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Re:FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unli... by gadders on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @03:01PM (#8522854)
From the linked article:

The company, founded by secretive right-wing Christian supremacist Erik Prince, pictured above, had deep ties to the Bush Administration and served as a sort of neoconservative Praetorian Guard for a borderless war launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Yeah, I think we can pretty much discard that link.

Re:FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unli... by dingaling on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @03:16PM (#8522955)
That's actually a fairly tame description of Mr Prince, compared to some I've read. What part do you feel to be inaccurate?

For an insight into his current thinking on business opportunities, have a read of this re: how to engage ISIL.

http://time.com/3490414/isis-isil-blackwater/

If the old Blackwater team were still together, I have high confidence that a multi-brigade-size unit of veteran American contractors or a multi-national force could be rapidly assembled and deployed to be that necessary ground combat team.

Not a lot of regret expressed there.

Praetorian Guard is a reasonably accurate description for his former organisation's activities; administration, special forces and covert intel ops directed from a higher level than the bread-and-butter army.

Re:FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unli... by wicker on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @03:33PM (#8523063)
Not only not a lot of regret, but it really is a chilling comment for its implications. A single brigade-sized unit is something like 4,000 soldiers. So coming up with a multi-brigade-size unit could be twenty thousand veteran American contractors with, like you said, administration, special forces, covert intel ops, and all with recent combat experience.

The brazenness of Blackwater/Academi has always amazed me.

Re:FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unli... by gadders on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @05:20AM (#8526210)
For starters:

"Secretive" "Christian Supremecist" "neoconservative Praetorian Guard" "borderless war"

I'll give you right wing. I've no idea what level his ties t o Bush were, but I believe he still got work under Obama.