Did you read the emails WL posted? At least one of the mirrors linked to in the article is up. I read through them all (there's about 8 of them). It seems TripWire has some kind of RSS feed viewer, and most of the emails are about how StratFor can get relevant articles into that RSS feed equivalent so that they can in turn sell ad space to big contractors like Lockheed Martin.

The emails are incredibly mundane, nothing even hinting at super secret conspiracy stuff in them at all.

My feeling is there are usually far more mundane reasons for trying to break/bury a story, corruption and conflicting interests still hold weight even if the main narrative isn't worthy of a sci-fi plot.