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July 11, 2017

NYT: Kushner & Bannon Asked Erik Prince & DynCorp Owner for Proposal on Private Contractors in Afghanistan
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The New York Times is reporting Erik Prince, the founder of the
now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater, and billionaire Stephen Feinberg,
owner of military contractor Dyn Corp, developed proposals for the Trump
administration to use more private military contractors in Afghanistan,
rather than deploy thousands more U.S. troops, as the Pentagon has
requested. Prince, who is also the brother of Education Secretary Betsy
De Vos, and Feinberg developed the proposals at the request of Trump's
son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon.
The proposal represents an obvious conflict of interest, given that both
Prince and Feinberg profit off the use of private military contractors
in U.S. wars. The State Department has already paid Dyn Corp $2.5
billion for its military contracting work in Afghanistan.


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