Three-star general Jeffrey Kruse ousted as Defense Intelligence Agency director

Lt General Jeffrey Kruse has been ousted as Defense Intelligence Agency director a senior defense official certified Friday Lt Gen Kruse will no longer serve as DIA Director the official reported in a brief declaration The agency s deputy director Christine Bordine will assume the role of acting DIA director a spokesperson declared Intelligence committee leaders in Congress were informed about the DIA chief s firing according to a source familiar with the notification but were given no reason for it Democratic Sen Mark Warner of Virginia who is the vice chair of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee commented in a comment The firing of yet another senior national safeguard official underscores the Trump administration s dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for our country The DIA was the department responsible for the preliminary assessment of the military strikes against Iran s nuclear facilities The assessment announced that the strikes had set back Tehran s nuclear scheme by a matter of months three sources familiar with its contents communicated CBS news shortly after the airstrikes The DIA s findings also indicated a few of Iran s enriched uranium stockpile had been moved before the strikes according to one of the sources That assessment prompted a backlash from the Trump administration since President Trump had announced in an address to the nation following the strikes that Iran s nuclear enrichment facilities have been utterly and totally obliterated He announced the U S strikes had set back the Iranian nuclear plan basically decades DIA employees seem to have been caught absolutely off guard by Kruse s firing One DIA employee narrated CBS News of speaking to another colleague about it who replied with an expletive Another mentioned If he is being fired the workplace at large will lose even more faith in the administration There s already widespread and openly voiced in town halls concern of their work being politicized Two other military functionaries have been removed from their posts CBS News proven on Friday Rear Adm Milton Sands who served as commander of Navy Special Warfare Command and Vice Adm Nancy Lacore who was the chief of the Navy Reserve will no longer serve in those roles according to a Navy official Neither Gen Dan Caine chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nor U S Special Operations Commanding Gen Bryan Fenton were consulted on the decision to fire Lacore or Sands sources familiar with the matter recounted CBS News Saturday Major Gen J Patrick Work commanding general of the nd Airborne Division was also in the last few days pulled from a future role as deputy commander of U S Central Command as well sources familiar narrated CBS News The Washington Post was first to review on Sands and Lacore s removals Source