Erik Prince

"Erik Prince travels the world almost weekly going to capitals, meeting with countries’ leaders, selling a mercenary concept, a paramilitary arm."

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"You know that this man took this sniper rifle, and through this scope he took aim at Ahmed's head, and he fired. Boom. And he fired again. Boom."

"What if—hear me out—instead of privatizing the war in Afghanistan, we ended it. Crazy, I know. But, maybe..."

The billionaire's pitch comes as the White House is reportedly "preparing for a government-wide appraisal" of the war strategy

Mueller is reviewing Prince's communications in an effort to determine whether he tried "to establish a backchannel between the Trump administration and the Kremlin," ABC reports

"I have this sinking feeling that there are unknown, long-term, crippling consequences to the recycling of failed strategies in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan over and over and over and over..."

A key witness claims "one of the primary goals" of Prince's 2017 meeting with a Kremlin-connected businessman was to "establish a line of communication between the Russian government and the incoming Trump administration."

The creation of such a program raises the possibility that the effort would be used to create an intelligence apparatus to justify the Trump administration’s political agenda.