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Obama pardons [Ret. Gen.] James Cartwright in leak case
The Hill ^ | 01/17/2017 | Katie Bo Williams

Posted on 01/17/2017 2:21:41 PM PST by GIdget2004

President Obama on Tuesday pardoned retired Gen. James Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff accused of lying to the FBI about his conversations with reporters regarding U.S. efforts to cripple Iran's nuclear program.

Cartwright pleaded guilty in October to one felony count of making false statements during the FBI's investigation into leaks about the government's role in a highly classified operation known as Operation Olympic Games.

The clandestine effort -- untaken with Israel -- deployed a computer virus known as Stuxnet that destroyed Iranian centrifuges.

New York Times journalist David Sanger exposed the operation in 2012, sparking the leak investigation that lead to Cartwright.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; cartwright; cybersecurity; davidsanger; generalpardoned; globalzero; hillaryssins; iran; israeel; israel; jamescartwright; obamapardons; olympicgames; opmerlin; opolympicgames; pardon; pardons; proliferation; rosenstein; stuxnet
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1 posted on 01/17/2017 2:21:41 PM PST by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

Good.


2 posted on 01/17/2017 2:25:15 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: GIdget2004

Well, Obama did at least one good pardon.


3 posted on 01/17/2017 2:26:24 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: GIdget2004

None for Petraeus?


4 posted on 01/17/2017 2:28:33 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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>> New York Times journalist David Sanger exposed the operation in 2012, sparking the leak investigation that lead to Cartwright.

It seems the Left can... find the leaks when it’s expedient, fabricate the leaks when it’s expedient, and shirk the leaks when it’s expedient.

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


5 posted on 01/17/2017 2:30:20 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Honorary Serb

What is good about a US general excganging emails with a NY TIMES reporter/traitor who worked to undermine the US and Israel and to promote the interests of Iran?


6 posted on 01/17/2017 2:31:23 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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What is good about a US general excganging emails with a NY TIMES reporter/traitor who worked to undermine the US and Israel and to promote the interests of Iran?

Exactly.
7 posted on 01/17/2017 2:35:54 PM PST by IWontSubmit
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To: GIdget2004

And communist terrorist friend of Obama, Bill Ayers (and his wife Bernadine Dohrn) still walk the streets as a free man/woman, formerly well paid professor/teacher, and America haters who leftists in the education/criminal justice system think are just peachy-keen people.

What is wrong with this picture?

Only three days till sanity and loyalty to America are back.

Somebody count the White House silver NOW before Michele leaves. She could hold a whole table setting for 12 under her dress and nobody would notice (and that might include the plates, too).


8 posted on 01/17/2017 2:37:00 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Nifster

No but commuted Chelsea Manning.....


9 posted on 01/17/2017 2:39:30 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Nifster

There are quite a few good enlisted and staff NCOs, both soldiers and Marines, rotting away in Leavenworth who could use a pardon.


10 posted on 01/17/2017 2:46:23 PM PST by patro
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There are quite a few good enlisted and staff NCOs, both soldiers and Marines, rotting away in Leavenworth who could use a pardon.

Unless they are blacks or transvestites they can forget it.

11 posted on 01/17/2017 2:50:36 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!)
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To: GIdget2004

This and Manning’s commutations for leaking info leads me to believe this is just prep work for Hillary.


12 posted on 01/17/2017 3:01:43 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: MarvinStinson
What is good about a US general excganging emails with a NY TIMES reporter/traitor who worked to undermine the US and Israel and to promote the interests of Iran?

Well, that explains the pardon...

13 posted on 01/17/2017 3:06:02 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: House Atreides; Honorary Serb
Well, Obama did at least one good pardon.

He's laying the foundation for his pardon of Hitlery

14 posted on 01/17/2017 3:07:48 PM PST by dware (I love waking up in a world with President-elect Trump!)
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To: patro

Agreed


15 posted on 01/17/2017 3:12:44 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: GIdget2004

Washington Post headline connects Hillary to Cartright.

“Cartright Pays for Hillary Sins” or something similar.

Pay to read source, however.


16 posted on 01/17/2017 3:18:01 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: GIdget2004

Anyone going to guess when the big Cahuna gets pardoned?
How about Friday morning 11:00?
Right when Obama leaves for the inauguration


17 posted on 01/17/2017 3:24:24 PM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: MarvinStinson

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/politics/donald-trump-general-james-cartwright/


18 posted on 01/17/2017 3:28:03 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: GIdget2004

untaken with Israel

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Journalism. SMH....


19 posted on 01/17/2017 4:30:45 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: patro

Right you are.

I hope Trump knows about them.


20 posted on 01/17/2017 4:52:59 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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