Actually, what you are reading is a bunch of spin by the media based on the barest of details, themselves leaked anonymously. The essence of the charges are "improperly shared classified information". The actual original report of the leak about a leak: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/18/2026/fbi-investigates-national-security-aide-who-resigned-over-war Not sure where you got the information about the charges being related to organising spying on citizens. The immediate reaction from the Whitehouse to his resignation, as expressed by Leavett, was "disappointment", not "good riddance", that came a little later from the President who described Kent as "weak on security", and we all know he wasn't talking about Op-Sec. Yes, many members of this government play fast and loose over the handling of classified information, starting at the top, with classified papers stored in a toilet at a golf club. There is no denying that happened, the contention is over the rights of a President to retain documents for whatever purpose he sees fit. What about Signal Chat leaks; Mike Waltz "erroneously" added a journalist to a non-secure Signal chat involving Hegseth and Vance. While Waltz left his role as National Security Advisor, he sequed into the role of US Ambassador to the United Nations. Not exactly a demotion. I've been in a world of handling such material. There are strict rules about how material is handled, where it can go, where it can't go. Literally, its possible if you lose material, you are facing 30 years inside, and your entire family, and friend, undergoing deep, really deep, investigation. It includes everything from being Deep Throat to the WP, chatting about something on social media, to taking your work home. On the flip side, you do see a lot of over classification happening. Hillary Clinton faced a similar investigation over emails. No charges, described as extremely careless. Sandy Berger removed material from the national archive, misdemeanor. James Comey; share private conversations, violated policy, no charges. Andrew McCabe, leaked to the press, found to have lacked candour, fired. Joe Biden, investigated. Mike Pence, investigated. Devin Nunes investigated. Adam Schiff investigated. You have no idea if: The leaks reported about the leaks have any veracity. Whether Kent knew he was being investigated. If he knew he was being investigated, why post to Twitter his freaking resignation letter, instead of slinking away to the shadows? I can absolutely guarantee, if he had simply resigned, there would be no suggestion of a FBI investigation entering the public domain. Simply because, there are millions of breaches every day in government, mostly by numbskull non-career officials or politicians/wannabe politicians who have, charitably, a naive view of OpSec., little of which ever leads to litigation, because there is no public benefit. You are quick to character assassinate, as I predicted. You also forget everyone is innocent until proven guilty. I really couldn't careless whether he is guilty or not. If he is, he is indicative of the rotten, low quality individuals that make up this administration, who have put America, and to an extent, the world, into a position of extreme jeopardy, not because of malign intent, but because of sheer incompetance. Kent is an odious individual, and that's possibly why he was given the job, because his views of the world meshed with others.
