A retired general and trusted member of President Barack Obama's national security team is the target of a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into a leak about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities using the purpose-built Stuxnet virus, NBC reports.
The former general, James Cartwright, was the second ranking officer in the US military.
Legal sources told NBC News' Michael Isikoff that Cartwright, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has received a target letter informing him that he's under investigation for allegedly leaking information about the attack.
The New York Times in June 2012 told the tale of Stuxnet, a virus created by the US and Israel to target an Iranian nuclear facility that accidentally escaped the confines of Iran to cause trouble for the wider world.
At the time, The New York Times' David E. Sanger attributed the story to current and former officials who were involved in the operation, none of whom stepped out from the cloak of anonymity.
The newspaper went on to report that Cartwright brainstormed the program that led to Stuxnet, code-named Olympic Games, under Presidents Bush and Obama.
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