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Posted on 03/17/2026 6:18:33 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
“I personally think we should have crushed their ballistic & nuke capes (capabilities) , but Trump has a plan, he has definitely earned the confidence of any clear eyed observer,” Joe Kent wrote in 2020.
“After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as director of the National Counterrorism Center,” Joe Kent, a former registered Democrat who had once voted for Bernie Sanders, announced on Tuesday. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran” which “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.”
What made Kent completely reverse his position?
While Kent mentioned his past deceased wife in his combative resignation letter attacking the very policies he had once championed, and claimed to believe in, he failed to mention his current wife, Heather Kaiser, a radical activist who wrote for the anti-American publication, Grayzone, and retweeted attacks on the Trump Administration by its leader Max Blumenthal, a supporter of Islamic terrorism, and the son of Sydney Blumenthal, a top ally of Hillary Clinton.
Reports are that Kent had been accused of leaking and undermining the administration. If so, he would certainly not have been the first. There is a long ugly history of intelligence figures in the Trump Administration undermining the president, leaking to the media and corrupting the system.
For all but the willfully blind, Iran’s Islamic regime does pose an imminent threat to the USA. Kent’s departure is no cause for concern because the National Counterterrorism Center he headed does not counter terrorism in any meaningful way.
The NCTC was the creation of President George W. Bush, who after 9/11 told the nation that “Islam is peace.” In the aftermath, Bush created the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) whose first director was CIA officer John Brennan. He believed that Islamic jihad was a moral quest for truth that had nothing to do with violence.
A voter for the Stalinist Gus Hall in 1976, Brennan served as President Clinton’s daily intelligence briefer. In 2003, Brennan led a multi-agency effort to establish the National Counterterrorism Center and served as the NCTC’s first director. Brennan left the CIA in 2005 and in 2013 the composite character president, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, tapped him to head the CIA, which failed to prevent the 9/11 terrorist attack.
In similar style, the NCTC failed to prevent terrorist attacks at Fort Hood (2009), the Boston Marathon (2013), San Bernardino (2015) and Orlando in 2016, all with massive loss of life. To be fair, the CIA and FBI also failed to prevent those attacks, and played no role in the takedown of the terrorists.
Joe Kent had served in the US Army and then moved on to the CIA, where he served as a paramilitary officer in the CIA’s Special Activities Center. Like many former CIA figures, Kent ran for Congress, moving from Oregon to Washington, where his conservative opponent accused him of being a carpetbagger and a liberal over his past support for Bernie Sanders.
Joe Kent twice ran for Congress in Washington State, losing in 2022 and 2024 to Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
In 2025, President Trump gave Kent a consolation prize by tapping the former CIA figure to head the NCTC despite the concern of some Trump supporters. But Kent had some powerful supporters including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson who back then had not yet turned on Trump.
The retreating Kent now sounds more like a politician. “High-ranking Israeli officials” and members of the media had deployed a “misinformation campaign,” to “deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was an clear path to swift victory.” And so on.
Kent’s wife Shannon, serving in the US Navy, was killed by an ISIS ecause he thought “Iran was not a threat” and was “very weak on security.” Kent’s colleagues in the CIA should take his resignation as an example.
Former CIA analyst John Gentry authored Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences. As the author explains, “the politicization of intelligence was aimed at Trump,” and “the political culture of some IC agencies remains intact, available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.”
No word of any resignations from this partisan sleeper cell now awaiting reactivation. They need to be identified and prosecuted, before they do more harm to the nation. That especially applies during a conflict with a terrorist Islamic regime that has been chanting “death to America” for nearly 50 years.
“Every country realized what a threat Iran was,” said Trump in his response to the Kent resignation. “The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it.”
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I don't do this as often as I used to because I had all but given up. To be a simple Bible Belt boy and then discover that all "true conservatives" were against "Zionism" really shook me up--giving me the obsession of fighting against this notion that has been the main purpose of my life. Learning Biblical Hebrew and having my eyes opened are the two accomplishments of my life.
