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Thu Mar 1, 2012, 09:09 PM Mar 2012

Stratfor “Source” James Casey Leaves FBI

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Stratfor “Source” James Casey Leaves FBI

By: Jane Hamsher Thursday March 1, 2012 4:54 pm

One of the “sources” that Stratfor chief Fred Burton probed for information about what was happening with Wikileaks was “a senior FBI Hqs agent and former DSS agent” with the email jimcasey58@aol.com.

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Burton clearly felt jimcasey58@aol.com was his own little window into the DoJ. So on 1-26-2011 when Burton sent an email to secure@stratfor.com saying he had intelligence that the DoJ had a “sealed indictment” on Assange, you have to wonder where it came from.

Now I’m thinking, might as well put the email address “jimcasey58@aol.com” through a search and see what comes up. Lo and behold, there’s only one non-Stratfor related hit: a Collier County, Florida bid solicitation for “Security Consultant,” starting on January 26, 2012 and ending on February 1, 2012:

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What is Jim Casey, LLC? Glad you asked. Because the Florida Times-Union has an article dated yesterday that tells us 25 year FBI veteran James Casey is retiring from the FBI that very day to start his own business: James Casey, LLC:

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Stratfor “Source” James Casey Leaves FBI (Original Post) Hissyspit Mar 2012 OP
So why isn't this guy in a cell in Quantico? BlueToTheBone Mar 2012 #1
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