private intelligence company stratfor. >> it says it will contain damaging revelations.atford's says it is an attempt to victimize the company. >> wikileaks is claiming another mountain a damaging material. 5 million internal e-mails. this time the group is shining the spotlight on a lucrative industry. >> the private intelligence industry is an extension of the public intelligence industry. but it has no accountability mechanisms. freedom of information act does not apply. so it is the place where most of the dirty things are done. >> the u.s.-based company stratfor describes itself as a publisher of geo-political analysis, sourcing publicly available information. others liken it to the shadow cia. the founder and ceo had this to say about stratfor's is a clandestine tactics. >> we may or may not, as it suits us. this is the fundamental difference between journalism and intelligence. the source may never know he was a source, which is the definition of clandestine. the author says intelligence outsourcing has become a big business. >> it is clearly some kind of spying.

its analysis of global politics to government agencies and corporations but as the e-mails expose stratfor as a web of informant working covertly and overtly and a payment structure that includes secret offshore accounts here's what assad had to say at a press conference in london on the dump today. on the surface trust for presents itself as something else while it always started out as a private intelligence organization it has erected a culture. that it is simply a provider falls intelligence publications yes to governments and to military organizations but also to private organizations and even universities but the global intelligence files reveal that its roots as a private intelligence organization strong. and i'm not being dispense we've been in any manner whatsoever. now though julian songe would not disclose how we got a hold the e-mails stratfor admitted that in december they had a security breach and anonymous took credit at the time they publish names emails and credit card numbers of stratfor subscribers so what can we gather so far from the e-mails that have been released and

so big companies turning to stratfor for intelligence information so obviously there is quite a demand for their services is intelligence yet another piece of the military industrial complex. well absolutely it's part of this ensure goal check not believe that we now have not only in this country but across the world it shows you that corporations can now buy intelligence networks that are heavily heavily involved with our own u.s. intelligence networks in fact even the mainstream media is dubbing them the the shadow cia this is a firm that was created in one thousand nine hundred six by george friedman this man was a political analyst political scientist he'd spoken to darpa the u.s. army war college on many occasions and essentially started this firm that is not only for hire but has facility to cilla tainted money laundering paying informants overseas already we're seeing some of these e-mails leak where stratfor is trying to cover their behind because they know that they're involved in illegal activity overseas with many of these informants and they say they don't want to do the pe

stratfor is a company that says it provides strategic intelligence on global business economic security and geo political affairs though most say it's essentially a privatized cia that happens to work closely with some of the most powerful people in both business and government so wiki leaks now has five million e-mails obtained from the servers at stratfor and they've released the first two hundred and r.t. correspondent laura smith takes a look at some of the content included in those e-mails. this e-mail that wiki leaks has obtained from struct for secret files says that all iranian nuclear infrastructure has already be already been taken out they say that israeli commando forces and in conjunction with kurdish rebels already destroyed all of iran's nuclear infrastructure on the ground and i quote some weeks ago israeli sources said in this in this string of emails that wiki leaks has released said the current let's bomb iran campaign was just a sort of way it was ordered by e.u. leaders to distract from the current financial problems that the e.u. countries are facing domestically n

money laundering paying informants overseas already we're seeing some of these e-mails leak where stratfor is trying to cover their behind because they know that they're involved in illegal activity overseas with many of these informants and they say they don't want to do the perp walk and so obviously intelligence is a big business as we're seeing from these leaked e-mails it's a comedy it seems that now you know can be bought and sold who is benefiting from this business. well just one of the names out there right now again it's very early there are over five million emails to comb through but people like dow chemicals that can not only spy on their competition but also protesters and again it's business for hire without prosecution it's having a middleman it's having what the intelligence networks out there like the n.s.a. and the cia call plausible deniability because again they're doing it through these third party services so you can have a large corporation like tao be able to gather intelligence on a regular met american citizens with really zero repercussions and who do you think

whistle blowing website wiki leaks has started releasing over five million e-mails from stress for stratfor is a private intelligence gathering firm based in texas and their clients range from big corporations to government agencies wiki leaks reportedly obtained the e-mails from the hacktivist group anonymous and while there hasn't been anything particularly groundbreaking it released yet the documents to reveal several huge corporations working with the intelligence far regardless of what details come out of the e-mails they do reveal yet another layer of something we bring much attention to here at r.t. the massive and profitable military industrial complex to talk more about this charlie mcgrath of wide awake news dot com joins us now live hi there charlie so big companies turning to stratfor for intelligence for information so obviously there is quite a demand for their services so is intelligence another layer of the military industrial complex yes i would actually label it the security industrial complex and you know certainly since nine eleven trillions of dollars have been spent se

stratfor insisted it adheres to high professional standards. an ohio teenager was killed and four others wounded today when a gunman opened fire at a high school outside cleveland. police surrounded the locked school in chardon after the shooter allegedly targeted students in the cafeteria. worried parents gathered outside. sheriff daniel mcclelland said the suspect was taken into custody a short time later. >> several years ago the school district and local law enforcements began conducting drills, training, practice, if you would, for an event just like occurred today. as a result of that, we were well prepared for the response. >> sreenivasan: other students described the shooter as a classmate who had been bullied. police would not speculate on the motive. in economic news, the housing sector showed new life in january. the national association of realtors reported contracts to buy homes reached the highest level in nearly two years. and on wall street, the dow jones industrial average came close to ending the day above 13,000, but fell sho

