White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back strongly against claims made by former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, calling his resignation letter full of inaccuracies. Kent had previously announced on social media that he was stepping down from the NCTC, citing his opposition to what he called “the ongoing war in Iran.”
Kent’s resignation letter stunned the White House. He argued that President Trump had been misled by an Israeli “misinformation campaign.” Kent specifically wrote that an “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.”
