Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright is the subject of a Justice Department investigation into an alleged leak of classified information about a U.S. cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear program, NBC News reported Thursday.
Cartwright, the former second-highest ranking U.S. military officer, allegedly leaked the information to The New York Times, which reported on the program that was first ordered under President Bush and accelerated under President Obama’s administration.
In 2010, an attack using a computer virus named Stuxnet temporarily disabled 1,000 centrifuges of Iran’s nuclear facilities used to enrich uranium. The Times reported that Obama ordered the attacks to continue even after the virus “escaped” from the nuclear plant and spread across the Internet.
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