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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Active duty ping.
Exactly...some animals are more equal than others.
SPOT ON!!!
Oh, ok - Thanks!!
James Cartwright is a traitor for releasing through the complicit reporters classified information that gave aid and comfort to the enemy.
Traitorcartwright should have been tried, convicted, sentenced and then hanged.
Instead the Traitorobama kakistocracy will likely give him 0-6 months in a minimum security prison.
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