What to make of the sudden resignation of intelligence chief Joe Kent?
Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, left the government on Tuesday after releasing a blistering letter condemning the war with Iran but somehow absolving President Donald Trump of instigating the debacle.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” he wrote in a letter to 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.”
Kent went on to denounce “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media” for deploying a “misinformation campaign.”
Trump was deceived into believing there was a clear path to victory, Kent proclaimed. “This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.”