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Joe Kent Is a Conspiracy Theorist, Not a Principled Dissenter
Don’t forget what he’s said.
Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North AmericaJoe Kent is a cautionary tale.
When Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center to protest the Iran war, critics of the conflict — especially opponents of President Donald Trump — quickly cast the decorated military combat veteran as a principled dissenter. Superficially, that tracks. And yet those tracks are laid on quicksand.