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Steven Feinberg is now chair of the Intelligence Oversight Board and Blackwater founder Erik Prince is edging closer to the WH - Trump is showing renewed interest in Prince's proposal to privatize the war in Afghanistan
nbcnews.com/news/military/…
Here's the announcement on Stephen Feinberg with short thread from @chrisgeidner with the last tweet on Feinberg's new role
Re-upping a few of my articles on Erik Prince, this one with timeline of events connecting Prince, UAE, Cambridge Analytica & others: From the Seychelles to the White House to Cambridge Analytica, Erik Prince and the UAE are key parts of the Trump story
medium.com/@wsiegelman/fr…
Erik Prince is all over the map. Literally. From DC to the DRC Prince keeps pitching new ideas — from proposals for privatized wars & spy agencies to Frontier Services Group’s Belt and Road plans, to a new company that revives the infamous Blackwater brand
medium.com/@wsiegelman/er…
A fresh look at Erik Prince’s House testimony & emails w/Christophe Charlier, Chmn of Russian company Renaissance Capital - Prince was asked about Glencore, UAE’s Mubadala fund, his ex-employee Joe Schmitz & Charlier & Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov
medium.com/@wsiegelman/a-…
Cambridge Analytica execs created a company, Emerdata, with Johnson Chun Shun Ko, Executive Director & Deputy Chairman of Erik Prince’s Frontier Services Group, Rebekah & Jennifer Mercer (Ko has since left but his colleague Gary Tiu has joined as director)
medium.com/@wsiegelman/ca…
A few more important articles on Prince, this one on his activities in China: Behind Erik Prince’s China venture - The Blackwater founder has cut a lucrative security-training deal with Chinese insiders. But is it against U.S. interests?
washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/…
This piece by @AramRoston includes a 19-slide ppt used by Erik Prince in 2017 to pitch his proposal to the WH for privatizing the war in Afghanistan - and fund it by mining Afghanistan's valuable minerals
buzzfeednews.com/article/aramro…
This March 2018 story raises questions about how Wray/DOJ view news Erik Prince is edging his way into the WH - Before he was FBI director Chris Wray supervised an investigation that found Erik Prince likely broke US law by @jeremyscahill @matthewacole theintercept.com/2018/03/19/eri…
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Both Paul Manafort & Rick Gates gave data to Konstantin Kilimnik in the spring 2016 - some data was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign - Manafort asked Gates to tell Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg Deripaska, HT @painter_nancy nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/…
Manafort and Gates passed polling data to Kilimnik to be sent to Putin ally Oleg Deripaska

Kilimnik also worked with Sam Patten who consulted for Cambridge Analytica

One of the services provided by Cambridge Analytica was polling
While the identity of the polling company is not known, here's how Cambridge Analytica described their work for the Trump campaign:

"The research team had a huge responsibility in organizing campaigns and polling voters in 17 states across the country."
ca-political.com/casestudies
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Manafort may have shared US campaign polling data w/Kilimnik

Manafort filing is not properly redacted & one section mentions:

"the Government’s allegation that Mr. Manafort lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign."
Kilimnik not only worked with Manafort, he also formed a company in 2015 with Sam Patten, who was a contractor for Cambridge Analytica

There's no evidence Kilimnik worked with Cambridge Analytica, but why would Kilimnik review US election polling data?...
Another redacted section of the filing notes "Manafort “conceded” that he discussed or may have discussed a Ukraine peace plan with Mr. Kilimnik on more than one occasion"
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No news yet, but we may soon learn more about the mystery Mueller case...
The Supreme Court ruled against the mystery company fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation that is identified as a foreign financial institution
DC Circuit's opinion affirming the contempt order in the mystery Mueller-related grand jury case against a foreign financial institution
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