{"id":69622,"date":"2026-03-21T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/us-counter-terrorism-chief-who-resigned-says-he-fears-retaliation-but-has-no-regrets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:55:24","slug":"us-counter-terrorism-chief-who-resigned-says-he-fears-retaliation-but-has-no-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/us-counter-terrorism-chief-who-resigned-says-he-fears-retaliation-but-has-no-regrets\/","title":{"rendered":"US counter-terrorism chief who resigned says he fears retaliation but has no regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kent, who left Trump administration over Iran war, tells Megyn Kelly \u2018facts are on my side\u2019 amid FBI investigation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The counter-terrorism official who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/17\/joe-kent-resigns-director-national-counterterrorism-center\">resigned<\/a> from Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">administration<\/a> over the US and Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">war<\/a> against Iran has said he is bracing for political retribution \u2013 but would do it all again anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly if he was concerned about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/19\/fbi-probing-counterterrorism-official-who-resigned-over-iran-war-reports-say\">pre-existing FBI search<\/a> investigating him for leaking classified information, Kent said he was ambivalent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/joe-kent-trump-retribution-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kent, who left Trump administration over Iran war, tells Megyn Kelly \u2018facts are on my side\u2019 amid FBI investigation Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The counter-terrorism official who resigned from Donald Trump\u2019s administration over the US and Israel\u2019s war against Iran has said he &#8230; <a title=\"US counter-terrorism chief who resigned says he fears retaliation but has no regrets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/us-counter-terrorism-chief-who-resigned-says-he-fears-retaliation-but-has-no-regrets\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US counter-terrorism chief who resigned says he fears retaliation but has no regrets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}