We are now all waiting for that return engagement of Steve Bannon with the Feds... He’s never left the barrel. A barrel built with Mercer money.
Everyone’s been waiting for the CambAnal fog of war to be lifted because the perfect storm of 2016 required many clouds and a lot of lightning.
Chris 'I made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool' Wylie will have more to say soon, because it’s getting dangerous out there, just ask Alexander Nix.
Wylie intends to talk to Congress, specifically the Dems on the House Intel Committee.
Wylie, a Cambridge Analytica co-founder who left the political consulting company in 2014, is at the centre of allegations that the U.K. company improperly used data from over 50 million Facebook users to identify voters who might be sympathetic to Trump's message and target them with social media messages. In stories by the New York Times and Britain's The Observer over the past week, he explained how he created the psychological warfare tools for Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
Wylie said it's time for governments to have conversations about the meaning of privacy in the digital age, the risks inherent in social media platforms, and how to protect democracies from systemic vulnerabilities in communications infrastructure.
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Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who brought the scandal to light, identified Mark Block as the middleman between former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica.
In a story posted earlier this week, the Guardian newspaper said Wylie offered "what sounds like a tall tale, though it's one he can back up with an email."
"Mark Block, a veteran Republican strategist, happened to sit next to a cyberwarfare expert for the U.S. Air Force on a plane," the newspaper said. It continued, “And the cyberwarfare guy is like, ‘Oh, you should meet SCL (Group). They do cyberwarfare for elections.' "
SCL Group is the parent company for Cambridge Analytica.
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Block more recently ran the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group co-founded by the conservative Koch brothers.
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Inquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi indicant, aduersa uni imputantur
(This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone)
Tacitus, Agricola 27:1 (written ~ 98AD) [1]
So who will (be left to) hold the bag….
Now, the whistle-blower behind the report is taking specific aim at Bannon’s influence at Cambridge Analytica in 2014, when the company was busy building his “psychological-warfare mindfuck tool.” In a Tuesday interview with The Washington Post, former Cambridge Analytica research director Chris Wylie alleges that Bannon signed off on spending nearly $1 million to obtain data, including from Facebook. “We had to get Bannon to approve everything at this point. Bannon was Alexander Nix’s boss,” said Wylie, referring to the Cambridge Analytica C.E.O. who was suspended yesterday. “Alexander Nix didn’t have the authority to spend that much money without approval.” (Neither Bannon nor Cambridge Analytica responded to the Post’s requests for comment on his involvement.)
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The Trump campaign, which is already under investigation by the Department of Justice for possible collusion with Russia, could also feel the heat from Bannon’s involvement with Cambridge Analytica.
Indeed, the various parties are inextricably linked:
- the Mercers funded Cambridge Analytica,
- the Trump campaign, and
- the pro-Trump news outlet Breitbart.
- The Trump campaign, in turn, hired Cambridge Analytica.
- Bannon served at Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and in the White House.
Cambridge Analytica was sufficiently relevant to the Trump campaign’s efforts that, according to The Wall Street Journal, special counsel Robert Mueller has asked the firm to turn over the e-mails of any employees who worked on the campaign.
‘Trump’s Going To War’ Now With His Political Enemies, Boasts Bannon
While attempting to distance himself from the scandal around Facebook and Mercer-funded firm Cambridge Analytica that has dominated the news in recent days—claiming he didn’t know about the Trump campaign’s mining of Facebook’s data, even though he was the campaign’s CEO for its final three months—Bannon criticized suspended Cambridge Analytica head Alexander Nix’s conduct as a member of the British elite.
Bannon also went after the elite media for failing to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s feet to the fire during his apologetic interviews Wednesday to address the scandal in which some 50 million Facebook users had their personal data appropriated by the British data-mining company for use by the Trump campaign.
“When Zuckerberg goes on TV yesterday, and Zuckerberg gives the New York Times an interview, and the opposition-party media plays patty-cake with him, and doesn’t ask him one tough question, his entire business model is made upon taking that data for free and monetizing it,” Bannon said, adding that Facebook and Google routinely invade people’s privacy, sell personal information to advertisers without their consent, and use sinister algorithms to control people’s lives.
“When Zuckerberg comes, he sounds like a first-year associate hired in corporate development, mumbles through the whole interview, and nobody asks him a tough follow-up question,” Bannon complained.