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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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html
Didn't a threatening surveillance bill just get voted in?
Fuking Erik Prince of all people, emerges from the bowels of hell.
Gdammit.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Are abusers of power,and they and thier rich supporters should not have power anymore or have wealth which they use to abuse and gaslight people.
If you can't take it back outright,tax them into Oblivion. We don't need billionaires.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Global criminal enterprise system that goes to the top of every corrupt govt.
Property, weapons, drugs, & money laundering for power & domination
Erik Prince is one evil s.o.b.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Chilling....
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2naSalit
(86,636 posts)that is what I thought I smelled. Imagine that. I think I warned of this about fifteen years ago when wcheney was the big worry.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)K&R
tblue37
(65,391 posts)Hekate
(90,705 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Who could have known that's why America wasn't being great?
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)Things that make you go hmmm.
DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)very own SS. Putin must be very proud of ............(sorry DU, nothing to censor here.......LOL)
CountAllVotes
(20,875 posts)liberalla
(9,249 posts)elleng
(130,935 posts)Who have we got, on the people's side?
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)alwaysinasnit
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(2,771 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)BComplex
(8,053 posts)Holy crap! What a slime ball!
Cha
(297,270 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (19561971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.[3][4] FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive,[5] including feminist organizations,[6] the Communist Party USA,[7] antiVietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement or Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (such as Puerto Rican independence groups like the Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left. The program also targeted the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.[8]
In 1971 in San Diego, the FBI financed, armed, and controlled an extreme right-wing group of former members of the Minutemen anti-communist para-military organization, transforming it into a group called the Secret Army Organization that targeted groups, activists, and leaders involved in the Anti-War Movement, using both intimidation and violent acts.[9][10][11]
The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order".[17]
genxlib
(5,528 posts)When a DU post circulated about the top five people we would like to see in jail, this fucker came to mind immediately.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13462414