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Cambridge Analytica CEO mocked House Intelligence Committee GOP for softball questions

By Kelly Cohen

Published March 20, 2018 8:20pm ET

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Cambridge Analytica CEO mocked House Intelligence Committee GOP for softball questions — Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica Alexander Nix, leaves the offices in central London, Tuesday March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica, has been accused of improperly using information from more than 50 million Facebook accounts. It denies wrongdoing. | (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

The now-suspended CEO of data firm Cambridge Analytics appeared to mock Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee for giving him softball questions during his 2017 testimony.

“After five minutes – done,” Alexander Nix said in a video published by Channel 4, a British broadcaster. “They’re politicians, they’re not technical. They don’t understand how it works.”

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