Hegseth Fires Dia Chief, Lieutenant-General Jeffrey Kruse, other senior Pentagon officials

Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, dismissed the US Chief Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), who published an assessment on American strikes on Iranian nuclear installations, as well as other senior military civil servants.

Lieutenant-General Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as a DIA chief, a senior defense official at Fox News said on Friday.

The shots occurred for months after the details of the Dia of the preliminary evaluation of operation Midnight Hammer were disclosed to the media. The evaluation has questioned the effectiveness of strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

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Lieutenant-general Jeffrey Kruse was dismissed as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, by the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, reported the Associated Press. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein)

After the June strikes, President Donald Trump said that the Iranian nuclear program had been “completely and completely erased”. However, the DIA noted that the strikes dropped only from Tehran for a few months.

During a press conference after strikes, Hegseth tore in the media and accused the press of distorting the facts.

“You, the press, in particular you, the press, because you applaud so hard against Trump,” he said. “It’s like in your DNA and in your blood to applaud against Trump because you want it not to succeed.

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“You want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it erased-choose your word. It was a historically successful attack,” he added.

In addition to Kruse, HegSeth withdrew the vice-admiral Nancy Lacore, the chief of the navy reserve, and the counter-admiral Milton Sands, a naval seal officer who supervises the command of the special naval war.

“In force immediately, the counter-admiral Milton ‘Jamie’ Sands III will no longer serve as a commander, Naval Special Warfare Command,” said a navy official. “In vice-admiral Nancy Lacore will no longer serve as a chief of the Navy reserve.”

Lacore led around 59,000 staff members of the naval and navy reserve components. As a naval aviator, she has 1,300 hours of flight in military aircraft and commanded the American Djibouti base before becoming the head of the Navy reserve. The reason why she was dismissed is unknown.

Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is preparing to give a television interview outside the White House. According to several reports, Hegseth supervised the dismissal of the lieutenant-general of the Ministry of Defense, Jeffrey Kruse on Friday. (AP / Mark Schiefelbein)

Sands was a Seal Navy that served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the chief of staff to command US special operations, commander of the US special operations command and command of the training of naval services. The reason why he was dismissed is unknown.

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Trump has dismissed other military officials in recent months, notably the general of the Air Force CQ Brown Jr. as president of the joint staff chiefs, as well as the high officer of the navy, the second most classified officer of the Air Force and the best lawyers for three branches of the military service.