Cleared Hot Episode 79 - Erik Prince

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Erik Prince is a former Navy SEAL and the founder of Blackwater, a training and private military contractor company that worked extensively with the US government in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He recently published an op-ed detailing a plan to "privatize" the war in Afghanistan.

Many people will associate the name Blackwater with PMC's (Private Military Contractors) and the controversy surrounding the Nisour square shooting in 2007, and the subsequent loss of their license to operate in that country.

Often, contractors are referred to as "mercenaries," a term used pejoratively, and largely inaccurately. Civilians have served on the front lines and in war zones with active duty soldiers since the inception of warfare, and I believe the discussion should be about defining their operational parameters, not their presence there.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, let's dig right in.
0:03.6	Episode number 79 today is brought to you by Espionage,
0:07.3	which is a new podcast from the podcast network.
0:13.4	So what do you think when you think of Espionage?
0:15.4	A lot of people think code names, deception,
0:17.5	maybe some gadgets, and a lot of times
0:19.8	it seems like something right out of the movies,
0:21.9	but those are actually some of the essential components
0:24.8	of being slash becoming a spy.
0:28.0	In my own personal experience, spies,
0:31.1	even though I have limited experience with them,
0:33.6	and I don't even know if they would have referred to
0:35.3	themselves as spies, but they don't really stick out
0:37.7	like James Bond or Ethan Hunt.
0:40.2	What's that other guy's name?
0:41.8	Jason Bort.
0:43.6	Most of the time they're pretty ordinary,
0:46.1	relatively forgettable, but actually makes them more dangerous.
0:49.3	So what does it really take to be a spy?
0:51.2	Well, if you tune into Espionage every week,
0:54.2	the podcast network original show is going to explore
0:57.2	the high stakes world and analyze the missions
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