The founder of Blackwater USA, Erik Prince, has dismissed a new lawsuit against his company as politically motivated. Last week, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a suit in U.S. courts on behalf of a wounded survivor and relatives of three Iraqis killed last month by Blackwater forces in Baghdad. The lawsuit charged that Blackwater violated U.S. law by committing extrajudicial killings and war crimes. Prince was questioned about the lawsuit on CNN.

Erik Prince: “First, on the lawsuit, the lawyers, the trial lawyers that filed this lawsuit, are the same guys that defended the World Trade Center bombings in 1993, the blind sheikh, and have defended a bunch of killers of FBI agents and other cops. So this is very much a politically motivated lawsuit for media attention.”