Cambridge Analytica reached out to WikiLeaks in the hopes of obtaining Hillary Clinton-related emails around the time the data-analytics firm began working with the Trump campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Speaking at the Web Summit digital conference in Portugal this week, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said that the outreach to WikiLeaks founder happened in “early June 2016.” Sources familiar with the matter told the Journal that the firm was in the advanced stages of contract negotiations with the Trump team at that time, and that some of its staffers were already working with the campaign’s digital arm.
“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,” Nix said of Assange’s response to their request for “information” about Clinton-related emails, according to the Journal.
These new details flesh out previous reports in the newspaper and Daily Beast about Cambridge Analytica’s contact with WikiLeaks and Assange’s rejection of the firm’s pitch.
They also reveal that this outreach came at around the time of escalating overtures to Trump campaign staffers from Russian operatives promising dirt on Clinton or pressing for improved relations with the U.S. WikiLeaks has denied that the trove of emails from Clinton associates and top Democratic operatives that it published in batches last summer was obtained from Russian hackers.
The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have requested information from Cambridge Analytica as part of their investigations into whether anyone in the Trump campaign worked with Moscow to sway the election.
Knowingly trying to obtain stolen information is, I believe, a crime. Add it to the list.
They also reveal that this outreach came at around the time of escalating overtures to Trump campaign staffers from Russian operatives promising dirt on Clinton or pressing for improved relations with the U.S.
Unrelated - but related to the an issue Josh recently raised about threats from the Admin to ATT regarding Merger and push to sell or something CNN… Perhaps WH working on behalf of Murdoch?
Read this - then think the face of our news if Murdoch got control of even more of the tv/cable media?
Now back to the further sun-lighting of Cambridge Analytica and it’s role in the coordination/collusion with Russia.
Just for grins…what the hell would have happened if they just ‘happened’ to obtain one of those mythical ‘classified’ emails in the Clinton dump? Or a personal one (remember Gowdy saying they didn’t CARE about those) and spread them all over the internet for humiliations sake? This isn’t opposition research or whatever the fk they try and jam down people’s throats. This is STEALING private information.
I hope every last one of these people involved in the PP campaign spend the rest of their lives in the shittiest prisons in the country. PP himself, Ivanka, Jr., the dumber one, Jared, Sessions, Manafort, all of them should spend the rest of their lives hating themselves for ever even considering any involvement in this campaign.