Contributor: The U.S. desperately needs functional counterterrorism
On Monday came the latest evidence of dysfunction within the Trump administration’s counterterrorism apparatus, when Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned, citing his opposition to the war in Iran. But the disarray is not new. In July 2025, Sebastian Gorka, the senior director for counterterrorism on President Trump’s National Security Council,…