Reminder: Erik Prince hired ex-spies to infiltrate liberal groups.

[blm]

He has an entire division of Blackwater dedicated to getting Trump re-elected by taking down liberal groups and labor unions from the inside. This exact tactic was used by Nixon operatives against Vietnam Veterans Against War. The operatives would establish a foothold within their group and steadily ramp up the calls for violent acts.

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

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Funny how they always find money to undermine democracy.

More info from DemocracyNow!

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Recruited Spies to Infiltrate Progressive Groups with Project Veritas

Erik Prince, the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, helped recruit former spies to infiltrate and gather intelligence about Democratic campaigns and labor organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers, according to an explosive report by The New York Times. The story exposes previously unreported details about the ties between Prince and Project Veritas, a right-wing group that often sets up sting operations targeting the media and journalists by recording covert videos. According to documents and interviews, one former spy recruited by Erik Prince helped run an operation to secretly tape leaders in the Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers in 2017. In another instance, in 2018, the same undercover operative who gathered information about the AFT infiltrated the congressional campaign of former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger, who was running for Congress representing Virginia as a Democrat. We are joined by The Intercept’s investigative reporter Matthew Cole, who first broke the story of Erik Prince’s ties to the Trump administration last year.

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https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/9/blackwater_erik_prince_trump_admin

[blm]

2. Trained spies, agent provocateurs, and assassins.

[appalachiablue]

5. Thanks for adding this impt. piece from DN! They do great work.

K/R

[empedocles]

3. trump 'beneficiaries' have billions to spend

[2naSalit]

4. Exactly what I have been saying for years...

His mercenary corps would come home to attack us eventually. Here we are.

[Initech]

6. I would love to have our own version of the Nuremberg trials.

I would love to see these scumbags answer for the crimes they have committed. Then for them to be relegated to the dust bin of history. But that is wishful thinking at this point.

[IronLionZion]

7. There has to be some crimes there to investigate and prosecute

If these people are not law enforcement, they won't have qualified immunity

[KS Toronado]

10. Joe and Kamala's new head of the DOJ will go after them and dozens of other trumpers.

[IronLionZion]

12. I hope so

We are still paying the price for not going after W's criminals. At least some of Reagan's and Nixon's people went to prison.

[mikeysnot]

8. Cointelpro is alive and well in wrong wing world.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/COINTELPRO

[cayugafalls]

13. Its just been privatized.

Instead of the government, it is now a private contractor working for the shady side of politics.

This is why the rethugs need to be crushed like the bugs they are...

[LiberalFighter]

9. He and his gang need to be prosecuted, convicted, executed.

[czarjak]

11. How long? How many times does one get to screw us?

[Wicked Blue]

14. They used that tactic on SDS

and Mobilization Against the War as far as I recall. And almost certainly on the Black Panther Party.

Now they also infiltrate and spy on environmental groups and just about anyone who might possibly pose a threat to corporations and their profits.