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Joe Kent has been in the news, for this former soldier who was the Director of the National Terrorism Center suddenly resigned from his office on March 17, saying on Tuesday Iran posed no imminent threat to the US, a view experts say contradicts longstanding security warnings.
More on his attention-seeking letter of resignation can be found here.
The US counterterrorism chief’s resignation over the Iran war made waves in Washington, but his assertion that Tehran posed no imminent threat was swiftly challenged by officials and analysts.
In his resignation letter to President Trump Joe Kent wrote that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation” and accused the White House of going to war on behalf of Israel.
US officials pushed back quickly, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Trump had evidence to support his decision to strike and House Speaker Mike Johnson questioning Kent’s information.
“I don’t know where Joe Kent is getting this information, but he wasn’t in those briefings,” Johnson said. “Had the president waited, we would have had mass casualties. That proposition at the end is clearly wrong.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard also pushed back publicly, saying that the administration rejects the view that Iran posed no threat.
Kent resigned on Tuesday, saying he “cannot in good conscience” support the Trump administration’s war in Iran, and arguing the conflict had been driven by pressure from Israel and its supporters in the United States rather than an immediate security necessity.
President Trump dismissed him shortly afterward, calling it a “good thing” he stepped down and describing him as “very weak on security.”
Here’s what we know about Joe Kent. He served 11 tours of duty, some of them as a Green Beret. His wife Shannon, a cryptologist, was killed by an Islamic State (ISIS) bomb that exploded in Syria. He came away from her death convinced that any war in the Middle East was simply not worth the loss of American life. He lost the faculty — assuming he ever possessed it — of rationally weighing the threat that Iran posed not just to the United States and Israel, but to the entire Middle East and beyond.
Kent was known for tolerating, and even sharing, the views of antisemites and anti-black racists. He just barely received Senate approval, so disturbed were some senators about some of his reported remarks expressing these views. In office, he acquired a reputation as a “leaker” of state secrets, and so in recent months he was cut out of meetings where the most sensitive security matters concerning Iran were discussed; he was not privy, for example, to the latest intelligence information about Iran’s success in resurrecting its nuclear program after the Twelve-Day War, including the newest enrichment site at Isfahan, and so was in no position to judge whether the Iranian threat was “imminent” enough to warrant the unleashing of Operation Epic Fury.
After Kent’s resignation letter blaming Israel for supposedly pushing America into a war was made public, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who until 2025 was Senate Majority Leader and an ex officio member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, let loose with both barrels. He said here that “the virulent antisemitism of his [Kent’s] resignation letter makes it clear that Mr. Kent is incapable of upholding these pledges, and those who mistake its baseless and incendiary conspiracies for brave truth-telling are only fooling themselves,” McConnell wrote on social platform X.
“Isolationists and antisemites have no place in either party, and certainly do not deserve places of trust in our government,” he added.
“The longtime Kentucky senator said just a year ago the former aide to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress that Iran and its terror proxies threatened U.S. service members in the Middle East.
“He said it would be an honor to return to the fight against terrorism, and he pledged to lead with integrity and accountability,” McConnell continued.
“However, Kent said in his letter Tuesday that the war on Iran was of “no benefit.”
“As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives,” he wrote.
Comment: His wife was killed, Kent said, “in a war manufactured by Israel.” Ken’s wife Shannon was killed by a suicide bomber belonging to ISIS. How could anyone of sense hold Israel responsible for that killing carried out by the Islamist fanatics of ISIS?
“I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now,” the intelligence official added.
Comment: Kent has championed Nick Fuentes, the pipsqueak antisemite who, at the age of 27, has become that. unappetizing thing, an “influencer,” and used his hate to attract a large and moronic following on the Internet. Kent has said Fuentes should not have his on-in rants curtailed. He also gave an interview to the neo-Nazi Grayson Arnold, who has a long record of anti-black and antisemitic statements, including this: “Hitler was a complicated historical figure which many people misunderstand.” Kent saw nothing wrong, either then or now, with associating either with Fuentes or Arnold.
