The U.S. retired General James Cartwright, the number two of the Staff of the Armed between 2007 and 2011, is under investigation on the origin of leaks about the computer virus Stuxnet attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010 , reports NBC News.
NBC, citing unnamed judicial sources, refers to a long article published in June 2012 by the New York Times on the Stuxnet program showed in particular that President Barack Obama had decided to accelerate cyber attacks launched by his predecessor George W. Bush. The Times investigation was based on eighteen months of interviews with "former and current U.S. officials, European and Israeli involved in the program."
The Stuxnet virus was temporarily paralyzed a thousand Iranian centrifuges and slowed the nuclear activities of Iran, which Washington suspects to serve military objectives, which Tehran denies.
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