Trump campaign data operation stole Clinton emails 'more than a month' before WikiLeaks

[DonViejo]

Trump campaign data operation had stolen Clinton emails ‘more than a month’ before WikiLeaks: bombshell report

DAVID EDWARDS
21 JUN 2018 AT 14:38 ET

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In a column for the British magazine Spectator, BBC correspondent Paul Wood revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the now-defunct company which was in charge of microtargeting voters for the Trump campaign, was in possession of Clinton’s emails at least a month before WikiLeaks was known to have them.

“The (now shuttered) British company did the Trump campaign’s data,” Wood explained. “Its speciality was ‘microtargeting’: individual messages tailored to individual voters, delivered by email, Facebook and Twitter.”

“The US intelligence agencies believe that Russian internet ‘troll factories’ were also pushing out pro-Trump propaganda on social media: sometimes fake news, sometimes real news, such as the hacked contents of Clinton’s emails,” he continued. “The question is whether this was done in coordination with the Trump campaign.”

Wood said that he had information from an “American lawyer” who knew that Cambridge Analytica was in possession of the emails, which U.S. intelligence agencies later determined were stolen by Russian hackers.

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 [special counsel Robert Mueller], the lawyer replied.

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Read the entire column at The Spectator.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/trump-campaign-data-operation-stolen-clinton-emails-month-wikileaks-bombshell-report/

[Maven]

1. Collusion. Conspiracy. Treason. nt

[OKNancy]

2. Clinton emails?? I think that should be Podesta emails

Wikileaks published Podesta's emails, not Clintons.

Sloppy reporting like this is just what made the less informed confused about "her emails"

[unblock]

4. i think "dnc emails" would be more accurate.

it wasn't only podesta, though his risotto recipe seemed to be the most significant email according to our crack media.

[NewJeffCT]

7. It was DNC emails

but, since Clinton won the primaries, she was the head of the Democratic Party until election day, so they're using "Clinton's Emails" as instead of Clinton's Democratic Party emails since it's easier.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Yes, the headline is horrid and confusing.

[unblock]

3. contraband. contraband. contraband. we need to use this word again and again.

the word republicans want us to use if "emails" or "hillary's emails". that conjures up all the hillary-hate and conspiracy lunacy they've invested years of propaganda in.

*contraband*.

we need to call it what it is.

*stolen goods*.

*contraband*.


that puts things right, that puts things where they should be. donnie's not innocent in getting and using this stuff. this was electronic data on private systems that someone *stole*, which is a *crime*. a *felony*, in fact. and donnie gleefully sought out the product resulting from this crime. stolen goods are called *contraband* and donnie was eagerly trafficking in *contraband*.

yes, it's even more interesting that russians were involved, but even if it all the hackers were american, it would still be a crime for donnie to seek out and to use the stolen goods.

*contraband*.

[Wwcd]

5. K & R

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Waiting for the Cival Law suites to

hit the courts. It is going to cost millions for anyone who is or was a member of Tump's Campaign.

[mythology]

9. Seems rather thin

It's a throw away line in the article for such a potentially large claim. It needs more meat if it's a thing.

[exboyfil]

11. Yes Too good to.be true

Because if it was, then it would be game, set, and match.

[grantcart]

13. Very thin and vontradictory.

First someone told him that they heard something and then allegations thatvthw Brita were slow walking information about Wikipedia. Why wouldvthey if Trump already had them?

The article starts with a long comparison of Brita cooperating with Nichole Ceausescu and finally gets to their point"it is possible that the Brita may not be communicating with Mueller".

Pretty silly.

[mr_lebowski]

17. It IS known that Guccifer 2.0 had stolen goods at least month before Wiki began releasing them

Cause he started releasing stolen DNC stuff on his site like a month earlier. A timeframe which ... and I'm SURE this is just a TOTAL COINCIDENCE ... started within 2 weeks of the Trump Tower meeting where the Russian Lawyer met with the Trump Campaign to discuss 'having dirt on Hillary' and 'adoptions' (wink wink) that was TOTALLY NOT a thinly-veiled offer to provide Hillary dirt in exchange for a promise from Trump's people that he'd do something about Magnitsky Act sanctions and even if it WAS the Trump people of course said 'no way!' and the Russians just decided to release their 'dirt' anyway ... ya know cause they really wanted HRC to win.

So while this certainly a different matter than Cambridge having them afa being any sort of 'proof' goes ... it certainly makes believing it's POSSIBLE Cambridge also had them as early as that ... easier.

[triron]

20. well argued.

Why are some so eager to discredit other DUer's posts?

[mr_lebowski]

24. Well, it IS correct to criticize the use of the term 'Clinton's Emails', that was lazy reporting

And in essence, that inaccuracy undermines credibility on the assertion.

The stolen 'stuff' was internal DNC docs and emails and Podesta's emails, not Hillary's. Although I'm not sure whether any exchanges between DNC members and Hillary were ever part of their booty and released, cause I didn't really pay that much attention to the whole debacle at the time and have only learned the 30K-ft level stuff about it since.

But either way calling this tranche of stolen info 'Clinton's Emails' is misleading esp. in the light of the fact that there's a WHOLE OTHER 'Clinton's Emails' that have of course been in the news ... and those were (as far as anyone knows) NOT stolen by anyone.

[Initech]

10. Make no mistake: this was a coup and a treasonous attack on the United States.

May all involved be punished to the maximum extent that the law provides.

[onetexan]

26. Spot on

[SunSeeker]

12. K & R for exposure.

[BlueJac]

14. K&R from Florida...

[Lonestarblue]

15. Imagine if Democats had hacked the RNC server and stolen and published Republican campaign emails.

Republican heads would have exploded and Dems/Clinton would have been sued into oblivion. When the shoe is on the other foot, it’s nothing—just a meaningless witch hunt.

[cstanleytech]

16. Sounds alot like a new watergate scandal is brewing.

[BSdetect]

18. There will never be a full redress of all these crimes and lies.

The damage is mounting by the minute.

So many are complicit in this horrendous election theft that they can escape through deals once actual prosecutions start.

[volstork]

19. They need to quit pretending

that Cambridge Analytica is gone. I assure you, they are still alive and subverting, merely “rebranded.”

[triron]

21. And bet they are already working with the Trump campaign for 2018.

[ehrnst]

22. Kick and Recced!

[Scurrilous]

23. K&R

[Qutzupalotl]

25. "had stolen emails" not "stole"

Russian hackers stole them. But being this early in possession of stolen property is not a good look.