{"id":124626,"date":"2026-03-18T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/bongino-fires-back-at-joe-kents-claim-iran-posed-no-imminent-threat-to-us-124626"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:40:40","slug":"bongino-fires-back-at-joe-kents-claim-iran-posed-no-imminent-threat-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/bongino-fires-back-at-joe-kents-claim-iran-posed-no-imminent-threat-to-us-124626","title":{"rendered":"Bongino fires back at Joe Kent&#8217;s claim Iran posed &#8216;no imminent threat&#8217; to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former FBI Deputy Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/dan-bongino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Bongino<\/a> pushed back forcefully Tuesday against former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent\u2019s claim that Iran posed no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\/middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imminent threat<\/a>, arguing that the intelligence told a very different story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know at what point you thought this wasn&#8217;t an imminent threat after you&#8217;ve read a lot of the stuff I read, [and] by the way, that&#8217;s just the open store stuff we can talk about on the air,&#8221; Bongino said on &#8220;The Ingraham Angle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president, I promise you, has a bevy of material that\u2026 if he told you right now, you would come to the imminent threat conclusion in a snap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kent resigned Tuesday in protest of the war with Iran, writing on X that he believed the U.S. started the conflict &#8220;due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby&#8221; and that he could not support the effort &#8220;in good conscience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rogan-says-voters-feel-betrayed-trumps-iran-strikes-after-he-campaigned-no-more-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ROGAN SAYS VOTERS FEEL &#8216;BETRAYED&#8217; BY TRUMP&#8217;S IRAN CAMPAIGN AFTER HE PLEDGED &#8216;NO MORE WARS&#8217; FOR YEARS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His claim that Iran posed &#8220;no imminent threat&#8221; to the U.S. drew ire from other Trump administration officials, including the president himself, who fired back against the claim in the Oval Office on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When somebody is working with us that says they didn&#8217;t think Iran was a threat: We don&#8217;t want those people\u2026&#8221; President Donald Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran was a tremendous threat<\/a>, and virtually every NATO nation agreed,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-slams-fake-narrative-vance-absent-iran-strikes-amid-operation-epic-fury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHITE HOUSE SLAMS \u2018FAKE NARRATIVE\u2019 THAT VANCE ABSENT FROM IRAN STRIKES AMID OPERATION EPIC FURY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bongino fired back against Kent&#8217;s claim that Israel and its lobby were a major culprit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read probably a lot more intelligence than he did, because they don&#8217;t have a law enforcement function [at] the National Counterterrorism Center. They&#8217;re an analytical clearinghouse,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re valuable. However, I had access to just about everything, and how you could come to the conclusion that the Israelis did it and there was no imminent threat here\u2026 really?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bongino listed reasons the regime posed a threat, including anti-ship ballistic missiles, its drone program, enriched nuclear material and its &#8220;death to America&#8221; chants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s called evidence. In some limited circles, we call that a clue,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kent, a retired Green Beret who served in the Middle East, lost his first wife Shannon Kent, a Navy chief cryptologic technician, in an ISIS bombing in Syria in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the potential loss of life as a driving factor behind his opposition to the current war in his resignation.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Eric Mack contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bongino-fires-back-joe-kents-claim-iran-posed-no-imminent-threat-us\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bongino-fires-back-joe-kents-claim-iran-posed-no-imminent-threat-us <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino pushed back forcefully Tuesday against former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent\u2019s claim that Iran posed no imminent threat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-124626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bongino fires back at Joe Kent&#039;s claim Iran posed &#039;no imminent threat&#039; 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