Suspicious claim: Did Cambridge Analytica Have the Hacked Emails?

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/21/did-cambridge-analytica-have-the-hacked-emails/

"SNIP.......

Paul Wood, writing for The Spectator:

An American lawyer I know told me that he was approached by a Cambridge Analytica employee after the election. They had had the Clinton emails more than a month before they were published by WikiLeaks: ‘What should I do?’ Take this to Mueller, the lawyer replied.

......SNIP"

After the election implies within a few months after November 2016. But Mueller was not hired to investigate till May of 2017.

[manor321]

1. Needs verification

It's true this is basically a rumor at this point and needs verification. I don't see American media running with it.

But "After the election implies within a few months after November 2016" is just flatly not true.

[applegrove]

2. And it was a story in the American Spectator. So I'm wondering if it is a red herring.

[unblock]

3. After implies after, not before.

How is 6 months after the election somehow not included in "after the election"?

[applegrove]

4. To me it has the emotional resonance of within a few months. I could be wrong.

It was the American Spectator. I say we tread carefully.