Bernie campaign months ago alerted the DNC that data was available to other campaigns. Wow.

[madfloridian]

Sanders' communications head said NGP VAN has failed before

Speaking to BuzzFeed News, Michael Briggs — communications aide for the Sanders campaign — turned the blame on NGP VAN. "Sadly, the vendor who runs the DNC's voter file program continues to make serious errors," he said, referring to "more than one occasion" when Democratic campaigns were inadvertently able to access each others' data. "Our campaign months ago alerted the DNC to the fact that campaign data was being made available to other campaigns," he said. "At that time our campaign did not run to the media, relying instead on assurances from the vendor."

Again:

"Our campaign months ago alerted the DNC to the fact that campaign data was being made available to other campaigns," he said. "At that time our campaign did not run to the media, relying instead on assurances from the vendor."

The DNC said it was "short in duration"....yet they were notified months ago??

Luis Miranda, the DNC's communications director, said the committee was "working with our campaigns and the vendor to have full clarity on the extent of the breach, ensure that this isolated incident does not happen again, and to enable our campaigns to continue engaging voters on the issues that matter most to them and their families." Stu Trevelyan, head of NGP VAN, downplayed the incident, saying it was "fairly short in duration," and that "by lunchtime, it was resolved."

I smell something fishy somewhere.

[madfloridian]

1. Kick.

Somebody's not being honest.

[questionseverything]

52. it gets worse

"Turns out that Nathaniel Pearlman, the CEO of NGP-VAN, the company that is responsible for the data leak that got Sander's campaign banned by the DNC from seeing Democratic party voter roles, was the chief technology officer of the Clinton 2008 campaign."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Pearlman

[winter is coming]

2. Whoops! n/t

[madfloridian]

3. If this is not solved quickly, it will be a turning point for me...

and my respect for the party.

[w0nderer]

35. you still respect the party and not a few exceptional reps of it?

ummm ok?

i respect ya, i won't say something wrong
...yet

[madfloridian]

36. Not what I said.

[w0nderer]

37. sorry my bad, forgot the

[madfloridian]

38. ....

That's better.

[w0nderer]

43. i need to keep reminding myself to use it

i'm used to a 'patrician raised eyebrow of sarcasm' in real life <<discworld reference

[daleanime]

51. "discworld reference"....

you have my love and respect.

[Matariki]

59. !!!

[jfern]

4. The Bernie campaign doesn't use shit like this for political advantage

Shame on the Hillary campaign for being such scum here. Shame on the DNC for making Bernie seem like the bad guy. Shame shame shame.

[madfloridian]

5. Tonight has been a turning point for me.

So much harm is being done to our party by the hatred toward each other.

It never stops.

[jfern]

6. The Clintons are about divide and conquer

They try to use race, gender, and bullshit like this against Bernie and his supporters, all while expecting that everyone they've trashed will fall in line if Hillary is the nominee.

[artislife]

7. I am almost completely out the door as is....nt

[madfloridian]

8. Me. too.

This is disgusting.

[nc4bo]

47. Oh I right there also! nt

[CoffeeCat]

9. This is a manufactured problem...

...designed to deny the Sanders campaign access to critical data.

No doubt.

[winter is coming]

11. +1,000,000. n/t

[madfloridian]

14. I think this is like a final straw.

If the Bernie campaign warned them for months....then someone is not telling the truth.

[PADemD]

30. a manufactured problem

So that Hillary can play outraged victim during Saturday night's debate.

[murielm99]

40. Well, they certainly did use it for political advantage.

They did this on their own. Hillary's campaign had nothing to do with it. Neither did the DNC. Bernie's national director screwed up, and it is no one else's fault.

Stop creating a huge conspiracy theory where there is none.

[jfern]

41. Stop lying, they reported the issue

[murielm99]

42. What are you saying I am lying about? n/t

[jfern]

44. They reported the bug, they didn't try to use it for political purposes

It's the DNC that made this political by cutting off their access and trying to make his campaign look bad to the media.

