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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Joe Kent's @joekent16jan19 resignation this morning as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center comes after increasing scrutiny regarding him potentially leaking to Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson about his unmasking and a possible criminal referral by the CIA, according to a well-placed Administration source. Kent owes his political career to Tucker, who interviewed him repeatedly on Fox News and again on his independent show when he was running for US Congress. Unlike Tucker, though, Kent has a long track record of being pro-Israel, and he has warned about Iran attempting to assassinate Trump on multiple occasions. This is why his resignation letter makes no sense, blaming "Israel" for the war and bizarrely claiming that Iran poses no threat to the United States. Because Kent was one of a small number of people who would have been in a position to tip off Tucker that his communications with Iran had been intercepted, he had come under enormous pressure since Tucker's insane video was posted on Sunday. Kent's resignation only makes sense if it's connected to Tucker. The only major news regarding the war in the past 24 hours has been positive: Israel taking out Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Kent's resignation letter is clearly bullshit. There was no "pressure from Israel" to engage in military strikes on Iran. And there's no new information regarding why President Trump decided to got to war. The only thing that's new is Tucker's now-viral video. Tucker created a huge headache and a terrible distraction from the war by claiming that the CIA was preparing a "foreign agents" criminal referral to the Department of Justice against Tucker. If U.S. intelligence had intercepted communications between Tucker and Iranian officials, as Tucker indicated, then his identity likely would only be known through the process of "unmasking." That's because identities of Americans are typically concealed, unless the identity is necessary for understanding the intelligence or relevant for criminal or counterintelligence purposes. Few people would be in a better position to know about high-profile Americans being "unmasked" or facing possible intelligence-related criminal investigations than the Director of NCTC, which until this morning, was Kent. This is why I'm told by my source that Kent was being pressed over Tucker's now-viral claims this weekend — claims the Administration has since denied. I have heard from two other sources that rumors are swirling in the White House and among Trump political appointees in the Administration that Kent's resignation is directly tied to the uproar over Tucker's wild claim that he's facing possible criminal charges over communications with Iranian officials on the eve of the military strikes in Iran. The timing of Kent's resignation is connected to recent events surrounding Tucker, not his stated reason of "Israel."