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December 10, 2016
Michael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
July 25, 2016
Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.
“Important action required,” read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as “the Paranoids.” “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”
Chalupa — who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manafort’s connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine — quickly alerted top DNC officials. “Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often,” she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.
“I was freaked out,” Chalupa, who serves as director of “ethnic engagement” for the DNC, told Yahoo News in an interview, noting that she had been in close touch with sources in Kiev, Ukraine, including a number of investigative journalists, who had been providing her with information about Manafort’s political and business dealings in that country and Russia.
“This is really scary,” she said.
Chalupa’s message is among nearly 20,000 hacked internal DNC emails that were posted over the weekend by WikiLeaks as the Democratic Party gathered for its national convention in Philadelphia. Those emails have already provoked a convulsion in Democratic Party ranks, leading to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the wake of posted messages in which she and other top DNC officials privately derided Bernie Sanders and plotted to undercut his insurgent campaign against Hillary Clinton.
But Chalupa’s message, which had not been previously reported, stands out: It is the first indication that the reach of the hackers who penetrated the DNC has extended beyond the official email accounts of committee officials to include their private email and potentially the content on their smartphones. After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington), it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a Democratic Party source who has knowledge of the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”
A Yahoo spokesman said the pop-up warning to Chalupa “appears to be one of our notifications” and said it was consistent with a new policy announced by Yahoo on its Tumblr page last December to notify customers when it has strong evidence of “state sponsored” cyberattacks. “Rest assured we only send these notifications of suspected attacks by state-sponsored actors when we have a high degree of confidence,” wrote Bob Lord, the company’s Chief Information Security Officer, in the Tumblr post.
Asked about charges by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that “Russian state actors” hacked the DNC in order to help Trump, who has made sympathetic comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manafort on Sunday dismissed the charges in multiple television interviews as “absurd” and “crazy.” The claims are “pure obfuscation on the part of the Clinton campaign,” Manafort said on ABCs “This Week.” “What they don’t want to talk about is what’s in those emails.”
In mid-June, Democratic Party suspicions about the hackers seemed to be confirmed when CrowdStrike, an outside security firm retained by the DNC, reported that it traced the hackers to two separate units linked to Russia’s security services: the FSB, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI, and GRU, the country’s military intelligence agency. The company noted strong similarities between the attack on the DNC by the suspected GRU hackers and previous cyberintrusions of unclassified systems at the White House, the State Department and the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (After discovering the data breach, a DNC security source said its cyberexperts noted that the hackers’ exfiltration of files took place “9 to 5, Moscow time.”) An FBI official confirmed that the bureau has been investigating the breach for some time, and, according to one source familiar with the matter, Director James Comey has been personally briefed.
The extent of the damage was at first unclear. When they first authorized a public release of the CrowdStrike analysis, party officials said that the hackers had targeted oppo files on Donald Trump. But they told reporters that no personal information about donors had been penetrated. Party officials are no longer standing by those assurances. Two sources familiar with the breach said that the hackers’ reach was far more widespread than initially thought and includes personal data about big party contributors and internal “vetting” evaluations that include embarrassing comments about their business dealings (as well as gossipy internal emails about the private affairs of DNC staffers). One newly posted email discusses a prospective DNC donor’s offering to host a fundraiser with President Obama, noting that he had previously been convicted in a case involving allegations that he killed 50 horses, as part of an insurance fraud scheme. Party officials are bracing for more damaging document dumps after Labor Day. “They’re having to do serious damage control with the donors right now,” said a party official familiar with the matter.
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
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There are also signs that the hackers have penetrated the personal email of some Clinton campaign staffers — at least those who were in communication with senior DNC staff members. On May 6, John McCarthy, a DNC consultant who has since joined the Clinton campaign to do outreach to religious groups, sent an email to Chalupa from his personal Gmail account that was then forwarded to other party officials. McCarthy proposed arranging for religious leaders who have “condemned Trump for bringing out the worst in America” to stage a protest at the Republican National Convention. “It would be great to try and engage them and get them to do something at convention, etc. Maybe do a vigil at the Cleveland convention?” McCarthy wrote in the email, which included his personal cellphone number and which has now been posted as part of the WikiLeaks data dump.
There is still much that is not known about the DNC hack and how, if the Russians are indeed behind it, the emails found their way to WikiLeaks. Some commentators have noted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has in the past hosted a talk show on RT, the Russian television network that serves as a propaganda arm for the Kremlin. (Assange, without providing specifics, recently claimed he will be posting more emails that will be damaging to Clinton and “provide enough evidence” to get her arrested.)
There are also signs that the Obama administration is taking the matter more seriously. The Washington Post reported Monday that White House officials convened a high-level security meeting last Thursday, hours before WikiLeaks began posting the emails, to review information about the DNC attack. Party officials are privately pushing the White House to publicly blame the Russians in the same way it blamed North Korea for the cyberattack on Sony and China for intrusions into U.S. companies. “The last time somebody broke into the DNC, it led to the resignation of a president,” said the Democratic Party security source, referring to the Watergate scandal. In some ways, the source insisted, the current cyberheist — what some in party circles are already calling a “21st century Watergate” — is even more sinister, the source said. “This is the Russians screwing with the integrity of our election process.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hacked-emails-of-dnc-oppo-researcher-point-to-russians-and-wider-penetration-154121061.html
Her sister Andrea's tweet on NOVEMBER 10TH
Andrea Chalupa
?@AndreaChalupa
My sister led Trump/Russia research at DNC. US hackers protecting voting systems believe Russia hacked vote tallies
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/796927739378991104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157855450785389&id=614520388
BTW: the Chalupa sisters are Ukrainian American
7/25: Suspected Russian hack of DNC widens.includes personal email of staffer researching Manafort
Exclusive: Suspected Russian hack of DNC widens — includes personal email of staffer researching ManafortMichael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
July 25, 2016
Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.
“Important action required,” read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as “the Paranoids.” “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”
Chalupa — who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manafort’s connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine — quickly alerted top DNC officials. “Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often,” she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.
“I was freaked out,” Chalupa, who serves as director of “ethnic engagement” for the DNC, told Yahoo News in an interview, noting that she had been in close touch with sources in Kiev, Ukraine, including a number of investigative journalists, who had been providing her with information about Manafort’s political and business dealings in that country and Russia.
“This is really scary,” she said.
Chalupa’s message is among nearly 20,000 hacked internal DNC emails that were posted over the weekend by WikiLeaks as the Democratic Party gathered for its national convention in Philadelphia. Those emails have already provoked a convulsion in Democratic Party ranks, leading to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the wake of posted messages in which she and other top DNC officials privately derided Bernie Sanders and plotted to undercut his insurgent campaign against Hillary Clinton.
