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In reply to the discussion: Are we really this desperate to make Russia look bad? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)15. Secrecy also covers criminality...
... and those who profit from the same.
Stratfor: executive boasted of 'trusted former CIA cronies'
By Alex Spillius, Diplomatic Correspondent
9:08PM GMT 28 Feb 2012
The Telegraph
A senior executive with the private intelligence firm Stratfor boasted to colleagues about his "trusted former CIA cronies" and promised to "see what I can uncover" about a classified FBI investigation, according to emails released by the WikiLeaks.
Fred Burton, vice president of intelligence at the Texas firm, also informed members of staff that he had a copy of the confidential indictment on Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
The second batch of five million internal Stratfor emails obtained by the Anonymous computer hacking group revealed that the company has high level sources within the United States and other governments, runs a network of paid informants that includes embassy staff and journalists and planned a hedge fund, Stratcap, based on its secret intelligence.
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Mr Assange labelled the company as a "private intelligence Enron", in reference to the energy giant that collapsed after a false accounting scandal.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9111784/Stratfor-executive-boasted-of-trusted-former-CIA-cronies.html
Traitors act like we're "subjects" rather than "citizens." Their bent is plain when they talk about Democrats and democracy, especially.
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We aren't desperate, we just love bullshit and we don't care where it comes from. nt
bemildred
Oct 2015
#4
'Worship' is no more nor no less biased in wording than is the your supposition, 'desperate.'
LanternWaste
Oct 2015
#24
Except that our government's transparent lies in this case are clearly "desperate" . . .
another_liberal
Oct 2015
#48
While he's at it, please show us the evidence linking Russia to MH17 shoot down.
Octafish
Oct 2015
#13
The last I heard those were also highly classified, secret documents . . .
another_liberal
Oct 2015
#14
Since we can assume the "Intellegence Community" has the dirt on everyone in government . . .
another_liberal
Oct 2015
#19
russia bombs willie-nillie anywhere there are people seen in the thousands of bombed out ghost towns
Sunlei
Oct 2015
#21
Perhaps, but in relation to how many German and Axis combatants killed?
another_liberal
Oct 2015
#44
Our leaders have come to believe we really are "Exceptional" as a nation.
another_liberal
Oct 2015
#46