quote [ John Bolton — the former U.S. ambassador and current Fox News pundit named to the NSA post Thursday — founded a political action committee and became one of Cambridge Analytica’s first customers in 2014, hiring the British data firm to gather and exploit the psychological profiles of millions of Facebook users, according to company documents and former employees who spoke to the New York Times. CA is now at the center of a widening scandal for Facebook over its handling of user data in the 2016 election. ]