Former Joint Chiefs vice chairman under investigation for leaking information about Stuxnet

[TheLolrus]

[QUOTE=NBC News]Legal sources tell NBC News that the former second ranking officer in the U.S. military is now the target of a Justice Department investigation into a politically sensitive leak of classified information about a covert U.S. cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

According to legal sources, Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has received a target letter informing him that he’s under investigation for allegedly leaking information about a massive attack using a computer virus named Stuxnet on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Gen. Cartwright, 63, becomes the latest individual targeted over alleged leaks by the Obama administration, which has already prosecuted or charged eight individuals under the Espionage Act.[/QUOTE]

[url=http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/27/19174350-ex-pentagon-general-target-of-leak-investigation-sources-say?lite&]NBC News source[/url]

[QUOTE=The Atlantic Wire]The Obama administration's investigation into the leak of classified information on Stuxnet, a U.S. cyberattack targeting Iran's nuclear programs, has zeroed in on retired Marine General James Cartwright. As in, the general credited with presenting the idea of Stuxnet to the White House in the first place.

NBC's scoop on the story explains that the Justice Department started investigating Cartwright late last year, after ruling out the possibility of a leaker from inside the White House. Cartwright, they write, "conceived and ran the cyber operation" for the Bush administration. The project, codename "Olympic Games," carried over into the Obama administration, who asked for even more attacks against Iran. The investigation was prompted by a June 2012 New York Times story on Stuxnet, which was a classified, joint project between the U.S. and Israel.[/QUOTE]

[url=http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/stuxnet-leaker-might-be-general-credited-getting-it-started/66673/]Atlantic Wire source[/url]

[raccoon2112]

wait so it's official that the US did stuxnet?

[TheLolrus]

[QUOTE=raccoon2112;41218500]wait so it's official that the US did stuxnet?[/QUOTE]

Apparently. A lot of this this seems to be based on an article the New York Times wrote last year. [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html]That article can be found here, and is also linked to in both sources' articles.[/url]

[scout1]

[QUOTE=raccoon2112;41218500]wait so it's official that the US did stuxnet?[/QUOTE]

Not many other countries would or really could have done it

[TheLolrus]

I think suspicion's been on us for a while anyway.

[catbarf]

How long before someone comes in to call him a whistleblower revealing the evils of the American empire to the world?

[DesolateGrun]

[QUOTE=catbarf;41219025]How long before someone comes in to call him a whistleblower revealing the evils of the American empire to the world?[/QUOTE]

Doing justice has been illegal your whole life dude.