
“Erik Prince is not the kind of man one expects to make the case for slashing U.S. intelligence and military budgets. ‘America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security,’ he told The Daily Beast. ‘Whether it’s allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should. I don’t know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible ‘cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.’ He said he will never work for the U.S. government again.”
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