Set some context for us here. GOLDMAN: Yes, the Government Accountability Office. DAVIES: And then Beau and Sofia married, right? WASHINGTON Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive. GOLDMAN: Yeah. There was a meeting at lunch which led to a resignation, I believe, of GOLDMAN: They targeted our editor, Dean Baquet. McMaster. And Prince comes up in the special council report - Robert Mueller's report. They targeted somebody from the Justice Department, and I wrote they also targeted FBI employees. var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'? GOLDMAN: Yeah, I think they nearly tripled the number of people they hired. And they admitted doing, you know - engaging in political activity while working for these government institutions, which Project Veritas asserted was, you know, wrong or even, you know - I can't remember if they said it was illegal or not. Prince declined to comment. AMY GOODMAN: In Wyoming. The group has also become intertwined with the political activities of Mr. Trump and his family. McMaster, Trump's second national security adviser. And, you know, we wrote the story about the operation targeting McMaster and Georgetown. Many conservatives have gleefully pounced on Project Veritass disclosures, including one particularly influential voice: Donald Trump Jr., the presidents eldest son. And they - you know, I think they - it seemed like they were seeking revenge. What were they trying to get? So we had never seen something like that. (SOUNDBITE OF BRUNO COULAIS' "SPINK AND FORCIBLE"). We still don't know everything about it, and we're trying to learn more about exactly who was behind this and if money was paid and so on. Overall, how do conservatives regard Project Veritas? contractor who is best known as the founder of the private military firm Blackwater and whose sister, Betsy DeVos, was Mr. Trump's education secretary has drawn.