The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from US strikes angered Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official.
Lt Gen Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The firing is the latest upheaval in the US military and intelligence agencies, and comes a few months after details of the preliminary assessment leaked to the media. It found that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months by the US strikes, contradicting assertions from Trump and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
That general may be garbage, for all I know–the vast majority of them are. But I do know that Hegseth is garbage, and that only a moron would believe the Neocon Trump Administration’s bullshit Operation Iranian Freedom narrative.
The general should go enjoy his retirement, and have a big bucket of popcorn ready for the Neocon Trump Administration’s next big stupid futile attempt to denuclearize Iran.