The head of the Pentagon’s intelligence agency has been fired, two U.S. officials told Reuters today, a move the top Democratic lawmaker on the Senate intelligence committee slammed as the latest example of politicizing intelligence by President Donald Trump’s administration.

It was not immediately clear why Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, who led the Defense Intelligence Agency, was fired. But he is the latest senior military official to have been removed under U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The official, who confirmed Kruse’s removal on condition of anonymity, did not give a reason.

“The firing of yet another senior national security official underscores the Trump administration’s dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for our countr

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