(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
You all remember Blackwater (now Xe) don’t you? And Erik Prince, Soldier of God?
Well, there’s been some web commentary on this Vanity Fair piece that is certainly worth looking at (not that it isn’t always worth stopping by emptywheel’s place).
Spy Versus Spy with Erik Prince
By: emptywheel Wednesday December 2, 2009 4:00 pm
Among the revelations emptywheel enumerates-
- He was tasked by the CIA to create a “small, focused capability”
- The CIA’s original assassination squad trained at his personal estate outside of DC
- Prince integrated third-party nationals into the assassination squad who did not know of the CIA connection
- He (personally) and a team of foreign nationals targeted someone in 2008
- He did the targeting on al-Qaeda middleman Abu Ghadiyah in Syria
- The CIA referred the stories on Blackwater to the DOJ for criminal investigation
This in addition to the ‘old’ news that Blackwater was given operational control of CIA Predator Drones and fired Hellfire Missiles at targets and that Blackwater was the Cheney assassination squad that Leon Panetta (Director of the CIA) and the Congress were lied to about by the CIA.
I’ll ask you to give her your eyeballs for a moment or two and if you like it you might also be interested in dday’s take.
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And I wont forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up, next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.
IF anyone believes for one second that Xe is no longer directly involved with CIA operations, I have a really big bridge on Staten Island to sell you. Look how deep they are into security at our embassies and the entire State Department. Keeping an eye on Hillary, too, for “Dead-eye” Dick? The neo-cons have a very tight grip on the central government and their tentacles go very deep.
Ive been reading over at FDL a bit more lately … finally even signed up w an account there (as “karenr” though Ive barely even commented). I didnt realize that David Dayen is dday. thanks ek.
In fact I read quite a lot last night some new material and tons of comments in pieces from ew and also Jeff Kaye (who we know and love as Valtin)… okay. sheesh. Im bad enough with names when people just only have ONE!!! d’oih.
The Plot Thickens. I swear to god, who needs teevee.
because God knows you can’t believe a word this criminal says.
According to the story at cryptogon.com
Here’s a link:
http://www.salon.com/news/1998…
I haven’t found any proof it’s the same Adam Ciralsky ……
It’s a puff piece, a bit of PR, like they would put out in support of someone running for office, or for some new “branding” of a product.
I mean, just look at the photos:
What, was Annie Liebowitz not available that day?
Look at the stance. Very George Washington. Except with a fist, like he’s gonna punch somebody.
This is editorializing, plain and simple. Think about it. If it were editorialized the other direction, the photo of him would be in black and white with exaggerated grain, maybe showing him in the shadows, or behind bars or a broken window or something ….. we’ve all seen what I’m talking about.
Now look at these photos:
I work in this field, and the angles are NOT accidental. The angles are from a low enough angle to make Prince look like he’s the tallest guy there — in fact his head is higher than any other human in the frame.
This is deliberate.
Why are they running a puff piece on this piece of human SHIT?
What are they grooming him for, why are they branding him?
It’s like he’s either gonna run for public office, or else he’s gonna have his own show.