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While four separate sets of radical Islamists planned and executed terrorist attacks on American soil this month, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center was apparently focused on other priorities. Joe Kent, who sprinted to Tucker Carlson‘s televised therapy session just one day after resigning from the Trump administration, claimed that the FBI blocked his investigation into who murdered Charlie Kirk. You would think that the FBI blocked the investigation because the mystery was already solved in the form of the forthcoming, slam-dunk prosecution of fanatical leftist Tyler Robinson. Rather, Kent insists that the case wasn’t closed, hinting that perhaps a certain foreign government killed the conservative firebrand because he had privately warned the president against Operation Midnight Hammer last summer.