I was kind of wondering how President Obama thought he had gone though all those years in the White House "without anyone being indicted" when he seems to have forgotten one of his National Security Advisers, General James Cartwright. He was famous for being the one who described many of the cyber operations of the Obama Administration to the New York Times, including such famous ones at Stuxnet, the computer worm that attacked Iran's centrifuges. He was not only charged, he was convicted. But, because the President pardoned him, he never had to serve any time in jail. The real crime may have been in letting him hang for something he didn't do. It ruined his career when the real culprit got off.
His defense attorneys said just that in a written letter to the court. They said he went to the New York Times to try to stop publication of the stories they were about to publish. The New York Times isn't going to tell who really did it, and the White House covered that part up at the time it occurred. Like others in the past who have taken responsibility for something they didn't do, the General took the blame for somebody higher up. There were not too many people higher up than he was.
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