The intelligence community’s top counterterrorism official said Tuesday he was stepping down over the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran — the first senior official to openly break ranks with the White House over a conflict stretching into its third week. Until today, she had not spoken about the Iran war in public or on her normally busy X feed since the conflict began Feb. 28. “Good riddance,” he said at the news of Kent’s resignation, in a post on X that alleged there were antisemitic overtones in Kent’s letter. “Israel’s interests are not America’s — and its war with Iran should not be our war,” Paul said. “Everybody is tired of this s---,” that official said of the Iran war.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2026 00:15 UTC