{"id":55978,"date":"2026-03-18T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55978"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:30:13","slug":"the-most-damning-and-damaging-resignation-in-the-history-of-the-u-s-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55978","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>The most damning and damaging resignation in the history of the U.S. Federal Government<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55984\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-18-at-9.29.40-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-18-at-9.29.40-AM.png 572w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-18-at-9.29.40-AM-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>&#8220;Director of the National Counterterrorism Center<br \/>\nJoe Kent says Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that the current armed conflict is<br \/>\ndue to pressure from Israel.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-iran-war-kent-resignation-e2e17a76d79617a68370f076c0291208\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-iran-war-kent-resignation-e2e17a76d79617a68370f076c0291208<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}