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...are going to hide behind their "privacy"?



See: http://gizmodo.com/5888440/wikileaks-reveals-private-cias-dirty-laundry-updating-live

They probably DID the Assange sex sting!

It's what they DO. Here's one Stratfor email (found at the above web page):

"[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase" – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez."

"Privacy"? Really? That's kind of like the CIA claiming privacy rights. Stratfor has paid spies and informants throughout the governments, militaries, corporations and corporate media all over the world! They respect NO ONE's privacy. They trade their spying secrets for money--lots of money, big chunks of it being your tax dollars and mine.

Then they turn that filthy lucre and their spy network's reports into gaming the financial system. From the same web page:

"The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to "utilise the intelligence" it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. [...] CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS: 'What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like'."

You gotta be kidding, right, about Stratfor being "private"? Your comment has a Rip-van-Winkle feel to it, like you went to sleep a hundred years ago and just woke up to a brave new world where the rules and laws have all been turned upside down. It's hard to get oriented. Just stand on your head, is all, and then you'll be able to see that "private" and "government" have become interchangeable words. (--kind of like "human being" and Exxon Mobil--same thing really). It's quite touching that you would hold onto that dear old thing, private business. It's like hearing from Henry Ford or Lord Acton.