Posted on 02/27/2012 7:07:46 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
Edited on 02/27/2012 7:22:48 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WikiLeaks said Monday that it had begun to expose e-mail correspondence from the global geopolitical analysis firm known as Stratfor, detailing the company
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Times of India
Honest question: how is one to believe these are authentic and un-tampered with?
“Stratfor said that some of the e-mails being published ‘may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies’”
Sounds like panic to me. I’ve never read anything in the past about Anonymous or Wikileaks fabricating documents. Not a big fan of the two groups but fabricating doesn’t seem to fit their MO; rather, to the contrary, it seems to me that they pride themselves on getting to real stuff.
Source for this article is NY Times, not Stratfor.
I really think a SEAL Team needs to take Assange out.
George Friedman evidently resigned yesterday as CEO.
“I really think a SEAL Team needs to take Assange out.”
I think you’re giving Anonymous and Wikileaks too much importance. When Wikileaks released all those diplomatic cables there was little, if anything, published which wasn’t already known or assumed by most people who cover international affairs, and there’s been no evidence of any harm coming to anyone from the release of the material notwithstanding the hysterical warnings from government officials. The government is unduly sensitive about its intelligence, and Anonymous and Wikileaks overestimate their own importance. At the end of the day it all seems like manufactured drama on both sides.
Whoever was responsible for this attack on STRATFOR did some serious damage, both physically and to its reputation.
Based on the damage done to the servers, I suspect this was not just some attempt to embarrass the company, but to shut it down.
“Whoever was responsible for this attack on STRATFOR did some serious damage, both physically and to its reputation. “
And I believe whoever is responsible for this should be prosecuted.
My point simply is that the two groups likely aren’t endangering national security; rather, they are more like vandals and trespassers, and hardly deserve the world stage the media, governments and intelligence community are affording them.
As they say in Twitterland: Someone is following you, and you are following them back.
I agree, and I should have put that on my response to you. I meant to stress the issue of this being a private company and not a government agency. However, STRATFOR has its fair share of former government officials who have been known to spook around the world in a former life. Hopefully at some point the people responsible for this will be found.
Oh yeah, it's pretty amazing down there. I did an internship there in college when the Kosovo war was going on. I was blown away at Friedman's mind, and at the amount/quality of information that was rolling into that office regarding what was going on in Serbia/Kosovo. I think that's the event that put them on the map.
ooops sorry got the link right..am just usually posting Startfor pieces. Thanks for heads up.
Were you there when they first implemented the paywall?
I have a really low opinion of StratFor, mostly due to the huge amount of agitprop directed towards deceiving the “general public” in the Anglophonic world. Untold thousands of hours of freepers lives have been spent reading annd dicussing stratfor media that turned out to be the obfuscation PR releases for stratfor’s clients.
I can't remember what all was free at the time I was there. That was, what, 1999ish, I believe? I do know that the Kosovo stuff I was doing sit-reps on was free at the time, much like some of their current content. I know that they had paying clients at that point, but it may have been for much more detailed analysis.
I had my job to do, so I didn't have much time to know about the other aspects of the company. I do know that they had contacts out the wazoo who they were constantly in contact with. The "news" aspect of it was what I was involved with and not the analysis and forecasting.
...something else is going on here....either:
. ..none of the "leaks" are harmful to anyone...
or:..the leaked against organization want the info out there...
...you can't tell me that the US government cannot do anything about the "leaks"
..hell, they can find and shut down watch and jeans counterfeiters, music down-loaders, etc....and will absolutely trash facilities and houses, kill pets and scare the hell out of innocent people in a drug raid, or a raid on an lobster fishing outfit, or do not have any problem shutting down half a state because of a minnow fish...
Really? So you’re saying that the full names of confidential sources in foreign countries were already known or suspected by everyone before wikileaks “accidentally” published them?
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