TYT: Shocking Stratfor/Wikileaks Update - Where Is The Intelligence Going?

[ihavenobias]

An update on the Wikileaks Stratfor story is discussed by Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks. Who Stratfor is selling intelligence to and some quotes from emails are also discussed. Here is a Chicago Tribune report if you prefer to read (I can't get the link function to work for some reason) and below that a video with more background on the initial story on Wikileaks and Stratfor:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201202280930--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20120228feb28,0,4687182.column

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[OhioChick]

1. K&R n/t

[20score]

2. K&R!

[girl gone mad]

3. k & r

[Quantess]

4. I am going to watch this later when I have more time.

[fasttense]

5. So a corporation is working with our intelligence organizations, obtaining secret information

and selling it to foreign powers.

They should be called Traitors Inc.

[KansDem]

6. K&R!!!

And yet, Bradford Manning is facing allegations of exposing "state secrets?"

We have 17 intelligence agencies:
Air Force Intelligence
Army Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Coast Guard Intelligence
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Marine Corps Intelligence
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
Navy Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
http://www.intelligence.gov/about-the-intelligence-community/

But we still have to buy information from a secret spy company?

Oh, and with 16 agencies (Homeland Security wasn't created yet), I never did believe 19 attackers (15 from Saudi Arabia) with boxcutters could highjack 4 airliners and crash them so we could invade Iraq.

[jakeXT]

7. Thanks to Ronnies executive order 12333

Among their varied responsibilities, the members of the Community collect and produce foreign and domestic intelligence, contribute to military planning, and perform espionage. The IC was established by Executive Order 12333, signed on December 4, 1981 by President Ronald Reagan.[1][dead link]

The Washington Post has reported that there are 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people who hold top-secret clearances.[2] According to a 2008 study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, private contractors make up 29% of the workforce in the US intelligence community and cost the equivalent of 49% of their personnel budgets. [3]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community