No. of Recommendations: 3
Not sure his leaving is a bad thing (see below), but he will almost certainly be replaced by someone worse. That is the way with Trump.
A Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official Resigns, Citing Iran War
Joe Kent announced his resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He said that pressure from Israel had pushed President Trump into war against Iran.
The official, Joe Kent, is the first senior member of the administration to quit over the war.
The seemingly open-ended nature of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran has created strong divisions among Mr. Trump’s supporters. An anti-interventionist wing of the coalition, which supported President Trump because of his criticism of long overseas conflicts, has quickly become uneasy with the war, which has lasted 18 days with no immediate sign of ending.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Mr. Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in a letter to Mr. Trump. “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.”
OTOH, there's this...
Mr. Kent is not an ordinary war critic. He has long had a penchant for conspiracy theories, suggesting without evidence that F.B.I. agents could have been responsible for orchestrating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He has dismissed allegations that Russia manipulated the 2016 election, saying that such accusations were part of the “Russia Hoax.”
Mr. Kent was also accused of pressuring analysts to change their findings on a Venezuelan prison gang to match the Trump administration’s views.
