NYTimes - Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups

[DURHAM D]

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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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html

[Budi]

1. Stasi

Didn't a threatening surveillance bill just get voted in?

Fuking Erik Prince of all people, emerges from the bowels of hell.

Gdammit.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Republicans

Are abusers of power,and they and thier rich supporters should not have power anymore or have wealth which they use to abuse and gaslight people.

If you can't take it back outright,tax them into Oblivion. We don't need billionaires.

[Budi]

7. They're wealth is made in laundering foreign money thru corrupt foreign banks& business propositions

Global criminal enterprise system that goes to the top of every corrupt govt.

Property, weapons, drugs, & money laundering for power & domination

Erik Prince is one evil s.o.b.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. He is an evangelical POS too

[Budi]

9. "White power" may as well be tattoed on his forhead.

Chilling....

[2naSalit]

4. Well,

that is what I thought I smelled. Imagine that. I think I warned of this about fifteen years ago when wcheney was the big worry.

[Jamastiene]

5. I wish there was a way to keep this higher up so more people will see it.

K&R

[tblue37]

10. We can repeatedly k&r it. nt

[Hekate]

19. KnR it for now. If it sinks tomorrow morning, repost with a link to the original

[gratuitous]

6. A war criminal's work is just never done, is it?

Who could have known that's why America wasn't being great?

[mercuryblues]

11. Betsy DeVos' brother

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.

Things that make you go hmmm.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. RepubliCONs and Trumps

very own SS. Putin must be very proud of ............(sorry DU, nothing to censor here.......LOL)

[CountAllVotes]

12. K&R!!!

[liberalla]

13. K & R

[elleng]

14. Swell.

Who have we got, on the people's side?

[SheltieLover]

15. K&R!

[dalton99a]

16. Kick

[alwaysinasnit]

17. K&R Thanks for posting.

[BadgerMom]

20. K & R

[smirkymonkey]

21. K&R

[BComplex]

22. This needs more exposure! I'm on DU right much, and I never heard about this!

Holy crap! What a slime ball!

[Cha]

23. h Shit.. Because, Of Course, he Does.

[cayugafalls]

24. COINTELPRO - Kick and Rec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.[3][4] FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive,[5] including feminist organizations,[6] the Communist Party USA,[7] anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement or Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (such as Puerto Rican independence groups like the Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left. The program also targeted the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.[8]

In 1971 in San Diego, the FBI financed, armed, and controlled an extreme right-wing group of former members of the Minutemen anti-communist para-military organization, transforming it into a group called the Secret Army Organization that targeted groups, activists, and leaders involved in the Anti-War Movement, using both intimidation and violent acts.[9][10][11]

The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order".[17]

[genxlib]

25. I nominated this guy for jail time

When a DU post circulated about the top five people we would like to see in jail, this fucker came to mind immediately.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13462414