Sometimes we see this here:

*Circle Jerk/ Analyst’s Disease: “A” releases a bit of dubious

information. “B” reads the claim and puts it in his

report. “A” reads the information in B’s report and

decides that his information may actually be true.

“C” picks up “A’s” and “B’s” reports and expands

on it creatively. “A” and “B” now both believe their

original piece of bullshit is absolutely true.

Actually, there’s not a word of truth to any of it.

IT’S A CIRCLE JERK.

Clancy :Somebody who has read a lot of Tom Clancy

*From Stratfor Glossary

wikileaks recently dumped 5 million emails on Stratfor.

watched the show, curious about claims he worked for them.

He did. Verified.

It looks like he was in a department heading as Webmaster, and in contact with technician "Mike" re: any issues. Appears there were a couple of website failures causing subscription problems. I guess Stratfor sells their analysis to subscribers online, and that had failed.

Here is the last date Jones is referenced: 11/7/05

Here is the email:

RE: Status of Posting on Google News

Karen,

Alex is no longer with Stratfor, so please be in touch with me directly as

appropriate. Mike Mooney can provide assistance from a technical

standpoint and is copied here as well - he is mooney@stratfor.com.

Per your email from Friday afternoon, we are aware of the click-through

issue are are working it as our top priority to resolve today and this

week. We certainly do not want to lose the first click free

designation, so if there is anything we can do to ensure we do not go to

subscriber-only status this week in addition to getting the issue fixed,

please let us know. If there is a deadline to when the status will

switch, please let me know that as well so we can do our best to make the

cutoff. In the meantime, we are working on this end to get this resolved.

Thanks,

Use this link to see the email chain:

https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=alex+jones&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult

>>2710470

5/1/05

yields:

Alex Jones, Webmaster candidate #1 scheduled

Ron/Mike,

Alex Jones will be here tomorrow at 11:30am. Ron, I have you down from

11:30-12, then Mike to follow.

Jason will send you his resume info.

^^

Either refers to Hire date of alex or of mike by alex. If first employment was 7 months in 2005.

Re: FW: NDU Metalib Implementation - Stratfor Info Required

Alex means pull in this case. We have about 90% of what NDU is requesting

already implemented due to the In-Q-Tel work.

It requires the addition of full text search and testing to limit the

amount of load it would be allowed to put on our systems. Perhaps 10 or

so hours of labor.

Alex Jones wrote:

The XML syndication method we had Anjal build for In-Q-Tel would provide

the "Push" capabilities with little extra effort on our part. We would

need to configure a DTD (definition of fields and contents of the

information being pushed) for them and set them up with a user account.

A lot would depend on how complicated a set up they would need, but I

made sure that the system was built to be extensible so we could turn it

into a product(s).