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2021-05-14 -Land of the Free
British spy recruited by Erik Prince ran 'honeypot operations' with undercover female spies to discredit Trump enemies in the FBI and his own national security adviser H.R. McMaster
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Survivor contestant was one of a number of pretty women hired by ex British spy to discredit national security adviser H.R. McMaster and go on fake dates with FBI agents and State Dept staff to record them disparaging Trump
  • Richard Seddon, an MI6 agent, was tasked by Erik Prince
    ...former Navy SEAL, founder of private military company Blackwater, brother of Betsy DeVos, President Trump's secretary of education...
    with running an operation

  • The aim was to root out 'deep state' opponents of Donald Trump from late 2017

  • Seddon recruited a series of women, who were flown to Wyoming for interview

  • The women were trained in maintaining a cover story and working on targets

  • Among the targets was Trump's own national security adviser, H.R. McMaster

  • A Texan woman, Tarah Price, was given $10,000 to approach McMaster

  • It was unclear if she ever met him: he was fired in March 2018

  • Another woman, Survivor contestant Anna Khait, targeted State Dept officials

  • Others were told to try and approach FBI agents, using dating apps

  • Khait on Thursday night insisted she had done nothing wrong in the expose
I never could understand why the Klingon's and the beltway turned on Prince. This may be at least part of the answer.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-14 00:02|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Esquire Magazine - There's Evil, and Then There's Erik Prince. Dec 2020.

I wonder what else Seddeon and Prince might have discovered ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 01:11||   2021-05-14 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Word fail
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-14 01:18||   2021-05-14 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Nonsense. The FBI is gay.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-14 02:21||   2021-05-14 02:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Or was that the state department? No, those are diversity dykes... whatever, such an imagination.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-14 02:29||   2021-05-14 02:29|| Front Page Top

#5 ....Excellent article a week or two back on Instapundit by a gentleman who got caught up in the effort to smear Justice Kavanaugh - he cheerfully admitted that at first he thought he was being paranoid, but then realized that the situation he ran into was a classic honeypot intended to smear HIM because he wouldn't denounce Kavanaugh.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-14 06:33||   2021-05-14 06:33|| Front Page Top

#6 If the goal was to record the FBI and State Dept disparaging Trump they merely had to watch and record CNN
Posted by Airandee 2021-05-14 06:35||   2021-05-14 06:35|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Yes, I too feel the goal was beyond simply the identification of disparagers. As the old saying goes..."there's got to be much more to this story."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 07:23||   2021-05-14 07:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh wait! Wrong MI6 guy.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 07:40||   2021-05-14 07:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Hadn't McMaster already discredited himself by having an inappropriate affair or something like that?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-14 08:03||   2021-05-14 08:03|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Yes, but something didn't smell quite right about that theory. Perhaps there was more.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 08:05||   2021-05-14 08:05|| Front Page Top

#11 There's probably lot$ of $$$ involved
Posted by Elminegum Darling of the Platypi9670 2021-05-14 08:13||   2021-05-14 08:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Julian Assange and Wiki leaks have been effectively put out of circulation, so I suppose there's no need to query him.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 08:19||   2021-05-14 08:19|| Front Page Top

#13 First, the motivations on this very much targeted op are apparent. Look at who benefited when McMaster was replaced. John Bolton.

And who had the biggest beef with the FBI at the time. Flynn.

Bolton's attempt at privatization of the war in Afghanistan that followed benefited Prince.

Logic points to Bolton/Prince/Flynn as co-conspirators or "birds of a feather."

All of the above, save McMaster, were a bunch of amateurs and wannabes. And that was Trump's problem...he preferred the ambitious sycophants who stroked his ego and whispered deep dark conspiracies in his ear.
Posted by Tennessee 2021-05-14 09:30||   2021-05-14 09:30|| Front Page Top

#14 The aim was to root out 'deep state' opponents of Donald Trump from late 2017

That would require firing every Federal employee in the DC area.
Posted by Raj 2021-05-14 09:37||   2021-05-14 09:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Ref #13: ....he preferred the ambitious sycophants who stroked his ego and whispered deep dark conspiracies in his ear.

These are oftentimes the people one can trust. You fully know what they are up to.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 11:10||   2021-05-14 11:10|| Front Page Top

#16 And that was Trump's problem...he preferred the ambitious sycophants who stroked his ego and whispered deep dark conspiracies in his ear.

Bullshit. Stop projecting.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-05-14 11:23||   2021-05-14 11:23|| Front Page Top

#17 #15 These are oftentimes the people one can trust. You fully know what they are up to. Posted by: Besoeker Concur that you may fully know what they are up to, but you can NEVER trust them...

Regarding #16 Bullshit. Stop projecting.
Posted by: Rob Crawford

Well, I will "project" the following "bullshit" for your consideration...
Flynn - a disgraced, ambitious democrat 3 star harboring a grudge for Obama and a fat paycheck in his back pocket from Edrogan humped on Trump's leg during the run up to the election in order use Trump to get back at Obama and expand his "consulting" portfolio after govmint service brought early disgrace and disarray to the administration...fired for lying to the VP.

Scaramucci...oh my...in the dictionary a picture of Scaramucci is beside the words ambitious and sycophant

Bolton...ditto above

Powell...crazy ambitious sycophant are both pronouns and adjectives when referencing this person...associated with Rudy...but, I like Rudy
Posted by Tennessee 2021-05-14 11:59||   2021-05-14 11:59|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2021-05-14 16:34||   2021-05-14 16:34|| Front Page Top

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