Meanwhile, there are growing signs that high-level officials within the U.S. government are concerned over the administration’s Middle East policy. Seymour Hersh reports that John Negroponte resigned his post as national intelligence director for a job at the State Department in part because of his discomfort that the administration’s covert actions in the Middle East so closely echoed the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. Meanwhile, the London Times reports that up to five senior U.S. generals and admirals are signaling that they will resign if President Bush attacks Iran.