{"id":532101,"date":"2026-03-19T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:06:09","slug":"fbi-investigating-top-us-security-official-who-resigned-over-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532101\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI \u2018investigating\u2019 top US security official who resigned over Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"

The investigation precedes Kent\u2019s resignation Tuesday from his role as director of the US government\u2019s National Counterterrorism Centre, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing FBI inquiry.<\/p>\n

But it comes as the Justice Department has undertaken multiple investigations over the last year into political foes of President Donald Trump, including former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Prosecutors have repeatedly struggled to make charges stick amid rejections from judges or to secure indictments in the first place.<\/p>\n

Additional details about what the investigation, which was first reported by Semafor, is examining were not immediately available.<\/p>\n

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03:29<\/p>\n

US-Israel war on Iran is as reckless and catastrophic as it is stupid and illegal<\/p>\n

US-Israel war on Iran is as reckless and catastrophic as it is stupid and illegal<\/p>\n

Kent disclosed his departure from the administration in a statement on X in which he cited his concerns about the justification for military strikes in Iran and said he \u201ccannot in good conscience\u201d back the war against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The investigation precedes Kent\u2019s resignation Tuesday from his role as director of the US government\u2019s National Counterterrorism Centre,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2764,1340,12,2765,801,803,94487,239158,16675,49710,239159,2005,3,19863,39690,20701,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-532101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-cia","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-james-comey","tag-joseph-kent","tag-justice-department","tag-letitia-james","tag-national-counterterrorism-centre","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-semafor","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}