But Chalupa’s message, which had not been previously reported, stands out: It is the first indication that the reach of the hackers who penetrated the DNC has extended beyond the official email accounts of committee officials to include their private email and potentially the content on their smartphones. After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington), it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a Democratic Party source who has knowledge of the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”
A Yahoo spokesman said the pop-up warning to Chalupa “appears to be one of our notifications” and said it was consistent with a new policy announced by Yahoo on its Tumblr page last December to notify customers when it has strong evidence of “state sponsored” cyberattacks. “Rest assured we only send these notifications of suspected attacks by state-sponsored actors when we have a high degree of confidence,” wrote Bob Lord, the company’s Chief Information Security Officer, in the Tumblr post.
Asked about charges by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that “Russian state actors” hacked the DNC in order to help Trump, who has made sympathetic comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manafort on Sunday dismissed the charges in multiple television interviews as “absurd” and “crazy.” The claims are “pure obfuscation on the part of the Clinton campaign,” Manafort said on ABCs “This Week.” “What they don’t want to talk about is what’s in those emails.”
In mid-June, Democratic Party suspicions about the hackers seemed to be confirmed when CrowdStrike, an outside security firm retained by the DNC, reported that it traced the hackers to two separate units linked to Russia’s security services: the FSB, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI, and GRU, the country’s military intelligence agency. The company noted strong similarities between the attack on the DNC by the suspected GRU hackers and previous cyberintrusions of unclassified systems at the White House, the State Department and the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (After discovering the data breach, a DNC security source said its cyberexperts noted that the hackers’ exfiltration of files took place “9 to 5, Moscow time.”) An FBI official confirmed that the bureau has been investigating the breach for some time, and, according to one source familiar with the matter, Director James Comey has been personally briefed.
The extent of the damage was at first unclear. When they first authorized a public release of the CrowdStrike analysis, party officials said that the hackers had targeted oppo files on Donald Trump. But they told reporters that no personal information about donors had been penetrated. Party officials are no longer standing by those assurances. Two sources familiar with the breach said that the hackers’ reach was far more widespread than initially thought and includes personal data about big party contributors and internal “vetting” evaluations that include embarrassing comments about their business dealings (as well as gossipy internal emails about the private affairs of DNC staffers). One newly posted email discusses a prospective DNC donor’s offering to host a fundraiser with President Obama, noting that he had previously been convicted in a case involving allegations that he killed 50 horses, as part of an insurance fraud scheme. Party officials are bracing for more damaging document dumps after Labor Day. “They’re having to do serious damage control with the donors right now,” said a party official familiar with the matter.
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
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There are also signs that the hackers have penetrated the personal email of some Clinton campaign staffers — at least those who were in communication with senior DNC staff members. On May 6, John McCarthy, a DNC consultant who has since joined the Clinton campaign to do outreach to religious groups, sent an email to Chalupa from his personal Gmail account that was then forwarded to other party officials. McCarthy proposed arranging for religious leaders who have “condemned Trump for bringing out the worst in America” to stage a protest at the Republican National Convention. “It would be great to try and engage them and get them to do something at convention, etc. Maybe do a vigil at the Cleveland convention?” McCarthy wrote in the email, which included his personal cellphone number and which has now been posted as part of the WikiLeaks data dump.
There is still much that is not known about the DNC hack and how, if the Russians are indeed behind it, the emails found their way to WikiLeaks. Some commentators have noted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has in the past hosted a talk show on RT, the Russian television network that serves as a propaganda arm for the Kremlin. (Assange, without providing specifics, recently claimed he will be posting more emails that will be damaging to Clinton and “provide enough evidence” to get her arrested.)
There are also signs that the Obama administration is taking the matter more seriously. The Washington Post reported Monday that White House officials convened a high-level security meeting last Thursday, hours before WikiLeaks began posting the emails, to review information about the DNC attack. Party officials are privately pushing the White House to publicly blame the Russians in the same way it blamed North Korea for the cyberattack on Sony and China for intrusions into U.S. companies. “The last time somebody broke into the DNC, it led to the resignation of a president,” said the Democratic Party security source, referring to the Watergate scandal. In some ways, the source insisted, the current cyberheist — what some in party circles are already calling a “21st century Watergate” — is even more sinister, the source said. “This is the Russians screwing with the integrity of our election process.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hacked-emails-of-dnc-oppo-researcher-point-to-russians-and-wider-penetration-154121061.html
Her sister Andrea's tweet on NOVEMBER 10TH
Andrea Chalupa
?@AndreaChalupa
My sister led Trump/Russia research at DNC. US hackers protecting voting systems believe Russia hacked vote tallies
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/796927739378991104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157855450785389&id=614520388
BTW: the Chalupa sisters are Ukrainian American
December 10, 2016
Michael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
July 25, 2016
Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.
“Important action required,” read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as “the Paranoids.” “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”
Chalupa — who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manafort’s connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine — quickly alerted top DNC officials. “Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often,” she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.
“I was freaked out,” Chalupa, who serves as director of “ethnic engagement” for the DNC, told Yahoo News in an interview, noting that she had been in close touch with sources in Kiev, Ukraine, including a number of investigative journalists, who had been providing her with information about Manafort’s political and business dealings in that country and Russia.
“This is really scary,” she said.
Chalupa’s message is among nearly 20,000 hacked internal DNC emails that were posted over the weekend by WikiLeaks as the Democratic Party gathered for its national convention in Philadelphia. Those emails have already provoked a convulsion in Democratic Party ranks, leading to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the wake of posted messages in which she and other top DNC officials privately derided Bernie Sanders and plotted to undercut his insurgent campaign against Hillary Clinton.
But Chalupa’s message, which had not been previously reported, stands out: It is the first indication that the reach of the hackers who penetrated the DNC has extended beyond the official email accounts of committee officials to include their private email and potentially the content on their smartphones. After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington), it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a Democratic Party source who has knowledge of the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”
A Yahoo spokesman said the pop-up warning to Chalupa “appears to be one of our notifications” and said it was consistent with a new policy announced by Yahoo on its Tumblr page last December to notify customers when it has strong evidence of “state sponsored” cyberattacks. “Rest assured we only send these notifications of suspected attacks by state-sponsored actors when we have a high degree of confidence,” wrote Bob Lord, the company’s Chief Information Security Officer, in the Tumblr post.
Asked about charges by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that “Russian state actors” hacked the DNC in order to help Trump, who has made sympathetic comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manafort on Sunday dismissed the charges in multiple television interviews as “absurd” and “crazy.” The claims are “pure obfuscation on the part of the Clinton campaign,” Manafort said on ABCs “This Week.” “What they don’t want to talk about is what’s in those emails.”
In mid-June, Democratic Party suspicions about the hackers seemed to be confirmed when CrowdStrike, an outside security firm retained by the DNC, reported that it traced the hackers to two separate units linked to Russia’s security services: the FSB, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI, and GRU, the country’s military intelligence agency. The company noted strong similarities between the attack on the DNC by the suspected GRU hackers and previous cyberintrusions of unclassified systems at the White House, the State Department and the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (After discovering the data breach, a DNC security source said its cyberexperts noted that the hackers’ exfiltration of files took place “9 to 5, Moscow time.”) An FBI official confirmed that the bureau has been investigating the breach for some time, and, according to one source familiar with the matter, Director James Comey has been personally briefed.
