Joe Kent Resigns as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center

There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."

This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.

As President Trump has clearly and… https://t.co/AC8M5L8lye

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) March 17, 2026

A senior administration official tells FOX, Joe Kent was:

-a known leaker and he was cut out of POTUS intelligence briefings months ago.

-the WH told DNI Tulsi Gabbard he should be fired for suspected leaks but she never did.

-he has not been part of any Iran planning…

— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) March 17, 2026

Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the…

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) March 17, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson fires back at former NCTC Director Joe Kent — who just resigned — saying Iran was not an "imminent threat"

"I don't know where Joe Kent is getting this information, but he wasn't in those briefings, clearly!"

"Had the president waited, we would have… pic.twitter.com/rY3msqh3jc

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 17, 2026

Joe Kent was clearly a problem.

In an Israel position paper shared with AIPAC during a failed 2022 House bid, Kent said he was “intimately familiar with the help that Israel has provided the United States” and the two countries “share common enemies in the Middle East” like “the totalitarian government of Iran” https://t.co/ydRrzKEUUV pic.twitter.com/uC24pIahDk

— Matthew Kassel (@matthewkassel) March 17, 2026