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  • Hegseth fires general whose agency’s intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump

    08/22/2025 1:02:46 PM PDT · by DFG · 68 replies
    AP ^ | 08/22/2025 | KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHELLE L. PRICE
    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. The firing is the latest upheaval in military leadership and in the country’s intelligence agencies, and comes a few months after details of the preliminary assessment...
  • Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

    06/11/2025 6:58:07 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 33 replies
    Military.com ^ | Jun 11, 2025 | Konstantin Toropin and Steve Beynon
    It was supposed to be a routine appearance, a visit from the commander in chief to rally the troops, boost morale and celebrate the Army's 250th-birthday week, which culminates with a Washington, D.C., parade slated for Saturday. Instead, what unfolded Tuesday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, bore little resemblance to the customary visit from a president and defense secretary. There, President Donald Trump unleashed a speech laced with partisan invective, goading jeers from a crowd of soldiers positioned behind his podium -- blurring the long-standing and sacrosanct line between the military and partisan politics. As Trump viciously attacked his perceived...