It would also explain why Facebook send their people to Cambridge Analytica as soon as the Channel 4 story broke.
Because they knew from their work on the Trump campaign that Alexander Nix's algorithm was a load of bullshit and they ran their operation on stolen data.
In fact their actual work was very ineffective overall according to Parscale and even other 'independent' experts who looked at the ads they ran and the results.
Their spiel about reading into data and figuring out interests wasn't new in data analytics. In the end the big mystery was always where Nix got his data from to run his analysis on.
At the same time it would uncover why and how Cambridge Analytica got resources to offer their other far less legal 'services' they were peddling to the undercover journalists of Channel 4.
Cambridge Analytica was a front for or at least colluding with the GRU.
Because it shows that the higher echelon of the campaign did not know what the Russians were up to.
You realize those emails were to set up a meeting, right? Then they had the meeting?
Maybe if the Russians were operating out of a secret forest hideout with "rape trees" that would change things for you.
Agreed that those emails seem to show exactly the opposite of what Nintex is saying. IMO, the meeting and the emails around it were basically all you need to prove collusion. That WAS the conspiracy.
My point is that if the starting of focal point is the e-mails you skip the entire Carter Page, Papedoulous something, Roger Stone, Manafort etc. show .
Basically it would mean that it all began with that lady reaching out to Don Jr. to peddle some secrets about Clinton.