James Cartwright
James Cartwright | ||||||||||||
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Born | September 22, 1949 Rockford, Illinois, U.S. | |||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Iowa, Air Command and Staff College, Naval War College | |||||||||||
Member of | Aspen/Strategy Group, Atlantic Council/Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Center for Strategic and International Studies | |||||||||||
USMC general with a number of deep state connections. Blabbered about Stuxnet.
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James Edward "Hoss" Cartwright[1] is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 31, 2007, to August 3, 2011. He previously was Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, from September 1, 2004, to August 10, 2007, and Acting Commander, U.S. Strategic Command from July 9, 2004, to September 1, 2004. He retired from the Marine Corps on August 3, 2011, after nearly 40 years there.
Activities
Cartwright was probably the source of ideas and eventually also the project manager of the "Operation Olympic Games", in the framework of which the computer worm Stuxnet was developed and used against Iranian nuclear facilities. In June 2013, the US Department of Justice announced that it had opened an investigation into Cartwright, as it suspected that he himself had passed on information about the existence of the program to the New York Times in 2010, which eventually led to the unmasking of the operation.[2][3]
Outgoing President Barack Obama pardoned Cartwright on January 17, 2017, two weeks prior to his scheduled sentencing hearing.[4]
After 2011
He has since sat on the board of the Atlantic Council, and been affiliated with a number of deep state organizations, including the Aspen Strategy Group, DARPA, Council on Foreign Relations, Global Zero, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative.[5] He was a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School,[6] and became a defense consultant (propagandist) for ABC News,[7] shilling for the military-industrial complex.
In addition, Cartwright was rewarded with a lucratively paid position on the board of directors of The Raytheon Company,[8] and a number of other spooky armaments companies.[5]
Event Participated in
Event | Location(s) | Description |
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Halifax International Security Forum/2013 | Halifax Nova Scotia Canada | Spooky conference in Canada |
Events Witnessed
Event | Location(s) | Description |
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Munich Security Conference/2013 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 49th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2014 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 50th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2015 | Germany Munich Bavaria | "400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts." |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150221132806/http://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/leak-investigation-stalls-amid-fears-of-confirming-joint-us-israel-operation/2015/03/10/2a348b1e-c36c-11e4-9ec2-b418f57a4a99_story.html
- ↑ http://heise.de/-1902235
- ↑ https://theintercept.com/2017/01/18/obamas-pardon-of-gen-james-cartwright-is-a-new-twist-in-the-war-on-leaks/
- ↑ a b https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/d60-general-james-cartwright
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170706043444/https://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/press-releases/cartwright-belfer-center-fellow
- ↑ https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/05/general-cartwright-usmc-ret-and-general-chiarelli-usa-ret-join-abc-news/
- ↑ http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2027