BOOM: Cambridge Analytica reached out to Russian intel front Wikileaks to acquire stolen Clinton

[MelissaB]

BOOM: Cambridge Analytica reached out to Russian intel front Wikileaks to acquire stolen Clinton emails for Trump campaign

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I'm out of views at WSJ, but the article is here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/data-firms-wikileaks-outreach-came-as-it-joined-trump-campaign-1510339346

If someone can snip the first 4 paragraphs, I'll update the OP.

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Bannon and CA intended to use data stolen by Russian intel for use in the Trump Campaign.

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Cambridge Analytica says, despite requests from House and Senate Intel, that it's "not under investigation" ROFLMAO

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[Blue_Tires]

1. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment...

[ehrnst]

2. Of course... (nt)

[joshcryer]

4. He blocks anyone who points this stuff out on twitter.

Source: am one of many blocked by Greenwald.

[bearsfootball516]

3. LOCK. HIM. UP.

[SweetieD]

5. This is straight up collusion.

[samnsara]

6. DU should just buy a script to WSJ that we can access

[KewlKat]

7. On the WSJ site, I think you can just delete their cookies from your web history and your good to go

I do that for washington post and it works.

[KewlKat]

8. Here are four paragraphs below.

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said Thursday he asked the office that handles his speaking engagements to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in “early June 2016,” after reading a newspaper report that WikiLeaks planned to publish a trove of Clinton-related emails. He said Mr. Assange was asked “if he might share that information with us.”

“We received a message back from them that he didn’t want to and wasn’t able to, and that was the end of the story,” Mr. Nix said at the digital conference Web Summit in Lisbon. He called the exchange “very benign.”

When Mr. Nix’s approach to WikiLeaks was reported by The Wall Street Journal last month, it wasn’t clear whether Cambridge was working for the Trump campaign at the time. Federal Election Commission records show the first payment by the campaign to Cambridge Analytica is dated July 29, 2016.

Mr. Nix first pitched Mr. Trump’s advisers on working with Cambridge Analytica in mid-May, after Steve Bannon —who went on to become White House chief strategist—introduced them, according to people familiar with the matter. In the first week of June, the company dispatched a small team to San Antonio, where Mr. Trump’s digital operation was based, according to people familiar with the company’s hiring.

[byronius]

9. Getting to the point where 'Russia is our friend and should run the US' will be the only defense.

'Real patriots commit treason and molest children.' -- Sean Hannity in a month.

[Raastan]

10. K + R

[Initech]

11. Do we need any further proof that Julian Assange is a terrorist?

[Miigwech]

12. Boom, goes the cell door, for Jaret

[Botany]

13. I hope Mueller goes after the Mercers

It was an international crime syndicate