best lawyers for three military service branches.
