The F.B.I. has opened an investigation into Joe Kent, a counter terrorism official who was pilloried by the White House after he quit over the war with Iran, for possibly leaking sensitive intelligence, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
The investigation predated the resignation on Tuesday of Mr. Kent, the director of the National Counter terrorism Center, according to those people, who discussed a continuing investigation on the condition of anonymity.
Disclosure of the inquiry, which was reported earlier by Semafor, came after a coordinated Trump administration effort to discredit Mr. Kent as untrustworthy and disloyal.
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