Incredible reporting from @NicoHines & great courage from @thedailybeast in publishing this. These messages with siginificant new info about Banks’s r’ship with Wikileaks & Cambridge Analytica leaked in Nov, but no British news org reported on it...
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@NicoHines @thedailybeast In November, a message appeared on Arron Banks's Twitter feed with a download link that transpired to be a cache of his private messages: a hack. I tweeted the fact that he'd been hacked (but nothing about the content) & promptly got not 1 but 2 legal letters from Banks...
@NicoHines @thedailybeast The material disappeared off the internet. Legal takedown notices? In the UK, we have privacy laws that protect the rights of individuals. But the content resurfaced on a US website Cryptome & @thedailybeast's story shows clear public interest reasons for finally reporting it
@NicoHines @thedailybeast There's a wealth of new info in Banks's private messages that directly concern both US & UK elections...starting with v serious qs about what happened at that Farage-Assange meeting back in March 2017. Did Banks have prior knowledge of a Wikileaks leak? Or was he just boasting? 
@NicoHines @thedailybeast And then there's this. An alarming claim by Banks about the National Crime Agency investigators. What does this mean?? "throughout the investigation into us we were privy to who said what etc and why".
@NCA_LynneOwens??
@NCA_LynneOwens??
@NicoHines @thedailybeast @NCA_LynneOwens And then there's this. I would love to know what this means but Arron Banks refused to answer any inquiries @nicohines put to him. But why are he and Lord Ashcroft talking about correspondent banking? And why involve the White House?
@NicoHines @thedailybeast @NCA_LynneOwens Perhaps there's a financial expert out there who can help explain correspondent banking? It seems a complicated business with a lot of risk.
@NicoHines @thedailybeast @NCA_LynneOwens And then there's the old, old, old, old, old chestnut of how Cambridge Analytica did no work for the Leave campaign. Except all the times they said they did...
@NicoHines @thedailybeast @NCA_LynneOwens Anyway. I'd better go to bed. I assume Arron Banks is going to sue @thedailybeast & @cryptome into the ground rather than going after me again but who knows...
