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Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups
nytimes ^ | 3/7/2020 | Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2017; abigailspanberger; adamgoldman; aft; betsydevos; blackwater; cia; democrats; devos; erikprince; jamesokeefe; markmazzetti; mi6; mueller; okeefe; projectveritas; richardseddon; robertmueller; seddon; spanberger; teachersunion; unions; veritas; votefraud; xe
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To: bitt

Good idea to infiltrate the communists.


21 posted on 03/07/2020 10:59:24 AM PST by boycott
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To: bitt
And so a new drum beat starts! No surprise... There will be many, many more attempts at influencing the election via either "fake" or "distorted" news...

According to this communist rag, Project Veritas == Donald Trump...

I'm forced to issue:
Stinking Izvestia-West Fake News Alert!

22 posted on 03/07/2020 11:04:20 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: jeffc

YEP> Good for the goose is good for the gander.


23 posted on 03/07/2020 11:06:48 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: bitt

Cool


24 posted on 03/07/2020 11:08:45 AM PST by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: rbg81

About time the Right Resisted.


25 posted on 03/07/2020 11:16:04 AM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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To: bitt

Gosh, sounds a lot like what the Democrats did to Trump.


26 posted on 03/07/2020 11:17:49 AM PST by Robert357
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To: bitt

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.


27 posted on 03/07/2020 11:23:12 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: bitt
and the problem is???
28 posted on 03/07/2020 11:23:26 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: StAnDeliver

Investigating the CIA?

Kool. Who’da thunk it...


29 posted on 03/07/2020 11:24:26 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: SuperLuminal
According to this communist rag, Project Veritas == Donald Trump...

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.

30 posted on 03/07/2020 11:34:35 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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


31 posted on 03/07/2020 11:40:40 AM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: bitt

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!


32 posted on 03/07/2020 11:45:03 AM PST by 4integrity
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To: bitt

Project Veritas is doing actual journalism.

No wonder Walter Duranty’s paper hates them.


33 posted on 03/07/2020 11:49:52 AM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: 4integrity

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.


34 posted on 03/07/2020 11:53:20 AM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: IncPen

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.


35 posted on 03/07/2020 11:55:07 AM PST by laconic
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To: jeffc

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.


36 posted on 03/07/2020 12:01:56 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: bitt

Here we go again! Demonrats accusing Trump of what they actually DID.


37 posted on 03/07/2020 12:11:48 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: bitt
This article really tries to insinuate that it is POTUS who hired this guy and his operatives.

Luckily, this was above the fold...
Both operations were run by Project Veritas...

Epic fail!

38 posted on 03/07/2020 12:15:50 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: bitt

IIRC, Prince is Betsy DeVos’ brother.


39 posted on 03/07/2020 12:21:53 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: bitt

So what!


40 posted on 03/07/2020 12:22:42 PM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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