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kpete

(72,904 posts) Fri Nov 10, 2017, 04:05 PM Nov 2017

WSJ: Data Firms WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign [View all]

Data Firm’s WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign
Cambridge Analytica said it reached out to Julian Assange to share Hillary Clinton-related emails in ‘early June 2016,’ when the company had already started working for the campaign
By Rebecca Ballhaus and Julie Bykowicz
Nov. 10, 2017 1:42 p.m. ET

The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica contacted the founder of WikiLeaks to ask him to share Hillary Clinton-related emails at the same time that people familiar with the matter say the British data-analytics firm had begun working for President Donald Trump’s campaign.

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WSJ: Data Firms WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign [View all] kpete Nov 2017 OP

The plot thickens.... The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #1

There are so many traitors who sold our country to the enemy. BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #2

i wanna hang them from the damn washington monument. mopinko Nov 2017 #5

I wish you were the one deciding the sentence for each one. BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #6

seems to me mopinko Nov 2017 #7

Smells like another smoking gun to me. WSJ great job. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #3

Fake news. WSJ is a liberal rag Happyhippychick Nov 2017 #4