BI | Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who reportedly met with a Russian close to
President Vladimir Putin to create a communication
back-channel between then-President-elect Donald Trump and
Russia, blasted the intelligence community in a statement
Tuesday.
Prince attended a secret meeting in the Seychelles islands
days before Trump's inauguration to discuss establishing the
back-channel, The Washington Post reported Monday.
In his statement Tuesday, Prince didn't deny attending the
meeting, but still attempted to cast doubt on its supposed
purpose.
"If the politically fabricated delusion of President-elect Trump
and President Putin's coordination was true, why would anyone
need to meet me anyway?" Prince said in the statement, which was
sent to Business Insider.
In a statement that was included in the Post's story on Monday,
a spokesman for Prince said the Seychelles meeting "had
nothing to do with President Trump."
"Why is the so-called under-resourced intelligence community
messing around with surveillance of American citizens when they
should be hunting terrorists?" the spokesman said.
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