Joe Kent served 11 combat deployments. He earned six Bronze Stars. He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center — appointed by Trump, confirmed by the Senate. His job was to know whether Iran posed an imminent threat.

He resigned rather than lie about it.

In his resignation letter, Kent said Iran posed no imminent threat — and that the president was deceived by an echo chamber running the same playbook used to drag us into Iraq. Within hours, the system destroyed him. The president called him weak on security. The press ran FBI leak stories. His colleagues went quiet.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — the one man with the subpoena power and the gavel to hold a public hearing — refused. And in a classified briefing, Jim Risch told his colleagues exactly why: "I do not believe the administration's decision makers should be subject to public questioning by senators."

Dan McKnight has a long personal history with Jim Risch — from a satellite phone call on a mountain in Afghanistan in 2006 to a box of Afghanistan Papers delivered to his Boise office with no response. In this episode, Dan tells that story in full — and makes the case that Risch is not a bad man. He is a captured man. There is a difference.T

his episode covers:• Why "imminent threat" is a legal standard — not a talking point — and what it actually requires

• The two Tulsi Gabbard testimony moments that contradict the White House's justification for the war
• How the "two weeks to ten nuclear weapons" claim traveled from Netanyahu to Witkoff to Trump — with no intelligence analyst anywhere in the chain
• What Senator Tim Kaine revealed Risch said behind closed doors about public oversight• The Norman Brownstein video — and what it means when a lobbyist calls the SFRC "the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for the State of Israel"
• A direct appeal to veterans: Joe Kent kept his promise. Jim Risch broke his. Which choice are you going to make?

Read the open letter published in The American Conservative — signed by Dan McKnight, Col. Douglas Macgregor, Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, and Capt. Matthew Hoh: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/veterans-have-earned-the-right-to-ask-its-time-we-did/

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We're not at war with Iran. At least that's what Speaker Mike Johnson says — it's just a "limited engagement."

But President Trump is demanding unconditional surrender.

You can't have it both ways.

When Tucker Carlson explained the historical meaning of "unconditional surrender," the entire right-wing media attacked him. Trump himself said Tucker "lost his way" and is "not smart enough to understand."

But who actually understands what the term means? Dan breaks down the history — from Ulysses S. Grant to the fall of Berlin — and shows why Tucker's analysis was accurate and Trump's definition was... something else entirely.

Plus: If Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria taught us anything, it's that regime change fantasies become disasters. So who exactly is supposed to surrender?

And introducing NEOCON IDOL — this week's loser: Lindsey Graham, who's NOT with you... he's with Israel, until his dying day.

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If you believe Congress — not the president — should decide when America goes to war, join us.

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At the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, former United States Senator Scott Brown cited the War Powers Resolution and called it the Constitution.

So Dan McKnight challenged him.

“Show me where that’s in the Constitution.”

What followed was a moment that stopped the room — and a private 30-minute conversation that may have opened the door to something much bigger than one exchange on stage.

For the first time in the history of the Defend the Guard movement, a United States Senate race may hinge on a single question:

Who actually decides when America goes to war?

In this episode, Dan breaks down the exchange with Scott Brown, the conversation that followed, and the one statement that could dismantle the biggest lie used to stop Defend the Guard legislation in statehouses across the country — the claim that Washington can financially punish states for defending the Constitution.

Scott Brown’s background is uniquely relevant to this question. While serving in the United States Senate from 2010 to 2013, he sat on the Senate Armed Services Committee and simultaneously served as a JAG officer working with the National Guard Bureau inside the Pentagon.

Very few people in American politics have seen the National Guard system from both sides at the same time.

If someone with that experience publicly states what many insiders already know — that the funding threat used to intimidate state legislators is not grounded in legal or political reality — it could fundamentally change the political landscape for Defend the Guard across the country.

That is the golden ticket.

And the New Hampshire Senate race may determine whether that ticket gets used.

In this episode

• The Liberty Forum exchange with Scott Brown
• War Powers Resolution vs. the Constitution
• The private 30-minute conversation that followed
• The growing coalition of veterans and constitutional conservatives
• The funding threat used to stop Defend the Guard legislation
• How National Guard funding actually works
• Why the New Hampshire Senate race matters for this movement
• How one statement could change everything

Join the movement

Bring Our Troops Home is the only national organization actively working to restore constitutional war powers by passing Defend the Guard legislation in the states.

If you believe Congress — not the president — should decide when America goes to war, join us.

Sign the petition, support the movement, and help us pass Defend the Guard in every state.

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Defend the Guard https://DefendTheGuard.us

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