He’s a 45-year-old former Army Special Forces officer. He’s a former politician with ties to far-right conspiracies. He’s also out of a job.
Meet Joe Kent, who up until this morning, was serving as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. In a now-viral post on X, Kent officially resigned from his role due to a disagreement with how President Donald Trump was handling the U.S. and Israel war with Iran—saying the country should have never been involved in the first place.
Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation,” he said, adding the war was launched “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Kent’s departure from one of the country’s most sensitive intelligence posts marked a dramatic break from a man long considered among Trump’s most committed loyalists.
Kent spent two decades in the military
