Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' senior national security correspondent. He was previously a senior foreign correspondent and has spent more than two decades covering international news for CBS. Lt. Gen.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. “Lt. Gen. Kruse will no longer serve as DIA Director,” a senior defense ...

The move comes weeks after the agency drafted a preliminary report contradicting President Trump’s contention that U.S. strikes had “obliterated” nuclear sites in Iran. By Julian E. Barnes and Eric ...

Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse became the 23rd DIA director in 2023 after serving as director of intelligence for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, dismissed Friday as ...

WASHINGTON — 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, ...