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Wow. Erik Prince is saying that the transcript of his testimony is wrong, and thats why he liedVIDEOS:
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
But why didnt Prince tell members of Congress about his other secret meeting, in Trump Tower in August 2016? Especially if it was about a sensitive foreign policy issue like Iran?
I dont believe I was asked that question, he replied.
Not true. I reminded him that he had been asked by a member of the House Intelligence Committee whether he had any formal communications or contact with the campaign.
The Blackwater founder then switched tack. He did inform the committee about the meeting, Prince told me. Why wasnt it in the transcript of the hearing then, I countered? I dont know if they got the transcript wrong, he said. Later in the interview, in response to a question from the audience, he doubled down: Not all the discussion that day was transcribed, and thats a fact.
Got that? First, he said he wasnt asked; then he said he told them about it; then he claimed that they made a mistake with the transcript; then he claimed that it was said off the record.
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TRANSCRIPT:
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/08/erik-prince-trump-mehdi-hasan/
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)chucktodd, see what can be accomplished when an interviewer comes prepared?
malaise
(269,194 posts)the people of Iraq ages ago.
mopinko
(70,258 posts)show just how delicious this is.
kpete
(72,024 posts)ZeroSomeBrains
(638 posts)Mercenary war profiteers like Prince can go to hell.
Evolve Dammit
(16,778 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)That British dude did proper prep for his interview. Why are American journalists so poorly trained?????????
Oh, yeah, I forgot: WE DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF ADMINISTRATORS in higher education (in the last 30 yrs) and cut the numbers of full time faculty. Hired stretched-to-the-limit adjuncts who sleep in CARS and OFFICE FLOORS and CAN'T RAISE FAMILIES TO PASS ON THE FLAME OF TRUTH AND WISDOM. OUR COLLEGES ARE A CRUEL JOKE.
Yes, I'm angry.
Evolve Dammit
(16,778 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)What I don't get is why such cultural issues like increasing "greed" or the administrative (and computer/corporate) takeover of our colleges, isn't entering the national conversation. It doesn't have a handy face to lampoon, but it's more insidious. An enterprising (and conscientious) university board could create a flagship campus where they:
1) Start trusting faculty (and their culture) to teach without an unnecessary wad of bureaucratic oversight.
2) Raise faculty salaries, shift adjuncts to fulltime, and pay for it by cutting administration in half.
3) Offer an olive branch to admins by giving them 2 years to get a masters degree and earn a place at the academic table. (The fact that the folks with lesser degrees run the show has got to end).
4) Do the math: Lower tuition by drastically cutting admins and computer congestion. If you lower it by the right amount there should be enough to return to a more functional pay scale for faculty and move well-deserving adjuncts into full time.
5) Bring back the tenure system so faculty who have earned their stripes can teach and do research without fear of censorship. If systemically applied, this increases the overall intellectual fortitude of the country.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,778 posts)problems. If you can, reach out to your Congress-person and offer your services to provide insight. The only way some of these things will change, is when experienced, knowledgeable career people provide the information necessary (as you just laid out) to make changes at a legislative level, because truly academia in US is broken, mostly by financial greed, laziness and ignoring our next generations (students) needs. If your Rep is GOP forget it. Sadly, it's not even worth it. They have no desire to do anything constructive, because they simply don't care. If you have a decent Dem. they may well advance some of your great ideas.
Best to you
triron
(22,023 posts)mjvpi
(1,389 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)Botany
(70,592 posts)Are 1000 off the coast of east central Africa in the middle of no place ... and Prince just ran into a Russian agent and a middle eastern middle man there?