Counterterrorism nominee Joe Kent under scrutiny as emails show he pushed for edits to intelligence assessment

President Trump's nominee to head the National Counterterrorism Center is under fresh scrutiny as emails show he pressed senior intelligence analysts to amend an assessment of links between the Venezuelan government and the criminal gang, Tren de Aragua, known as TDA, to align the assessment more closely with Trump administration policies and to include references critical of Biden-era immigration programs.

"This was a blatant attempt to politicize national security to appease a president who has repeatedly shown contempt for facts and for the intelligence professionals sworn to defend this country," committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner of Virginia said in a statement on Wednesday, adding the Senate should "immediately halt consideration" of Mr. Kent's nomination to lead NCTC.

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Jim Himes of Connecticut said, "Seeking to strongarm analysts to suit the agenda of the President, and punishing them when they refuse to bend, is a road to national security disaster—and yet that is precisely the road that this Administration has chosen."

#MAGA #fascism #joeKent #sycophancy #corruption #xenophobia #racism #USPol #fascist

"A week after its release, Gabbard dismissed both Collins and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof. In response, Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, issued a statement condemning the firings as politically motivated retaliation." #TrenDeAragua #JoeKent

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yw6wbtma6fynxiafh5v7j5sf/post/3lpto47ucf224

Okay, so, doesn't that mean, all #SecondTrumpAdministration officials involved in #SignalGate should have their security clearance revoked? Of course, the hypocritical Republicans see no resemblance here whatsoever.

– #PeteHegseth, SecDef
– #JDVance, VPOTUS
– #MarcoRubio, APNSA
– #TusliGabbard, DNI
– #JoeKent, D/NCTC
– #ScottBessent, D/USDT
– #JohnRatcliffe, D/CIA

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/holding-former-government-officials-accountablefor-election-interference-and-improper-disclosure-of-sensitive-governmental-information/

#uspol #politics #WhiskeyLeaks #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #WarPlans #HouthiBombing

Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, completed 11 combat deployments during the War on Terror. The combat left scars. In 2019, an ISIS suicide bomber killed his wife, a Navy cryptologist and linguist, in Syria. By the time he returned home, his worldview had shifted: Kent came to believe, as I wrote in a 2022 profile, that his early tours in Iraq gave him a “special gift of clarity.” He understood how quickly a society could come undone.

After this, Kent went from apolitical to active. The Black Lives Matter and antifa protests in Portland during the summer of 2020 triggered fears for him that the United States could similarly implode. Everything, he felt, was crumbling. He and his two young boys quickly left the city for rural Washington.

“We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations. We need to use the tools of the federal government, the FBI, the US Marshals—go after them like organized criminals and terrorists,” Kent said in a 2021 conversation with the podcaster Tim Pool about the group’s leaders. “So, when we start arresting these guys and charging them with federal terrorism charges, that’s going to take away a lot of the incentive to go out and riot.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/joe-kent-trump-blm-terrorism-counterterrorism-tulsi-gabbard-nomination/

#Terrorism #CounterTerrorism #JoeKent #repression #FuckThatGuy

White nationalist could soon be in charge of counterterrorism unit
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/11/2315790/-White-nationalist-could-soon-be-in-charge-of-counterterrorism-unit

#JoeKent #WhiteNationalist #ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

3/3 Mind you, this Joe Kent:

"Trump’s pick for key national security position linked to far-right figures

Questions linger for director of counterintelligence nominee, Joe Kent, over ties to white nationalists and employment with shadowy military contractor"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/trump-national-security-joe-kent #SignalGate #TulsiGabbard #JoeKent

The Clusterfuck grows and grows ...

