Sanders campaign's Clinton data searches appear to violate federal law.

[SunSeeker]

Summaries of data logs provided to the AP show the Sanders team spent nearly an hour in the database reviewing information on Clinton's high-priority voters and other data from nearly a dozen states, including first-to-vote Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Some of these voter lists were saved into a folder named "Targets," according to the logs. Uretsky's deputy appeared to focus on pulling data on South Carolina and Iowa voters based on turnout and support — or lack of support — for Clinton.

The Sanders campaign employees who accessed the Clinton voter information without authorization appear to have run afoul of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, said Jason Weinstein, a former supervisor of the Justice Department's computer crimes section.

Those employees "have reason to be concerned about legal exposure," he said, for what appears to fit the definition of illegal hacking.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/da7e5f2765814506a2519ea03055c1e6/dnc-barring-sanders-team-accessing-data-after-breach

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[Historic NY]

2. K&R

[Hoyt]

3. I'm sure if it can't be blamed on Clinton, Obama will be faulted.

[leftofcool]

4. There will be charges filed.

[elleng]

6. By whom?

The Department of Justice?

[leftofcool]

9. Most likely

Stealing data is a federal crime.

[shenmue]

10. Yeah!

[Iliyah]

5. And in the end of today, the BS campaign "complied with the DNC" and therefore

their voter files will be restored.

Investigations will proceed.

[RandySF]

7. k&R

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. Well...well. This just gets better & better.

[Cha]

11. Yeah, did they think they could just download and get away with it in this techie age? Sabotaging

their own campaign seems stupid.

[SunSeeker]

14. Yup. I love Brian Fallon's tweet:

Brian Fallon, Clinton's national press secretary, tweeted after the suit was filed that "if you are so proud of your grassroots organization, you should not need to resort to stealing campaign data."

 http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/sanders-sues-dnc_56748b06e4b06fa6887d883e?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&section=politics

[Cha]

15. oouuu!! I love it, thank you, SunSeeker! I'll have to pass that around..

"Brian Fallon, Clinton's national press secretary, tweeted after the suit was filed that "if you are so proud of your grassroots organization, you should not need to resort to stealing campaign data."

[riversedge]

22. Thank you Brian Fallon.

[Princess Turandot]

12. Has the #2 data guy commented on Uretsky's....

bullshit explanation yet? He hasn't been fired.

[SunSeeker]

24. If he has counsel, I imagine he will plead the 5th.

But so far, no word from any of Uretsky's three co-conspirators.

[workinclasszero]

13. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

The Sanders campaign employees who accessed the Clinton voter information without authorization appear to have run afoul of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, said Jason Weinstein, a former supervisor of the Justice Department's computer crimes section.

[Thinkingabout]

16. They dont have the campaign experience of Hillary and the Sanders

Campaign is trying to play catchup. Their big problem is Hillary is a stronger candidate than Sanders, violating the database will not make Sanders stronger.

[wildeyed]

17. Well I am sure the Justice Department is in the bag

for Clinton too.

Along with the media, the DNC... Who else am I missing?

What is infuriating, the campaign was clearly up to dirty tricks, then he uses the kerfuffle to whip up the base and soak them for $$$$ and THEN we still get lectured about the sterling ethics of the anti-politician Bernie Sanders. And he is playing SMASH MOUTH dirty politics all over the place. The hypocrisy is even more glaring that usual.

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. Yeah, you missed about 60% of the Democratic Party. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

28. Thread Winner!

[yallerdawg]

18. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says:

"Would you like some more rope? I'll give you all you want!"

[GusBob]

19. A list of your opponents called "targets"

An enemies list more accurate

[SunSeeker]

25. No, the "Targets" were voters the Sanders campaign hoped to sway.

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Uretsky and his co-conspirators saved this Clinton data into a file they named "Targets" that listed Dem voters who were less likely to vote for Hillary. It was valuable data that would allow Bernie to target his resources to the most pursuadable voters.

[FloridaBlues]

21. This whole thing with sanders campaign response is a disgrace

I hope the independent invention shows it to be illegal it certainly is unethical !
His poll numbers will tank and we will work that much harder for Hillary

[Starry Messenger]

23. Weaver is a turd.

Absolutely psycho that they'd turn this all around on the HRC campaign after *their* campaign's wrongdoing, which yes, violates laws in this. Totally irresponsible and a complete failure of leadership on all level.

[OilemFirchen]

26. Contrary to some of the posters thus far...

I hope that Justice takes a pass on this.

There is nothing good to be accomplished by perpetuating this. The only clear winners from a protracted intra-Dem fight are Republicans.

Now... if the Sanders campaign continues to pursue this lawsuit, then I say fuck 'em. If Sanders continues to attack the DNC publicly, then fuck him. At that point, it'll be clear that their desperation has morphed into a scheme to kneecap the Democratic Party. If so, the Party should destroy their little hipster haven and never look back.

[Tarheel_Dem]

29. I just think it's ironic that the dude running an outsider campaign taking advantage of illegally...

obtained insider information. Dirty tricks aren't becoming to someone as ideologically chaste as BS.

[SunSeeker]

30. It's not insider information. Anyone could get it, if they PAID for it.

But it is very expensive. Figuring out who are pursuadable Dem voters for your candidate, and who are not, so you don't waste your resources, is a time-consuming, expensive task performed by professionals. The Sanders campaign pilfered valuable data. Riversedge has posts explaining this. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=918537

No doubt the Clinton campaign paid a lot of money for this data, maybe millions. The Sanders campaign could use this data without having paid for it, and save enormous amounts of money by targeting specific Dem voters that data said were less likely to vote for Hillary. Indeed, the Uretsky cabal saved such data to a file they named "Target."