The extent of the damage was at first unclear. When they first authorized a public release of the CrowdStrike analysis, party officials said that the hackers had targeted oppo files on Donald Trump. But they told reporters that no personal information about donors had been penetrated. Party officials are no longer standing by those assurances. Two sources familiar with the breach said that the hackers’ reach was far more widespread than initially thought and includes personal data about big party contributors and internal “vetting” evaluations that include embarrassing comments about their business dealings (as well as gossipy internal emails about the private affairs of DNC staffers). One newly posted email discusses a prospective DNC donor’s offering to host a fundraiser with President Obama, noting that he had previously been convicted in a case involving allegations that he killed 50 horses, as part of an insurance fraud scheme. Party officials are bracing for more damaging document dumps after Labor Day. “They’re having to do serious damage control with the donors right now,” said a party official familiar with the matter.
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
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There are also signs that the hackers have penetrated the personal email of some Clinton campaign staffers — at least those who were in communication with senior DNC staff members. On May 6, John McCarthy, a DNC consultant who has since joined the Clinton campaign to do outreach to religious groups, sent an email to Chalupa from his personal Gmail account that was then forwarded to other party officials. McCarthy proposed arranging for religious leaders who have “condemned Trump for bringing out the worst in America” to stage a protest at the Republican National Convention. “It would be great to try and engage them and get them to do something at convention, etc. Maybe do a vigil at the Cleveland convention?” McCarthy wrote in the email, which included his personal cellphone number and which has now been posted as part of the WikiLeaks data dump.
There is still much that is not known about the DNC hack and how, if the Russians are indeed behind it, the emails found their way to WikiLeaks. Some commentators have noted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has in the past hosted a talk show on RT, the Russian television network that serves as a propaganda arm for the Kremlin. (Assange, without providing specifics, recently claimed he will be posting more emails that will be damaging to Clinton and “provide enough evidence” to get her arrested.)
There are also signs that the Obama administration is taking the matter more seriously. The Washington Post reported Monday that White House officials convened a high-level security meeting last Thursday, hours before WikiLeaks began posting the emails, to review information about the DNC attack. Party officials are privately pushing the White House to publicly blame the Russians in the same way it blamed North Korea for the cyberattack on Sony and China for intrusions into U.S. companies. “The last time somebody broke into the DNC, it led to the resignation of a president,” said the Democratic Party security source, referring to the Watergate scandal. In some ways, the source insisted, the current cyberheist — what some in party circles are already calling a “21st century Watergate” — is even more sinister, the source said. “This is the Russians screwing with the integrity of our election process.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hacked-emails-of-dnc-oppo-researcher-point-to-russians-and-wider-penetration-154121061.html
7/25: Suspected Russian hack of DNC widens.includes personal email of staffer researching Manafort
Exclusive: Suspected Russian hack of DNC widens — includes personal email of staffer researching ManafortMichael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
July 25, 2016
Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.
“Important action required,” read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as “the Paranoids.” “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”
Chalupa — who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manafort’s connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine — quickly alerted top DNC officials. “Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often,” she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.
“I was freaked out,” Chalupa, who serves as director of “ethnic engagement” for the DNC, told Yahoo News in an interview, noting that she had been in close touch with sources in Kiev, Ukraine, including a number of investigative journalists, who had been providing her with information about Manafort’s political and business dealings in that country and Russia.
“This is really scary,” she said.
Chalupa’s message is among nearly 20,000 hacked internal DNC emails that were posted over the weekend by WikiLeaks as the Democratic Party gathered for its national convention in Philadelphia. Those emails have already provoked a convulsion in Democratic Party ranks, leading to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the wake of posted messages in which she and other top DNC officials privately derided Bernie Sanders and plotted to undercut his insurgent campaign against Hillary Clinton.
But Chalupa’s message, which had not been previously reported, stands out: It is the first indication that the reach of the hackers who penetrated the DNC has extended beyond the official email accounts of committee officials to include their private email and potentially the content on their smartphones. After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington), it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a Democratic Party source who has knowledge of the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”
A Yahoo spokesman said the pop-up warning to Chalupa “appears to be one of our notifications” and said it was consistent with a new policy announced by Yahoo on its Tumblr page last December to notify customers when it has strong evidence of “state sponsored” cyberattacks. “Rest assured we only send these notifications of suspected attacks by state-sponsored actors when we have a high degree of confidence,” wrote Bob Lord, the company’s Chief Information Security Officer, in the Tumblr post.
Asked about charges by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that “Russian state actors” hacked the DNC in order to help Trump, who has made sympathetic comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manafort on Sunday dismissed the charges in multiple television interviews as “absurd” and “crazy.” The claims are “pure obfuscation on the part of the Clinton campaign,” Manafort said on ABCs “This Week.” “What they don’t want to talk about is what’s in those emails.”
In mid-June, Democratic Party suspicions about the hackers seemed to be confirmed when CrowdStrike, an outside security firm retained by the DNC, reported that it traced the hackers to two separate units linked to Russia’s security services: the FSB, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI, and GRU, the country’s military intelligence agency. The company noted strong similarities between the attack on the DNC by the suspected GRU hackers and previous cyberintrusions of unclassified systems at the White House, the State Department and the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (After discovering the data breach, a DNC security source said its cyberexperts noted that the hackers’ exfiltration of files took place “9 to 5, Moscow time.”) An FBI official confirmed that the bureau has been investigating the breach for some time, and, according to one source familiar with the matter, Director James Comey has been personally briefed.
The extent of the damage was at first unclear. When they first authorized a public release of the CrowdStrike analysis, party officials said that the hackers had targeted oppo files on Donald Trump. But they told reporters that no personal information about donors had been penetrated. Party officials are no longer standing by those assurances. Two sources familiar with the breach said that the hackers’ reach was far more widespread than initially thought and includes personal data about big party contributors and internal “vetting” evaluations that include embarrassing comments about their business dealings (as well as gossipy internal emails about the private affairs of DNC staffers). One newly posted email discusses a prospective DNC donor’s offering to host a fundraiser with President Obama, noting that he had previously been convicted in a case involving allegations that he killed 50 horses, as part of an insurance fraud scheme. Party officials are bracing for more damaging document dumps after Labor Day. “They’re having to do serious damage control with the donors right now,” said a party official familiar with the matter.
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
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There are also signs that the hackers have penetrated the personal email of some Clinton campaign staffers — at least those who were in communication with senior DNC staff members. On May 6, John McCarthy, a DNC consultant who has since joined the Clinton campaign to do outreach to religious groups, sent an email to Chalupa from his personal Gmail account that was then forwarded to other party officials. McCarthy proposed arranging for religious leaders who have “condemned Trump for bringing out the worst in America” to stage a protest at the Republican National Convention. “It would be great to try and engage them and get them to do something at convention, etc. Maybe do a vigil at the Cleveland convention?” McCarthy wrote in the email, which included his personal cellphone number and which has now been posted as part of the WikiLeaks data dump.
