Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse has been ousted as Defense Intelligence Agency director, a senior defense official confirmed Friday.
"Lt Gen Kruse will no longer serve as DIA Director," the official said in a brief statement.
The DIA was the department responsible for the preliminary assessment of the military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. The assessment said that the strikes had set back Tehran's nuclear program by a matter of months, three sources familiar with its contents told CBS news shortly after the airstrikes.
The DIA's findings also indicated some of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile had been moved before the strikes, according to one of the sources.
That assessment prompted a backlash from the Trump administration, since President Trump had said in an address to the nation following the strikes that "Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated." He said the U.S. strikes had set back the Iranian nuclear program "basically decades."
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