Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on December 11, 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images
This morning, Joe Kent — the director of the National Counterterrorism Center — resigned in protest over the war in Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war,” he said in a resignation letter addressed to Trump and published on X.
You’d think that a war critic like myself should welcome this development. The war in Iran is a catastrophic mistake, and it seems like a good thing that s...
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