Gotta love the public court of opinion.
In my 20 years I learned that from brown bar to bird colonel, officers are promoted based on competence. From 1-star to four-star, officers are promoted on their political contacts and their ability to bring money into their branch of service.
Sounds like the general just couldn’t resist getting credit for his role in this in the NY Times. I expect it was anonymous programmers and agents on the ground who actually made the operation work.
Most general officers do not contribute to political campaigns. I’m sure that this is a distinct disadvantage when the politicians start looking for scapegoats. the civilian operatives inside the beltway know better.
Does this mean panetta, hillary and obama are about to be arrested?
Pentagon isn’t called the “Puzzle Palace” for nothing
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It’s awful. I don’t believe ANYTHING this administration says. Normally I’d think the general is an SOB and he knows better and should be charged and tried. But with these people in charge - I don’t believe it.
Interesting and odd who his lawyer is too. .
the NSA had developed the Stuxnet worm in tandem with the Israelis, and said thumb drives were first used to introduce the virus into the Natanz plant in 2008.
I been telling people this for a few years now that it was almost certainly thumb drives that got Stuxnet into the Iranian sites....idle geeks hands and thumb drives are the devil's playthings :-)
I'd love to get a look at the thumbs they used to distribute Stuxnet.
From an earlier post I made a while back.
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any good geek could make a crude version of this at home.
You would need.
-A small custom board... less than a buck at itead studios.
-A micro-controller that can handle USB and read/write a micro SD card.
-A small xtal oscillator part to send out the data bursts..use a board trace as antenna.
-Custom programming to handle the hidden section of the SD card and discern what data to store there (pdf’s jpg. etc)
-Stuff your populated board into a plastic shell from a popular thumb drive.
-Print up an envelope that looks like something sent from a commercial computer parts supplier or whatever and stick the custom thumb drive in as a promotional gift and mail to the target.
-— And you are now an amateur gov snoop. This is similar to how the Stuxnet virus was introduced to Iranian nuclear sites.
I built a custom thumb drive exactly as described above...it cost less than 20 dollars to construct. You can update the firmware in the Atmega32 processor by simply putting a .dat file on the visible 8gb and plugging into a USB port...the .dat file is erased after the update.
The same method is used to dump the contents of the hidden 8gb. The Atmega32 encrypts the data sent to the hidden section with a fast stream algorithm. The key is generated by a diode noise source. You have to brute-force decrypt the data... thus you have left no key in the firmware of the Atmega32.
I used a sm oscillator scrounged from an old motherboard as the rf oscillator to transmit data from the hidden SD card section... It worked well at about 1/4 mile between a friend’s house and my roof mounted broadband yagi.
I’m designing a custom thumb now that will allow me to place files on to the thumb remotely and not simply gather data using the oscillator on the thumb drive... 2way data.... easily done you see... it’s the same ability a cheap USB WiFi or bluetooth adapter has.
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Using a drive like the one I built would enable you to place the virus/worm on the hidden 8gb flash section and then load it onto the visible section at any time...suddenly a perfectly safe thumb drive is no longer safe... once the deed is done then erase your tracks by deleting the files from the visible flash section.
Cartwright was also the subject of a classified Inspector General’s report that looked into anonymous allegations that he acted inappropriately with a young, female aide on an overseas trip in 2009. Cartwright was cleared of those charges, but Pentagon sources also report that Cartwright’s treatment of his wife, including that he asked her to leave his house, has irked other senior officers’ wives, including Mullen’s wife.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/19/gen_cartwright_has_bipartisan_senate_support_despite_whisper_campaign
The break between Cartwright and his two bosses, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen, came after the contentious debate in late 2009 over the surge of troops in Afghanistan. Cartwright worked with Vice President Joseph Biden on a plan that placed a greater emphasis on counterterrorism than counterinsurgency, and included a smaller footprint with fewer additional troops. They presented that plan to Obama without the prior approval of Gates and Mullen.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/02/gen_james_hoss_cartwright_i_have_no_regrets
Storms seem to just whirl around him...
The Obama regime has more leaks than a DEPENDS hit by buckshot.
Guess the comrades didn’t know that “leaks” are a two-way street. They flow both ways.
Just can’t wait until more insiders decide to come out of the proverbial “up Obie’s ass closet” and start revealing the truth about his regime and its illegalities.
Oh boy, this is gonna be fun!
NBC reports or made up Government crap news?
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More of an observation about the writing, than about content: When did Generals ever become “EX” Generals. I learned that once they became Generals, it was a title you had better not forget when addressing them. Kind of like calling someone a former Marine.
Just sayin’
Obama getting rid of another old-school general, to be replaced by a Gen loyal to Dear Leader