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    A few months later, in autumn 2013, Wylie met Steve Bannon. At the time, he was editor-in-chief of Breitbart, which he had brought to Britain to support his friend Nigel Farage in his mission to take Britain out of the European Union.

    What was he like?

    “Smart,” says Wylie. “Interesting. Really interested in ideas. He’s the only straight man I’ve ever talked to about intersectional feminist theory. He saw its relevance straightaway to the oppressions that conservative, young white men feel.”

    Sounds like intersectional feminist theory might provide the grand unification of all the various threads that have been active the past couple days
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    Is what Cambridge Analytica does akin to bullying?

    “I think it’s worse than bullying,” Wylie says. “Because people don’t necessarily know it’s being done to them. At least bullying respects the agency of people because they know. So it’s worse, because if you do not respect the agency of people, anything that you’re doing after that point is not conducive to a democracy. And fundamentally, information warfare is not conducive to democracy.”

    That last sentence identifies something we are going to have to grapple with for some time.
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    It is looking likely that Cambridge Analytica and people affiliated with it will make the cut as witting collaborators.

    An old article that takes on greater meaning in light of today's revelations.

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/1...n-plain-sight/
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Oh it hurt her? She should have been disqualified from running. The lack of acceptance of this fact is startling.
    The only startling thing is your double-standard. Your brain is doing world class calisthenics to see everything from the left as absolute evil while ignoring even more brazen and obvious malfeasance on the right. e.g. Your sudden interest in the business of Kerry and Biden's sons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    This is quite a saga.

    The new revelations keep coming.

    The Trump/Russia documentary is gonna kill Ken Burns.
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    I'm content to wait for the IG's report to see what McCabe was actually adjudged to have done wrong. If it boils down to improperly authorizing media contacts re the Clinton investigation, I think that's fairly telling. Not to mention the fact that Jeff Sessions getting after someone for lack of candor under oath is rich as hell.

    I think it's possible that the Trump crowd will regret this one, too. A little Occam's razoring points to Trump wanting McCabe fired and be****ted because he's a potential witness to obstruction of justice in the Comey affair. If he's actually implicated in any kind of improper anti-Trump activity, I'll be quite surprised.

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    We know why Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions rat****ed Andrew McCabe —

    because McCabe can back up James Comey.

    The real question is who helped Trump spell “sanctimonious?”
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    i would buy into thethe's thoughts on this matter maybe if he wasn't acting like the most guilty piece of **** ever
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    fake memos!!!!
    witch hunt!!!!!
    nothing burger!!!!!!
    dirty dossier!!!!!!!
    no collusion!!!!!!!!!
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    Gowdy still trying to separate himself from the ****ery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    A few months later, in autumn 2013, Wylie met Steve Bannon. At the time, he was editor-in-chief of Breitbart, which he had brought to Britain to support his friend Nigel Farage in his mission to take Britain out of the European Union.

    What was he like?

    “Smart,” says Wylie. “Interesting. Really interested in ideas. He’s the only straight man I’ve ever talked to about intersectional feminist theory. He saw its relevance straightaway to the oppressions that conservative, young white men feel.”

    Sounds like intersectional feminist theory might provide the grand unification of all the various threads that have been active the past couple days
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    Quote Originally Posted by Runnin View Post
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    Cambridge Analytica...Wylie turned whistleblower on them
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    fake memos!!!!
    witch hunt!!!!!
    nothing burger!!!!!!
    dirty dossier!!!!!!!
    no collusion!!!!!!!!!
    The scarier thing isn't Trump. Its obvious the way he's acting there's fire where the smoke is.

    It's House Republicans who ended their investigation prematurely.
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    Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, warned Trump that any interference in the Mueller probe would result in "a very, very long, bad 2018."

    "If you have an innocent client, Mr. Dowd, act like it," Gowdy said on "Fox News Sunday." "Russia attacked our country. Let special counsel Mueller figure that out."

    Later, as if directly addressing the president, Gowdy said, "If you've done nothing wrong, you should want the investigation to be as fulsome and thorough as possible."

    Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and an informal adviser to Trump, said it would be inappropriate for the president to try to fire Mueller.

    The special counsel has "conducted this investigation so far with great integrity, without leaking and by showing results, and I don't think the president's going to fire somebody like that," Christie said on ABC's "This Week."
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    http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/a...-20180318.html




    “It’s like Nixon on steroids.”

    — Christopher Wylie, 28-year-old whistleblower, on how the shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytica used fraudulently obtained information from Facebook to launch a psy-ops campaign targeting 50 million American voters.






    Nixon on steroids, indeed. In 1972, the 37th president’s dirty tricksters got caught in the Watergate with some Radio Shack-style gizmos and some badly applied duct tape trying to bug the Democratic Party’s headquarters so they could try to steal the words of one man, party chief Larry O’Brien. That act — and the various cover-ups and sleazy maneuvers that surrounded it — cost Richard Nixon his presidency.

    In 2016, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign paid roughly $6 million to a firm founded by a hedge-fund billionaire supporter that used 21st-century technology, subterfuge and out-and-out fraud to essentially steal the thoughts of 50 million Americans — quite possibly you, or your friends and neighbors — to launch a psy-ops campaign against voters, to put Trump in the White House. In other words, multiply Watergate to at least the 10th power.

    ...

    What does political cyber warfare look like?
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Cambridge Analytica...Wylie turned whistleblower on them
    So both the Russians and Cambridge Analytic attempted and were successful in weaponizing Facebook and other social media to spread fake news and target specific voters, but we're to believe that it did not influence the outcome?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Runnin View Post
    So both the Russians and Cambridge Analytic attempted and were successful in weaponizing Facebook and other social media to spread fake news and target specific voters, but we're to believe that it did not influence the outcome?
    victory has a thousand fathers...and a close victory, even more

    FB btw has banned Wylie...pathetic
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    victory has a thousand fathers...and a close victory, even more

    FB btw has banned Wylie...pathetic
    Why pathetic? He says he hacked 50 million FB profiles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Runnin View Post
    Why pathetic? He says he hacked 50 million FB profiles.
    He didn't hack FB. He is a whistleblower. All of the data was acquired in compliance with FB policies at the time (which in and of itself says something). The problem was FB's incredibly lax policies in checking whether the data was shared with third parties, and subsequent cavalier attitude in verifying whether the data was destroyed by those third parties.

    Imo FB is the worst actor in this entire matter. And that's saying a lot given how badly some of the other parties have behaved. FB was even threatening the Observer with legal action as they were getting their story ready.
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    Apparently more is yet to come on Cambridge Analytica's business practices.

    http://thehill.com/policy/technology...-its-practices
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