there was an appetite among Democrats and even some Republicans to get to the bottom of why Trump had so drastically fired FBI director James Comey after telling him to drop the investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn—who, it turned out, had a consulting agreement with Cambridge Analytica. The full story went far beyond Brexit—it was about Bannon, Trump, Russia, and Silicon Valley. It was about who controls your identity, and the corporations that traffic in your data.
