Trump campaign's data firm contacted WikiLeaks to ask for access to hacked Hillary emails

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Slate‏ @Slate 33m33 minutes ago
Trump campaign's data firm contacted WikiLeaks to ask for access to hacked Hillary emails: http://slate.me/2lfwavh

from Daily Beast:

Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data-analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton’s missing 33,000 emails.

Nix, who heads Cambridge Analytica, told a third party that he reached out to Assange about his firm somehow helping the WikiLeaks editor release Clinton’s missing emails, according to two sources familiar with a congressional investigation into interactions between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Those sources also relayed that, according to Nix’s email, Assange told the Cambridge Analytica CEO that he didn’t want his help, and preferred to do the work on his own...

After publication, Assange provided this statement to The Daily Beast: ”We can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks.”

read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-data-guru-i-tried-to-team-up-with-julian-assange

also: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/25/cambridge_analytica_asked_assange_wikileaks_for_hacked_hillary_email.html

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[Beakybird]

1. Only because they didn't have Clinton's emails.

They had Podesta's.

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2. Is this what we've been wait g for?

The smoking gun of collusion?

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3. probably not

...but soliciting help from Putin's tool is a far sight more consequential than revelations that the Clinton campaign engaged in perfectly legal and reputable opposition research.