This is like if the Gambino family had suspended John Gotti pending a planned internal investigation.
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Were I Nix, I would be very concerned for my personal safety.
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In one exchange Alexander Nix revealed the company used a secret self-destructing email system that leaves no trace. He said: “No-one knows we have it, and secondly we set our… emails with a self-destruct timer… So you send them and after they’ve been read, two hours later, they disappear. There’s no evidence, there’s no paper trail, there’s nothing.”
Mr Nix also belittled representatives on the House Intelligence Committee to whom he gave evidence in 2017. He claims Republican members asked just three questions. “After five minutes – done.”
“They’re politicians, they’re not technical. They don’t understand how it works,” he said.
Mr Nix further claimed that Democrats on the Committee are motivated by “sour grapes”.
He said: “They don’t understand because the candidate never, is never involved. He’s told what to do by the campaign team.”
“So the candidate is the puppet?,” the undercover reporter asked.
“Always,” replied Mr Nix.
He added that his firm could avoid any US investigation into its foreign clients. “I’m absolutely convinced that they have no jurisdiction…,” he said. “We’ll say none of your business.”
As an ex Brit, I say: Fucking limey asshole.
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Say it with me, Mr. Nix, you stupid mother-f*cker: “Fake News!”
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Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is pursuing a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica’s servers.
Fun Fact: CA’s offices were raided this morning. British reporters have noted police activity at the CA offices today.
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khyber’s comments from another thread (always brilliant)
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Still one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies.
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Yepper. That’s absolutely how that works with sovereign nations, you tell 'em: “none of your business” and the Prosecutors just say “Darn it!”, stomp their feet in frustration, and walk away. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Or, they handcuff you and say: “whatever.”
I recall that there are laws against bribing foreign officials, and that may very well include blackmailing them, too.
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Re-posting from another thread:
Put down whatever you are doing and watch the Channel Four exposé on Cambridge Analytica, Part Two.
It is utterly explosive and will make your blood boil.
Alexander Nix was suspended by the Cambridge Analytica Board just as this broadcast aired.
Nix has admitted to coordinating activities between the Trump campaign and other outside GOP groups. That type of coordination is illegal under US law.
Nix has admitted to being actively involved. He and every other foreign national who provided things of value to the Trump campaign violated the Federal election campaign act.
Nix has also admitted to destroying evidence using a Proton Mail program to cause emails to self-destruct. In the context of the secret interview, he seems to clearly indicate that his use of this program was due to scrutiny of their activities, which I take to mean the investigations in the US and UK about election interference.
The Trump campaign is also exposed for conspiracy to violate federal election laws. Parscale, Kushner, Manafort, Gates, Junior, Flynn and Trump Sr were all in on it. Bannon was too, though I can’t be certain of his criminal liability exposure. I suspect Pence also knew about at least the illegal election coordination activities.
Cambridge Analytica’s database was created by Alexsandr Kogan, an almost certain Russian asset. Cambridge Analytica’s principals also knew Nigel Farage, Julian Assange and were active Brexiteers. There’s your conspiracy.
We have our smoking gun(s) IMHO. It’s time for the prosecutors to act:
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you have a gift for snark!
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Please let this be so. Is there a link you can share? Was looking for news on this front.
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“We see this as a coordinated attack by the media that’s been going on for very, very many months in order to damage the company that had some involvement with the election of Donald Trump,” he said.
We’re seeing this attack more and more, a kind of bizarro preemptive confession: “The only reason we stand exposed as crimers here today is because you, you awful person, were mean and awful enough to want us to be standing here that way.” Like wanting to expose a criminal is a form of prejudice that disqualifies the exposure. I guess it’s an example of things like “She’s my cousin!” that you say when there’s absolutely nothing else you can think of to say.
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Well, yeah. That’s what happened to Paul Castellano, John Gotti’s predecessor … the board’s represenatives met at Sparks Restaurant in Manhattan, and he was suspended, with extreme prejudice, if I recall correctly.
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O god I hope so.
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I probably should’ve phrased that differently. It was a couple of tweets by British reporters who noted police activity at the CA office. That said, I may have jumped the gun a bit, but I tend to trust the legit Brit press.
“If it looks like a raid, and it sounds like a raid, it’s probably a raid.”
Sorry 'about that. I’ll fix the post to reflect this.
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Oh, my. The old shell (company) game.
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Hmmm.
I get the idea it was set up solely to elect Trump, to influence the Brexit and whatever else Putin had going on with elections.
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As of this morning, the British gov’t was reported to be seeking a warrant to search CA. (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/20/595124809/u-k-seeks-search-warrant-on-cambridge-analytica-ceo-seen-in-hidden-camera-report) This had not changed by this afternoon. (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43465700)
Facebook personnel were reported to be in CA’s offices yesterday until they were required to leave, as per a tweet by an MP on the relevant oversight committee:
Verified acc @DamianCollins (MP for Folkestone & Hythe, Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee) 22h
Facebook have confirmed that auditors and legal counsel acting on behalf of the company were in the offices of Cambridge Analytica this evening until they were told to stand down by the Information Commissioner. These investigations need to be undertaken by the proper authorities
Sincerely, I gotta wonder what that was about, particularly as there seems to be plenty of liability to go around.
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It’s a bit like CA’s self-deleting emails.
A self-deleting company: (ghost) hiding behind a shell LLC.
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And by “suspended” I take that to mean “naked, over a tank of electric eels.”
Right?
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