The head of the agency that said the Trump-directed air strikes on Iran had minimal effect on Iranian nuclear capabilities has, predictably, been fired – because the working theory in the Trump administration is, if we pretend everything is what we say it is, then it is what we say it is.
The latest fall guy for the Trumpers is Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, who until a few hours ago headed up the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hasn’t commented on the sacking – Hegseth is busy trying to do a legitimate pullup.
Kruse’s sin: overseeing a report that said the Trump strikes on Iran had set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months, when what the report was supposed to say was, Iran’s nukes got nuked.
The official party line is, per Trump, that his strikes set back Iran’s nuclear program “basically decades.”
The DIA report indicated some of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile had been moved before the strikes, which isn’t a surprise at all, given how Trump had warned everybody for days leading up to the strikes what was in the works.
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Since nobody from the Trump side wants to weigh in on the move to get rid of Kruse, we leave it to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, to lend some perspective:
“It is perhaps unsurprising that Gen. 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,” Warner said. “That kind of honest, fact-based analysis is exactly what we should want from our intelligence agencies, regardless of whether it flatters the White House narrative. When expertise is cast aside and intelligence is distorted or silenced, our adversaries gain the upper hand, and America is left less safe.”
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