For example, Rolling Stone published an investigative piece in October asserting Prince participated in a plan to dampen turnout among Black voters in the 2016 election. DAVIES: But the idea was that these public officials or FBI agents were secretly - they were part of the deep state. Prince said he wanted the Project Veritas employees to learn skills like how to recruit sources and how to conduct clandestine recordings, among other surveillance techniques. "Somebody who had his calendar conveyed to me that he goes to Tosca all the time," she said, and she passed the information on to a man she believed to be a Project Veritas operative with a fake name. He was the one who replaced Michael Flynn after he was fired. We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. if (document.mmm_fo) document.write ("&mmm_fo=1"); Connor Wroe Southard. James OKeefe, a conservative activist, founded Project Veritas. GOLDMAN: Well, some people have speculated this was some sort of back channel to Russia because there was a - I believe there was a Russian investment manager there who has ties to Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia. Now, you mentioned Project Veritas. Prince had hired a former MI6 officer to help train the Project Veritas operatives, The Intercept wrote, but it did not identify the officer. Prince a former C.I.A. And it would - you know, and make an enormous amount of money. AMY GOODMAN: In Wyoming. McMaster, Trump's second national security adviser. During a meeting in a Las Vegas suburb last April of employees of Ms. Gores organization, the Wyoming Liberty Group, Mr. Seddon pitched a proposal to build a website where other so-called preppers could buy their own supplies and communicate with each other in the event of what he called a Black Swan moment a major terrorist attack, another pandemic or a civil war. He passed away recently. And I realized they were giving money to Democrats in Wyoming, Arizona and Colorado. He's a reporter for The New York Times. They were going to bug it. And Glenn Beck, Beau's uncle, gave a toast. It seems like the Democrats have figured out this party switch deal to their advantage, Mr. Friess wrote in an email obtained by Wyofile, a political news site in Wyoming. James OKeefe, the head of Project Veritas, last year at a White House social media summit. That got a lot of attention, was investigated by Robert Mueller. McMaster. The Trump Foundation gave $20,000 to Project Veritas in 2015, the year that Mr. Trump began his bid for the presidency. I'm not sure that just because he's a conservative, this is something he wanted to help. But, you know, his sister is Betsy DeVos, and she was Secretary of Education during the Trump administration. Did it help, you know, Project Veritas raise more money? Erik Prince, founder and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, in 2008. - were directed to make them or reimbursed for them, then that's a potential crime. And, you know, typically they would have a male individual working for Project Veritas who would accompany these women on these dates as sort of, like, security. Many conservatives have gleefully pounced on Project Veritass disclosures, including one particularly influential voice: Donald Trump Jr., the presidents eldest son. Amid his globe-trotting, however, Prince says he does most of his work from Wyoming and calls Park County home. Is that what these interviews were about? But we were unaware of that. But he was extremely wealthy conservative in Wyoming named Foster Friess, who had actually run for governor in '18. "He's a very nice man," Prince said of Barrasso in the Breitbart interview. And last year, I learned that Beau and Sofia had been working out of this house in Georgetown. She and Mr. They targeted The Washington Post. DAVIES: And when we say they targeted these public officials or FBI agents, what would they do? (SOUNDBITE OF BRUNO COULAIS' "SPINK AND FORCIBLE"). Prince turned to Mr. Seddon to help train the Project Veritas operatives. They targeted somebody from the Justice Department, and I wrote they also targeted FBI employees. I think it was called "Deep State Exposed" or "Deep State Uncovered." Later that year, Mr. He was leading training. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and our guest is Adam Goldman. Once a small operation running on a shoestring budget, Project Veritas in recent years has had a surge in donations from both private donors and conservative foundations. You know, there was one exercise, I believe, where they had a cop - you know, a local cop who was there. I know that, you know, one of the first instances of his association with this - or maybe the first instance of his association - was in an Intercept article in which O'Keefe had posted a picture of himself firing a pistol with a silencer on Instagram. The documents also show that, beyond Ms. Gore, other prominent Republicans in Wyoming were involved in Mr. Seddons spying operation. Mr. Seddons role in the teachers union operation detailed in internal Project Veritas emails that have emerged from the discovery process of a court battle between the group and the union has not previously been reported, nor has Mr. Princes role in recruiting Mr. Seddon for the groups activities. met with White House and Pentagon officials. There's a long backstory there. DAVIES: What did you learn about how Beau and Sofia met? GOLDMAN: Yeah. 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. But if the case was transferred to New York, that states laws could apply. One of the documents indicates that Marti Halverson, a former Wyoming state lawmaker, provided a list of people for the operatives to target. Prince has previously been involved in trying to find dirt on Democratic politicians. GOLDMAN: Project Veritas is founded by James O'Keefe. State records show Moyock Medical Supplies was formed in Wyoming by an associate of Princes on April 15 two days after The Intercept published its article. document.write ("
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