Wikileaks - Page 67

On February 27 2012 09:55 riddi wrote:


Completely understand your point but cant see someone - "forging" or whatever you should call it - 4million emails man.

On February 27 2012 10:04 CptCutter wrote:


well i dunno, who has the time to write 4 million emails? not me thats for sure =( (yes i know its a very large company with thousands of employees doing the emailing but still).

Coca Cola hired the “global intelligence” spy firm Stratfor to investigate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, according to company emails released by Wikileaks.

In a reply email, Stratfor’s vice president for counterterrorism and corporate security said: “The FBI has a classified investigation on PETA operatives. I’ll see what I can uncover.”

The exchange is part of the 5 million Stratfor emails that Wikileaks promises to release in coming weeks. Stratfor, an intelligence firm that works closely with corporations and the government, has verified that company emails were stolen but refuses to say anything more.

Osama bin Laden was in routine contact with several senior figures from Pakistan's military intelligence agency while in hiding in the country, according to a large cache of secret intelligence files.

The disclosure was contained in e-mails from the private US security firm, Stratfor, which were published by WikiLeaks website on Monday after being obtained by the Anonymous hacking group.

Stratfor provides analysis of world affairs to major corporations, military officials and government agencies and was once likened by an American business magazine to a "shadow CIA".

According to one of the e-mails, the firm was shown the information papers collected from bin Laden's Abbotabad compound after the US special forces attack last May that resulted in his death.

The e-mail, from a Stratfor analyst, suggested that up to 12 officials in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency knew of the al-Qaeda leader's safe house.

US government officials requested that an American private security firm contact Syrian opposition figures in Turkey to see “how they can help in regime change,” the CEO of one of these firms told Stratfor in a company email obtained by WikiLeaks and Al-Akhbar.

James F. Smith, former director of Blackwater, is currently the Chief Executive of SCG International, a private security firm with experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. In what appears to be his first email to Stratfor, Smith stated that his “background is CIA” and his company is comprised of “former DOD [Department of Defense], CIA and former law enforcement personnel.”

“We provide services for those same groups in the form of training, security and information collection,” he explained to Stratfor. (doc-id 5441475)

In a 13 December 2011 email to Stratfor’s VP for counter-terrorism Fred Burton, which Burton shared with Stratfor’s briefers, Smith claimed that “[he] and Walid Phares were getting air cover from Congresswoman [Sue] Myrick to engage Syrian opposition in Turkey (non-MB and non-Qatari) on a fact finding mission for Congress.”

Walid Phares, named by the source as part of the “fact finding team,” is a Lebanese-American citizen and currently co-chairs Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Middle East advisory group.

A US government-contracted private security firm is helping the Syrian opposition to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime, leaked Stratfor emails indicate. The same firm earlier operated extensively in Libya.

The private military company SCG International had been contracted to engage the Turkey-based Syrian opposition, according to correspondence released by WikiLeaks.

Their assignment was called a “fact finding mission”, but “the true mission is how they can help in regime change,”an email addressed to Stratfor VP for counter-terrorism Fred Burton says.

The source reporting the info is most reliable – it is SCG Chief Executive James F. Smith, who used to be director of notorious company Blackwater, now known as Academi. In a separate message Smith introduces himself to Stratfor as having background in CIA and heading a company “comprised of former DOD, CIA and former law enforcement personnel.”

SCG’s mission with the Syrian opposition is said to have “air cover from Congresswoman [Sue] Myrick,” a Republican lawmaker from North Carolina, who is a member of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The body is charged with overseeing the American intelligence community.

The email adds that Smith “intends to offer his services to help protect the opposition members, like he had underway in Libya.”

Smith has an extensive record of sharing intelligence with Stratfor, according the Al-Akhbar, the Lebanese daily newspaper, which is one of the media outlets chosen by WikiLeaks as an information partner for disclosure of private Stratfor emails.

On March 21 2012 16:37 -Archangel- wrote:
So as we knew already, US started this whole shitstorm in Syria.

On March 21 2012 16:37 -Archangel- wrote:
So as we knew already, US started this whole shitstorm in Syria.

So as we knew already, US started this whole shitstorm in Syria.

On March 21 2012 16:40 zalz wrote:


It doesn't say that at all, but I am glad to know that the conspiracy crazies will read whatever they want to read, regardless of what words the letters form.

On February 28 2012 09:50 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
+1 to India which has been saying this all along.



Source

On March 21 2012 18:05 Pika Chu wrote:


It doesn't say it started it, but it says they got involved which is just as bad imo.

Hmmm, why help them. What is there to gain? Over throwing there goverment provides the US with what opportunity? To put an American in charge? No that wouldn't happen. Rob there oil? Not sure much Oil in Syria is there? Hmm i don't understand the motive yet. Syria was just an Arab state? No signs of helping Terrorism, no nuclear programs just a country i had not heard of until i saw people rebelling vs there communist leader?

Anyone else help explain why?

On March 21 2012 18:59 zalz wrote:


No it isn't just as bad. If it was you would be outraged at Russia for getting involved, but you love them for it.

To think that the US wouldn't keep tabs on things as big as a revolution is naive at best.


Also, stating that starting an uprising (suggesting it is fake) and helping an uprising (genuine) are very different. Your inability to distinguish the two is rather disturbing.



Democracies tend to be on a better footing with America than dictatorships.

Thus, spreading democracy is actually a foreign policy of the US government, despite cynical claims.

True democracy in the middle-east would be a blessing for the US.