WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate confirms president Donald Trump’s Choose to lead the National Center for Counter Terrorism, Joe Kenton Wednesday evening, Republicans pass by their ties with right-wing extremists and look at their support for conspiracy theory. January 6, 2021, Riot The US Capitol.
Kent won confirmation in a 52-44 vote tally with North Carolina Sen. Tom Tillis. Kent was already working for the Director of National Intelligence. Tarshi Gabbard. As head of the National Center for Counter-Terrorism, he oversees the agencies tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.
In this role, he plans to devote his agency’s resources to targeting Latin American gangs and other criminal groups related to migration. He is the latest tranplierist to win Senate confirmations against the senior class of the US national security leader. Trump is improving the president’s wartime power To achieve his goals.
“President Trump is committed to identifying these cartels and the members of these violent gangs and making sure we find them and get out of our country,” Kent said at a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Email Committee in April.
Kent will be in the top role at the counter terrorist centre after two innings Campaign Fail for Congress In Washington, he also had a military career in which he deployed 11 times as a Green Beret and continued his work with the CIA. His first wife, the naval cryptologist, was killed in a suicide bombing in 2019 while fighting a group of Syrian Islamic states.
However, Democrats strongly opposed his confirmation, pointing to his past relationships as far-right figures and conspiracy theories. During the 2022 Congressional Campaign, Kent paid Graham Jorgensen, a member of the proud boy of the far-right military group, for consulting work. He also worked closely with Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer, to gain support from a variety of far-right figures.
During the Senate confirmation hearing, Kent also refused to leave himself. A theory of conspiracy that federal agents incite in one way or another On January 6th, 2021, the attack at the Capitol False claims that Trump won the 2020 election From President Joe Biden.
Democrats burned him about his participation Group chat on the signal It was used by Trump’s national security team Discussing delicate military plans.
They also raised serious concerns about the recent incident that as Gabbard’s Chief of Staff Kent spoke to Intelligence Newsletter analysts to amend his assessment of the relationship between the Venezuelan government and the transnational gang. The revision supported Trump’s claim that gang members could be removed under alien enemy laws, or wartime regulations.
Democrats said they have shown that Kent cannot be trusted to deal with some of the most important and sensitive intelligence in the country.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, a top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Election Committee, said counterterrorism officials must be trusted to tell the truth and adhere to the core principles of the Intelligence Election Election Society.
“Unfortunately, Kent has shown over and over again that he cannot meet the norm,” Warner added.
Still, Republicans praise his anti-terrorism qualifications and point to his military and intellectual experiences.
Sen. Tom Cotton, GOP chair of the Intelligence Email Committee, said in a speech on the floor that Kent “dedicated his career to fighting terrorism and keeping Americans safe.”
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This story revised the vote count. The previous version of this story states that it is 53-44. Kent was confirmed in a voting count of 52-44.
