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“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 suicide bomb in Syria in 2019. Kent now claims that he lost his wife “in a war manufactured by Israel.” So the notion that Israel pulls America’s strings is not new for the CIA alum.
President Trump said it was a “good thing” that Kent resigned because 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.”
A few important pieces of context
1. Joe Kent’s wife, Heather Kaiser, is a radical anti-American activist who retweeted attacks on the Trump administration. Kaiser worked for Max Blumenthal, the son of Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal, who had close links to the Libya invasion. Blumenthal has a record of supporting Islamic terrorist groups.
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2027943662986887571
2. Multiple sources said that Joe Kent was leaking to the media
https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/2033943323648389141
“A senior administration official told Fox News that Joe Kent was leaking information and had been cut out of POTUS intelligence briefings months ago, including planning and briefings on Iran.”
https://x.com/Johnny_Joey/status/2033948242703225122
3. Joe Kent was a registered Democrat until 2020. He voted for Bernie Sanders and after his backstabbing resignation, Sanders came out in defense of the former Democrat.
Kent was a registered Democrat in Portland. He rebranded as a Republican, claimed to be America First, and ended up losing a House seat to a Democrat. Trump took him in. Then Kent stabbed him in the back.
There were plenty of warnings when Kent expressed his enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders, Ron Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes
Kent said he was willing to find common ground with those “fighting for working-class families … fighting to protect
“It’s easy to say I’m the America First candidate and I’m just going to regurgitate MAGA at you,” Kent said.
He said a reliance on labels of left and right can distract from what he feels the real struggle is: “we the people against this highly corporatized ruling class.”
Common ground always meant betraying MAGA and that’s exactly what he did.
Leaking classified intel is treason is it not? It has been since the Revolutionary War.
There is so much propaganda, spin, half truths, etc, it will make your head spin. Who to believe? An army vet with 11 deployment and an exemplary history is hard to ignore. Kent said Israel persuaded and dragged Trump into this war with Iran. Iran was not a direct threat to the US.
Then the Trump admin came out and stated Kent was leaking intel and was removed from the Intel committee. Removed? If Kent was leaking Intel why wasn’t he fired? Or could he be charged criminally? It doesn’t make sense if Kent was leaking Intel he was allowed to remain on and his punishment was merely removal from the Intel committee.
Tucker Carlson said the CIA has read his texts and they are looking to charge him with some kind of crime because he is an outspoken opponent of the Iran war. Nothing has been confirmed or denied by Trump’s CIA. Is Tucker lying or telling the truth?
The media lies. All presidential admin don’t tell the truth about everything. It’s very frustrating.
Trump came out with some old tweets from Kent:
“@realDonaldTrump We should not sit and wait for the next attack, wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out and get our troops out of Iraq – they are only targets now. No US WIA/KIA is a tribute to the professionalism of our military and intel professionals not Iranian restraint.”
“Iran is poised to attack, Biden & the DC war machine has given them plenty of options to harm us by leaving our troops deployed in small bases in Iraq, Syria & Jordan. Biden also gave Iran the funding for its proxies to attack us & Israel. The solution isn’t billions more in foreign aid & adding more U.S. troops to the region, it’s cutting off Iran’s access to funding, depriving them of targets.”
“Iran has been after Trump since January of 2020 after he ordered the targeted killing of the terrorist Qasem Soleimani. This isn’t a new threat. The secret service consistently failing to secure Trump is new. We need to figure out exactly why these failures keep happening.”
That’s quite a .180 from Kent. My only question is if Kent was leaking Intel why wasn’t he fired? Simply being removed from the Intel committee doesn’t seem adequate.
Short version, leaking to the media is common in D.C.
It’s rarely prosecuted because it will often involve getting information from the journalist he leaked it which then touches off a First Amendment fight.
In this case that ‘jorno’ may well be Tucker Carlson and the Trump admin doesn’t want that fight.
When the leakers start not just leaking but sabotaging, they are less likely to be fired, because then they play the martyrs, like Kent is, and do more damage, they’re sidelined and kept from getting access to anything damaging. Sometimes they do the Kent thing and loudly resign.
First, TC is less than honest. Last, TC is self-serving and less than honest.
Multiple deployments and PTSD does not necessarily a critical thinker make.
I think you’re feeling sorry for a fly who is stuck on flypaper.
Well, if Tucker Carlson said it must be true (not).
This is the most informative bio on Joe Kent that I have come across since the story broke.
Josh Hammer had a podcast that was very thorough concerning Joe Kent.
You know, Joseph McCarthy claimed American intelligence agencies were compromised by the COMINTERN in the 1950s. He was called a traitor by Truman, Eisenhower, and the media, and then he died a sudden and suspicious death in 1957.
Don’t look now, but Joe Kent just proved him right.
I.F. Stone, a reporter who attacked McCarthy early and viciously, was a paid Soviet agent.
He was exposed when Venona was declassified in 1995.
(A flaming democrat reporter shown to be a communist stooge?? I’m shocked!)
“What made Kent completely reverse his position?”… Probably some Iranian that came across the south border threarened the lives of Kent’s family
Or gave him some money.
just follow the money. Ka Ching. Otherwise the left wife….. but Id say the money.
The former democrat has reverted to form: Traitor.