Now Joe Kent the leaker of state secrets, Joe Kent the racist, Joe Kent the antisemite, is out of office. How long will it take Al Jazeera, do you think, to offer him his own show?
McConnell and Graham are cucks…
Well we knew this Hit Piece on Joe Kent was gonna come out… so shameful. Probably should’ve had the idiot Josh Hammer write it…
But hey… Iran has proved they didn’t need to have nuclear weapons to hold the Hormuz, Israel and the world economy in turmoil… while embarrassing the USA…
No… I don’t support attacking Iran… and guess what… neither does the world, the other satanic islamic nations and NATO…
Ugh… what a mess…
Trump has stuck his foot up his a$$ with this one…
Joe Kent is what in other countries was called “Political prostitute.”
Joe Kent blamed the Oct. 7 attack on Biden’s insufficiently hostile policy toward Iran, attacked his Dem opponent for failing to punish “anti-Semitism,” and pledged that if elected, he would make sure to generously arm Israel. Now he blames Israel for corrupting US foreign policy.
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Supporting Israel to defend itself is one thing…
Supporting Israel in attacking Iran is another.
Also… Israel knew about Oct 7th beforehand… just like the Luciferian Globalists of America allowed 911…
There’s a pattern there…
You always pick the loser don’t you ScumsyWumsy. Kent, Iran.
Nice collection of downvotes you effing traitor. I’m starting to actually believe you are actually a closet Muslim. You are a true P.O.S.
Your mom is calling. She wants you do your chores.
Sumsrent, who wrote this, four years ago? Hint: it wasn’t Trump.
“I will support the current Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Israel and
continued military assistance including cooperation on missile defense funding and
the Iron Dome project that protects Israel’s diverse population of Jews and
Muslims alike.United in Opposition to Iran
One of the best things that President Trump did for the security of the United
States and of Israel was terminating President Obama’s Iran Deal. I support
working with Israel to apply maximum pressure against Iran’s government and its
proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, and to prevent Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear
weapon.
Antisemitism and attempts to weaken the state of Israel have no place in our
country. I will oppose any effort to implement BDS policies within governments at
the national, state, or local level, as well as any other efforts to undermine Israel’s
security within world organizations like the UN or the ICC.
Further, I will introduce legislation to strip the most vile antisemites in Congress
from their committee assignments.”
I think there’s more to Kent’s “conscientious objector” act than he’s telling us.
Supporting Defense funding isn’t anything like supporting attacking Iran.
You can tell the difference… aye?
I now hold views that are different from what I once held. I changed my mind because I recognized I was wrong. Have you never done the same?
Wait. Tell Tucker to stop sucking for a minute.
Best join Kent on his new show, Defending The Mullahs’ Ideology of Murder”
Kent was a registered Democrat that supoorted Bernie and then decided to run as a Republican for the House of representatives.
That makes him a decieeful liar an charlatan, who shoul be drummed out of govt.
Now sumsrent take that an stick it up yopur keister.
There’s nothing more vile than a ex-serviceman expressing treason for his commander in chief. After two failed campaign attempts to attain a WA house seat during which Trump endorsed, funded and supported, Trump nominated and gave Kent a job in his administration. And this ungrateful dog proceeds to bite the hand that fed him. What a scurrilous lowlife, bottom feeder Kent is.
Kent is actually a rabid dog. Trump needs a rabies shot in that case.
Joe kent was a leaker under investigation and this is just a play to garner support for his defense. Worked great on you.
Very good shmuckrent. 100 downvotes for one post. Quite an accomplishment
You win the jerk off of the year award
Why don’t y’all have the idiot Josh Hammer write a Hit Piece on Trump saying “No New Wars !!”
Now there’s a broken promise…
Now who has the ability to write an article on how attacking Iran helps satanic Sunni islam? Makes ya wonder who Israel supports… aye? Looks like satanic Sunni islam… like the Luciferian Globalists of this world…
Looks like your satanic insanity and Jew Hatred is getting worse.
More downvotes. Why am I not surprised.
