Posted on 10/17/2016 3:15:25 PM PDT by mac_truck
A retired U.S. Marine Corps general who last served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pleaded guilty on Monday in a federal court to making false statements to the FBI during an investigation into leaks of classified information.
Four-star General James Cartwright was questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2012 over a book written by New York Times reporter David Sanger, which exposed a malicious computer software program known as "Stuxnet" designed to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.
Cartwright also in 2012 confirmed classified information about an unnamed country to Daniel Klaidman, then a reporter for Newsweek, according to his plea agreement.
He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in September 2011, four months before he began providing information to Sanger, the plea agreement said.
"I knew I was not the source of the story, and I didn't want to be blamed for the leak," said Cartwright of his effort to mislead FBI agents in a statement released after he pleaded guilty on Monday. "My only goal in talking to the reporters was to protect American interests and lives." contacts with New York Times reporter David Sanger and former Newsweek reporter Daniel Klaidman.
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They should move on. I am sure the General did not intend to.
I’m sure he thought they were just talking about yoga...
He is a patriot so of course Obama’s FBI is going after him.
Why didn’t he just tell them that he was being “reckless” and “unsophisticated” and didn’t mean to do it. Geez.
And Hillary walks.
But this is the United States of America, dammit, and everyone is treated the same under the law.
Yeah...Sure.
He had a concussion after he banged his head on his desk after drinking too much and forgot all he learned about protecting classified info.
“What difference does it make!!!!!!”
No intent..!
Funeral or recipies.
Recipies FOR funerals AND no intent —extra innocent.
Obama’s favorite General. No honor among thieves. Him and Petreaus lied, there are plenty more.
He is a lying sack of shit, and a disgrace to the uniform.
No reasonable prosecutor would bring charges.
Slow learner, about 40 “I don’t recall” should have gotten him off.
Should have said: “I do not recall.” Worked for Hillary.
“I didn’t know it was a server in the bathroom, it had a fan, I thought it was like...a space heater.”
Oh, but they will and they have.
How did he lie? I understand what he’s being accused of, but when did he lie?
WOW, so you can still be prosecuted for lying to FBI agents in an investigation..... just so long as you are a person the govt WANTS to nail, and not a person the govt wants to PROTECT.
If none of you spill on the Hillary emails before the election, you all become crooks, like your boss, Comey.
I figure about two weeks for it to do any good.
2 weeks maybe to little to late. But any individual agent want to step forward now and reveal anything I no not think so. FBI is now brown shirt thug force.
I was using Comey’s words about Hillary’s giving up state secrets.
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