Erik Prince
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would even post and talk about how much they wish the marksman had better aim.
If that's really what they're feeling, then how do you cooperate in a republic with people that actually want you dead?
It's a great question.
I'll give you two examples previously of interactions I've had with other protective organizations.
In 2008, Blackwater days, we had, remember the shoe throwing incident in Baghdad?
When the reporter got up and threw his shoe at George Bush in a press conference.
There was a Blackwater guy in the room because the deputy chief of mission was there, saw that the first shoe went, drew his pistol, had a sight picture,
saw that it was only a shoe, reholstered, went forward, took the guy down, tackled him before the Secret Service did anything.
It's like the Secret Service was almost like confirmation bias.
Nothing's going to happen.
Nothing's going to happen.
Holy shit, something's happening.
I can't believe it's happening.
I'm not moving.
It was stunned.
You know, for all the noise, righteous indignation people have made about Benghazi.
or about Blackwater being heavy-handed in our diplomatic security missions.
100,000 missions, less than one half of 1% were weapons discharges.
In the Benghazi attack, where a US ambassador was killed on duty, how many rounds were fired by the DS agents?
Not by the contractors, by government employee diplomatic security service agents.