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.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.”

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.