Sometimes ignorance can be our biggest enemy. And when it’s self-imposed, that person often becomes a tool of the Left. Unknowingly, perhaps, but it doesn’t excuse the irresponsibility of making uninformed statements..
Chris…
Yes… sadly… we have a lot of uniformed cucks in this world…
Of course… you can clarify what it is you’re saying…
Josh Hammer who is that? You need a hobby.
From what I’ve researched there’s no evidence that Joe Kent leaked any secrets…
And all this article can talk about is antisemitism…
And what’s worse… the lousy FBI is making this claim for investigation…
You know… the same FBI that botched the Charlie Kirk assassination and said there’s nothing in the Epstein Files…
Ugh… fake news starts with our Luciferian government…
OK calm down Tucker. Take a couple of Tylenol and maybe the demons will go away.
Hey there Clown…
Did you know… Christians have authority over demons to rebuke and resist them…
All Christians?
Or just the Christian Anti-Zionists?
I know you hate Christian Zionists more than anyone, as you said, Tucker. So obviously, Christian Zionists can’t have authority over demons. Or maybe they’re not really Christians?
It’s just so durn confusing!
The let me help you Clown…
A Christian is someone who…
1) believes Christ Jesus is the Son of God
2) believes Christ Jesus died for their sins
3) has accepted Him as their Savior
A Zionist is…
1) Someone who believes Jews should have their own National Homeland
…
There… now you know something more in life…
And… You can go teach Tucker
Obviously you have zero authority to exorcise your many demons
Very good sumsy cramsy. 55+ downvotes in one morning. Even THX can’t do that. And you run around calling the rest of us stupid.
Very Good sumsy cramsy. 110+ downvotes in one morning. Are you trying to be this stupid on purpose or does it come naturally to you. Maybe commenting on a comment board is just not your thing. Tell me sumsy, were you dropped on your head at birth? What makes you think God would make you one of the “Very Elect” of anything?
Try knitting to get rid of all that TDS/pro Mohammed anger. Are you practicing your allahu snackbars?
It’s saturday morning. Outstanding sumsy cramsy. 235+ downvotes in one day. Are you trying to be this stupid on purpose or does it come naturally to you. Maybe commenting on a comment board is just not your thing. Tell me sumsy, were you dropped on your head at birth? What makes you think God would make you one of the “Very Elect” of anything?
Try knitting to get rid of all that TDS/pro Mohammed anger. Are you practicing your allahu snackbars?
Being against Trump, the Iran war and for Joe Kent is not exactly a winning issue. Maybe you should move to Iran SchmuckRent
He is fishing for replies, so as the push other commentary farther down this list.
The best response to this nazi is to simply downvote him, without any comments affixed.
Intrepid
You have no understanding of how the USA & the British screwed the Iranians over for oil…
Causing uprisings and revolutions… with the CIA…
Including the Iraq-Iran War with America helping Saddam get Chemical weapons and… the Iran-Contra affair smuggling weapons to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan which became Al Qaeda…
Leading to 911…
The people of Iran learned not to trust America…
You have zero understanding of anything coherent.
Some day you will crawl out of that hovel you live in and you will realize that you definitely need professional help
You do research? Yeah, another of your famous Goolag AI exposes. You pathetic version of news never seems to get picked up anywhere. It seems like you make all this crap up so you have something, anything to comment about.
I think normal people call that a pathetic cry for attention.
Are you talking about Biden’s FBI who raided Trump’s house, arrested Peter Navarro at Reagan National Airport as he was departing for a speaking engagement in Nashville, Tenn., handcuffing him, denying food and water and refusing permission to make a phone call to a lawyer. That FBI? You really need to get an infusion of common sense.
Stop asking questions or we will have to arrest you for hate speech and put you in jail.
