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nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/poli

Senate Approves Trump’s Pick for Top Counterterrorism Post

Joe Kent, a former Army Green Beret, had attracted scrutiny over his associations with extremist groups and his promotion of conspiracy theories.

His confirmation came despite his promotion of conspiracy theories, including that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Mr. Trump. He has said that the F.B.I. played a role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and should be dismantled.

The New York Times · Senate Approves Trump’s Pick for Top Counterterrorism PostBy Eric Schmitt
#trump#resist#counterterrorism
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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."

CBS News · Counterterrorism nominee Joe Kent under scrutiny as emails show he pushed for edits to intelligence assessmentBy Olivia Victoria Gazis
#MAGA#fascism#joeKent
Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET

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

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

The White House · Holding Former Government Officials Accountable For Election Interference And Improper Disclosure Of Sensitive Governmental InformationBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. 
#uspol#politics#WhiskeyLeaks
Weltschmerz à Gogo

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.”

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesTrump’s pick for counterterrorism called for arresting BLM leaders as terrorists"We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations," said Joe Kent. "We need to use the tools of the federal government, the FBI, the US Marshals—go after them like organized criminals and terrorists."
#Terrorism#CounterTerrorism#JoeKent
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itself.blog/2025/02/23/turbule

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.

An und für sich · TurbulenceOn our flight home from Rome, we hit some turbulence — the borderline scary kind that turns your stomach and elicits the occasional gasp. I am a pretty seasoned traveller, so it would take mu…
#USPol#fascism#trump
Emmett O'Connell

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
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