The Lieutenant General Jeffrey Crust has been excluded as the director of the defense intelligence agency, confirming a senior defense officer on Friday.
“Lieutenant General Crust will no longer work as DIA Director,” the official said in a brief statement.
A spokesperson said that the Deputy Director of the agency, Christine Bordin, would play the role of acting DIA Director.
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According to a source familiar with the notification, the leaders of the intelligence committee in the Congress were informed about the firing of the DIA chief, but no reason was given for this.
“So far another senior national security officer firing outlines the dangerous habit of treatment for our country,” the Democratic Sen Mark Warner of Virginia, who is the vice -chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, said in a statement for our country.
The DIA was the department responsible for the initial evaluation of military attacks against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Assessment said that Strikes Tehran’s nuclear program was set back from the matter of months, three sources familiar with its content told CBS News immediately after the air strike.
The findings of the DIA also indicated that some rich uranium stockpiles of Iran were taken before the strike, according to a source.
That assessment inspired a backlash from the Trump administration, as the President had Trump. Said A address to the countries states that “Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have become completely and completely distracted.” He said that the US strike had set the Iranian nuclear program “originally decades” back.
DIA employees seem to have been completely discontinued by cross firing. A DIA employee told CBS News about talking to another colleague about it, who responded with an explain.
Another said, “If they are being fired, the workplace will lose even more confidence in the administration on a large scale. Already widespread – and the voice was openly raised in the town hall – the concern of their work is being politicized.”
Two other military officers have been removed from their positions, CBS News confirmed on Friday. According to a Navy official, Rear Adam. Milton Sands, who served as the commander of the Navy Special Warfare Command, and Vice Adam. Nancy Lacore, who was the head of the Navy Reserve, will no longer work in those roles.
Washington Post The first was to report on the removal of sands and lacore.
Margaret Brainon and Nancy Cordes contributed to this report.
