Joe Kent, the former director of the federal National Counterterrorism Center, says there's still a case against alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson, but he's also suggested he thinks others could be involved — claims the FBI and others reject.
SALT LAKE CITY — Joe Kent, who recently left his position as the director of the federal National Counterterrorism Center, says there's still a case against alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson, but he's also suggested he thinks others could be involved — claims the FBI and others reject.
"I just want to get to the truth," he told Daily Caller editor-in-chief Amber Duke. "I'm not defending Tyler Robinson," but "it does appear that there are more leads that we need to run down. To include the foreign nexus."As he's made the rounds on podcasts and cable news, social media has filled with questions about the fallout — could a former high-ranking government official's testimony actually affect the capital murder case currently underway in Utah?A legal expert told the Deseret News it would not, noting that social media speculation can misrepresent the legal realities at play.Kent left his position in the Trump administration over claims that Iran was not an imminent threat to the U.S., but was drawn into the war, and blamed Israel in a conversation with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.Kent also claimed on Carlson's show that when his team tried to investigate the death of Kirk, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation barred them from doing so. He again tried to blame foreign actors.But Benjamin Williamson, assistant director for public affairs at the FBI, said Kent's former position gave him zero authority to investigate Kirk's death."This is like me saying I was 'blocked' from playing receiver for the Commanders — it's an issue of having no business or frankly ability doing something, not an issue of access," he posted on social media. "Furthermore, FBI actually made an early exception and allowed NCTC to assess intelligence reports, and International Terrorism returned zero connections. None. Joe Kent kept making things up anyway."Later in his interview with Duke, Kent said he knew his comments could lead to him testifying in the ongoing case against Robinson in Utah.Williamson said Kent "reeks of being desperate for attention and the baseless conspiracy theories he's spreading about the admin, particularly Charlie's murder, could very well make it more difficult to get justice for our friend," Williamson said.When Kent's interview with journalist Michael Shellenberger was published last Tuesday, Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of "The Charlie Kir
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