[ April 19, 2024 ]
An American businessman, Erik Prince, who was roped into the Barack Obama administration’s whole “unmasking” affair, is now calling on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to kick off a formal investigation.
Prince, in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation, said he wants to know just how the Obama administration could have conducted so many “incidental” acts of surveillance of U.S. citizens as they met with foreign officials.
Sessions, he said, needs to get in the game and launch an investigation.
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From the Daily Caller:
Prince told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive interview that he wants Sessions to launch a formal investigation into his case, where Obama administration officials “unmasked” him and later leaked what he called false information to the news media.
The businessman said a meeting he had with a Russian businessman overseas last January was deliberately leaked by the Obama administration and splashed in a front-page Washington Post article in April.
Prince called upon the attorney general to investigate the unmasking scandal, telling TheDCNF: “This is an abuse of an intelligence service’s powers. It is dangerous. This is a problem for American liberty.”
The conservative businessman also charges the Obama administration had previously unmasked him on numerous occasions.
Relying solely on unnamed sources, the Post claimed in its April article that Prince was in the Seychelles Islands Jan. 11 as part of an elaborate conspiracy by then President-elect Donald Trump to establish a secret, back-channel to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Seychelles is a remote archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean.
Prince is an authority on government surveillance as the founder of Blackwater USA, one of the legendary international security firms whose teams operate in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. He sold his stake in the company in 2010.
In the April 3 article, the Post slammed Prince as part of a United Arab Emirates-led effort to help Trump open up a “back-channel” between himself and Moscow.
“The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump,” the Post charged.
The Post claimed that the meeting with the Russian allegedly took place over a two-day period, stating, “The Seychelles encounter, which one official said spanned two days, adds to an expanding web of connections between Russia and Americans with ties to Trump.”
“The thing that really bothers me is I was unmasked for political purposes to The Washington Post,” the businessman charged.
Prince’s version of the meeting did not take place over two days, but apparently was over a beer at a restaurant at the island’s Four Seasons Hotel.
“I was there on a business meeting to see some Emirates,” Prince recalled. The reference to Emirates describe citizens of the UAE.
“They said, ‘there’s this Russian guy in town on some Russia-Emirates related business,’” he recalled. “I met him. I think the meeting lasted five or ten minutes and that was it.”
The American businessman said his conversation had nothing to do with the United States, U.S.-Russian relations, the election, or a future Trump administration. He said the meeting was so forgettable he cannot remember the Russian’s name.
“We talked about the Russian business climate, where we thought oil was headed price-wise and how much he thought Russia would like to do business in America,” he said.
“It had nothing to do with national security, the Trump campaign or anything else,” he said.
Because of his previous business activities with Blackwater, Prince has a home in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi, a part of the UAE in the Persian Gulf, currently is the regional headquarters for Academi, the name of the company that took over Blackwater.
Prince personally knows the country’s Crown Prince as well as many UAE businessmen and government officials.
The businessman had no formal ties to either the Trump Presidential campaign or to the administration. But he was an enthusiastic donor to Trump and to conservative causes in 2016 and his sister is Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Prince also told TheDCNF the January meeting wasn’t the only time the Obama administration unmasked him.
“I’ve had on numerous times, when I lived in the Emirates that my rights as a citizen were violated. I would meet with an Emirate official and minutes later, they would get a phone saying, ‘why are you meeting with that guy?’ That’s just not America. This was America under the Obama intelligence groups. That’s disgusting,” he said.
Rice admitted in private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last September she unmasked actual Trump transition officials who met in New York with the UAE’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan last December, according to CNN.
The Trump officials who Rice unmasked were former national security advisor Michael Flynn, campaign strategist Steve Bannon and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, sparked an uproar last March when he announced he had viewed National Security Agency surveillance intercept records that had been called up by Obama officials identifying innocent Americans, including Trump transition officials, who only had incidental contact with foreign officials.
Democrats challenged the accuracy of the NSA documents Nunes had viewed, but they fell silent after California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, viewed the unmasked NSA documents in April.
Four former Obama national security officials reportedly have been tied to the unmasking effort. They are former Obama White House national security advisor Susan Rice, her deputy Ben Rhodes, former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power and former CIA Director John Brennan.
The House Intelligence Committee is continuing its investigation into the unmasking scandal. The committee plans to privately interview Power soon on the extent of her own unmasking activities.
The Justice Department continues to remain mum about the status of any investigation into the unmasking of Americans.
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14 Comments
6 years ago
You all knew that the Obama traitor was allowing this kind of act. Delousing the bureaucracy of the Obamalice will take well over 4 years.
6 years ago
Lots of good news stories that will increase readership if they get discovered and proven credible.
6 years ago
Who knew Sessions was a legal swamp master?
It’s beginning to look that way. He does after NOTHING concerning Hillary or Obama. Jeff, I don’t need marijuana busts right now.
Jeff, ARREST the mayors and others not upholding our laws. Yes, they swore in – ALL OF THEM – to uphold our laws. That includes state and federal. It;s about the LAW. Depriving them of MONEY is appeasing them.
Sessions is such a disappointment for someone painted as a lover of the law and enforcing it.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
obama’s chickens are coming home to rooost!!!
Power, Rice, Jarrett, Rhodes, Kerry, Clinton — all hang with him.
Following Trump’s historic announcement on Iran I had to turn to CNN just to watch the useful idiot enemy collaborators squeal at the end of their globalist crony/vicious tyrant cabal puppet-masters.
Poor Christiane Amanpour, Jim Sciutto, Wolf Blitzer, all scrambling to elucidate their best graduate school conceptualization of bull shh it confounding and contorting reality into their own A+ desperate pleadings for continued membership in the dark world of anti-American global slavery evil elite.
There is “treason,” the hyperbole that we’re all complacently accustomed to and bored by. And there is “treason,” the material, dedicated effort and attempt to weaken and destroy the country and civilization in which we all live and depend upon for our peaceful, prosperous future. That is the “treason” obama and his top conspirators in government and the media are GUILTY of.
D
6 years ago
Ask all you want,…. but cowardly GOP will never dare go after Obama or Hilliary !!!
6 years ago
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D
6 years ago
Two recusals in less than one year on the job? Will that be a record?
D
6 years ago
Mueller is investigating the wrong people. Sessions needs to step in and stop it.
6 years ago
There are numerous crimes Obama committed that should have had him impeached and put away for life!
6 years ago
SO WHAT ?!
GOP will not do anything with evidence of wrongdoing !!
Cowards !!
6 years ago
What’s with all this ‘asking’ the Attorney General of the United States, to go after the bad guys? What’s with him mostly refusing, like in the Nevada Bundy/BLM tyranny? Why isn’t he doing it all on his own? If we don’t take back Washington DC from the bad guys, we may as well throw our guns into a pile on the street, pack our children’s bags, put a chip in our head and wait for further instructions. We’re closer to doing that than we’ve ever been in the history of our country.
