Report: Obama Ordered Cyber Attacks on Iran
The book, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, is written by Times correspondent David Sanger, and is based off interviews with anonymous intelligence sources with access to the highly-classified program. Sanger appears to confirm that Stuxnet was the work of a joint effort between American and Israeli intelligence units, who were determined to bring down the Iranian nuclear program from within.
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While there were concerns within the both the Bush and Obama administrations about the use of uncertain technology and tactics, officials made the calculation that "Olympic Games" was worth trying, if only to prevent the Israelis from launching a dangerous military strike on Iran. According to Sanger, Rather than shut down the program after it became more widely known, the president ordered it to continue, launching the first computer attack that ended in physical damage to the Iranian plant.
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While there were concerns within the both the Bush and Obama administrations about the use of uncertain technology and tactics, officials made the calculation that "Olympic Games" was worth trying, if only to prevent the Israelis from launching a dangerous military strike on Iran. According to Sanger, Rather than shut down the program after it became more widely known, the president ordered it to continue, launching the first computer attack that ended in physical damage to the Iranian plant.
Not to mention damage done to other plants around the world that used the same Siemens' controllers, possibly including the safety systems at Fukushima, which failed to operate correctly during the quake and tsunami, making a bad situation worse.
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