"According to the Partnership for Public Service, Kent was nominated on February 3rd and was referred to the Senate Intelligence Committee on February 11th. Despite not having Senate confirmation, Kent, a former Republican House candidate, was texting on behalf of DNI for Director Tulsi Gabbard, identifying himself as "Joe Kent for DNI."

https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-admin-signal-group-chat-included-member-still-waiting-for-senate-confirmation

#hearings #SignalGate #TulsiGabbard #JoeKent

https://itself.blog/2025/02/23/turbulence/

Bush was an evil president using the power of the state to do evil things. Trump has effectively abolished the state. We do not have laws. We do not have a government. We certainly don’t have a Congress and we barely have courts. But in an important sense, we also don’t have a president. We have the irritable whims of two billionaires, handling domestic and foreign policy, respectively, and we have a bunch of psychos in charge of more detailed policy portfolios. The goal is not to change public policy, but to render public policy impossible. The goal is not to transform American society, but to destroy it completely, to destroy everything that makes it possible to call this great and terrible nation a human society.

#USPol #fascism #trump #bush #MAGA #kashpatel #danbongino #harmeetdhillon #rfkjr #pambondi #JoeKent #elonmusk #DOGE #nazi #eschatology

https://newrepublic.com/post/191116/trump-pick-counterterrorism-joe-kent

Kent, who previously challenged Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state in the August 2 primary, has “courted prominent white nationalists and posed recently for a photograph with a media personality who has previously described Adolf Hitler as a ‘complicated historical figure’ who ‘many people misunderstand,’” the Associated Press reported in 2022.

The media personality in question was none other than online white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who endorsed Kent’s congressional campaign in 2022. That same year, campaign finance disclosures showed that Kent paid known Proud Boy and formerly convicted stalker Graham Jorgensen $11,375 for “consulting.” Oath Keeper Wendy Rogers endorsed Kent, and Christian nationalist Joey Gibson spoke at one of his fundraisers.

#JoeKent #MAGA #fascism #Trump #altRight #uspol #nazi #groypers #proudBoys

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/trump-national-security-joe-kent

#joeKent #MAGA #fascism #Nazis #proudBoys #uspol

#MarieGluesenkampPerez #MGP vs. #JoeKent debate on KATU.

Wow.

That dude should not be allowed to, nor never ever should have been allowed to even clean the #CIA toilets.

Creep. Dishonest creepy creep.

#WApol #NWpol #VancouverWA

Another Republican exposed for spewing talking points straight from the Kremlin.

What country do you think #JoeKent cares for most of all? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-gop-candidate-posting-echoes-kremlin-touted-channel_n_66e8be13e4b0b7fef8324f63

https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/walter-huss-knew-that-if-fascism

future Republican Secretary of State and Governor Tom McCall dug into Huss’s background and wrote a memo describing Huss as “a fascist.” At least two Portland residents who testified at the televised hearing, a Finnish trade unionist and an African-American minister, explicitly compared Huss’s organization to that of the Nazis. Considering that as a young man in the 1930s Huss had likely been involved with a pro-Hitler group called “the Silver Shirts,” what may have sounded like hyperbole to some viewers in 1961 was more on the mark than anyone at the time (other than Huss and his friends who shared his Silver Shirt ties) could have known.

#fascism #nazis #uspol #orpol #orgop #Oregon #OregonGOP #gop #history #maga #trump #JoeKent #benEdtl #reneGonzalez #jameshieb #jamesbuchal

😂​

"Joe Kent, a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in southwest Washington opposes the project to replace the Interstate Bridge on grounds that it is an “Antifa superhighway” that would bring crime by Portland’s “drug addicts and criminals” into Vancouver. (The New York Times)"

#maga #fascism #pdx #portland #orpol #wapol #uspol #vancouver #Oregon #Washington #JoeKent #fascists #fascist #whitenationalism #ChristianNationalism

#JoeKent may be a fascist dipshit who surrounds himself with nazis, but he brought some absolutely dazzling star power to the campaign trail. #ColonelSanders69

Another note on the #joekent talk at the Simi Bird for governor event last night.

He changed his mind about voting late.

During the campaign, he has advised his voters to vote late, based on seriously warped disinformation about how ballots were processed. Now it seems like he is at least partially blaming that thinking on his loss.

#wa03 #wa3 #wapol #waelex

maga conspiracist WA congressional candidate #JoeKent (endorsed by trump) promotes notorious #PatriotPrayer nazi collaborator #JoeyGibson