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The "what" of Stuxnet has been widely described and discussed.
But the "who" was not known, even though many suspected Israel.
... Now the U.S. (NSA) and Israel are being publicly identified.
Washington Post
Greg Miller and Sari Horwitz
6/27/13
Justice Dept. targets general in leak probe
A retired four-star Marine Corps general who served as the nation’s second-ranking military officer
is a target of a Justice Department investigation into a leak of information about
a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear program, a senior Obama administration official said.
Retired Gen. James E. “Hoss” Cartwright served as deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and was part of President Obama’s inner circle on a range of
critical national security issues before he retired in 2011.
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Stuxnet was part of a broader cyber campaign called Olympic Games that was disclosed
by the New York Times last year as one of the first major efforts by the United States
to use computer code as a destructive weapon against a key adversary.
The investigation into the Stuxnet leak was launched in June 2012
by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and gained momentum in recent months
amid indications that prosecutors were putting pressure on a range of
current and former senior officials suspected of involvement.
The leaks surrounding Stuxnet exposed details about what had been
one of the most closely held secrets in the U.S. intelligence community,
an ambitious effort by the National Security Agency in collaboration
with the Israeli government to devise computer code that could cripple
Iran’s alleged effort to pursue a nuclear bomb.
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