Joe Kent Was Leaker Who Had Been Cut from President’s Intel Briefings for Months
The departure of Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, means one less leaker in Washington, according to multiple reports.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. 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 wrote on X after splashing his resignation letter across social media.
Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, was quick to celebrate.
“Good riddance. Iran has murdered more than a thousand Americans. Their EFP land mines were the deadliest in Iraq. Anti-Semitism is an evil I detest, and we surely don’t want it in our government,” he wrote on X.
Media reports said Kent had been leaking information and was already marginalized in the Trump administration.
“A senior administration official tells FOX, Joe Kent was: a known leaker and he was cut out of POTUS intelligence briefings months ago,” Aishah Hasnie of Fox News posted on X.
“He has not been part of any Iran planning discussions or briefings at all,” she posted.
“The WH told DNI Tulsi Gabbard he should be fired for suspected leaks but she never did,” Hasnie added.
A difference of opinion on Gabbard’s role came from Mary Margaret Olohan of The Daily Wire.
“It is not true that DNI’s Tulsi Gabbard was asked by the White House to fire Kent, source says — if she had been asked to do so, she would have fired him,” she posted on X.
She also noted “that it’s true that Joe Kent wasn’t part of the planning of the Iran war or briefings on the war.”
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