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Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a top US intelligence official, is stepping down this week from two key posts due to her opposition to US President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, the Washington Post reported on 22 May.

Kennedy, a former undercover CIA officer in East Asia and a daughter-in-law of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), is a close ally of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.

“Five people familiar with the matter cited her disagreement with Trump’s war on Iran as a reason for her resignation,” The Post wrote.

Her resignation follows that of Joe Kent, who served under DNI Gabbard as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Kent, who is also a former CIA officer, resigned in March, publicly citing his opposition to the war in Iran as the reason for his departure.

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    From her wikipedia:

    Kennedy wrote a memoir about her time in the CIA, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, published by Knopf Doubleday in 2019.

    I must admit, I’m curious. I’m sure there’s all sorts of very ideologically revealing passages and brief blink-and-you-miss-it acknowledgments of things that, in a just world, would have had a congressional investigation. But am I curious enough to subject myself to a memoir…? No. Absolutely not.

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      Later, after leaving the agency, Kennedy was introduced at Burning Man to Robert F. Kennedy III, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s eldest son and a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, via a mutual friend. The two married on Cape Cod in 2018, and have two children together.

      At this point, I really shouldn’t be surprised by this.