Bolton (Worse); McMaster (Didn't Fit); Flynn (Bad)
Bolton PAC now connected to this huge growing scandal
WASHINGTON
(NY Times) — It has been revealed that super
PAC founded by John
Bolton, Trump’s latest and #3 incoming NSC adviser to replace H.R. McMaster,
was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, who was hired to develop
psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of
Facebook profiles (some 50 million
overall).
Bolton’s PAC, known as “The John Bolton Super PAC,” first hired
Cambridge in August 2014, months after the political data firm was founded and while
it was still harvesting
the Facebook data.
In the two
years that followed, Bolton’s PAC spent nearly $1.2 million primarily for
“survey research,” which is a term that campaigns use for polling. But the
contract between the Bolton PAC and Cambridge (copy obtained by The NY Times) offers more detail on what Bolton
was buying. The contract broadly describes the services to be delivered by
Cambridge as “behavioral micro-targeting with psychographic messaging.” To do
the work, Cambridge used Facebook data, according to the documents and two
former employees familiar with the work.
One of those former employees, Christopher
Wylie, data expert, and one who was part of the team that founded Cambridge
Analytica (and the current whistleblower) said this: “The data and modeling Bolton’s PAC
received was derived from the Facebook data. We definitely told them about how
we were doing it. We talked about it in conference calls, in meetings. The
Bolton PAC was obsessed with how America was becoming limp wristed and spineless
and it wanted research and messaging for national security issues. That really
meant making people more militaristic in their worldview. That’s what they said
they wanted, anyway.”
Note: Cambridge Analytica rose to prominence through its work with Trump’s 2016 election campaign. Now it has found itself confronted by the a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.
Cambridge’s so-called psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the data harvested from Facebook, underpinned its work for Trump’s campaign in 2016, setting off a furious — and still unsettled — debate about whether the firm’s technology worked. The same techniques were also the focus of its work for Bolton’s super PAC.
Note: Cambridge Analytica rose to prominence through its work with Trump’s 2016 election campaign. Now it has found itself confronted by the a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.
Cambridge’s so-called psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the data harvested from Facebook, underpinned its work for Trump’s campaign in 2016, setting off a furious — and still unsettled — debate about whether the firm’s technology worked. The same techniques were also the focus of its work for Bolton’s super PAC.
My 2 cents: Knowing the background on Bolton, a
top-notch sleazebag conspiracy nut who loves the more war the better was also
deep in this Cambridge Analytica scandal – maybe the largest ever in hi-tech “hi-jacking
of personal information for political warfare” now by the Trump campaign. Now
we are on very dangerous path with this
Bolton appointment.
S/C Mueller is on that scent and trail and rightly so
since it ties directly into the dirtiest of dirty tricks to influence and
undermine the 2016 election.
This a major breakthrough in this story since it leads
to the heart of who was directly involved in the whole Trump-Russian hacking, massive
bot usage, the calculated undermining of our democratic voting process and
systems, and now this deep
Cambridge Analytica involvement.
That same NY Magazine has this
very interesting article with this title:
“Nobody is Left to Save the World From
Trump Now”
I can’t believe or trust anything that Trump says or
those around him on this issue and no one will ever convince me that with all
that we know now: the guilty pleas, indictments, and such that Trump did not
know what was going on every step of the way.
Trump demands control and loyalty
and it existed in this highly-coordinated effort from day-one and that makes it
more believable.
What the outcome is remains to be seen however, this is one huge piece of a growing and yet incomplete complex puzzle.
Stay tuned and as always thanks for stopping by.
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