{"id":21941,"date":"2026-03-19T01:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/former-counterterror-chief-joe-kent-under-fbi-probe-for-leaking-classified-info\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:12:01","slug":"former-counterterror-chief-joe-kent-under-fbi-probe-for-leaking-classified-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/former-counterterror-chief-joe-kent-under-fbi-probe-for-leaking-classified-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Counterterror Chief Joe Kent Under FBI Probe For Leaking Classified Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>The FBI is investigating former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent over allegations that he improperly shared classified information, a source familiar with the investigation told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Kent resigned Tuesday in protest of the ongoing war against Iran\u2019s Islamic regime, arguing in his resignation letter that the regime \u201cposed no imminent threat to our nation. He also accused President Trump of initiating the conflict due to \u201cpressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/03\/18\/2026\/fbi-investigates-national-security-aide-who-resigned-over-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Semafor<\/a>, which first reported the story, confirmed with four sources that the leaking probe was already underway prior to Kent\u2019s departure and has been ongoing for months. One source described the investigation as long-running, rather than a response to his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Following his departure, people in Trump\u2019s orbit <u><span draggable=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-intel-official-joe-kent-quits-over-iran-strikes-claims-israel-controls-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accused him<\/a><\/span><\/u> of leaking, with one calling him a \u201ccrazed egomaniac.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Kent is a crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks, while rarely (never?) producing any actual work,\u201d said Taylor Budowich, the former deputy White House chief of staff. \u201cHe spent all of his time working to subvert the chain of command and undermine the President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t some principled resignation\u2014he just wanted to make a splash before getting canned. What a loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump pushed back on Kent\u2019s claim, calling his departure \u201ca good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I read his statement, I realized that it\u2019s a good thing that he\u2019s out because he said that Iran was not a threat,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIran was a tremendous threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe directly contradicted Kent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Iran has been a constant threat to the United States for an extended period of time and posed an immediate threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-counterterror-chief-joe-kent-under-fbi-probe-for-leaking-classified-info\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is investigating former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent over allegations that he improperly shared classified information, a source familiar with the investigation told The Daily Wire. Kent resigned Tuesday in protest of the ongoing war against Iran\u2019s Islamic regime, arguing in his resignation letter that the regime \u201cposed no imminent threat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}