Monday, August 25, 2025

Hegseth Fires General for Telling Truth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency's initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

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Trump has a history of removing government officials whose data and analysis he disagrees with. Earlier this month, after a lousy jobs report, he fired the official in charge of the data. His administration has also stopped posting reports on climate change, canceled studies on vaccine access and removed data on gender identity from government sites.

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... Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The firing is the latest upheaval in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, and comes a few months after details of the preliminary assessment leaked to the media. It found that Iran's nuclear program has been set back only a few months by the U.S. strikes, contradicting assertions from Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Republican president, who had pronounced the Iranian program "completely and fully obliterated," rejected the report. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-25 12:17 AM

Nothing like a good news, hubristic, Hitlerian feedback loop.
It has never worked and it never will, humoring a nutter.
Thanks, MAGAts, you've killed a country.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-25 05:19 AM

Here's a feedback loop that, as with Trump, bites its creator in the behind: youtu.be

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-25 06:41 AM

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

#4 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-08-25 10:30 AM

NOW HEAR THIS! All intelligence information will be filtered as either good or bad news and only good news will be reported to thw President!

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-25 05:47 PM

NOW HEAR THIS! All economgood or bad.ic e reports shall alsi be filyered as either

#6 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-25 05:49 PM

"Trump has a history of removing government officials whose data and analysis he disagrees with. Earlier this month, after a lousy jobs report, he fired the official in charge of the data"

Sure... The same "government official" who cooked the books for for the Biden Administration (I mean Kamala Harris) as we were approaching the election.

Id have fired that clown too.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-25 06:00 PM

"The same "government official" who cooked the books "

Tell us you don't understand the three sets of numbers and why they exist, without using those specific words.

Failing that, define "preliminary" for the class.

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-25 06:30 PM

Sure... The same "government official" who cooked the books for for the Biden Administration (I mean Kamala Harris) as we were approaching the election.

With your evidence being absolutely nothing.

As usual.

#9 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-08-25 11:42 PM

POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

It's because of absolute morons like Turds that Trump can be as corrupt as he wants to be. That republicans can be as corrupt as they want to be.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-25 11:51 PM

His Majesty does not want negative information so off with his head!

#11 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-26 06:57 AM

If it angers dear leader, then there must be consequences.

No dissent.

No discussion.

He is right.

Always.

If you ever think he is wrong....he is right.

Period.

Only a fool thinks he has all the answers and Taco thinks he is an expert on everything, all the time, the best in all of history. Viruses, ballrooms, grass, planes, stealth, shields, golf, war, weapons, money, debt, everything.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-26 07:09 AM

All I know is if some sort of WWIII breaks out, with Hegseth as our Defense Chief, and Trump as Commander in Chief...we can only hope the two of them stay out of the way when it comes to defense planning.

#13 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-08-26 08:00 AM

Id have fired that clown too.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds

The only clown you should fire is yourself, you stupid f*&^.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-26 11:24 AM

Trump is putting the country at risk and MAGATS are fine with that because they want a dictator.

#15 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-08-26 07:39 PM

@#12 ... If it angers dear leader, then there must be consequences.

No dissent.

No discussion.

He is right.

Always.

If you ever think he is wrong....he is right.

Period. ...

I've nothing to add, but ...

Agreed, that looks to be the way this current admin functions.


#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 09:25 PM

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