There is still much that is not known about the DNC hack and how, if the Russians are indeed behind it, the emails found their way to WikiLeaks. Some commentators have noted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has in the past hosted a talk show on RT, the Russian television network that serves as a propaganda arm for the Kremlin. (Assange, without providing specifics, recently claimed he will be posting more emails that will be damaging to Clinton and “provide enough evidence” to get her arrested.)
There are also signs that the Obama administration is taking the matter more seriously. The Washington Post reported Monday that White House officials convened a high-level security meeting last Thursday, hours before WikiLeaks began posting the emails, to review information about the DNC attack. Party officials are privately pushing the White House to publicly blame the Russians in the same way it blamed North Korea for the cyberattack on Sony and China for intrusions into U.S. companies. “The last time somebody broke into the DNC, it led to the resignation of a president,” said the Democratic Party security source, referring to the Watergate scandal. In some ways, the source insisted, the current cyberheist — what some in party circles are already calling a “21st century Watergate” — is even more sinister, the source said. “This is the Russians screwing with the integrity of our election process.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hacked-emails-of-dnc-oppo-researcher-point-to-russians-and-wider-penetration-154121061.html
December 10, 2016
https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraChalupa/posts/10158021849465389?pnref=story …
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807021843148369920
Alexandra Chalupa
11 hrs · Washington ·
FUN FACTS in this fluff piece article on Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner and his fast rise to power despite never being engaged in politics until this past year:
#1. Jared Kushner owns a building located at 666 5th Avenue
#2. Chris Christie was fired from transition after Trump win
#3. As a U.S. attorney in 2005, Christie jailed Kushner's father
#4. Kushner's father was jailed on tax evasion charges
#5. Kushner's father was jailed on ELECTION fraud charges, &
#6. Kushner's father was jailed on witness tampering charges.
MISSING FACTS in this fluff piece on Kushner:
#1. Kushner's main project for Trump was Cambridge Analytica
#2. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is only mentioned once in article
#3. Trump campaign paid $5 million for CA
#4. CA top investor is Robert Mercer
#5. Mercer's daughter Rebekah pushed Trump to hire CA
#6. Rebekah Mercer is now one of the top advisors on transition
#7. Steve Bannon is a board member of CA & senior WH advisor
#8. CA was used by the Brexit referendum campaign
#9. CA is a subsidiary of London-based SCL Group
#10. SCL Group is known for military disinformation campaigns
#11. CA uses psychological data on millions of Americans
#12. Most of CA's data is collected without users knowing
#13. Most of CA's data is collected without users' permission
#14. CA has microtargeting info on 220 million Americans
#15. CA claims to have 4K-5K data points on each American
#15. Kushner used CA to target mostly MI, PA, and WI
#16. CA pumped out negative info on Hillary Clinton
#17. This Hillary info CA pushed included "fake news"
#18. CA was used to lower Hillary voter turnout in key states
#19. Trump team created 100K unique digital content pieces a day
#20. Trump campaign used CA instead of a field program
#21. Trump campaign used CA instead of political operatives
#22. Clinton campaign had one of the most powerful data teams
#23. Cruz's digital director said Clinton digital team is best there is
#24. Clinton campaign had a strong field program & GOTV effort
#25. Trump team admits CA doesn't turn out voters
#26. Trump team claims CA was the reason for Trump's win
#27. Without a field program in PA, Trump had 91% GOP turnout
#27. CA may win 2 major contracts to run White House data
#28. Bannon and Mercer are pushing for the CA contracts
#29. CA will be used to promote Trump's policies.
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica, what information it possesses on Americans, how that information was taken without users knowing or their permission, and how that data was used by the Trump campaign and will be used to manipulative messaging to achieve a specific outcome, especially given CA and its parent company's shady history and track record of propaganda and misinformation wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-plan-for-a-comeback-includes-building-a-psychographic-profile-of-every-voter/2016/10/27/9064a706-9611-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.f1d94554960a
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
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Press release for Cambridge Analytica. geek tragedy, Sep 23, #9. Line New Reply They are probably just trying to train him how to react to.
Yes but trump literally has no paid people. (Reply #8 ...
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Aug 6, 2016 - 1 post
Robert Mercer is the mover and shaker behind the American franchise of Cambridge Analytica. Brother Buzz, 8 hrs ago, #9. Line New Reply ...
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Cambridge Analytica is a marketing film that targets voters (and potential donors) based on their unconscious psychological biases.
Trump team builds 'psychological profile' of Clinton for debate Read ...
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They said it was assembled with assistance from a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica that specializes in “psychographic” modeling ...
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Aug 17, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... as of 2016, Mercer has invested millions of dollars in the Heritage Foundation, the media outlet Breitbart.com, and Cambridge Analytica.
So I finally understand the Methed Out Baboon's comment about being ...
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Trump Campaign Pays Millions to Overseas Big Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 5 posts - ?3 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Dec 11, 2015 - 1 post
As part of an aggressive new voter-targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica – financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and ...
Most powerful woman in GOP politics. Bekah Mercer - to the right of ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Good Reads (Forum)
Sep 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... funding to hire a data firm owned largely by the family called Cambridge Analytica, which now counts Trump's campaign among its clients.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cambridge+analytica&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica
Wow: A closer look at Jared Kushner and the fake news machine behind Trump's campaign & now White House:https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraChalupa/posts/10158021849465389?pnref=story …
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807021843148369920
Alexandra Chalupa
11 hrs · Washington ·
FUN FACTS in this fluff piece article on Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner and his fast rise to power despite never being engaged in politics until this past year:
#1. Jared Kushner owns a building located at 666 5th Avenue
#2. Chris Christie was fired from transition after Trump win
#3. As a U.S. attorney in 2005, Christie jailed Kushner's father
#4. Kushner's father was jailed on tax evasion charges
#5. Kushner's father was jailed on ELECTION fraud charges, &
#6. Kushner's father was jailed on witness tampering charges.