Hard to have confidence in the FBI given its dirty past under Biden & his predecessor, Obama. Patel did get rid of a handful of female agents who shamefully took the knee for BLM,.but the agency balked at providing names of agents involved in persecuting hundreds of Americans who walked peacefully through the Capitol, protesting sweeping 2020 election fraud, invited in by Capitol Police. Trespass signs and fencing were suspiciously removed while Trump was still speaking 30 minutes away on the Mall. So while terrorists, spies & sex/drug traffickers freely entered the country under Biden’s treasonous Open Borders with Mexican cartels put in charge of the border, the FBI was diverted in its biggest manhunt ever (for J6ers).
Kent tragically lost his first wife in Syria and seems to have lost his bearings, became untethered. It was fine to send a private letter to Trump airing grievances, but wrong for him to go public, smacking of disloyalty. Every appointee works at the pleasure of the president. Presumably, you seek a political appointment because you align yourself with him; if you find you disagree with Trump strongly on any issue, you should resign, quietly. Dozens of qualified people would be anxious to take your place.
The accusation that Israel is directing the U.S. air campaign doesn’t hold water. Netanyahu is right00 anyone who thinks Trump is controllable doesn’t know Trump. Iran, despite June air strikes, was starting work again at Fordow, clearly not abandoning its nuclear ambitions. News stories claimed Iran was seeking to acquire hypersonic anti-ship missiles from China, threatening our naval fleet, those of our allies & global commerce. Trump had to act. Beyond that, Iran’s been at war with us since ’79 when they seized our Embassy and took 66 hostages. Iran tortured & murdered our CIA station chief in Beirut. Iran’s advanced IEDs killed & maimed American soldiers by the hundreds in Iraq & Afghanistan. Since Jimmy Carter helped usher in the reign of terror of the evil, fanatical mullahs, it’s past time an American president confronted the threat & helped the long suffering Persian people have a shot at reclaiming their government.
Good riddance, the Hitler-fan Fuentes and Proud Boys linked fascist is out.
That will be his lasting legacy. Sad he lost his wife, but blaming da jooz for what ISIS did, is typical fascistic garbage.
As soon as I saw the antisemitic driven word “powerful” in his hate letter, I knew he is done.
We are actually referring to one of the biggest RINO’s out there Mitch McConnell? No fan of anything McConnell has to say. Kent’s resignation wasn’t “antisemitic.” That is just absurd beyond the pale. Right, or wrong, there are many people in the military, politics and everyday Joe’s that feel Israel has too much influence on our foreign policy.
Kent now vehemently disagrees with Iran being an imminent threat. He resigned. Agree with Kent or not the honorable thing to do was resign if he was so opposed to Trump’s military plans.
The question is what is imminent to Trump? Some are saying Iran was not an imminent threat, BUT if they continued produces weapons they would be. Trump needs to get out there, and tell the people why he believes Iran was an “imminent” threat. What evidence leads you to believe that?
One last thing. The Omani rep, who was the mediator in the negotiations in Geneva stated the negotiations were highly intense. However, there was significant progress being made, but that progress was derailed by escalating military actions on the part of the US and Israel.
I voted for Trump 3 times. I’m still a Trump guy, but he went against what he campaigned on. No more wars (particularly in the ME). No troops on the ground (now contemplating troops on the ground). Gas prices are $4 a gallon and going up. Stock market crashing. Inflation moving back up. Now, how in the hell are we going to keep the House and Senate?
The US advised Iran was uncooperative, stalling and becoming defiant. Rumor is they told Witkoff to F off they will do what they want. The Omani mediators said the deal was within reach and they were dismayed by the military action.
I am not a fan of “let’s wait until the cancer is at stage 4 and ready to annihilate” form of warfare. There is good intelligence to support the notion that if the USA had waited much longer, Iran would not only have enough enriched uranium to make several bombs, but also enough short and longe range missiles to make it virtually impossible for us to disarm the “death to “America” terrorists. No fantasy of Graham & Mitch the squish, but also no fan of the “better late than never” form of avoiding cancerous annihilation. But that’s just me.
But, we took out Iran’s nuclear enrichment program with operation Midnight Hammer in 2025. Trump said their program was destroyed. Yet, we are back to Iran is an imminent threat due to new intelligence? Tell everyone the intelligence you know about that it was imminent to hit Iran again?
