Carl of Israel Matzav first circulated this story by way of his excellent blog this morning. Breitbart’s Joel Pollak sent it on from there.
Breitbart Big Peace, 6/10/2012
Oh No You Didn’t: Mossad Agents Claim Obama Lying About Stuxnet
Israeli officials who were placed at risk by the Obama administration’s leaks about the Stuxnet virus are disputing American claims that the cyber-weapon was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. Rather, they say, Israeli intelligence first started developing cyberspace warfare against Iran, only convincing the U.S.–with some difficulty–to join in. The Israelis allege that President Barack Obama claimed credit for Stuxnet to boost his re-election campaign.
The source for the new claim is Yossi Melman, a journalist for Israel’s left-wing Ha’aretz daily (via Israel Matzav):
The Israeli officials actually told me a different version. They said that it was Israeli intelligence that began, a few years earlier, a cyberspace campaign to damage and slow down Iran’s nuclear intentions. And only later they managed to convince the USA to consider a joint operation — which, at the time, was unheard of. Even friendly nations are hesitant to share their technological and intelligence resources against a common enemy…
Yet my Israeli sources understand the sensitivity and the timing of the issue and are not going to be dragged into a battle over taking credit. “We know that it is the presidential election season,” one Israeli added, ”and don’t want to spoil the party for President Obama and his officials, who shared in a twisted and manipulated way some of the behind-the-scenes secrets of the success of cyberwar.”
The Obama administration’s pattern of leaks to mainstream media outlets–of which the Stuxnet virus is only one example–prompted bipartisan outrage from Congress and the appointment of two special prosecutors. While the leaks jeopardized U.S. national security–allegedly for the political purpose of burnishing President Obama’s image as commander-in-chief–they may also have been exaggerated, if the new reports from Israel are accurate.
After all, this the President who knows SO MUCH about Judaism to begin with. He probably knows in which closets the spare toilet paper is kept at Mossad Headquarters.
This is quite likely, and also quite likely Obambus’ self-excuse, that some or all of the “security leaks” are in part or in whole, bogus.
It’s a twofer.
our little America-hating marxist narcissist gets to burnish his pretend terror warrior creds and undermine the very existance of Israel with one simple sentence.
Those were undoubtedly the happiest words he said in a long time.
Didn’t you get the memo?
It’s all Bush’s fault.
LOL! It would only have been Bush’s fault if the thing had gone wrong. Of course, we practically stopped cooperating with Israel on January 21, 2009. Oh well. If you would like additional detail on “Stuxnet/Flame” there is an interesting article at The Weekly Standard, here: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/bride-stuxnet_646424.html
I guess its not so strange that the US Govt. would have to hire special prosecutors to read the NY Times to discover the sources they reference in their articles since no one would want to be caught dead reading that bird cage liner, fish wrap, blowing down the street garbage…
First Barry spiked the UBL footbal about 17 times, when in reality, he had very little to do with the plan or the ops. He actually had to be dragged off the golf course into the situation room to watch the operation and then sat hunched down in his little chair trying not to soil himself as the real heros did their job.
Then he leaked and tried to take credit for stopping the recent underwear bomber, when it was actually British MI5 and MI6 agents that did the real work and are now at risk from the information leak.
Now he leaks the facts about Stuxnet and tries to take credit, when it was the Israelis operation all along.
Maybe for an encore, he could award himself a Medal of Honor. After all, he already has a Nobel.
Truly pathetic and embarrassing.
This is too funny. It is also a shame it will never hit main stream media.
I was watching Sen. Diane Feinstein the other day on the Capitol steps braying about the leaks coming from the White House. I found myself actually agreeing with her. DAMN! That doesn’t happen often – but somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my mind I got this uncomfortable feeling – I don’t recall ever agreeing with this woman on anything THIS important! This got me to wondering why she would do this. Why would Feinstein come out and finger-point at the WH and bray like that? This nagged me for some time – then it dawned on me – she was attempting to bring to light of day the fact that her Hero Zero was a WARRIOR. “Pay attention people” she was trying to say – we are in the presence of greatness she brayed – and the NY Times was braying right along side her – in a manner of speaking since its in print.
I think this was all set up and orchestrated by the Zero campaign to spiff up Zero’s image – to draw attention to this story – make sure nobody in this country missed the heroic actions he took on – hoping voters would see him as macho man for the coming election. Why else would they even say anything until the story got to critical mass? This type of action is uncharacteristic for Democrats. After all the Holder/GunWalker stuff is past critical mass and you hear nothing about it from this old nag – or that old rag.