{"id":204572,"date":"2026-03-18T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-calls-for-former-counter-terror-chief-to-face-congress-after-quitting-over-iran-war-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:44:02","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-calls-for-former-counter-terror-chief-to-face-congress-after-quitting-over-iran-war-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-calls-for-former-counter-terror-chief-to-face-congress-after-quitting-over-iran-war-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: calls for former counter-terror chief to face Congress after quitting over Iran war – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior Democrat calls for Trump ally and far-right political figure Joe Kent to testify after resigning from his post
A senior Democrat has called on Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure, to testify to Congress about why he resigned from his job over the war on Iran<\/a>.
California representative Ro Khanna\u2019s call came after Kent, a supporter of Trump, wrote on X that \u201cI cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation\u201d before blaming Israel.
\u201cThe American people deserve to know why this Administration dragged us into war in Iran,\u201d Khanna wrote<\/a> on social media. \u201cJoe Kent should come before Congress. If even officials like Joe Kent do not believe Iran posed an imminent threat, why are we sending more Americans to die in this war?\u201d
Senator Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, also reacted to the resignation, writing on X: \u201cA top national security official resigns and confirms that Iran posed no imminent threat. Good riddance to Joe Kent, a disgraceful white supremacist, but that\u2019s a major public admission that there was NO justification for this war.\u201d
Here are the key stories of the day at a glance.
Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure and supporter of Donald Trump<\/a>, resigned from his position on Tuesday in protest of the war in Iran.
\u201cI cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,\u201d Kent wrote in a resignation letter<\/a> posted to X. \u201cIran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Britain\u2019s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell<\/a>, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.
Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva and that the deal proposed by Iran<\/a> was \u201csurprising\u201d, according to sources.
Two days after the talks ended, and after a date had been agreed for a further round of technical talks in Vienna, the US and Israel launched the attack on Iran.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has been formally subpoenaed to appear before a House panel to answer questions about the justice department\u2019s handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> and its release of the Epstein files.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s attempt to blame Iran for the deadly strike on an elementary school stemmed from an early US intelligence assessment that initially suggested the missile was Iranian but was almost immediately dismissed, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration<\/a> has agreed to take a financial loss in order to make it easier for Americans to walk away from their US citizenship.
In April, the cost to formally renounce citizenship will plunge from $2,350 to just $450, below the actual cost to the government of processing the requests \u2013 but fulfilling a years-long promise to reverse an unpopular fee adopted in 2015.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Senate on Tuesday voted 51-48 to begin debate on the Save America act, a rebranded version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility act, or the Save Act, which has been circulating through Congress in some iteration for more than two years.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Illinois voters on Tuesday will decide between a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying to be the state\u2019s next senator<\/a><\/strong> as the midwestern state also nominates candidates for five open congressional seats.
Oil and gas prices have risen again after Iran carried out attacks on production facilities<\/a><\/strong> for the first time since the start of the war with the US and Israel.
The chief justice of the United States, John Roberts<\/a>, said on Tuesday that hostility directed in personal terms at judges is \u201cdangerous, and it\u2019s got to stop\u201d<\/a><\/strong>. The comment came just days after Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s latest social media broadside against judges who have ruled against him and his administration.
Oil has begun to flow from a controversial California pipeline system for the first time in <\/a><\/strong>more than a decade<\/a><\/strong> following a Trump administration<\/a> order, despite state officials decrying the move.
Donald Trump expects to have \u201cthe honour of taking Cuba\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, he declared, after a US-imposed oil blockade plunged the country into darkness under a total power blackout.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on Monday, 16 March<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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