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In reply to the discussion: Revealed: US plans to charge Assange [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It is obvious from some of its reports that it got information from US intelligence sources. It mentions, for example, in the report on the mid-level Pakistani army officers' knowledge of Bin Laden's whereabouts that Stratfor believed that American intelligence knew of the breadth of knowledge about Bin Laden within the Pakistani army sometime before the attack on Bin Laden. (Sorry about the long sentence.) And elsewhere it appears that Stratfor obtained information from various intelligence sources and SOLD them to clients.
Wikileaks was doing the same thing except Wikileaks did not pay its sources and did not know who they were.
If Assange is to be indicted, then what about Stratfor.
And, by the say, Assange, unlike Stratfor, need not be investigated for violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act an investigation that would be appropriate for Stratfor.