Pentagon Fires Intelligence Chef after the assessment of attacks in Iran

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed the Pentagon intelligence agency, just a few weeks after a reprimand at the White House of a report evaluating the impact of American strikes on Iran, American media report.

Lieutenant-General Jeffery Kruse will no longer serve as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), suggest reports. Two other high military commanders were also ousted by the Pentagon.

The Ministry of Defense did not propose any immediate explanation on layoffs.

In June, President Donald Trump had rejected strongly on a disclosed report of Dia which revealed that the attacks on Iran had only set up his nuclear program per month. The White House said that the “bad or bad” agency assessment.

Trump had declared nuclear sites in Iran “completely destroyed” and accused the media of “an attempt to lower one of the most successful military strikes in history”.

Speaking at the top of NATO at the time, Hegseth had declared that the report had been made on “weak intelligence” and that the FBI sounded the flight.

The release of Kruse was reported for the first time by the Washington Post. The BBC contacted the Pentagon to comment.

DIA is part of the Pentagon and specializes in military intelligence to support operations. It collects large amounts of technical intelligence, but is distinct from other agencies such as the CIA.

It is understood that Hegseth also ordered the abolition of the head of the American naval reserve and the commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command, said an anonymous source on Friday.

In a statement, the American senator Mark Warner warned that Kruse’s dismissal was a sign that Trump had “a dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for our country”.

Trump has deleted a certain number of officials whose analysis was considered to be in contradiction with the president.

In July, Trump said that he had ordered his team to dismiss the Labor Statistics Commissioner, Erika Mcentarfer “immediately”, after a report showed that employment growth has slowed down.

And in April, Trump dismissed General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, as well as more than a dozen staff at the National Security Council of the White House.

Hegseth also expelled a number of military officials from the Pentagon. In February, he dismissed General de l’Air Force CQ Brown, who was dismissed with five other admirals and generals.