Another shake-up at the Pentagon — and this one’s raising eyebrows.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Lt Gen Jeffery Kruse, head of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Two other top commanders were also fired.
The Pentagon didn’t spell out why, but the timing speaks volumes.
Just weeks ago, the White House slammed a leaked DIA report that claimed US strikes on Iran only delayed its nuclear programme by months.
President Trump dismissed the analysis as “flat out wrong,” insisting Iran’s sites had been “completely destroyed.”
Hegseth, backing Trump, even called the report the product of “low intelligence” and confirmed the FBI was investigating the leak.
Accountability Or Loyalty?
Senator Mark Warner thinks the latter.
Trump has a “dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for our country.”
It’s not the first time dissenting voices have been shown the door.
From the NSA director to the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, even senior Pentagon generals.
Officials who’ve crossed Trump’s narrative haven’t lasted long.
The DIA, unlike the CIA, focuses on military intelligence.
But with its chief gone, critics wonder: is US intelligence being reshaped to serve national security — or presidential politics?
