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Octafish

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15. Secrecy also covers criminality...
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 09:42 AM
Oct 2015

... 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.
Russian can manage to look bad without any help from the U.S. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #1
So true . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #5
Yes. n/t n2doc Oct 2015 #2
Yeah . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #6
War makes all the participants look bad, LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #3
No argument from me on that . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #8
We aren't desperate, we just love bullshit and we don't care where it comes from. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #4
Especially "bullshit" that maintains the Empire . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #11
It is all about empire malaise Oct 2015 #26
It's you who are desperate with your repeated worship of all things RT. randome Oct 2015 #7
"Worship?" another_liberal Oct 2015 #9
'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
If Kirby was the spokesperson Caretha Oct 2015 #10
Just between you and me . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #12
The MIC did that decades ago. Rex Oct 2015 #32
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
Secrecy also covers criminality... Octafish Oct 2015 #15
Since we can assume the "Intellegence Community" has the dirt on everyone in government . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #19
Catch-22 and Checkmate all in one. Octafish Oct 2015 #27
Do you guys have weekly meetings to go over your notes? TipTok Oct 2015 #17
No. Do you? Octafish Oct 2015 #28
RT. LOL... SidDithers Oct 2015 #16
This is the same posturing that America always takes with Russia. Rex Oct 2015 #18
The American MIC feels it must constantly expand . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #20
I'm not so sure about expanding, but Russia will always be our traditional enemy. Rex Oct 2015 #22
russia bombs willie-nillie anywhere there are people seen in the thousands of bombed out ghost towns Sunlei Oct 2015 #21
...and that's so different from 2naSalit Oct 2015 #30
It's very different.. EX500rider Oct 2015 #35
So our 2naSalit Oct 2015 #36
Hospital wasn't hit by smart bomb. EX500rider Oct 2015 #37
What are you suggesting . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #39
No 90% less.....that seems like a good thing to me. EX500rider Oct 2015 #40
That depends on two things . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #41
No, I'd say unlikely..... EX500rider Oct 2015 #42
Perhaps, but in relation to how many German and Axis combatants killed? another_liberal Oct 2015 #44
The point you are missing 2naSalit Oct 2015 #47
"we still bombed hospitals" Plural? What other hospitals did we bomb? EX500rider Oct 2015 #49
Fuck RT! Dr Hobbitstein Oct 2015 #23
LOL right on. The Putinistas seem to be having a sad. n/t FSogol Oct 2015 #34
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #25
US has as much propaganda as Russia newfie11 Oct 2015 #29
Hey... 2naSalit Oct 2015 #31
I knew he reminded me of someone . . . another_liberal Oct 2015 #38
Russia doesn't need any help from the US to look bad. NuclearDem Oct 2015 #33
"We," in regard to what? another_liberal Oct 2015 #45
I'd like to see him try and explain away questions KamaAina Oct 2015 #43
Our leaders have come to believe we really are "Exceptional" as a nation. another_liberal Oct 2015 #46
IMO no we are not desperate to make them look bad - we jwirr Oct 2015 #50
Good point . . . another_liberal Nov 2015 #52
the sad part is DonCoquixote Oct 2015 #51
Fascinating! another_liberal Nov 2015 #53
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