“After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today,” Joe Kent wrote in a post on X. “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 entered this war due to pressure from Israel and its influential American lobby,” Kent added in his resignation letter. So what’s the response going to be? That the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center—appointed by Trump himself—doesn’t understand the intelligence, o