The Playbook Has a Name: From Kruse to Mussolini
Trump’s war on truth, oversight, and history is not new. It’s just familiar.
On August 22, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, was fired. It wasn’t quiet or bureaucratic. There was no scandal or failure. He was dismissed for the same reason so many others have been in recent months: he told the truth.
Kruse's offense was allowing an intelligence assessment to reach the top levels of the Pentag…
