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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 unions 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. Seddons 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. Princes role in recruiting Mr. Seddon for the groups activities.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html?fbclid=IwAR07p0LjPkHXip9j1CAtnRIJK1gEJpTmBBwz7IbpF2V80TmBL4vXTcjulCs
safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)November election results. A Blue tide may sink that Amway Cabal. He could be spending a lot of time in front of Congress under oath.
BigmanPigman
(51,585 posts)Is it something to do with his sister, Betsy, being the Sec. of Education?
DBoon
(22,362 posts)moving us toward a police state
Volaris
(10,270 posts)edhopper
(33,575 posts)and it will be ignored.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Taxpayers have to foot the bill for that. But he can put all kinds of cash into this private intel op.