Christopher Wylie is a whistleblower and former employee of the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which has come under criticism over reports that it swiped the data of about 50 million Facebook users to sway elections.
Wylie tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he plans to meet with “law enforcement and the Department of Justice.” Special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department to run the election probe and has been scrutinizing connections between Cambridge Analytica and Trump’s Republican campaign.
Democrats on a House Intelligence Panel have previously said they would interview Wylie.
Mercer-sponsored Cambridge Analytica seems to have been widely employed as a Republican Party analog of Nixon’s plumbers. Their ratfucking appears to have been directed towards producing and maintaining a Republican congressional majority, starting in 2014. Needless to say, CA at least skirted the law: common decency and other social norms on politicking appear to have been written out of their playbook. At the very least, evidence points to their providing foreign managerial personnel for campaigns, in violation of the Federal code. Wylie appears to have a lotta the inside dope.
Following on their responsibility to put party before country, we can doubtless look forward to Wylie’s testimony giving rise to another memo from Nunes and a Justice Department referral from Grass-fed and Graham, or suitable equivalents from the GOP leadership of the relevant commitees.
The possibilities are sickening.
Among other things that is an extremely interesting data point. Yesterday we were dealing in our reasonable, welcoming way with a troll whose account was created in, you guessed it, 2014 and never used until recently. And @squirreltown made the observation that a lot of accounts had been created then and never used.
I’m sure there are an endless variety of little ’ booby traps ’ lying around out there…
The demographic arrows have been pointing in a particular direction for a while …way before 2014 ----
and for a party that pursues power … over all other things …
criminal activity is the only avenue left —
every entity that has faced extinction has not done so willingly …
Yeah Gore said in an interview today I think that democracy was hacked long before 2016 and he didn’t mean 2014.
As an afterthought, the GOP’s public line after the 2012 loss was that they had to do better ‘outreach.’ Apparently, their donors thought that was CA and its full business model.