{"id":47981,"date":"2026-03-17T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=47981"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:19:00","slug":"us-director-of-national-counterterrorism-resigns-in-protest-of-us-war-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=47981","title":{"rendered":"US director of National Counterterrorism resigns in protest of US war against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kent\u2019s resignation lands like a thunderclap because it comes from inside Trump\u2019s own war machine. This is not a liberal critic or a distant bureaucrat; it\u2019s a decorated Green Beret, a CIA veteran, and the man who ran America\u2019s terrorist watchlists. For years, he defended Trump\u2019s foreign policy as a necessary course correction after Iraq and Afghanistan. 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