{"id":9013,"date":"2023-02-18T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/revealed-the-us-adviser-who-tried-to-swing-nigerias-2015-election\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:39:23","slug":"revealed-the-us-adviser-who-tried-to-swing-nigerias-2015-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/revealed-the-us-adviser-who-tried-to-swing-nigerias-2015-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: the US adviser who tried to swing Nigeria\u2019s 2015 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan\u2019s team<\/p>\n<p>In late December 2014, a team from Cambridge Analytica flew to Madrid for meetings with a handful of old and new contacts. A member of the former Libyan royal family referred to as \u201cHis Royal Highness\u201d was there. So, too, was the son of a US billionaire, a Nigerian businessman and a private Israeli intelligence operative.<\/p>\n<p>For Alexander Nix, the Etonian chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, and his new employee Brittany Kaiser, who networked like most other people breathed, there may have been nothing unusual about such a gathering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/18\/cambridge-analytica-staff-leaked-emails-team-jorge-nigeria-election-sam-patten-tal-hanan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ae8745de44c53a9aed25bc7fbd8edf7db6165e33\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9bde8f10f8e2b25f132247f2b5793e90\" title=\"Revealed: the US adviser who tried to swing Nigeria\u2019s 2015 election\" \/>Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan\u2019s team<br \/>\nIn late December 2014, a team from Cambridge Analytica flew to Madrid for meetings with a handful of old and new contacts. A member of the former Libyan royal family referred to as \u201cHis Royal Highness\u201d was there. So, too, was the son of a US billionaire, a Nigerian businessman and a private Israeli intelligence operative.<br \/>\nFor Alexander Nix, the Etonian chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, and his new employee Brittany Kaiser, who networked like most other people breathed, there may have been nothing unusual about such a gathering. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan\u2019s team In late December 2014, a team from Cambridge Analytica flew to Madrid for meetings with a handful of old and new contacts. A member of the former Libyan royal family referred to as \u201cHis Royal Highness\u201d was there. So, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/revealed-the-us-adviser-who-tried-to-swing-nigerias-2015-election\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revealed: the US adviser who tried to swing Nigeria\u2019s 2015 election<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}