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In reply to the discussion: Recovering Wall Street Employee Speaks Out about the "1%" [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)12. How many Wall Street Banksters have gone to jail? How many teenage Muslim Americans gotten droned?
This story has everything except legs:
'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
It's clear who's getting the wink and who's getting the shaft.
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'The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.' – Plato
Octafish
Mar 2013
#4
Old news or not. It's nice to know some can wake up from the Wall St death spiral.
raouldukelives
Mar 2013
#8
How many Wall Street Banksters have gone to jail? How many teenage Muslim Americans gotten droned?
Octafish
Mar 2013
#12
There is a big difference between these two situations, the biggest difference of all, choice.
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#24
Read more of this guy's web site and you'll find he's a big fan of
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2013
#29