Attorney General Eric Holder ordered two federal prosecutors tonight to open criminal investigations into a series of national security leaks to the news media.
Holder appointed Ron Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Colombia, and Rod Rosenstein to lead the criminal investigations into recent leaks concerning a disrupted bomb plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and a New York Times story about President Obama ordering cyber-attacks against Iran with the Stuxnet computer worm...............
Last month FBI was investigating leaks about the disrupted plot by al Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate to smuggle a bomb designed to be concealed in underwear onto a U.S. bound jet...............
Leaks such as this threaten ongoing operations, puts at risk the lives of sources, makes it much more difficult to recruit sources, and damages our relationships with our foreign partners...............
The other leak investigation involves recent disclosures about the Stuxnet computer virus being used to target Iran’s nuclear facility. While Stuxnet has widely been discussed in the press and among computer researchers, the article contained the code name of the operation – “Olympic Games” – and included details about how the United States worked with Israel to design the computer worm.....................
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