I am in the second half of my life, disabled, and have lost my beloved mother. It almost seemed that this argument was behind me. Just a few years ago the "philo-Semitic Left" showed its true colors and I thought we were on the verge of something. We were. We were on the verge of the Jew-haters (who are quite literally insane, since they make mutually exclusive arguments) suddenly popped up and now "all true conservatives" are once again supposed to be against "Zionism," which supposedly isn't a simple national movement but the plot to exterminate the white race through dirty stand-up routines (or something). And it's getting worse, not better.
And now a great division is forming. It is a division that was inevitable since we are dealing with two versions of the "exact same religion" which are simply mutually exclusive. It isn't pleasant, I don't derive any pleasure from it, but it's here.
I've been here now for over a quarter century, since back when the forum was full of raving Nazis who used the names of notorious Nazis for their screen names, and I'm still here as a fresh crop continues to regurgitate the same poison. It never changes.
I'm still here, you b@st@rds. I may get tired but I don't plan on going anywhere until I'm called.
Whatever happens in the meantime you're all going to lose in the end, as sure as there is a G-d in Israel.
Koh y'ovedu kol 'oyveykha, HaShem . . . Thus shall perish all Your enemies, O L-rd!
Ping (for what it’s worth).
Now Kent can work at Traitor Joe’s.
>>>>In 2020, Joe Kent expressed that he believed President Trump should have attacked Iran’s weapons programs, indicating a more aggressive stance towards Iran at that time. However, his recent resignation as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center reflects a significant shift in his views, as he now claims that Iran posed no imminent threat to the U.S. and criticized the current war as being influenced by external pressures.<<<<
WHICH IS IT, JOE?
He’s now tainted. He goes with whatever he thinks will get him elected.
No principles!
He will probably go back to Washington state and run as a demoncrat now that he’s being celebrated by them for coming out against Trump administration policy.
Need to see about 20K CIA resign. that would be a start.
Has Kent come clean wrt his leakages?
“...Joe Kent, a former registered Democrat who had once voted for Bernie Sanders...”
That is new news to me.
Who knew?
Soros money at work.
” it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
ANOTHER dxmned groyper! A pox on all of those sorry jew-hating scumbags.
I would much rather have an Israeli Empire than an Iranian Caliph.
“I’ve been here now for over a quarter century, since back when the forum was full of raving Nazis who used the names of notorious Nazis for their screen names”
Liar.
Decades of filling ranks with DEI and leftists hacks woke hacks
Don’t let the screen door hit you in the a$$ on yer way out, Joe!
CC
“Soros money at work.”
Wouldn’t surprise me………the Soros family should be banned in the US.
Joe Kent wasn’t qualified for the position. He was in way over his head. Glad he’s gone.
RE: Zionist Conspirator ~~ “I’ve been here now for over a quarter century, since back when the forum was full of raving Nazis who used the names of notorious Nazis for their screen names
RE: Mariner replied ~~ “Liar”
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Mariner, the original poster is correct about the notorious German Nazi screen names. While I’ve not yet looked into their comment history on this site, all of the accounts listed below have been banned.
https://freerepublic.com/~AdolfHitler/
https://freerepublic.com/~HeinrichHimmler/
https://freerepublic.com/~HermannGoring/
https://freerepublic.com/~JosephGoebbels/
https://freerepublic.com/~AdolfEichmann/
https://freerepublic.com/~JosefMengele/
https://freerepublic.com/~albertspeer/
https://freerepublic.com/~ReinhardHeydrich/
https://freerepublic.com/~ErnstKaltenbrunner/
They were all banned at inception.
As soon as Jim became aware he zapped them.
This forum was never “full of raving Nazis” and I stand by my accusation.
Traitor to who, your beloved Israel? Human s**tpile Netanyahu?
You're slandering an 11 deployment combat vet who lost his wife to the war on terror. While you sat in your comfy chair listening to Al Stewart - who sings like he suckles men between songs - Kent was fighting for this country. His wife gave the ultimate sacrifice.
The Israel 1st America 2nd crowd that's hijacked FR are proving - every day - what low life, soulless scum they are.
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