report put out as part of the new wiki leaks document from e-mails obtained by stratfor reports show that homeland security was tracking at the occupy movement from the early stages and all the reports simply track the movement by using public media sources has raised a lot of questions as to why it's and who exactly d.h. has should be keeping an eye on as well as what other undisclosed methods may be out there so let's find out more in occupied continued efforts and reactions joining me from our studio in new york is john neville contributor for salon dot com and co-host of radio dispatch john thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess if you could just start by giving us a breakdown of what you know in terms of it today's actions of this shutdown of corporations really a success. absolutely great to be here with today's actions meant to highlight as you said was like and today in new york there are actions outside of bank of america that resulted in a temporary shutdown as well as an action outside pfizer that resulted certainly in a disruption of business as usual and and i

stratfor says this is another attempt to silence the company and one we reject.tatfor will continue to publish the analysis our subscribers have come to rely on. wikileaks claims to have more than 500 e-mails, which says that statfor provided confidential services. >>> the national association of realtors tracks signed contracts for homes rose to a reading of 97. take that with a grain of salt. two-year high, but still, below 200. you have to be above 100 to be positive. economists say this is a modest improvement. >>> well, if housinging needs fixed, so might our debt problem be. it has been 207 days since the united states lost its top credit rating. what are we doing do get it back? well, if we don't do something, we might go nth direction of greece. >>> we told you about the plane, the emergency landing in newark tonight. newark airport is shut down as of 6:45 p.m. eastern completely. everyone on this plane was okay. but the plane had a nose gear landing issue, had to land. everyone had to evacuate and be taken on buses to the terminal. i believe it was a shu

the documents include one entitled the stratfor glossary of strange intelligence terms.hey call the publication implorable. >>> one of the plotters accidently blew himself up in a ukraine apartment building. last month's explosion led authorities to a group of plotters who have confessed they were organized by cechen militants. >>> wildlife officers in florida had quite a morning today. they removed a black leopard and two tigers from the property of a former actor, who played "tarzan" in the 1970s. he was arrested for not having the right permits, which have been evoked because the animals were not properly caged. a wild story, if i have to use a pun. >> yeah, haven't seen those movies, but i'm guessing there are a lot of searches on the interweb tonight. >> exactly. >> kate, see you in a little bit. >>> when we come back, we go back to ohio for more on today's shooting at a high school near cleveland. authorities finished an emotional briefing a short time ago. >>> plus, potential dirty tactics in tomorrow's michigan primary. ♪ [ kareem ] i was fascinated by balsa wood

called the global intelligence files over build with e-mails from the private intelligence firm stratfor and although founder julian assange didn't say where the whistleblower organization got information there's a link it to anonymous is hack on the company back in december so it's a more direct relationship between the two organizations but it is quite possible we've also seen lots of other activity linked to anonymous in recent months so they went after the polish government over their original support of taking down government websites and calling on people to take the streets and what became one of the law. just and most successful protests against the treaty and almost also go to the one year anniversary of bahrain's uprisings by attacking pennsylvania company combined systems and make the tear gas used against protesters. a number of photos have been posted on social networks suggesting the tear gas conscious were made in the united states the canisters of transit with the name and address of combined systems a company based in the state of pennsylvania. they've combined systems a

million private e-mails political and website entertain from the global intelligence company called stratfor that started publishing those over the weekend and the latest down the company has.

and state and wiki leaks is beginning to publish five million e-mails from the analysis company stratfor going to look into the details of this latest dump with kevin gusto let him have all that work at night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. this morning there are some very sad and disturbing news the dominated the television screens as there was yet another shooting on a school campus and us this time in ohio. at least four students injured when a gunman walked into the high school there and began opening fire this morning mccown now up to five students shot and wounded the gunman opened fire in the school cafeteria early this morning there are two separate shooters it's still under lockdown after a shooting was reporting in the school's cafeteria least four students have been injured police say two gunmen are now in custody the school has been evacuated is on lockdown and we do know from authorities at this point that four students have been injured children inside the building were texting were phoning were trying to g

night, kept in isolation for 19 months because of a leak and george friedman the guy who found the stratfori want him stripped down and kept naked for 19 months. where is the goddamn justice democratic. where is eric holder? i can't find you eric! why aren't you investigating? >> clearly you haven't seen george friedman. you wouldn't want to see him stripped down naked, but you're right. >> i want to talk about the story you just broke on rolling stone and that is the relationship of the department of homeland security to the crack down on the occupy movement. what happened there? >> we'll take your camera to jail. we'd love to. >> back up! back up! >> this was pretty wild. what i discovered was a report from the department of homeland security analyzing and dissecting the occupy wall street movement. essentially, it proved and showed that the department of homeland security was monitoring what was largely a peaceful protest political movement in the united states. look, the d.h.s., department of homeland security, they're not monitoring the r.n.c., the d.n.c. they're monitoring a peaceful

this is known as stratfor. the group has been called c.i.a. shadow.y contained is not known yet. the company says some of the e-mails may be forged. >>> foul play in the case of a missing florida firefighter. 31-year-old jerry vanished almost two weeks ago after driving more than 1600 miles to visit a friend in maine. his wife is completely beside herself. >> i love him. he's my only rock. >> gretchen: his fellow firefighters traveled to maine to help in the search. police questioned this man, daniel porter, and his girlfriend. it's believed they are the last people to have seen him alive. police have also searched porter's father's home. >>> very quiet movie made lots of noise last night at the oscars. >> and the oscar goes to "the artist" [ cheers and applause ] >> gretchen: so "the artist," the first silent film winner since 1929 took home five, including best picture, director and actor. and it was an emotional night for "the help." octavia spencer picked up her first oscar. >> thank you, academy, for putting with the hottest guy in the room. i ha