If this doesn’t clear the bar for an immediate Congressional investigation, nothing does,” he said. Secretary DeVos’ brother was directly involved in a spying scheme in her home state against a teachers’ union she’s been hostile with for years. In response to The New York Times report, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten tweeted, “They didn’t succeed in their attempt to hurt our union but note what the right wing will do to try to eliminate workers’ voice.” Derek Martin, director of the consumer watch group Allied Progress, said, “There’s not a lot of dots to connect here. The spy, named Richard Seddon, directed an undercover operative to gather and make public information that could damage the union. The exposé reveals previously unreported details about the ties between Prince and Project Veritas, a right-wing group that often sets up sting operations, that targets groups like Planned Parenthood, that targets journalists, by recording covert videos and then editing them.Īccording to The New York Times, one former spy recruited by Erik Prince helped run a Project Veritas operation to secretly tape leaders of the Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers back in 2017. A new New York Times investigation has found that Prince helped recruit former spies to infiltrate and gather intelligence about a Democratic congressional campaign and the American Federation of Teachers. He’s the Blackwater founder and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue our conversation with investigative reporter Matthew Cole of The Intercept about Erik Prince.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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