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babylonsister

(171,059 posts)
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:25 AM May 2019

Erik Prince Set Up Intel Training for Project Veritas, James O'Keefe: Report

You just can't make this shit up.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/erik-prince-set-up-intel-training-for-project-veritas-james-okeefe-report?ref=home

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Erik Prince Set Up Intel Training for Project Veritas, James O’Keefe: Report
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince arranged for political activist James O’Keefe’s conservative group Project Veritas to receive more than one round of “training in intelligence and elicitation techniques,” The Intercept reports. In 2016, the self-styled “guerrilla journalist” group reportedly got lessons from a retired military intelligence operative. The training lasted several weeks and ended with the operative, Euripides Rubio Jr., reportedly quitting because the group “wasn’t capable of learning.” In 2017, Prince next set Project Veritas up with a former British MI6 officer in hopes of turning the organization into “domestic spies,” according to report. At the time, O’Keefe posted social-media photos of the event at Prince’s Wyoming ranch, claiming he was training in “spying and self-defense” and planned to turn Project Veritas into “the next great intelligence agency.”
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Erik Prince Set Up Intel Training for Project Veritas, James O'Keefe: Report (Original Post) babylonsister May 2019 OP
Sounds like another version of the Keystone Cops in the making... n/t Eyeball_Kid May 2019 #1
Holy shit. This is seriously epic incompetence. DetlefK May 2019 #2
I'm just waiting for O'Keefe, Project Veritas and Jacob Wohl's incompetence to merge hlthe2b May 2019 #3
Jacob Wohl's incompetence is fairly well documented! Initech May 2019 #5
These are the guys Trump wanted to sell the Afghan War to... Wounded Bear May 2019 #4
O'Keefe is a moron NewJeffCT May 2019 #6
What kind of family names two people rzemanfl May 2019 #7
Intelligence Agency? Generic Other May 2019 #8
K&R UTUSN May 2019 #9

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
2. Holy shit. This is seriously epic incompetence.
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:30 AM
May 2019

I don't know what " intelligence and elicitation techniques" means, but it sounds like psychological tools to manipulate people and to detect lies. For that you need a sharp eye and an analytical mind. But if your mind is geared towards simply making shit up...

Also, it's maybe a bad idea to post online that you're a spy now.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
5. Jacob Wohl's incompetence is fairly well documented!
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:44 AM
May 2019

He's tried and failed twice to take down Mueller and now Pete Buttigieg. And Project Veritas has been caught spying on multiple occasions.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
8. Intelligence Agency?
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:55 AM
May 2019

More like Prince's court jester. What a joke. Maybe they can all team up with Silk and Diamond to infiltrate a sideshow circus.

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