INVESTIGATINGMilitaryJoe Kent, Trump's own appointee as National Counterterrorism Center Director, resigned stating Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that Israel pressured the administration into military action.
“Joe Kent, Trump's own appointee as National Counterterrorism Center Director, resigned stating Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that Israel pressured the administration into military action.”
Joe Kent was Trump's hand-picked Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He had access to every piece of intelligence about Iran. And he resigned, publicly stating that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that Israel pressured Trump into military action.
Kent didn't quietly retire. He made a public statement contradicting the administration's justification for military operations against Iran. The man responsible for assessing terrorist threats to America said the threat from Iran didn't warrant what happened — and pointed the finger directly at Israeli pressure.
As NCTC Director, Kent had access to the most classified intelligence in the US government about Iranian capabilities and intentions. His assessment — that Iran posed no imminent threat — wasn't speculation. It was based on the same intelligence that the administration used to justify military action. He saw the same data and reached the opposite conclusion.
Kent didn't just say Iran wasn't a threat. He said Israel pressured Trump into attacking. That's a sitting director of a major intelligence agency accusing a foreign government of pushing the United States into a war it didn't need to fight.
When the President's own counterterrorism chief says the war isn't justified and a foreign government is pulling the strings, that's not a conspiracy theory. That's a whistleblower with the highest possible security clearance telling the American public they've been lied to about why their country is at war.
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