MISSING FACTS in this fluff piece on Kushner:
#1. Kushner's main project for Trump was Cambridge Analytica
#2. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is only mentioned once in article
#3. Trump campaign paid $5 million for CA
#4. CA top investor is Robert Mercer
#5. Mercer's daughter Rebekah pushed Trump to hire CA
#6. Rebekah Mercer is now one of the top advisors on transition
#7. Steve Bannon is a board member of CA & senior WH advisor
#8. CA was used by the Brexit referendum campaign
#9. CA is a subsidiary of London-based SCL Group
#10. SCL Group is known for military disinformation campaigns
#11. CA uses psychological data on millions of Americans
#12. Most of CA's data is collected without users knowing
#13. Most of CA's data is collected without users' permission
#14. CA has microtargeting info on 220 million Americans
#15. CA claims to have 4K-5K data points on each American
#15. Kushner used CA to target mostly MI, PA, and WI
#16. CA pumped out negative info on Hillary Clinton
#17. This Hillary info CA pushed included "fake news"
#18. CA was used to lower Hillary voter turnout in key states
#19. Trump team created 100K unique digital content pieces a day
#20. Trump campaign used CA instead of a field program
#21. Trump campaign used CA instead of political operatives
#22. Clinton campaign had one of the most powerful data teams
#23. Cruz's digital director said Clinton digital team is best there is
#24. Clinton campaign had a strong field program & GOTV effort
#25. Trump team admits CA doesn't turn out voters
#26. Trump team claims CA was the reason for Trump's win
#27. Without a field program in PA, Trump had 91% GOP turnout
#27. CA may win 2 major contracts to run White House data
#28. Bannon and Mercer are pushing for the CA contracts
#29. CA will be used to promote Trump's policies.
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica, what information it possesses on Americans, how that information was taken without users knowing or their permission, and how that data was used by the Trump campaign and will be used to manipulative messaging to achieve a specific outcome, especially given CA and its parent company's shady history and track record of propaganda and misinformation wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-plan-for-a-comeback-includes-building-a-psychographic-profile-of-every-voter/2016/10/27/9064a706-9611-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.f1d94554960a
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
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Press release for Cambridge Analytica. (Reply #9) - Democratic ...
metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump team builds 'psycho...
Sep 23, 2016 - 18 posts - ?16 authors
Press release for Cambridge Analytica. geek tragedy, Sep 23, #9. Line New Reply They are probably just trying to train him how to react to.
Yes but trump literally has no paid people. (Reply #8 ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump Campaign Hires the ...
Aug 6, 2016 - 1 post
Robert Mercer is the mover and shaker behind the American franchise of Cambridge Analytica. Brother Buzz, 8 hrs ago, #9. Line New Reply ...
Trump Campaign Hires the Firm Behind 'Brexit' - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Aug 6, 2016 - 16 posts - ?9 authors
Cambridge Analytica is a marketing film that targets voters (and potential donors) based on their unconscious psychological biases.
Trump team builds 'psychological profile' of Clinton for debate Read ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Sep 23, 2016 - 17 posts - ?15 authors
They said it was assembled with assistance from a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica that specializes in “psychographic” modeling ...
Billionaire father and daughter linked to Trump shake-up - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › 2016 Postmortem (Forum)
Aug 17, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... as of 2016, Mercer has invested millions of dollars in the Heritage Foundation, the media outlet Breitbart.com, and Cambridge Analytica.
So I finally understand the Methed Out Baboon's comment about being ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/18/1561490/-Will-The-Real-Mr-Brexit-Please-Stand-Up-Introducing-Cambridge-Analytica Donald Trump's ...
Trump Campaign Paid $5M to 'Disturbing' Offshore Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 11 posts - ?10 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Trump Campaign Pays Millions to Overseas Big Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 5 posts - ?3 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Dec 11, 2015 - 1 post
As part of an aggressive new voter-targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica – financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and ...
Most powerful woman in GOP politics. Bekah Mercer - to the right of ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Good Reads (Forum)
Sep 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... funding to hire a data firm owned largely by the family called Cambridge Analytica, which now counts Trump's campaign among its clients.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cambridge+analytica&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com
December 10, 2016
https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraChalupa/posts/10158021849465389?pnref=story …
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807021843148369920
Alexandra Chalupa
11 hrs · Washington ·
FUN FACTS in this fluff piece article on Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner and his fast rise to power despite never being engaged in politics until this past year:
#1. Jared Kushner owns a building located at 666 5th Avenue
#2. Chris Christie was fired from transition after Trump win
#3. As a U.S. attorney in 2005, Christie jailed Kushner's father
#4. Kushner's father was jailed on tax evasion charges
#5. Kushner's father was jailed on ELECTION fraud charges, &
#6. Kushner's father was jailed on witness tampering charges.
MISSING FACTS in this fluff piece on Kushner:
#1. Kushner's main project for Trump was Cambridge Analytica
#2. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is only mentioned once in article
#3. Trump campaign paid $5 million for CA
#4. CA top investor is Robert Mercer
#5. Mercer's daughter Rebekah pushed Trump to hire CA
#6. Rebekah Mercer is now one of the top advisors on transition
#7. Steve Bannon is a board member of CA & senior WH advisor
#8. CA was used by the Brexit referendum campaign
#9. CA is a subsidiary of London-based SCL Group
#10. SCL Group is known for military disinformation campaigns
#11. CA uses psychological data on millions of Americans
#12. Most of CA's data is collected without users knowing
#13. Most of CA's data is collected without users' permission
#14. CA has microtargeting info on 220 million Americans
#15. CA claims to have 4K-5K data points on each American
#15. Kushner used CA to target mostly MI, PA, and WI
#16. CA pumped out negative info on Hillary Clinton
#17. This Hillary info CA pushed included "fake news"
#18. CA was used to lower Hillary voter turnout in key states
#19. Trump team created 100K unique digital content pieces a day
#20. Trump campaign used CA instead of a field program
#21. Trump campaign used CA instead of political operatives
#22. Clinton campaign had one of the most powerful data teams
#23. Cruz's digital director said Clinton digital team is best there is
#24. Clinton campaign had a strong field program & GOTV effort
#25. Trump team admits CA doesn't turn out voters
#26. Trump team claims CA was the reason for Trump's win
#27. Without a field program in PA, Trump had 91% GOP turnout
#27. CA may win 2 major contracts to run White House data
#28. Bannon and Mercer are pushing for the CA contracts
#29. CA will be used to promote Trump's policies.
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica, what information it possesses on Americans, how that information was taken without users knowing or their permission, and how that data was used by the Trump campaign and will be used to manipulative messaging to achieve a specific outcome, especially given CA and its parent company's shady history and track record of propaganda and misinformation wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-plan-for-a-comeback-includes-building-a-psychographic-profile-of-every-voter/2016/10/27/9064a706-9611-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.f1d94554960a
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
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Press release for Cambridge Analytica. (Reply #9) - Democratic ...
metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump team builds 'psycho...
Sep 23, 2016 - 18 posts - ?16 authors
Press release for Cambridge Analytica. geek tragedy, Sep 23, #9. Line New Reply They are probably just trying to train him how to react to.
Yes but trump literally has no paid people. (Reply #8 ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump Campaign Hires the ...
Aug 6, 2016 - 1 post
Robert Mercer is the mover and shaker behind the American franchise of Cambridge Analytica. Brother Buzz, 8 hrs ago, #9. Line New Reply ...
Trump Campaign Hires the Firm Behind 'Brexit' - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Aug 6, 2016 - 16 posts - ?9 authors
Cambridge Analytica is a marketing film that targets voters (and potential donors) based on their unconscious psychological biases.
