Article snippet: Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee will soon have the opportunity to question the former employee who helped reveal that a political data firm with ties to presidential election. Christopher Wylie, a former employee of the firm Cambridge Analytica confirmed to ABC News that he has accepted an invitation to appear for an interview with congressional investigators. “One of the reasons why I’m speaking out is because I think that it’s really concerning that no one has really investigated Cambridge Analytica and its role in the 2016 election,” Wylie told ABC News in a recent interview. On Monday, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, the top Democrat on the committee, invited Wylie and Russian-American researcher Aleksandr Kogan to appear for interviews following reports about the data harvesting efforts at Cambridge Analytica. Wylie’s cooperation could be seen as a boon to Democrats seeking to continue their Russia investigation unilaterally after Republicans determined the committee had found no evidence of collusion. The New York Times and The Observer of London first reported that Cambridge Analytica, beginning in 2014, used an app created by Kogan to harvest data from 50 million Facebook user profiles without permission, and used the data as part of its work profiling and targeting American voters. Cambridge Analytica — which was financed in part by GOP donor Robert Mercer — was employed by according to Federal Election Commission disbur... Link to the full article to read more