US general guilty in Stuxnet false statements probe
‘The former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pleaded guilty Monday to making false statements during an investigation into a leak of classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Marine Gen. James Cartwright entered the plea at a hearing before US District Judge Richard Leon, convened just a few hours after the Justice Department announced the charges.
The plea ends a Justice Department investigation that began after the 2012 leak to reporters of information about use of a computer virus called Stuxnet that disabled equipment the Iranians were using to enrich uranium.’
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