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Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by whatsecret
I haven't even asked them about it. Until now I haven't really had a reason to. I usually pay more attention to the things they have to say about the areas that I know a lot more in (I'm not as up on the Seal operations and Navy stuff as I am aviation).
his unfounded speculation is of no more value than mine or yours.
Just because you found something in Wikileaks doesn't make it true, or "official" in any sense of the word.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by Danbones
Except there is zero evidence he was on the raid. He was Seal Team 4 commander, not Seal Team 6. There's nothing to say he was ever part of DEVGRU (and that article is majorly misleading).
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by Danbones
Except there is zero evidence he was on the raid. He was Seal Team 4 commander, not Seal Team 6. There's nothing to say he was ever part of DEVGRU (and that article is majorly misleading).
pure speculation with no evidence on their part.
after the Cold War ended in 1989 Japan was going to become a major power in the Pacific, and we were going to fight them again.
No, they really don't always. This was pure speculation with no evidence on their part. This is from the same company (I think even the same person) that said after the Cold War ended in 1989 Japan was going to become a major power in the Pacific, and we were going to fight them again.
Fred Burton is Stratfor's vice president for intelligence,[1][2] and describes himself as "one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists and terrorist organizations."[3][4] Burton was a special agent with the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). Burton was U.S. DSS attaché to the Pan Am 103 crash investigation.[5] Burton was also appointed by Washington to assist in the investigation of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He is the former deputy chief of the counterterrorism division of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Mr. Burton also investigated the killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane; the al Qaeda New York City bombing plots before the September 11 attacks; and the Libyan-backed terrorist attacks against diplomats in Sana'a and Khartoum. He was involved in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Burton is the author of a memoir, Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent, published by Random House in 2008,[3] and Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011.[4] Burton was appointed to the Texas Border Security Council on September 11, 2007 by Governor Rick Perry.[6] In August 2009 he was hired as the Texas Department of Public Safety's Assistant Director for Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism but left after 2 months to pursue his writing and speaking career.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by Panic2k11
No, they really don't always. This was pure speculation with no evidence on their part. This is from the same company (I think even the same person) that said after the Cold War ended in 1989 Japan was going to become a major power in the Pacific, and we were going to fight them again.
The same guy that claimed the head of a Chinese bank fled the country with tons of money, when the person in question is still in China, and still head of the bank in question. Read some of my posts and the quoted/linked articles. Stratfor is a joke in the intelligence community, that has been shown to lie, use rumors, and teach employees to bilk customers for all the money they can.
Originally posted by Panic2k11
reply to post by FurvusRexCaeli
Are you a disinformation agent ?!?
The OP clearly put official in quotes and the meaning was clearly to indicate that the source was an insider.
Burton has been featured as a terrorism and security expert in numerous media outlets, including ABC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Show, NBC's The Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, NPR, Al Jazeera English, FOX News and the Financial Times.