The man who once led the United States' top counterterrorism body is now publicly alleging that the FBI shut down a high-stakes investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk, before his team could follow the evidence wherever it led.
Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Centre (NCTC), resigned from his post on 16 March 2026, citing opposition to the United States' ongoing war with Iran. Within 48 hours, he sat for a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson in which he laid out a startling claim: that FBI Director Kash Patel had directly ordered him and his team to stop investigating possible foreign links to Kirk's murder.
