Air Force Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was dismissed from his role after his agency produced a report contradicting Trump's claim that U.S. strikes had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. General Kruse was appointed by the Biden administration.

The firing of the head of the US Defense Intelligency Agency (DIA) Lieutenant General Jeffery Kruse comes after the DIA produced a preliminary assessment that said US strikes on Iran set back Tehran's nuclear program by just a few months.

Partisans on both sides have claimed the intelligence community is gravely politicized. This threatens the integrity of U.S. intelligence assessments that make them trustworthy—and that, in turn,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency the same week the Air Force's top general hastily retired.

Virginia U.S. Senator and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner released the following statement on the firing of General Jeffrey Kruse as Director of the Defense Intell