Did the White House "pull the plug" en Erik "The Crusader" Prince?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/blackwaters-prince-cia-role/

Prince blames Democrats in Congress for the leaks and maintains that there is a double standard at play. “The left complained about how Valerie Plame’s identity was compromised for political reasons. A special prosecutor appointed. Well, what happened to me was worse. People acting for political reasons disclosed not only the existence of a very sensitive program but my name along with it.” As in the Plame case, though, the leaks prompted CIA attorneys to send a referral to the Justice Department, requesting that a criminal investigation be undertaken to identify those responsible for providing highly classified information to the media.
Prince told Ciralsky that he was engaged in work for the CIA "up until two months ago—when Prince says the Obama administration pulled the plug." That would seem to confirm recent news reports that the Obama administration was using Blackwater for assassinations in Pakistan.

Prince also told Ciralsky he plans to step down as chairman and CEO of Blackwater -- a move Ciralsky reports has started a "power struggle" within the company over who will succeed its founder.

“I’m through,” Prince told Vanity Fair. “I’m going to teach high school. ... History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too.”

Vanity Fair Piece

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/01/blackwater-201001

Erik Prince can be a difficult man to wrap your mind around—an amalgam of contradictory caricatures. He has been branded a “Christian supremacist” who sanctions the murder of Iraqi civilians, yet he has built mosques at his overseas bases and supports a Muslim orphanage in Afghanistan. He and his family have long backed conservative causes, funded right-wing political candidates, and befriended evangelicals, but he calls himself a libertarian and is a practicing Roman Catholic. Sometimes considered arrogant and reclusive—Howard Hughes without the O.C.D.—he nonetheless enters competitions that combine mountain-biking, beach running, ocean kayaking, and rappelling.

The common denominator is a relentless intensity that seems to have no Off switch. Seated in the back of a Boeing 777 en route to Afghanistan, Prince leafs through Defense News while the film Taken beams from the in-flight entertainment system. In the movie, Liam Neeson plays a retired C.I.A. officer who mounts an aggressive rescue effort after his daughter is kidnapped in Paris. Neeson’s character warns his daughter’s captors:

If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills … skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now … I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Prince comments, “I used that movie as a teaching tool for my girls.” (The father of seven, Prince remarried after his first wife died of cancer in 2003.) “I wanted them to understand the dangers out there. And I wanted them to know how I would respond.”





This is definitely welcome news.




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[Hutzpa]

1. The difference there is

Neeson is playing a good father on the hunt.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Who here would be surprised if it was found out that this guys businesses were

implicated in the plot to kill Benazir Bhutto?

[Bobbieo]

3. How involved is/was he in the opium trade in Afghaniztan?

[Arctic Dave]

4. She was running for President of Pakistan.

Made the statement that Osama was killed years ago.

[TomClash]

5. Incredible

Valerie Plame was a valued career case officer, not some rich private sector sleuth wannabe.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Right now there are some whistle blowers that are accusing Mr Prince of all kinds of

illegal shit. But I have a feeling nothing much is going to come of it. I mean other than the current administration refusing to do business with them.

[Traveling_Home]

7. Vanity Fair article says he was a full blown CIA asset.

"Prince, according to sources with knowledge of his activities,
has been working as a C.I.A. asset: in a word, as a spy."

[izquierdista]

8. If he's looking for a place to work

[Starry Messenger]

9. He should be breaking rocks somewhere.

For a long time.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. I think it would be fair to put him in an Iraqi prision. nt

[me b zola]

11. I think so

I do feel as though there are corners of the Pentagon & CIA that are actively working on their own agenda, which is in opposition to President Obama and his goals. I believe that Obama is (painfully)aware that for his foreign policy to be successful he must first defeat these guys.

[Vinnie From Indy]

12. Gee, Eric must be taking after his mentor

Heinrich Himmler taught school too! Birds of a feather!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Maybe I'm just abig asshole but I just can't feel sorry for this prick. Like I said above

this is indeed good news.