“Maybe what these emails actually reveal is how a Texas-based corporate research firm can get a little carried away in marketing itself as a for-hire CIA and end up fooling some over-eager hackers into believing it's true.”

Max Fisher, an associate editor at the Atlantic, commenting on Wikileaks’ decision to publish more than five million emails sent by Stratfor, a private American intelligence firm. See TIME’s take on the matter here.

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