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A long-overlooked player is emerging as a key figure in the Trump-Russia investigation

The House Intelligence Committee plans to interview the digital director for President Donald Trump's campaign, Brad Parscale, in the Trump-Russia investigation.

Brad Parscale was the director of the Trump campaign's digital operations.

"When it was reported that they'd be calling up Parscale, I knew there was a 0% chance that they had anything," the strategist said, referring to the House Intelligence Committee. "The questions they want to ask him are apparently some of the most basic digital marketing questions, and other simple ones like 'how would the Russians have known which precincts to target?'"

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At least one Republican operative, however, made use of voter data stolen by Russian hackers last year: Florida political strategist Aaron Nevins.

Guccifer 2.0, the self-described hacker that US intelligence officials and cybersecurity experts have linked to Russian military intelligence, sent

Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology said simply: "This data is worth a s---load of money."

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