On other side of the world people like Joe Kent are called “Political prostitutes.”
Buh bye Joey, ya worthless P.O.S.
Can you imagine how WWII would have turned out if we had turncoats and malcontents whining everyday about how long it was taking to defeat Hitler and the Japanese. And don’t even mention all of the incessant whining about our “losses” in the field.
We are only three weeks in and the left is already having kittens. What a bunch of losers the Dems and the Leftists are.
The real question is ,why does Trump hire these left wing types in the first place. They did not turn on Trump, they are true to form. Corrupt lefties.
He’s way too trusting and sucks at vetting people. Also because Congress refuses to confirm true conservatives.
Staffers bring people into the administration. Those are picked because of their connections to various influence networks in D.C. and national politics. Then they get to set policy for the administration.
When Trump demanded Hegseth, even though he wasn’t on any of the lists, he made the right call, but he let staffers pick too much of his administration which is how he ended up with the bad people in term 1 and some of the bad people in term 2.
Kent had backers like Tucker Carlson and MTG. So he went to the head of the line.
Politics is a “learing center” process. It’s the swamp. President Trump is the first POTUS in USA history to expose the swamp, and in doing so, he was vially and relentlessly attacked by the swamp, which exposed the swamp even more.
While Donald J. Trump has always been a networker, he was destined for bigger things, Much bigger things.
Iran was positioning itself by it’s GDP of missile production, to not attack USA because we are too far for Iran’s former capabilities, but launch missiles on USA bases and Israel, just because Iran is satanic and criminally insane.
The hypocrisy of Joe Kent and the TDS crowd is done in safety that President Trump and Bibi Netanyahu stomped the war started by Iran’s proxy hamazz and had to go after the head of the serpent Iran, to ever hope for not so much peace as more security!
Invade a nation, expect retaliation!
Seems like the Persian folks in Iran support USA and Israel’s attempts to finally free them from the dictators.
It’s a shame he wasn’t fired, not a good look at all.
Blame the Jews when they live.
Blame the Jews when they die.
Blame the Jews when they are stateless and powerless.
Blame the Jews when they have a state.
Blame the Jews when they are rich.
Blame the Jews when they are poor.
Blame the Jews when they succeed.
Blame the Jews when they fail.
Blame the Jews because they are communists.
Blame the Jews because they are capitalists.
Blame the Jews when they are defenseless.
Blame the Jews when they defend themselves.
Blame the Jews when they are slaughtered.
Blame the Jews when they refuse to be slaughtered.
When in doubt, blame the Jews.
It has worked for thousand of years. Why stop now?
Nothing has changed for the Jewish people in all of history except now they have Nuclear Weapons and for very very good reasons. They are t0 be commended for their restraint.
Kent’s dreadful “powerful” verbatim line borrowed from bigots like hus linked Hitler-fan Fuentes, don’t even make sense. Trump is not looking for “reelection”, he can do ‘whatever he wants’. Obviously Kent possess some dark demons. Nevermind the more ‘powerful’ $100 Billion Qatar lobby… (See: “How Qatar Bought America.” The Free Press)
Never heard of this guy or the bureaucratic department he “led”.
Call me cynical, but I suspect the National Counterterrorism Center is just another duplicate do-nothing gruberment office to give jobs to the politically connected but otherwise unemployable.
Kent is another example of a shallow mind operating within a forceful personality. I think he has been influenced by Tucker Carlson and other uninformed ideas/ideals of what an informed society is “supposed” to look like. Resigning from counterterrorism at the very time when the greatest counter terrorism operation in history is going forward as we attack the No. 1 (!!!) promoter of terrorism in the last 50 years — Iran being a threat not only to the West but to its Sunni co-Islamics — is being resisted and overwhelmed. Iran cannot be totally defeated because there is a demonic influence on that country’s mindset that is outside the realm of geo-politics. However, Trump is setting back the evil manifestations potentially for hundreds of years. However, as Western Civilization turns more and more away from its Christian roots/foundations Iran may actually get help from future U.S. Presidents. However, we cannot dwell on that possibility. For now, we must blast, burn, and bomb Iran and its partisan terrorist political groups and cells. This destruction of Iran and its political subsidiaries will also set back the rogue individual terrorists operating throughout the world but especially in the West. Without the terrorist states in the backdrop of everyday experience, the dignity of hate and murder via terrorist surprise attacks will be minimized. There will be no strong epicenter for lone wolf Islamic maniacs to identify with, and this will be psychologically disruptive to that dimension of political threat. Kent can go to hell!!
Anti-Semitism/anti-Israel sentiment has been a fixture within the CIA, State Dept. etc. since the days of the Dulles brothers. You have only to look at the likes of Phil Giraldi, Ernie Gallo, Robert David Steele, et.al., to see this. Giraldi is a regular on Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom” podcast. They all mirror Tucker& & Co. I remember a few years back. when Tucker had that long softball interview with Putin in Moscow. Putin had already sized him up for “useful idiot.” Re-read the Soviet KGB’s ‘Operation SIG.’ This is the ideological thought reform/ “active measures” which Tucker, Carrie, and many others, have become consumed by.
Buh bye Kentsy Wentsy. Hope you rot in hell after you are executed for treason.
mark milley never went to jail for treason , what makes anyone think any democrat will see prison . only j6 people go there .