Four-star general in FBI leak probe quit Pentagon post suddenly, citing health reasons

[Cali_Democrat]

This gets curiouser and curiouser:

General in leak probe quit Pentagon post suddenly, citing health reasons
By Michael Isikoff
National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News

The four-star general who is reportedly the target of a leak investigation suddenly resigned from his Pentagon advisory job in January for “health reasons” – just as FBI investigators were focusing on him, according to legal sources.

As NBC News revealed Thursday, retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright has received a target letter informing him that he’s under investigation for allegedly leaking information about a massive U.S. cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities using the computer worm Stuxnet, according to legal sources.

Cartwright was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s second-highest-ranking military official, when he retired from the military in August 2011. He continued to serve after retirement as a member of the Defense Policy Board, an elite Pentagon advisory panel with top-secret national security clearance.

In January, he resigned from the board “out of the blue,” a board member told NBC News, due to health reasons and the “press of business.”

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/28/19191717-general-in-leak-probe-quit-pentagon-post-suddenly-citing-health-reasons

[Ian David]

1. He resigned to spend more time leaking military secrets with his family. n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Chances are good he will be prosecuted

http://missoulian.com/news/national/reports-retired-general-under-investigation/article_959ed1fa-65a3-523f-b378-0d8af3df60bb.html

The Washington Post reported Thursday. A "target" is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged.

[longship]

3. To spend more time with his family before he's arrested.

Always a good thing, when one is a family type of person.

No judgement here; just pointing out the usual irony.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Ya, my guess is that he knew he was guilty

[Whisp]

6. why do you think he would do that?

just the itch for a new war or to sustain an old one?

That affliction fuckers like Petraeus and McChrystal and who knows who else has?

[Cali_Democrat]

7. I've been reading about this general

Seems like a major hawk who wanted to attack Iran. Perhaps he disclosed this program in order to make it seem like the only other option is war once this method was taken off the table.

Don't know.

But Ido know Obama passed him up for joints chiefs of staff and he wasn't pleased.

[Mnemosyne]

4. K&R nt