Trump team builds 'psychological profile' of Clinton for debate Read ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Sep 23, 2016 - 17 posts - ?15 authors
They said it was assembled with assistance from a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica that specializes in “psychographic” modeling ...
Billionaire father and daughter linked to Trump shake-up - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › 2016 Postmortem (Forum)
Aug 17, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... as of 2016, Mercer has invested millions of dollars in the Heritage Foundation, the media outlet Breitbart.com, and Cambridge Analytica.
So I finally understand the Methed Out Baboon's comment about being ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/18/1561490/-Will-The-Real-Mr-Brexit-Please-Stand-Up-Introducing-Cambridge-Analytica Donald Trump's ...
Trump Campaign Paid $5M to 'Disturbing' Offshore Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 11 posts - ?10 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Trump Campaign Pays Millions to Overseas Big Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 5 posts - ?3 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Dec 11, 2015 - 1 post
As part of an aggressive new voter-targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica – financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and ...
Most powerful woman in GOP politics. Bekah Mercer - to the right of ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Good Reads (Forum)
Sep 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... funding to hire a data firm owned largely by the family called Cambridge Analytica, which now counts Trump's campaign among its clients.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cambridge+analytica&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica
Wow: A closer look at Jared Kushner and the fake news machine behind Trump's campaign & now White House:https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraChalupa/posts/10158021849465389?pnref=story …
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807021843148369920
Alexandra Chalupa
11 hrs · Washington ·
FUN FACTS in this fluff piece article on Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner and his fast rise to power despite never being engaged in politics until this past year:
#1. Jared Kushner owns a building located at 666 5th Avenue
#2. Chris Christie was fired from transition after Trump win
#3. As a U.S. attorney in 2005, Christie jailed Kushner's father
#4. Kushner's father was jailed on tax evasion charges
#5. Kushner's father was jailed on ELECTION fraud charges, &
#6. Kushner's father was jailed on witness tampering charges.
MISSING FACTS in this fluff piece on Kushner:
#1. Kushner's main project for Trump was Cambridge Analytica
#2. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is only mentioned once in article
#3. Trump campaign paid $5 million for CA
#4. CA top investor is Robert Mercer
#5. Mercer's daughter Rebekah pushed Trump to hire CA
#6. Rebekah Mercer is now one of the top advisors on transition
#7. Steve Bannon is a board member of CA & senior WH advisor
#8. CA was used by the Brexit referendum campaign
#9. CA is a subsidiary of London-based SCL Group
#10. SCL Group is known for military disinformation campaigns
#11. CA uses psychological data on millions of Americans
#12. Most of CA's data is collected without users knowing
#13. Most of CA's data is collected without users' permission
#14. CA has microtargeting info on 220 million Americans
#15. CA claims to have 4K-5K data points on each American
#15. Kushner used CA to target mostly MI, PA, and WI
#16. CA pumped out negative info on Hillary Clinton
#17. This Hillary info CA pushed included "fake news"
#18. CA was used to lower Hillary voter turnout in key states
#19. Trump team created 100K unique digital content pieces a day
#20. Trump campaign used CA instead of a field program
#21. Trump campaign used CA instead of political operatives
#22. Clinton campaign had one of the most powerful data teams
#23. Cruz's digital director said Clinton digital team is best there is
#24. Clinton campaign had a strong field program & GOTV effort
#25. Trump team admits CA doesn't turn out voters
#26. Trump team claims CA was the reason for Trump's win
#27. Without a field program in PA, Trump had 91% GOP turnout
#27. CA may win 2 major contracts to run White House data
#28. Bannon and Mercer are pushing for the CA contracts
#29. CA will be used to promote Trump's policies.
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica, what information it possesses on Americans, how that information was taken without users knowing or their permission, and how that data was used by the Trump campaign and will be used to manipulative messaging to achieve a specific outcome, especially given CA and its parent company's shady history and track record of propaganda and misinformation wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-plan-for-a-comeback-includes-building-a-psychographic-profile-of-every-voter/2016/10/27/9064a706-9611-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.f1d94554960a
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
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Press release for Cambridge Analytica. (Reply #9) - Democratic ...
metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump team builds 'psycho...
Sep 23, 2016 - 18 posts - ?16 authors
Press release for Cambridge Analytica. geek tragedy, Sep 23, #9. Line New Reply They are probably just trying to train him how to react to.
Yes but trump literally has no paid people. (Reply #8 ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump Campaign Hires the ...
Aug 6, 2016 - 1 post
Robert Mercer is the mover and shaker behind the American franchise of Cambridge Analytica. Brother Buzz, 8 hrs ago, #9. Line New Reply ...
Trump Campaign Hires the Firm Behind 'Brexit' - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Aug 6, 2016 - 16 posts - ?9 authors
Cambridge Analytica is a marketing film that targets voters (and potential donors) based on their unconscious psychological biases.
Trump team builds 'psychological profile' of Clinton for debate Read ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Sep 23, 2016 - 17 posts - ?15 authors
They said it was assembled with assistance from a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica that specializes in “psychographic” modeling ...
Billionaire father and daughter linked to Trump shake-up - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › 2016 Postmortem (Forum)
Aug 17, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... as of 2016, Mercer has invested millions of dollars in the Heritage Foundation, the media outlet Breitbart.com, and Cambridge Analytica.
So I finally understand the Methed Out Baboon's comment about being ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/18/1561490/-Will-The-Real-Mr-Brexit-Please-Stand-Up-Introducing-Cambridge-Analytica Donald Trump's ...
Trump Campaign Paid $5M to 'Disturbing' Offshore Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 11 posts - ?10 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Trump Campaign Pays Millions to Overseas Big Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 5 posts - ?3 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Dec 11, 2015 - 1 post
As part of an aggressive new voter-targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica – financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and ...
Most powerful woman in GOP politics. Bekah Mercer - to the right of ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Good Reads (Forum)
Sep 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... funding to hire a data firm owned largely by the family called Cambridge Analytica, which now counts Trump's campaign among its clients.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cambridge+analytica&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com
December 9, 2016
https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraChalupa/posts/10158021849465389?pnref=story …
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807021843148369920
Alexandra Chalupa
11 hrs · Washington ·
FUN FACTS in this fluff piece article on Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner and his fast rise to power despite never being engaged in politics until this past year:
#1. Jared Kushner owns a building located at 666 5th Avenue
#2. Chris Christie was fired from transition after Trump win
#3. As a U.S. attorney in 2005, Christie jailed Kushner's father
#4. Kushner's father was jailed on tax evasion charges
#5. Kushner's father was jailed on ELECTION fraud charges, &
#6. Kushner's father was jailed on witness tampering charges.
