I guess the question that I have is: Is Stratfor shaping the information that it is supplying to its retail subscribers, for whatever reason (either for the ben

I guess the question that I have is: Is Stratfor shaping the information that it is supplying to its retail subscribers, for whatever reason (either for the benefit of their corporate subscribers, or for themselves)? It certainly seems like this is something that Friedman and Stratfor are capable of doing. In an era where Joe Public can be under GPS/Mail/whatever surveillance for whatever reason any in the government wants, do people believe that an entity like Stratfor would exist without the explicit consent and control of the government and/or secret agencies? And that they would NOT shape the information that they are providing to retail subscribers? We're not talking tin-foil paranoia here, this is state politics 101.