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Posted on 03/17/2026 11:43:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his concerns about the justification for military strikes in Iran and saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war.
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent said in a statement posted on social media, making claims President Donald Trump has denied.
Kent, a former political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was confirmed to his post last July on a 52-44 vote. As head of the National Counterterrorism Center, he was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.
His resignation reflects unease within Trump’s base about the war and shows that questions about the justification for the use of force in Iran extend to at least one senior member of Trump’s Republican administration.
The leadership change at one of the nation’s top counterterrorism offices comes at a time of heightened concern about terrorism in the homeland following recent attacks at a Michigan synagogue and a Virginia university.
Kent’s decision came down to the reasoning behind the strikes on Iran, or what he said was the lack thereof, he wrote in his resignation letter.
Trump has offered shifting reasons for the strikes and has pushed back on claims that Israel forced the U.S. to act. House Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested the White House believed Israel was determined to act on its own, leaving the Republican president with a “very difficult decision.”
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He ignores the 40,000 people murdered in the last 2 months by their gov’t or the nuclear bombs they were trying to make and would use against us. Also ignored at least the 1,600 Americans murdered over the years along with more wounded by Iran. By gosh that man has principles you know!!
Aw, that’s a shame.
Was foreign policy one of his counter-terrorism duties??
No bias here.
Hey moron, what do you call Hamas, Hezbolah, Houthis, Ansar Allah, Asaib Ahl al Haq, Harakat al Nujaba, Zaynabiyoun Brigade, Fatemiyoun Division, Al Ashtar Brigades, Saraya al Mukhtar), and the IRG?
Already posted under ABC/Disney bullcrap byline. Whit over 200 posts there on the topic and this... individual hugely compromised. Over, and done with. But, thanks for sharing.
He proclaimed Iran was a direct threat to President Trump back in 2021.
He may have had an honorable service in the military, BUT, so did Benedict Arnold.
This CIA asset is much better off not in our administration.
Figures AP would be giddy about this guy. He even used the left’s talking points. He was a rat a few years ago so another failure in the vetting process.
I had a Super-MAGA relative that suddenly broke with Trump over Iran...private conversations with my relative indicated a very antisemitic attitude. Not suggesting anything, just an observation.
Kent’s resignation reflects jack squat, APNews...
Oh Joe. Sorry. We didn’t know you were still here. You can go now!
Perhaps Mr. Kent should tell us what would be a sufficient stock of enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons in short order in the hands of eschatologically psychotic mullahs in order to deem the threat “imminent.”
Well, we dodged another bullet with that one.
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation”
He is not just wrong he is misguided. Perhaps the threat was not imminent to the next second, minute, hour, day, week etc but it is most assuredly Chronic. A near constant thorn in our side for at least the last 47 years just as Islam has been since the pedophile Mo dreamed it up.
We continue to pay the price for the lack of faith and sin of Abraham.
Might interest you to know— that “right wing” stuff was manufactured. Up to the time this guy “ran” for Congress and made our incumbent Repub rep lose in a primary to lose to a dem winner, he was a Bernie Bot. Bernie Sanders.
A former Army Ranger/see eye ehh paramilitary thug in Syria with his wife, also see eye ehh killed by IED. Blames Israel.
The current dem he helped put in place was also a Bernie Bot.
He should never, never had gotten this position with Trump. Fake. And also cut out of the loop on these Iranian ops, because he is a leaker. So now they are trying to lay this on Tulsi to get rid of her— and she was the one who cut him out of the loop, along with Ratcliffe. It’s hard to keep up.
The prior posts earlier bring this out clearly. Sorry for the dude’s loss— but he is a tool of Brennan/obamaumao, and of course the DC Marxists.
I don’t know if he is for the Emperor, or has joined plotters against the Emperor, but this guy is clearly in the Praetorian Guard
And we know how how they control Rome
Search still works this has 200 plus posts under the ABC byline.
Trump’s base is fine. This only serves to bolster the hopes of anti-Americans like The Ape Pee and The View that there will be discord. Ain't gonna happen, Ape Pee. Sorry, not sorry.
Former CIA guy decides to go against Trump at an opportune time?
Shocked I tell ya, Shocked!
It has to be terrible to be a clown no one has ever heard of. I really don’t think this guy’s job was essential to anything.
Probably some Biden’s holdover, trying to make a hay!
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