Posted on 03/07/2020 10:32:52 AM PST by bitt
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 union’s 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. Seddon’s 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. Prince’s role in recruiting Mr. Seddon for the group’s activities.
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Good.
All I see is NYT is saying this stuff is OK if Dems to it to Repubs, but verboten when Repubs do it to Dems....
Oh..this from the NYSLIMES who can’t add 1+1! Pfft enough said!
Doubleplusgood.
It’s only legal when they do it.
Project Veritas is not a spying operation.
It’s a truth exposing operation.
Notice the labeling as “spies”
Rather than “activists”
Ditto.
Kind of sucks when your own tactics are used against you. Whiny biatches
What never seems to be mentioned is that a number of these liberal activist groups fit the qualifications to be designated terrorist groups.
What goes around comes around.
Golly gee whiz, I guess if the DNC didn’t commmit all those crimes they wouldn’t have to worry so much.
I don’t know about this guy. Willing to take over Afghanistan operations for $50 billion a year. War profitier. The only likable thing is that his sister is my favorite cabinet secretary.
The Lying NYT’s.
Even if not true it increases the libs’ paranoia coefficient.
Hey, its just part of the “Resistance”.
Reading this, I was expecting “assassination skills” to be included.
Garbage.
For-later
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