Mueller Sought Emails of Trump Campaign Data Firm

[MelissaB]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Special counsel asked Cambridge Analytica to hand over employees’ emails, in sign of investigators’ interest in campaign data operation


By Rebecca Ballhaus
Dec. 14, 2017 7:15 p.m. ET

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign, turn over documents as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Mueller asked the firm in the fall to turn over the emails of any Cambridge Analytica employees who worked on the Trump campaign, in a sign that the special counsel is probing the Trump campaign’s data operation.

The special counsel's request, which the firm complied with, wasn’t previously known. The emails had earlier been turned over to the House Intelligence Committee, the people said, adding that both requests were voluntary.

On Thursday, Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix interviewed via videoconference with the House Intelligence Committee, according to a person familiar with the matter.



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[Botany]

1. Mueller knows what he is doing

C.A. ties in Russia/Bannon/Mercers/Putin/Wikileaks/voter data mining/election rigging/Trump & Co.

hopefully it pulls in McConnell, Ryan, Sessions, Fox News, and the RNC.

[FreeState]

2. Ryan may be gone sooner than we think

All the noise online from the Russian bots today started up about the same time he announced he's thinking of retiring. Add to that to the breaking news they have Putin on tape ordering the election be hacked (who was he talking to on the tape... hummm could it be Ryan). That news also included Trump was aware of this in January 2017.

[Botany]

3. The New Yorker; Paul Ryan keeps it all in the family

June 2016 Capital Hill

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, according to Entous, a superb reporter who heard a tape recording of the colloquy. “Swear to God.”

Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican from California with a peculiar amalgam of views: pro-marijuana, dubious about climate change, pro-torture. For this last position, in 2007, Keith Olbermann awarded him his periodic “Worst Person in the World” award, on his old MSNBC show. Like Trump, Rohrabacher has been highly solicitous of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year, Politico ran an article on Rohrabacher called “Putin’s Favorite Congressman.”

In the Post piece, McCarthy’s remark is met with laughter, and Ryan cautions his colleagues, “This is an off the record . . . No leaks! . . . All right?”

And then, amid more laughter, Ryan says, “This is how we know we’re a real family here.”

[FreeState]

4. Interesting article

I have no doubt the GOP leadership is in bed with the Russians.

Here is to hoping our country can survive.

[Botany]

5. My Dad @ one time worked at the RNC I grew up either knowing or knowing about a # of .....

.... good men and one woman (Margaret Chase Smith) who were republicans but from
almost Nixon on they have became un-American scum.

[FreeState]

6. I was raised republican

(Mormon too) in my large family (18 voters). Only one person voted for Trump. Of the family only two of us are Democrats and I am the only one thats left the church (who by the way worship the constitution as scripture, they believe it will save us from some mysterious future collapse). Even Mormons are leaving the GOP - it is nothing that it says it is and they can see that.

I met all the GOP presidential candidates but Bush in 1988. They had all become right wing evangelical crazies at that point.

There are great and decent republicans out there, however their party has deserted them.

[Botany]

7. As a little boy in N.W. PA our next door neighbor's (middle class neighborhood}brother was ....

.... Gov. of PA. He would have no home in the GOP today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_P._Shafer

[FreeState]

9. Bipartisan GOP - thats a lost art for sure

"In 1963, Lieutenant Governor Shafer had chaired a bipartisan committee to explore constitutional reforms. By the beginning of Shafer's term as governor, a constitutional convention was meeting to overhaul state government."

Sad that they destroyed such a needed thing.

[Botany]

10. Ray used to play w/us kids in the neighborhood .... football, basketball, & baseball ....

... his people would tell him that it was time to for him to go and he would look @ them
and say, "I'm in a meeting."

Ray was big into union rights, education, infrastructure, the environment, civil rights,
and "the common good." In the early 1970s he ran a commission on marijuana and after
a year of study they said something like it is no big thing. Nixon blew off their findings.

[WhiteTara]

8. And the DeVos and Spectrum Health.