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US-Israeli operation against Iran's nuclear program 'insane'

A former high-ranking US military general may have tried to stop a covert US-Israeli cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear program to stop the “insane” operation.

The former second highest-ranking officer in the US military allegedly leaked sensitive information about a covert US-Israeli cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear program to stop the “insane” operation, an American scholar and journalist in Wisconsin says. 

Retired General James E. “Hoss” Cartwright, who served as deputy chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been the target of a US Justice Department investigation into a leak of information about a highly classified operation to hobble Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability through cyber-sabotage.

The investigation, however, has been halted over fears it could confirm the joint US-Israeli covert operation, according to current and former US officials, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors will have to overcome considerable national security and diplomatic considerations if they want to move forward, including setting the White House against Israel if Tel Aviv is opposed to any information being exposed in court about the cyber-sabotage program, the report said.

The new report by the Post coincides with a “bizarre movement of extremist, right-wing, Zionist legislators in Washington who have been cheering loudly for [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu who is trying to sabotage the US-Iran nuclear talks,” said Dr. Kevin Barrett, a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance.

“Based on previous information about the apparent US contribution to the Israeli effort to vandalize Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy program and endanger the lives of a great many people by doing so, probably this general was appalled by the program, it was a crazy thing to do,” Barrett told Press TV on Friday.

“So people like General Cartwright and other folks in the US military who are not insane like the neo-cons probably decided to leak this kind of information in hopes of stopping [the operation],” he added.

FBI investigators focused on Cartwright in the fall of 2012 and interviewed him at least twice, according to people familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

The covert cyber-sabotage operation, code named Olympic Games, was revealed in a 2012 book by the New York Times reporter David E. Sanger. 

AHT/HRJ


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