Not being a psychiatrist, I can’t diagnose whatever “snapped” in Kent’s head (nor, for that matter, in Candace Owens’s or Tucker Carlson’s–both of whom I used to admire, read, and listen to, but no longer); but something must have, to account his sudden onset of TDS and U-Turn from what he (and Candace and Tucker) used to pretend to believe.
Not sure, either, what WOULD persuade any of them that the ayatollahs’ well-advanced nuclear bomb and missile program WAS, and IS, an immediate threat and a “Clear and Present Danger,” short of the incineration of a few of our important medium-size cities, like Kansas City, Omaha, Trenton, and Indianapolis, under Iranian mushroom clouds–in which case, they’d STILL, somehow, blame Donald Trump for not foreseeing and preventing it (AS HE IS NOW DOING, over their shrill, hysterical objections).
Since no vaccine, or cure, for TDS has yet been developed and may never be, my advice to all three of them–Joe, Tucker, and Candace–is just “STFU!”
You’re “not sure”… because you’re not informed…
Trump clearly stated that he “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities back in June 2025…
That’s why they changed the narrative to regime change… they were called out on it.
I suppose you still believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction too? Even though no one ever found any…
America lies to it’s people… over and over…
What we really need is for jerk like you to inform us, right?
Imminent, imminent, imminent. Since when does a danger have to be ‘imminent’ until acting to counter it? A gathering one can be just as bad, even worse than ‘imminent’ because imminent is but one short step from *delivered*. And why wait until then? FDR & Co, not only waited until the danger was imminent, they left the Pearl Harbor door wide open for some 100 Japanese planes to storm thru and make it not so imminent anymore. During the Korean War, Truman did not believe the Chinese threat was imminent there, and U.S forces then bore the brunt of the Chosen Reservoir attack across the Yalu River as a result. George Washington did not wait around for the British and their Hessian allies to pose an ‘imminent’ threat of attack before he crossed the Delaware River and upended them by surprise. In 1967, the Israelis saw a gathering threat along all their borders, and decided it was not to become ‘imminent’ before acting. (Although they failed to repeat that in 1973.) I will even refer to my favorite film of all time, ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’, Klattu and his people weren’t going to wait around until Earth humans had space travel, they decided to give Earth a stern warning about waging war well before that, and for humanity’s own good. Even with their advanced technology, they obviously had trepidations regarding human-delivered nuclear weapons. So in situations such as this present one we have, with the restless Iranian scorpion always seeking to get out of its bottle and coming ever closer with a nuclear stinger tail, and doing so for years, why wait any longer? And even with an ‘imminent’ Iranian danger, would Democrats and their allies still favor decapitating action? Given their present mindset, dubious. After all, on a cold January morning in 1986, NASA honchos did not properly take into account the imminent danger the low temperatures posed to a shuttle launch, and as a result, again, the Challenger went both up and came back down in flames. (And no one ‘went to jail’ for it.) So would a Democrat President go to jail for failing to act against an Iranian nuclear-tipped ICBM launch against the U.S. East Coast.? Doubtful. Because very possibly, he/she would be dead. So a live Republican President will prevent that now.
Al Jazeera supports the Iran War. He’s more likely to end up on MSNBC or CNN…or NPR.
Kent’s new wife, Heather Kaiser Kent, writes for “Grayzone,” a far Left online rag run by Max Blumenthal, the son of Sidney Blumenthal. Max is so virulently anti-Israel that I believe it was the German government expelled him when he lived there . According to a 2024 article in The Washington Post, the managing editor of “Grayzone,” reportedly received payments from a sanctioned Iranian state run broadcaster, PressTV. I suppose this could have had something to do with his purported change of views. After all, happy wife – happy life.
Look no further than Tucker Carlson orchestrating the Kent opera where everyone is tone deaf.
This article is largely about the meaning of the associations we keep, especially Joe Kent’s. Do his associations really condemn him? Jesus was roundly criticized for associating with sinners (ironically most of whom were also Jewish).
