Information & Ethics committee  The only issue that I think would need to really be carefully considered is, if you start to require political parties to have opt-in consent before they talk to voters, or if they receive some kind of opt-out, they can never engage that voter again, and you may create a situatio

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. I'm not sure what time it is at the moment, but I'm sure I can, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  I've watched parts of it. I haven't seen the entire thing.

Information & Ethics committee  My impression was that there were answers that felt obfuscated or that were, as has been discussed now, so fantastical that they're hard to believe.

Information & Ethics committee  The way I look at it is, Cambridge Analytica is the canary in the coal mine. Cambridge Analytica is the beginning; it's not the end. What the CIA has exposed is how easy it is to misappropriate information, take funds from mysterious sources, and then go and interfere in election

Information & Ethics committee  I think one of the biggest things that I've learned in this process is that I get a lot of the same questions and see a lot of the same problems with the different legislators and governments that I've been dealing with around the world. One of the things that I've also seen is h

Information & Ethics committee  I think that it has to happen at an international level or across parliamentary level.

Information & Ethics committee  Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon wanted to use the services of SCL, but there were two issues. First of all, there were issues in the United States about using a foreign contractor, particularly a foreign military contractor, in domestic U.S. elections. This was in both a complianc

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Actually, no; the opposite. You have to remember that Robert Mercer is one of the wealthiest people in the United States. He's a billionaire. He doesn't need more money. The contract values you get in politics pale in comparison with corporate finance. For him, he wasn't necessar

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  So one of the ancillary benefits.... I can't speak to the specific intention or to the reason it was set up this way. I mean, it was set up with an incredibly convoluted structure, but as it was explained to me, there is a benefit. That is, if you are an investor in a company tha

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I think this is in part where a vulnerability has been exposed in a lot of countries' electoral laws. If you pass money into companies, and then those companies provide services for domestic clients, it's not always transparent where some of that money came from. More report