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In reply to the discussion: Obama's New FBI Chief Approved Bush's NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Scheme [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)32. When only certain people can be privy to the secrets of a nation...
...then those secrets are known only by insiders in Washington -- and their bosses or future bosses on Wall Street.
Shadow CIA' buys state secrets for cash via Swiss bank accounts, claims WikiLeaks as it releases 'stolen' files
Five million emails obtained from U.S.-based global security analysis firm Stratfor 'will reveal murky truth about intelligence gathering'
Julian Assange claims firm is monitoring activists for corporate giants and taking information from U.S. government department insider
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 8:43 PM on 27th February 2012
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today started to publish more than five million confidential emails from the global intelligence company Stratfor.
The emails, dated from July 2004 to late December 2011, are said to reveal the 'inner workings' of US-based firm known as the 'Shadow CIA'.
Among the allegations to emerge is that Stratfor's claim to be a media organisation providing a subscription intelligence newsletter is a front for 'running paid informants networks' and 'laundering those payments through the Bahamas, through Switzerland, through private credit cards'.
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The group said the emails expose a 'revolving door' in private intelligence companies in the U.S., claiming government and diplomatic sources give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107041/WikiLeaks-releases-stolen-files-Shadow-CIA-buys-state-secrets-cash-Swiss-bank.html
And to think people actually wonder why it is the rich keep getting richer and the rest poorer.
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Obama's New FBI Chief Approved Bush's NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Scheme [View all]
Octafish
May 2013
OP
absolutely horrifying. and we wonder why Bush warcrimes weren't pursued.
nashville_brook
May 2013
#24
Actually Comey signed off on "kinder, gentler", torture. From the same article
Luminous Animal
May 2013
#9
Greenwald is currently still in his "split Progressives from Dems by any means possible" mode,
struggle4progress
Jun 2013
#46
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
Octafish
May 2013
#13
Hail to the new criminal boss...same as the old criminal boss. I've always
MotherPetrie
May 2013
#17
But, but ...he was one of the good guys...he stood up against...oh nevermind.
Safetykitten
May 2013
#14
If they do come back, I wont know. I have the bunch on ignore. I was getting sick of their
rhett o rick
May 2013
#28
Jesus, with nominations like this, it seems we have a kinder, gentler, albeit more
indepat
May 2013
#36