Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent was killed in action during a special operations mission in Syria in 2019. Mr. Kent said he could not support "sending the next generation off to fight and die" in Iran.
"Joe Kent is a crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks, while rarely (never?) producing any actual work," President Trump's former deputy chief of staff Taylor Budow ...
Joe Kent, a senior US counterterrorism official, resigns in protest over the Iran conflict, highlighting internal divisions within Trump's administration.
The White House and its allies in Congress pushed back Tuesday at criticism of the war in Iran leveled by top counterterrorism official Joe Kent, who resigned his administration post in protest of the military operation.