MISSING FACTS in this fluff piece on Kushner:
#1. Kushner's main project for Trump was Cambridge Analytica
#2. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is only mentioned once in article
#3. Trump campaign paid $5 million for CA
#4. CA top investor is Robert Mercer
#5. Mercer's daughter Rebekah pushed Trump to hire CA
#6. Rebekah Mercer is now one of the top advisors on transition
#7. Steve Bannon is a board member of CA & senior WH advisor
#8. CA was used by the Brexit referendum campaign
#9. CA is a subsidiary of London-based SCL Group
#10. SCL Group is known for military disinformation campaigns
#11. CA uses psychological data on millions of Americans
#12. Most of CA's data is collected without users knowing
#13. Most of CA's data is collected without users' permission
#14. CA has microtargeting info on 220 million Americans
#15. CA claims to have 4K-5K data points on each American
#15. Kushner used CA to target mostly MI, PA, and WI
#16. CA pumped out negative info on Hillary Clinton
#17. This Hillary info CA pushed included "fake news"
#18. CA was used to lower Hillary voter turnout in key states
#19. Trump team created 100K unique digital content pieces a day
#20. Trump campaign used CA instead of a field program
#21. Trump campaign used CA instead of political operatives
#22. Clinton campaign had one of the most powerful data teams
#23. Cruz's digital director said Clinton digital team is best there is
#24. Clinton campaign had a strong field program & GOTV effort
#25. Trump team admits CA doesn't turn out voters
#26. Trump team claims CA was the reason for Trump's win
#27. Without a field program in PA, Trump had 91% GOP turnout
#27. CA may win 2 major contracts to run White House data
#28. Bannon and Mercer are pushing for the CA contracts
#29. CA will be used to promote Trump's policies.
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica, what information it possesses on Americans, how that information was taken without users knowing or their permission, and how that data was used by the Trump campaign and will be used to manipulative messaging to achieve a specific outcome, especially given CA and its parent company's shady history and track record of propaganda and misinformation wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-plan-for-a-comeback-includes-building-a-psychographic-profile-of-every-voter/2016/10/27/9064a706-9611-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.f1d94554960a
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
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Press release for Cambridge Analytica. geek tragedy, Sep 23, #9. Line New Reply They are probably just trying to train him how to react to.
Yes but trump literally has no paid people. (Reply #8 ...
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Robert Mercer is the mover and shaker behind the American franchise of Cambridge Analytica. Brother Buzz, 8 hrs ago, #9. Line New Reply ...
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Cambridge Analytica is a marketing film that targets voters (and potential donors) based on their unconscious psychological biases.
Trump team builds 'psychological profile' of Clinton for debate Read ...
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They said it was assembled with assistance from a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica that specializes in “psychographic” modeling ...
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... as of 2016, Mercer has invested millions of dollars in the Heritage Foundation, the media outlet Breitbart.com, and Cambridge Analytica.
So I finally understand the Methed Out Baboon's comment about being ...
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In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
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... funding to hire a data firm owned largely by the family called Cambridge Analytica, which now counts Trump's campaign among its clients.
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Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica
Wow: A closer look at Jared Kushner and the fake news machine behind Trump's campaign & now White House:https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraChalupa/posts/10158021849465389?pnref=story …
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807021843148369920
Alexandra Chalupa
11 hrs · Washington ·
FUN FACTS in this fluff piece article on Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner and his fast rise to power despite never being engaged in politics until this past year:
#1. Jared Kushner owns a building located at 666 5th Avenue
#2. Chris Christie was fired from transition after Trump win
#3. As a U.S. attorney in 2005, Christie jailed Kushner's father
#4. Kushner's father was jailed on tax evasion charges
#5. Kushner's father was jailed on ELECTION fraud charges, &
#6. Kushner's father was jailed on witness tampering charges.
MISSING FACTS in this fluff piece on Kushner:
#1. Kushner's main project for Trump was Cambridge Analytica
#2. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is only mentioned once in article
#3. Trump campaign paid $5 million for CA
#4. CA top investor is Robert Mercer
#5. Mercer's daughter Rebekah pushed Trump to hire CA
#6. Rebekah Mercer is now one of the top advisors on transition
#7. Steve Bannon is a board member of CA & senior WH advisor
#8. CA was used by the Brexit referendum campaign
#9. CA is a subsidiary of London-based SCL Group
#10. SCL Group is known for military disinformation campaigns
#11. CA uses psychological data on millions of Americans
#12. Most of CA's data is collected without users knowing
#13. Most of CA's data is collected without users' permission
#14. CA has microtargeting info on 220 million Americans
#15. CA claims to have 4K-5K data points on each American
#15. Kushner used CA to target mostly MI, PA, and WI
#16. CA pumped out negative info on Hillary Clinton
#17. This Hillary info CA pushed included "fake news"
#18. CA was used to lower Hillary voter turnout in key states
#19. Trump team created 100K unique digital content pieces a day
#20. Trump campaign used CA instead of a field program
#21. Trump campaign used CA instead of political operatives
#22. Clinton campaign had one of the most powerful data teams
#23. Cruz's digital director said Clinton digital team is best there is
#24. Clinton campaign had a strong field program & GOTV effort
#25. Trump team admits CA doesn't turn out voters
#26. Trump team claims CA was the reason for Trump's win
#27. Without a field program in PA, Trump had 91% GOP turnout
#27. CA may win 2 major contracts to run White House data
#28. Bannon and Mercer are pushing for the CA contracts
#29. CA will be used to promote Trump's policies.
Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica, what information it possesses on Americans, how that information was taken without users knowing or their permission, and how that data was used by the Trump campaign and will be used to manipulative messaging to achieve a specific outcome, especially given CA and its parent company's shady history and track record of propaganda and misinformation wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-plan-for-a-comeback-includes-building-a-psychographic-profile-of-every-voter/2016/10/27/9064a706-9611-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.f1d94554960a
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-
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Press release for Cambridge Analytica. (Reply #9) - Democratic ...
metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump team builds 'psycho...
Sep 23, 2016 - 18 posts - ?16 authors
Press release for Cambridge Analytica. geek tragedy, Sep 23, #9. Line New Reply They are probably just trying to train him how to react to.
Yes but trump literally has no paid people. (Reply #8 ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Trump Campaign Hires the ...
Aug 6, 2016 - 1 post
Robert Mercer is the mover and shaker behind the American franchise of Cambridge Analytica. Brother Buzz, 8 hrs ago, #9. Line New Reply ...
Trump Campaign Hires the Firm Behind 'Brexit' - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Aug 6, 2016 - 16 posts - ?9 authors
Cambridge Analytica is a marketing film that targets voters (and potential donors) based on their unconscious psychological biases.
Trump team builds 'psychological profile' of Clinton for debate Read ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Sep 23, 2016 - 17 posts - ?15 authors
They said it was assembled with assistance from a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica that specializes in “psychographic” modeling ...
Billionaire father and daughter linked to Trump shake-up - Democratic ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › 2016 Postmortem (Forum)
Aug 17, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... as of 2016, Mercer has invested millions of dollars in the Heritage Foundation, the media outlet Breitbart.com, and Cambridge Analytica.
