Hegseth Fires General for Telling Truth

Monday, August 25, 2025

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

#4 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-08-25 10:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

"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 | Reply

"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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1