Not a threat

Joe Kent attends the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing titled "Worldwide Threats Assessment.
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Well, there you have it. Iran was not a threat nor has ever been a threat to America until we go in and attack them under orders from Israel. What's even better is the fact there was no plan. Just do it because the very stable genius in the White House, beholden to Zionist billionaires, think's it's a good thing to do so let's just do it as Bibi says so because Iran is just two weeks from getting a nuke, a long running "joke" Bibi's been bloviating about for over 30 years and then some. Now, when you think about it, getting nukes is the only way to prevent unprovoked attacks from a hostile nation, in this case, the good ole USA.

Joe Kent, who led the National Counterterrorism Center and was a top aide to intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, became the first senior Trump administration official to resign over the war in Iran.

Why it matters: Kent's stinging rebuke — that Trump launched the war under pressure from Israel despite Iran posing "no imminent threat" to the U.S. — underscores the discomfort some in the "America First" camp feel about the war.

Trumpworld is now bracing for an expected Tucker Carlson interview of Kent, three sources inside and outside the administration told Axios. Carlson has been one of the most vocal right-wing critics of both the war and Israel.

The administration is moving to contain the fallout of Kent's resignation. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt published a lengthy statement rejecting Kent's claim Iran posed no imminent threat calling the idea that Israel goaded President Trump into action "insulting and laughable."

Asked about Kent's resignation, Trump said he was "a nice guy" but "weak on security."

What he's saying: 

• "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. 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."
• "I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation."
• "Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran."
• "This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. 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. We cannot make this mistake again."

Zoom out: 

Kent served in Army Special Forces and as a CIA paramilitary officer, before twice running
unsuccessfully for Congress as a Trump-aligned Republican.

Astounding says it all as a possible WW III is in the offing. 

Channeling Anthony Zinni & Brain Fart comes to mind here.

General Anthony Zinni, USMC

On Nightline, Zinni compared Bush’s push for the war with the Gulf of Tonkin incident–an infamous episode in which President Lyndon Johnson misrepresented an attack on two U.S. Navy destroyers in order to win congressional approval of the war in Vietnam–and he challenged “the credibility behind” Bush’s prewar assertions concerning Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction and its association with anti-American terrorists. “I’m suggesting,” Zinni said, “that either the [prewar] intelligence was so bad and flawed–and if that’s the case, then somebody’s head ought to roll for that–or the intelligence was exaggerated or twisted in a way to make a more convenient case to the American people.” Zinni said he believed that Hussein had maintained “the framework for a weapons of mass destruction program that could be quickly activated once sanctions were lifted” and that such a program, while worrisome, did not immediately endanger the United States.