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Leaked Stratfor E-Mail Claims Julian Assange Indicted a Year Ago

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Tue Feb 28, 2012 at 01:54:46 PM EST
Tags: Wikileaks, Stratfor, Fred Burton, Julian Assange (all tags)
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The leaked Stratfor e-mails contain one by Fred Burton of Stratfor a year ago saying the U.S. has a sealed Indictment for Julian Assanage.

Email-ID 375123
Date 2011-01-26 15:23:28
From burton@stratfor.com
To secure@stratfor.com
Not for Pub --

We have a sealed indictment on Assange.

Pls protect
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Burton, the vice-president of intelligence for Stratfor, is a former deputy chief of the counter-terrorism division of the US State Department's diplomatic security service. The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the email here, and Forbes here. [More...]

If the e-mail is real, whatever happened to grand jury secrecy?

Stratfor CEO George Friedman says he did not resign in the wake of the announcement that Wikileaks would publish the emails. Here is his purported resignation letter posted on Pastebin. Here is Friedman's release saying it was "forged."

Stratfor has issued this statement on Wikileaks.

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