Joe Kent, leaker
On March 19 I wrote this about Joe Kent:
Lastly, I wonder – with zero evidence, so this is truly just a thought – whether the investigation of Kent for leaking (an investigation which started prior to his resignation) has to do with leaking information to Carlson or Owens or both.
Well, consider this new information, courtesy of Ace:
So here’s the story as alleged:
A TPUSA employee named Andrew Kolvet says he wanted to leave no stone unturned in the search for Charlie Kirk’s killer. This was in the early hours after the murder, before police discovered the rifle with Tyler Robinson’s fingerprints on it, and his texts telling his gay furry lover he was going to do something wonderful.
Kolvet knew Joe Kent. He passed to Kent some private DMs of Charlie Kirk — if I have this right — complaining that one Jewish donor had stopped funding TPUSA because he didn’t like the organization platforming confirmed antisemitic monsters Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Kovet’s idea — stupid from the start — was apparently that maybe this Jewish donor might have killed Charlie Kirk.
Kolvet claims he never believed this, but that he wanted to make sure every possible avenue of investigation was open. It’s silly, but I’m sure he wasn’t thinking quite straight in the hours after his friend was murdered.
He trusted that Joe Kent would act like a responsible government official in handling the texts in a responsible, official way.
Instead, antisemtic Nazi conspiracy theorist Joe Kent began demanding that Kolvet make the chats public. Kent wasn’t investigating the texts; he was trying to create a podcaster “investigation” and public witch-hunt.
Not long after that, Owens got hold of the texts:
Kovett’s conclusion is — and it seems hard to doubt — that Joe Kent was a determined conspiracy theorist who could not let go of the idea that Jews Killed Charlie Kirk, even after the proof emerged that the killer was a non-Jewish furry-fucker. And after Kolvett repeatedly refused to make the chats public, Kent gave them to Candace Owens (and probably Tucker Carlson too, although Owens could have given them to Carlson).
Note that Joe Kent was a government official and ostensibly a high-ranking counter-terrorism official, but decided to leak private DMs he had been given in his capacity as government official to an extremely unreliable and toxic internet personality.
The texts were the beginning of her “the Jews killed Kirk” smear campaign, which later morphed into all sorts of other accusations. It’s certainly possible that it wasn’t Kent who gave her the texts, but the timing plus intent certainly makes it reasonable to suspect that he was the source.
Oh, and this: the same Andrew Kolvet now says that Kent has “reportedly indicated he is willing to testify on behalf of [Tyler Robinson’s defense], to get Robinson off the hook for an evil he committed.”
This is terrible stuff, if true. You can read much much more at Ace’s.
I suspect that Kent’s ‘conversion’ from latent to active antisemitism, can be traced back to the death of his wife in Syria. Someone has to be blamed and who better than Israel?
A confidential email I sent to a lawyer was leaked against me. A lawyer knows better. I’m not happy. Action will be taken.
perhaps but that was years ago, then again who knows how people process grief,
certainly the iraq war was not well handled of that there is little doubt, should we have engaged it so soon after the Afghan expedition, and it left a mark on those who would consider anything but a hit and run operation, like the maduro snatch,
however kent’s reaction seems to be irrational, was he the one that leaked his misgivings to the Times Politico etc, if he was cut out of the loop, which isn’t entirely clear, his new wife seems to be an influence, re the Grey Zone, but she seemed to focus her anger on the Ukraine matter, from her one entry in that journal,
as with michael cohen or omarosa, no good deed goes on punished, trump did the favor for a family associate, and look how it turned out, in the former case, the latter in inexplicable,
freedom of association is strange, as the latest iteration of the Count of Monte cristo, informs us,I didn’t know of the frankly politicalbent of the revenge plot against Dantes, which was loosely based on similar events recorded by a paris prefect,*(except the victum was suspected of being a British agent, instead of one of the Bonapartist bent as the protagonist there,
Makes you shake your head over the susceptibility of people to have their thinking diverted into such cul-de-sacs. All of these three were once respected public thought leaders, and successful professionals. Now they are increasingly thought of as cranks, and rightly so.
Wow. Hang out with the alligators and eventually be sure of getting bit.
Both Kent and the Jew-Charlie killer hypothesis seem to come from the same alligator, too.
Ah yes, the old “I’m just askin’ questions” trick…(morphed into the “leave no stone unturned” virtue signal!)
What a GUY!!
Hmm, now where have we seen something kinda’ sorta’ like this before…?
it seems to be contagious al quds brennan, was the previous head of the nctc, paul pillar was also equally wrong about such matters, like flathead freedman, (whose veracity and competence I’ve raised in the past,) he does seem to have been cut out of the loop, on the planning of this operations, much like david mcmichaels, a relic from the past, that tried to suggest the sandinistas were not arming their salvadoran rebels, other such ‘whistleblowers’ too many to list now,
“When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary says to me
Speaking words of wisdom
……”
Blame the Jews.
File under No Stone Unturned, or what a Tucker would ask.
No Left Turn Unstoned
NICU – Phish