Former two-time Washington congressional candidate Joe Kent was among the handful of people ... t include top uniformed military leaders, who make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Yacolt Republican Joe Kent, who unsuccessfully ran twice to represent Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, is serving as chief of staff for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

The scandal over President Donald Trump’s national security advisers’ inviting a journalist into a war-planning group chat on Signal snared one of the Portland metro area’s own: Joe Kent ...