Joe Kent’s Resignation Isn’t Actually About the War

Then-National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Kent attends a House Homeland Security hearing entitled “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, Dec. 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.”

That’s what Joe Kent, now the former director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in his resignation letter this week.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation...