Joe Kent’s Resignation Letter Is Dangerous Because It’s Half True

For those who suspect that Israel manipulated America into war, the resignation of Joe Kent, Donald Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, surely seems like confirmation.

“It is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent wrote in an open letter to the president on Tuesday. He decried a campaign by “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media” to spread misinformation about Iran’s imminent threat and subvert Trump’s “America first” movement. “I pray that you will reflect upon what we are........

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