We are commanded to love our neighbor / associates as ourselves. This requires strength and understanding – NOT necessarily agreement or approval. Love is sometimes difficult on both sides.
Even if we do not love, it is good to understand those who disagree with us, and not assume ignorance or ill motive. I learn more when I leave the echo chamber.
“The wicked walk on every side when, vilest men are exalted.” Psalm 12:8 See how that works? Comparing this Kent clown to Jesus ‘Eating with sinners’ is probably the dumbest comment in this feed, and I read every one.
I agree with you that I could have written my thoughts better.
The company we keep does not say everything about our intent or character. Instead of focussing upon Kent’s words, we are being told he is a bad person and therefore we should not listen to him. This article is a long version of screaming “Nazi!” and fails to deal with the substance of Kent’s rationale in his own words.
There are genuine issues that could be discussed in the body of Kent’s resignation letter. This article is a distraction from that more noble purpose.
No one ever lost money, followers or fame bashing Jews and Israel. You lose money, followers and fame supporting Jews and Israel. This is not complicated.
That’s not what Charlie Kirk was saying…
We don’t care what two-faced “analyst” Joe Kunt has to say about Iraq. Them American people didn’t vote for this traitorous dope. But now watch this clown get a job at Fake News CNN.
The Jewish Ellison now owns CNN… you might want to rethink what you’re saying…
While WHITEY is distracted by externals,
INTERNAL American WHITES are being
displaced/replaced/GENOCIDED by the
COMMUNIST-driven Ad Council folks—
REMOVING WHITE faces/people from
commercials, and being certain white
females are seen ONLY with a minority
man of color.
Where are the WHITES, to argue lack of
FAIRNESS in adverts ?
-Rick
Whites have a singularly perverse reluctance to taking our own side. This has been achieved by co-opting Christian principles such as the image of God in all humanity and the command to love our neighbor as ourselves.
The meaning of “image of God” and the identity of “neighbor” are never questioned or exegeted. We must accept the current state religion’s meaning: every race and culture is equal / the same and “neighbor” consists of global humanity.
You don’t seem able to say that Trump has been stitched up AGAIN just like the warp speed death jabs.
Has everyone gone mad? Must we be subjected to so many posts by anti-Semites here. Off topic comments may be due to tech problems.
I wanted to reply to LowRent’s comment to me: “There… now you know something more in life…. And… You can go teach Tucker”
My reply: can’t you teach that to Tucker yourself? I mean, aren’t you going to be seeing him, the next time you guys pick up your checks from Qatar?
Blah, blah, blah…
Everything America is doing in the ME since 911 is to establish Sunni Superiority… from Iraq, to Libya to Syria to Afghanistan to now Iran…
Remember… America was funneling weapons to ISIS in Syria…
ISIS… our enemy… <<< What a joke !!
Someone who has swallowed Dem poison to the point of supporting Bernie Sanders the communist was always in danger of reverting to that stupidity or maybe it was even worse – cosplaying Republican intending to wreak the kind of havoc he’s attempting to wreak now against a Republican President. Kent may have been a Manchurian candidate for the Repubs.
Alternatively, he deserves credit for serving his country in the military but perhaps those tours of duty and death of his wife have given him some form of PTSD/grief because the two rapid 180 degree turns from extreme Sanders left to Repub back to Repub backstabber peacenik require some explanation.
So Joe Kent was a Green Beret like Lt. Col. Tony Aguilar? Tucker interviewed Aguilar numerous times last year– July if I remember correctly. Aguilar was “working” with a UN organization that was “helping” in Gaza. Same UN org. that was accused of participating AGAINST Israel on Oct. 7. Aguilar also lied about witnessing IDF soldiers murdering a young boy. The boy was soon located safe with his mother. Did Tucker or Aguilar ever correct their errors OR their lies?? Sorry, but I can’t remember the exact name/branch of the evil and crooked UN outfit involved. That UN branch has a LOT of dubious alumni. Tucker seems to enjoy the company of former Green Berets and shady UN workers.
Excellent article!