was, you know, an american element to the russian interference in our election. what do you know about patten s role at cambridge analytica, with the parent firm of cambridge analytica. that s something we know from your reporting but we didn t see anything about it explicitly in the charging documents today. right. there are two things are really interesting about the parent company of cambridge analytica. in 2014 he started working in oregon for the parent company scl and he was focusing on micro targeting which we know is a big part of trump campaign s data operation in 2016. so he was working on that. and then he ended up working for cambridge analytica again in a campaign in a project they did for the incumbent in nigeria. and what they can there was also very interesting.
what do you know about patten s role at cambridge analytica, with the parent firm of cambridge analytica. that s something we know from your reporting but we didn t see anything about it explicitly in the charging documents today. right. there are two things are really interesting about the parent company of cambridge analytica. in 2014 he started working in oregon for the parent company scl and he was focusing on micro targeting which we know is a big part of trump campaign s data operation in 2016. so he was working on that. and then he ended up working for cambridge analytica again in a campaign in a project they did for the incumbent in nigeria. and what they can there was also very interesting. part of that project involved hacking in, hiring israeli hackers to find dirt on their clients opponents. where have i heard the
really fond of each other. they found places to work together over the last two decades. that s what sam patten told me, anyway. when i was digging into this further it made me realize the extent to which kilimnik, i was looking at this in the frame of kilimnik had managed to ingratiate himself in washington politics. he was working for this lobbying firm. he was a principal in the firm and he was lobbying the whole purpose of this company was lobbying forth these very same clients that paul manafort was lobbying for. a whole bunch of threads kind of came together. then you have the cambridge analytica leapt which on its own is very interesting. that crossover, i did not know about that before reading about it in your piece in the atlantic in april. and i didn t really know what to make of it. that s when we were starting to learn about troubles at cambridge analytica. there had been a lot of questions about whether or not the trump campaign s data operation might be a key part of wh
also, this case appears to be linked to the manafort case for sure. also, this is another unregistered foreign agent case for the special counsel s office. also, for the first time, there this case raises the possibility of justice department prosecutions for people lying to congress about the russia investigation. oh. also, for the first time, prosecutors are zoing in on trump inauguration describing illicit foreign funds being funneled into trump campaign entis for the first time. tell me more. but to my mind, most intriguingly, i think, for the first time this new case that we just learned of today, this shows the special counsel s office getting close to the donald trump campaign data operation. cambridge analytica in the case of sam patten, specifically, the unexplained links between that data operation and russia. and that of course is the bottom line of all bottom lines. so hold on.
interference in our election. what do you know about patten s role at cambridge analytica, with the parent firm of cambridge analytica. that s something we know from your reporting but we didn t see anything about it explicitly in the charging documents today. right. there are two things are really interesting about his work for scl group which is the parent group of cambridge and cambridge itself. in 2014, he started working in oregon for the parent company scl and he was fooking on microtargeting which we know was a big part of the trump campaign s data operation in 2016. so he was working on that. and then he ended up working for cambridge analytica again in a campaign in a project they did for the incumbent in nigeria. and what they did there was also very interesting because part that have project actually involved hacking in, hiring israeli hackers to find dirt on their client s opponents.