http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/18/trail-of-stuxnet-cyberwar-leak-to-author-leads-to-/
By Rowan Scarborough
The Washington Times
August 18, 2013
The Obama administration provided a New York Times reporter exclusive
access to a range of high-level national security officials for a book
that divulged highly classified information on a U.S. cyberwar on Iran’s
nuclear program, internal State Department emails show.
The information in the 2012 book by chief Washington correspondent David
E. Sanger has been the subject of a yearlong Justice Department criminal
investigation: The FBI is hunting for those who leaked details to Mr.
Sanger about a U.S.-Israeli covert cyberoperation to infect Iran’s nuclear
facilities with a debilitating computer worm known as Stuxnet.
A New York Times story adapted from the book, “Confront and Conceal:
Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” quotes
participants in secret White House meetings discussing plans to unleash
Stuxnet on Iran.
The scores of State Department emails from the fall of 2011 to the spring
of 2012 do not reveal which officials told Mr. Sanger, but they do show an
atmosphere of cooperation within the administration for a book generally
favorable toward, but not uncritical of, President Obama. For example:
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