Washington: US Senator John McCain criticised the role of the White House after details of a cyber attack against Iran had been leaked.
“Again we see these leaks to the media about ongoing operations, which is incredibly disturbing. Doesn’t this give some benefit to our adversaries?” McCain told reporters in Singapore on Saturday, Press TV said.
Obama secretly ordered a cyber attack with the Stuxnet computer virus against Iran to sabotage the country’s nuclear energy program “from his first months in office,” the New York Times reported yesterday.
McCain was defeated by Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
“Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks – begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games – even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error,” the report added.
“We know the leaks have to come from the administration. And so we’re at the point where perhaps we need an investigation,” he said.
“So this is kind of a pattern in order to hype the national security credentials of the president and every administration does it. But I think this administration has taken it to a new level.”
Media reports claimed last year that Stuxnet had targeted industrial computers around the globe, with Iran being the main target of the attack. They said the country’s Bushehr nuclear power plant was at the centre of the cyber attack.
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