Stratfor Leak Reveals Pakistani Intelligence Was in Contact With Osama Bin Laden

[Conley]

“Mid- to senior-level ISI and Pakistani military, with one retired general, that had knowledge of the OBL (Osama bin laden) arrangements and safe house,” wrote Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice president for intelligence, in an email to one of his company’s regional director for South Asia, soon after the killing of the al Qaeda chief on May 2 last year in Abbottabad.

Burton, who is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on security, terrorists and terrorist organisations, however, did not reveal his source of such an information, but did say that it was coming from his source in Pakistan.

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/isi-army-knew-of-osama-hideout-stratfor-email/

Confirmation of what the American people suspected. Bush got a lot of things wrong, but he was right about one thing: If you're harboring our enemy, you are the enemy.

[Conley]

Also, you had best believe Obama did the right thing by not giving Pakistan a heads up on the mission to give them time to move him.

[MMC]

At least he understood that part.

[Conley]

To think how many billions we've given Pakistan over the years to combat terrorism. Ridiculous...and it makes sense why they wanted to keep their golden cash cow alive. We need a serious rethinking of foreign policy, and we need it yesterday.

[MMC]

To think how many billions we've given Pakistan over the years to combat terrorism. Ridiculous...and it makes sense why they wanted to keep their golden cash cow alive. We need a serious rethinking of foreign policy, and we need it yesterday.

I believe that was General Petraeus' Position as well.

[Mister D]

To think how many billions we've given Pakistan over the years to combat terrorism. Ridiculous...and it makes sense why they wanted to keep their golden cash cow alive. We need a serious rethinking of foreign policy, and we need it yesterday.

How embarrassing.

[MMC]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/wikileaks-publishes-intelligence-firm-stratfor-hacked-emails-analysts-193746629.html

On Monday, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began to publish some five million alleged emails and internal documents obtained from the Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor. Hackers supposedly seized the firm's internal emails in December.
But despite WikiLeaks' breathless announcement of its latest data dump, many analysts question why the private firm's internal emails were of much value or interest anyway, since the firm examined mostly open-source information widely available in newspaper reports, think tank discussions and university political science departments.

A FAQ (http://stratfor.com/hacking-news/faq) on Stratfor's website said the firm is cooperating with an FBI investigation into the alleged data breach that it said it suffered in early December. The FBI spokeswoman declined to comment on the investigation.....snip~ :wink: