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 agency's deputy director, Christine Bordine, will assume the role of acting DIA director, a spokesperson said.
Intelligence committee leaders in Congress were informed about the DIA chief's firing, according to a source familiar with the notification, but were given no reason for it.
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, who is the vice chair of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, said in a statement, "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 country."
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