So I finally understand the Methed Out Baboon's comment about being ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/18/1561490/-Will-The-Real-Mr-Brexit-Please-Stand-Up-Introducing-Cambridge-Analytica Donald Trump's ...
Trump Campaign Paid $5M to 'Disturbing' Offshore Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
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In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Trump Campaign Pays Millions to Overseas Big Data Firm ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › General Discussion: 2016 (Forum)
Nov 4, 2016 - 5 posts - ?3 authors
In September alone, the Trump campaign paid British firm Cambridge Analytica $5 million to help target voters. The company says it holds data ...
Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Latest Breaking News (Forum)
Dec 11, 2015 - 1 post
As part of an aggressive new voter-targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica – financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and ...
Most powerful woman in GOP politics. Bekah Mercer - to the right of ...
www.democraticunderground.com › ... › Main › Good Reads (Forum)
Sep 7, 2016 - 3 posts - ?2 authors
... funding to hire a data firm owned largely by the family called Cambridge Analytica, which now counts Trump's campaign among its clients.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cambridge+analytica&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com
December 6, 2016
Things I Blame For Hillary Clinton’s Loss, Ranked
I know this is going to piss a lot of people off, but so be it.
12/05/2016 11:46 am ET | Updated 20 hours ago
Max Weiss
Here is my response to the Slate article, “So We’re Still Blaming Jill Stein and James Comey, Huh?”
This is a partial list of the things I blame, ranked.
1-199. MISOGYNY
This is why they chant “lock her up” and “Trump that b*tch.” It’s why people can’t quite put a finger on it, but they just don’t like the cut of her jib. It’s why they see her as shrill and scolding and corrupt ― not sufficiently warm, not the kind of person they want to grab a beer with. It’s why, following a tried-and-true pop culture paradigm — from Lady Macbeth to Claire Underwood — they see her as hungry for power and willing to do anything — even murder — to get what she wants. It’s why 2016’s answer to most election-related questions is, “It’s the misogyny, stupid!”
200. BERNIE SANDERS
I know this is going to piss a lot of people off, but so be it. I think Sanders, who fortified the recurring narrative that Hillary was a corrupt neoliberal and part of a rigged system, did more damage than anyone else. He turned millions of young people against Hillary — and countless independents, no doubt, too.
Yes, he ultimately campaigned for Hillary, but did so half-heartedly, through pursed lips and slumped body language, bashing Trump but rarely praising Hillary. One could almost see the thought bubble over his head: “This should’ve been me.”
201. FAKE NEWS
This, like almost everything on this list, is a subset of the misogyny. But these were among the stories that were circulating on the web — and that people believed — about Hillary Clinton during the campaign.
She’s got Parkinson’s or MS and is covering it up.
She has a body double, whom she trots out when she is too ill to appear in public
She murdered a DNC staffer, among many others
She exchanged “signals” with Lester Holt from the debate stage.
She runs a child pedophilia ring out of pizza parlor in D.C. (And as we saw this weekend, this kind of fake news can have real consequences.)
I could go on…
202. JAMES COMEY...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/things-i-blame-for-hillary-clintons-loss-ranked_us_58459894e4b0496fbcb0c26d
Things I Blame For Hillary Clintons Loss, Ranked (Huff Po)
Things I Blame For Hillary Clinton’s Loss, Ranked
I know this is going to piss a lot of people off, but so be it.
12/05/2016 11:46 am ET | Updated 20 hours ago
Max Weiss
Here is my response to the Slate article, “So We’re Still Blaming Jill Stein and James Comey, Huh?”
This is a partial list of the things I blame, ranked.
1-199. MISOGYNY
This is why they chant “lock her up” and “Trump that b*tch.” It’s why people can’t quite put a finger on it, but they just don’t like the cut of her jib. It’s why they see her as shrill and scolding and corrupt ― not sufficiently warm, not the kind of person they want to grab a beer with. It’s why, following a tried-and-true pop culture paradigm — from Lady Macbeth to Claire Underwood — they see her as hungry for power and willing to do anything — even murder — to get what she wants. It’s why 2016’s answer to most election-related questions is, “It’s the misogyny, stupid!”
200. BERNIE SANDERS
I know this is going to piss a lot of people off, but so be it. I think Sanders, who fortified the recurring narrative that Hillary was a corrupt neoliberal and part of a rigged system, did more damage than anyone else. He turned millions of young people against Hillary — and countless independents, no doubt, too.
Yes, he ultimately campaigned for Hillary, but did so half-heartedly, through pursed lips and slumped body language, bashing Trump but rarely praising Hillary. One could almost see the thought bubble over his head: “This should’ve been me.”
201. FAKE NEWS
This, like almost everything on this list, is a subset of the misogyny. But these were among the stories that were circulating on the web — and that people believed — about Hillary Clinton during the campaign.
She’s got Parkinson’s or MS and is covering it up.
She has a body double, whom she trots out when she is too ill to appear in public
She murdered a DNC staffer, among many others
She exchanged “signals” with Lester Holt from the debate stage.
She runs a child pedophilia ring out of pizza parlor in D.C. (And as we saw this weekend, this kind of fake news can have real consequences.)
I could go on…
202. JAMES COMEY...
Things I don’t blame:
1. HILLARY HERSELF.
She won every debate. She came up with well thought out, concrete plans to govern. She carried herself with dignity and grace, despite all the endless, misogynist shit that was hurled at her. She was nothing short of heroic.
2. IDENTITY POLITICS
Because seriously, fu*k that.
1. HILLARY HERSELF.
She won every debate. She came up with well thought out, concrete plans to govern. She carried herself with dignity and grace, despite all the endless, misogynist shit that was hurled at her. She was nothing short of heroic.
2. IDENTITY POLITICS
Because seriously, fu*k that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/things-i-blame-for-hillary-clintons-loss-ranked_us_58459894e4b0496fbcb0c26d
December 5, 2016
https://medium.com/lessig/the-equal-protection-argument-against-winner-take-all-in-the-electoral-college-b09e8a49d777#.kyqhlyifa
Why Bush v. Gore might mean that Clinton should be president: The EP argument against winner-take-al
Why Bush v. Gore might mean that Clinton should be president: The EP argument against winner-take-all: #1p1vote
https://twitter.com/lessig/status/805426166433742850
The Equal Protection argument against “winner take all” in the Electoral College
It’s perfectly clear that the Attorney General of New York or California could walk into the Supreme Court tomorrow, and ask the Court to hear the case. Delaware tried to do this exactly fifty years ago, but the Court ducked the question. But based on that complaint, were I a citizen of California, I’d ask my current AG (and future Senator) why hasn’t CA done the same thing? And were I a citizen of New York, I’d ask my AG the same. Why are these big states standing by quietly as their voters are essentially silenced by the unconstitutional inequality?
https://medium.com/lessig/the-equal-protection-argument-against-winner-take-all-in-the-electoral-college-b09e8a49d777#.kyqhlyifa
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