Only weeks after the White House chastised a review evaluating the effects of US strikes on Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed the head of the Pentagon’s intelligence office.
The Pentagon said in a statement that Lt Gen Jeffery Kruse will no longer lead the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The Pentagon has also removed two other top military leaders. The defense department has yet to provide an explanation for the dismissals.
A secret DIA analysis that concluded that attacks on Iran had only caused a months-long delay in its nuclear program was sharply rebutted by President Donald Trump in June. The agency’s judgment was deemed “flat out wrong” by the White House.
Trump accused the media of “an attempt to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history” and pronounced the Iranian nuclear sites “completely destroyed.
Hegseth had stated that the FBI was looking into the leak and that the report was based on “low intelligence” during his remarks at the time’s NATO conference. The Washington Post was the first to report about Kruse’s departure.
Specializing in military intelligence to support operations, the DIA is a division of the Pentagon. Although it gathers a lot of technical intelligence, it differs from other organizations such as the CIA.
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