- Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:46 pm
#138997
In worse news, Hegseth has fired another competent intelligence officer for telling the truth about the effectiveness of the Iran strikes. Apparently Trump is cleaning house of all loyal and competent Americans in the Pentagon before widely deploying the Army against American citizens:
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest senior military or intelligence officer to lose his position in a wider purge of national security agencies’ top ranks, according to two people familiar with the matter."
"The ouster of Kruse was the first acknowledged in what military officials said could be a spate of firings on Friday. Others removed include Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve, and Rear Adm. Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversees Naval Special Warfare Command, according to two additional people familiar with the matter, who like others interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the Trump administration’s targeting of current and former intelligence officers."
"That preliminary report assessed that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had been set back only a matter of months, in contrast to Hegseth’s and President Donald Trump’s statements that the capabilities had been “obliterated.”"
"“It is perhaps unsurprising that General Kruse’s removal as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency comes on the heels of a DIA assessment that directly contradicted the president’s claim to have ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program,” Sen. Mark R. Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement."
"Since entering office, Hegseth has fired a slate of America’s most senior military officers, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.; the chief of naval operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan; and the Air Force vice chief of staff, Gen. James Slife.
Gen. David Allvin, the chief of staff of the Air Force, announced Monday he will step down in November, after being asked to retire last week and forced out of his position.
The Trump administration has simultaneously purged a number of spy agency heads, whose roles, like the military’s, are supposed to be apolitical."
"In May, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, Michael Collins, and his deputy. The move came after the NIC, a respected analytic hub, wrote an assessment that contradicted Trump’s rationale for invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members without due process."-Washington Post