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Re:Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails by jeswin on Friday November 15, 2013 @11:05PM (#6743564)
Relax, they are more like a news company. If you checked the emails of CNN, Fox, or even BBC you might find similar stuff. All news companies, including Indian TV channels love bad news.

Stratfor is nowhere close to holding the kind of power you are imagining.

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Re:Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails by COMS on Friday November 15, 2013 @11:51PM (#6743678)
On the ground human intelligence is power. And Barron's called Stratfor "the shadow CIA".

I have limited experience in this but I've seen some egregious things with current intelligence employees and private contractors. I think you are underestimating outside ways these guys could profit and/or use their intelligence collection news company to encourage those profits.

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Re:Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails by pekk on Saturday November 16, 2013 @12:30AM (#6743763)
Since intelligence is just a fancy word for news, I guess that means every journalist needs to be at the sharp end of the same mob justice
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