and the problem is???
Posted on 03/07/2020 10:32:52 AM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive intelligence-gathering operations that included infiltrating Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda, according to interviews and documents.
One of the former spies, an ex-MI6 officer named Richard Seddon, helped run a 2017 operation to copy files and record conversations in a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the nation. Mr. Seddon directed an undercover operative to secretly tape the union’s local leaders and try to gather information that could be made public to damage the organization, documents show.
Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former C.I.A. officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her.
Both operations were run by Project Veritas, a conservative group that has gained attention using hidden cameras and microphones for sting operations on news organizations, Democratic politicians and liberal advocacy groups. Mr. Seddon’s role in the teachers’ union operation — detailed in internal Project Veritas emails that have emerged from the discovery process of a court battle between the group and the union — has not previously been reported, nor has Mr. Prince’s role in recruiting Mr. Seddon for the group’s activities.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Good idea to infiltrate the communists.
According to this communist rag, Project Veritas == Donald Trump...
I'm forced to issue:
Stinking Izvestia-West Fake News Alert!
YEP> Good for the goose is good for the gander.
Cool
About time the Right Resisted.
Gosh, sounds a lot like what the Democrats did to Trump.
A spy is no good if he/she is known but I am glad we infiltrate the leftist scum. I have thought about just pretending to be a liberal scum and infiltrate Bernie Bros.
and the problem is???
Investigating the CIA?
Kool. Who’da thunk it...
Yup, two mentions of Trump in the first paragraph - no mention of the actual employer until the fourth. This isn't even pretending to be journalism.
Hey if he is gonna manage and pay the mercs to do the heavy lifting and our boys stay home and healthy then I see no issue.
Pay him for outcomes and impact. Mercs do not have the political hand wringers around their necks, whining about this and that. Blitzkreig, Total war and no rest for the wicked.
Stuff would get real up in that Humpty Dumpty real fast
Interesting that NYTimes writes about potential future infiltration into liberal groups. hmmm, did they issue alerts to the Steele dossier or FBI actions on Trump supporters or Hillary’s destroyed emails??? NYTimes, the bastion of objectivity, fairness.....imho, NOT!
Project Veritas is doing actual journalism.
No wonder Walter Duranty’s paper hates them.
Strange yet true. I look like a Democrat. I can go into any Democrat building and politely look around. Did this with Bernie building and took pictures. All I can say is Demoncrats are lesbian Latino hippy thug welfare creeps. Demon rats are pretending to be Robin Hood pirates of your hard work. Janitors who want to be millionaires.
I’d rather have private “spies” paid out of private funds and doing the Lord’s work than federal bureaucrat spies who target a presidential campaign, do their best to disrupt it, try to cause it to lose and then prevent its policies being put into place after he wins the election, that uses the resources we as taxpayers provide, and abuses the judicial system with the active involvement of an investigative service whose antics would make the Gestapo blush - all with our money.
Yes - and the DEMs argued in impeachment trial that there was nothing wrong with anything the DNC + HRC did with Steele because they paid for it.
Here we go again! Demonrats accusing Trump of what they actually DID.
Luckily, this was above the fold...
Both operations were run by Project Veritas...
Epic fail!
IIRC, Prince is Betsy DeVos’ brother.
So what!
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