Joe Kent

• X: @JoeKent16JAN19
• Status: Alive
• Role: Former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) and CIA paramilitary officer. Congressional candidate (Washington's 3rd district).

Bonhoeffer Criteria Scores (1–10)

See the Bonhoeffer Criteria for full criterion definitions.

#	Criterion	Score
1	Articulates the blocker	7
2	Speaks out publicly	7
3	Understands the situation	8
4	Will not shut up	7
5	Calls out US intel-service problems	8
6	Calls out foreign influence on US politicians	6
7	Calls out captured US politicians	7
8	Calls out intel-service-caused deaths of Americans	6
9	Ethics first	8
10	Cannot be bought	7
11	Executive experience	6
12	Willing to criticize Israel publicly	—
13	Worked in government	9
14	Active political voice on social media	6
15	Economic / macroeconomic literacy	—

Notes

Background covers two of the criteria directly: long career inside the US government in special operations and the intelligence community, and direct insider knowledge of how those services operate. His wife, Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, was killed in action in Syria — a personal stake in the foreign-policy questions at the center of the captured-government thesis.