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发布时间：2026年3月17日，美国东部时间上午10:02
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乔·肯特（Joe Kent），国家反恐中心主任，于2025年12月11日在众议院国土安全委员会听证会上作证。
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一位由美国总统唐纳德·特朗普任命的美国高级情报官员周二突然宣布辞去其职务，理由是对政府对伊朗战争的疑虑。
“经过深思熟虑，我决定从今天起辞去国家反恐中心主任一职，”乔·肯特在X平台（原推特）上的帖子中写道。
“我良心不安，无法支持正在进行的对伊朗的战争。伊朗并未对我国构成迫在眉睫的威胁，很明显，我们发动这场战争是受到以色列及其强大的美国游说团体的压力，”肯特在帖子中附上的辞职信中补充道。
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肯特曾是特朗普的坚定支持者，他的辞职标志着总统第二任期内首次因重大政策问题出现高层离职。一些国会议员和专家对总统为证明战争合理性所使用的情报提出质疑，而这位关键情报官员的离职将加剧对政府战争理由的审查。
一位美国高级官员证实肯特正在辞职。
国家情报总监办公室未立即回应置评请求。
在对伊朗发动首轮打击后，特朗普援引美国面临“迫在眉睫的威胁”，政府官员称美国采取行动是为了回应伊朗可能对该地区美军发动的先发制人袭击——但五角大楼向国会山提供的简报对此提出了反驳，国防官员表示伊朗并未计划发动袭击，除非首先遭到打击。
肯特指责以色列官员和媒体向特朗普隐瞒了伊朗构成的威胁。
“这个回音室被用来欺骗你，让你相信伊朗对美国构成了迫在眉睫的威胁，以及如果你现在发动打击，就有一条明确的胜利之路，”他在辞职信中写道。“这是一个谎言，这与以色列人将我们卷入灾难性的伊拉克战争所使用的策略如出一辙，那场战争让我们国家失去了数千名最优秀的男女。我们不能再犯这个错误。”
肯特即将离开一个关键职位，该机构负责监测与中东长期存在的恐怖组织以及贩毒集团和国际帮派相关的情报。在担任该职位之前，他曾担任国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德（Tulsi Gabbard）的高级助手。
肯特获得这一最高职位部分得益于他是特朗普2020年选举阴谋论的直言不讳的支持者。但自上任以来，他对阴谋论的癖好导致与其他政府官员发生冲突。
据知情人士透露，去年，肯特试图访问联邦调查局系统调查查理·柯克遇刺案，声称可能存在外国势力参与暗杀，这招致联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）和其他司法部官员的批评。
知情人士称，帕特尔和其他官员担心，访问联邦调查局的证据可能会损害对泰勒·罗宾逊的起诉，这名犹他州男子被控刺杀柯克。
肯特在反恐和军事方面经验丰富——在陆军20年职业生涯中完成了11次战斗部署，之后退役成为中情局官员——并且作为金星配偶（指配偶为国捐躯的家属）有个人经历。他的第一任妻子香农（Shannon）于2019年在叙利亚自杀式爆炸袭击中丧生，当时她是一名海军密码学家。
肯特2022年竞选国会席位失败，期间与极右翼人物的过往关联成为关键争议点。
肯特多次不得不否认与纳粹同情者格雷森·阿诺德（Greyson Arnold）和大屠杀否认者尼克·富恩特斯（Nick Fuentes）的过往互动。肯特当时表示自己不认识富恩特斯，后来又表示不想要富恩特斯的支持。
在肯特的确认听证会上，民主党议员批评他，指出这些过往关联。
华盛顿州民主党参议员帕蒂·默里（Patty Murray）当时称他是“一个宣扬白人至上主义观点的阴谋论者，在几乎所有可以想象的方面都完全不适合担任这一重要职务”。他以52-44的参议院投票结果获得确认。
特朗普对伊朗政权发动攻击的理由从1月份保护伊朗街头抗议的示威者，转变为捍卫美国免受伊朗制造核武器和远程武器的风险，以及消灭一个数十年来支持恐怖组织杀害美国人的政权。他呼吁伊朗人民控制自己的国家，尽管高级官员表示战争并非为了政权更迭。
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‘Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation’: Trump-appointed intelligence official resigns over Iran war
By Zachary Cohen, Updated 15 min ago
PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2026, 10:02 AM ET
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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on December 11, 2025.
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A senior US intelligence official appointed by President Donald Trump abruptly announced he is stepping down from his post on Tuesday, citing misgivings about the administration’s war with Iran.
“After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today,” Joe Kent wrote in a post on X.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent added in the resignation letter he attached to the post.
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Kent was a staunch Trump supporter, and his resignation marks the first high-profile departure of the president’s second term over a major policy issue. Some lawmakers and experts have raised doubts over the intelligence the president used to justify the war, and the departure of a key intelligence official will increase scrutiny of the administration’s case.
A senior US official confirmed that Kent was resigning.
The Office of Director of National Intelligence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the initial wave of strikes against Iran, Trump cited an “imminent threat” to the US, and administration officials said the US acted in response to potential preemptive attacks by Iran on forces in the region — claims that were contradicted in Pentagon briefings to Capitol Hill, where defense officials said Iran was not planning to attack unless struck first.
Kent blamed Israeli officials and the media for misleading Trump about the threat posed by Iran.
“This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to victory,” he wrote in his resignation letter. “This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.”
Kent is leaving a crucial role at an organization tasked with monitoring intelligence associated with long-existing terrorist organizations in the Middle East as well as drug cartels and international gangs. Before taking on the position he served as a top aide to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Kent earned his top position in part by being a vocal proponent of Trump’s 2020 election conspiracies. But Kent’s penchant for conspiracies led to clashes with other administration officials since taking office.
Last year Kent drew a rebuke from FBI Director Kash Patel and other Justice Department officials after he sought to access FBI systems to investigate the Charlie Kirk assassination, pursuing claims that there could have been foreign involvement in the killing, according to people briefed on the discussions.
Patel and other officials raised concerns that accessing FBI evidence could damage the prosecution of Tyler Robinson, the Utah man charged in the Kirk assassination, those briefed said.
Kent has extensive experience in counterterrorism and the military — he served 11 combat tours over a 20-year career in the Army before retiring to become a CIA officer — and has personal experience as a Gold Star spouse. His first wife, Shannon, was killed in a 2019 suicide bombing in Syria while serving as a Navy cryptologist.
Kent ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2022, during which past associations with far-right figures became a key issue.
Kent repeatedly had to disavow past interactions with Nazi sympathizer Greyson Arnold and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Kent said at the time he was unfamiliar with Fuentes and later said he did not want Fuentes’ endorsement.
During Kent’s confirmation hearing, he faced criticism from Democratic lawmakers who pointed to those past associations.
Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, described him at the time as a “conspiracy theorist who espouses white supremacist views and is patently unqualified for this important role in just about every way imaginable.” He was confirmed in a 52-44 vote in the Senate.
Trump’s rationale for attacking the Iranian regime has whipsawed from protecting the demonstrators who protested in the streets of Iran in January to defending the US against the risk of Iran building nuclear and long-range weapons and eliminating a regime that’s backed terrorist groups’ killing Americans for decades. He’s called for the Iranian people to take control of their country even as top officials say the war is not about regime change.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
CNN’s Michael Williams, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck contributed to this report.
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