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While the world focuses on Washington’s pursuit of NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden, another much more high ranking member of the US power structure has been indicted for espionage this week… US General James Cartwright was regarded by Washington insiders as ‘Obama’s General’, and now he’s facing prosecution for blowing the whistle on ‘Operation Olympic Games’ which planted the Stuxnet and Flame viruses in Iranian nuclear facilities in order derail Iran’s civilian nuclear program. At closer examination, it appears that Cartwright’s revelations didn’t so much harm US interests per say, but they hindered Israeli ambitions towards a war with Iran. But why espionage? What is the line between “whistleblowing” and “espionage” in America today? Journalist Thierry Meyssan give us a historical perspective and tells is what it really means… 21stcenturywire/2013/07/02/beyond-snowden-us-general-cartwright-has-been-indicted-for-espionage/
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 08:04:56 +0000

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