WWO EditorialThe Director of the National Counterterrorism Center has resigned effective immediately, citing his inability to support the ongoing war with Iran in good conscience.
In a public statement, the Director wrote that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that the war was started due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
This is not a protest resignation from a junior official. This is the head of America’s premier counterterrorism institution, a person with access to the most classified intelligence assessments in the US government walking out and saying publicly that this war should not have been fought.
What this means: When the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center says Iran posed no imminent threat, he is not offering an opinion. He is describing what the classified intelligence said. This resignation is, in effect, a senior intelligence official confirming on the record what Reuters reported earlier that Iran was not the threat the war’s architects claimed it was.
What this means globally: The war’s justification is now being challenged from inside the very institution built to assess terrorist threats to America. The political and legal implications of that challenge will reverberate far beyond today.
— Worldwide Observer News Desk