[murielm99]

45. They used four different accounts

to access information that belonged to the Clinton campaign. That is using the bug for political purposes. That is not a lie. You have no business calling me a liar.

[jfern]

46. It seems to indicate that only 1 account accessed any information

And the Bernie campaign reported the bug. No good deed goes unpunished.

[MisterP]

60. yup--all he tries to win with are the voters; she tries to win using the party and big donors

[madfloridian]

10. "Stu Trevelyan, head of NGP VAN, downplayed the incident"

Of course he did.

Note to Luis:

If you were told months ago, it is not an isolated incident.

[jfern]

12. And months later it's the DNC's fault too for not getting it fixed

But DWS would rather have the campaign she doesn't support get the blame.

[madfloridian]

13. exactly right.

[Le Taz Hot]

15. I'm finding this story very conveniently timed . . .

[madfloridian]

18. Me, too.

[cali]

57. Oh let's be blunt: it stinks to high heaven

[madfloridian]

16. "our campaign did not run to the media, relying instead on assurances from the vendor."

Perhaps they should have run to the media at once....the DNC is not hesitating to do so.

[jfern]

20. The Bernie campaign needs to fight fire with fire, that is for sure

[madfloridian]

17. Bernie campaign's data was equally available.

This on the day after Bernie achieves a new record.....2 million contributions.

[madfloridian]

19. If the DNC was warned months that other campaigns were in jeopardy....

then I can not imagine just blaming Bernie.

This is over the line.

[madfloridian]

21. And so the media begins its field day.

Not a mention about DNC being warned.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=&authuser=0&q=dnc+bernie&oq=dnc+bernie&gs_l=news-cc.1.1.43j43i53.2233.8962.0.10525.16.5.3.8.11.0.97.404.5.5.0...0.0...1ac.1.n0qbmrpWJgQ#q=dnc+bernie&hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&tbm=nws

[Live and Learn]

22. K&R nt

[madfloridian]

23. SO..the Bernie campaign notified the vendor on Wed, warned the DNC for months.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=908274

And many here want the DNC to charge criminally???

Go for it.

[Le Taz Hot]

24. K & R

[madfloridian]

25. Thanks.

[riversedge]

26. Sanders Campaign Fires Data Director After Breach of Clinton Files

So, now its a Data DIRECTOR who did the dasterly deed, not some low level staffer!


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-18/sanders-campaign-fires-data-director-after-breach-of-clinton-files



Sanders Campaign Fires Data Director After Breach of Clinton Files
The Sanders campaign was blocked from crucial voter information until an investigation is completed.
Jennifer Epstein

December 18, 2015 — 1:46 AM CST
Updated on December 18, 2015 — 2:13 AM CST


Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign has fired its national data director after he improperly accessed proprietary data from Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The staffer, Josh Uretsky, viewed data that the Clinton campaign had added to its own files during a temporary glitch in the voter database managed by outside vendor NGP VAN, two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The Sanders campaign confirmed late Thursday that it had fired a staffer who had accessed modeling data from the Clinton campaign but did not identify the aide. "That behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was immediately fired," Sanders communications director Michael Briggs said in a statement.

Briggs responded to a question about Uretsky's employment status by sharing that statement with Bloomberg a second time. Uretsky did not respond to requests for comment.

The fallout from the breach, first reported by the Washington Post, is a blow to the Sanders campaign, which is unable to access crucial data just as the Iowa caucus approaches on February 1. The Democratic National Committee maintains a master file of voter information that campaigns rent from the party and update with their own data. Access won't be restored until an investigation is completed, a Democratic source said. ...........

[madfloridian]

28. If they deprive Bernie of the voter database after he warned them repeatedly....

this really changes the picture for me.

It's as much as saying the DNC is going to bring him down.

[riversedge]

29. No, it is the data Director who will bring them down. He is the snoop.

[stonecutter357]

49. +1

[madfloridian]

27. Since Bernie campaign called the vendor this week, notified DNC for months.....

And they are still in effect bringing Bernie's campaign to the dead stop just weeks before the primary and a day after major endorsements and fundraising...

If this is not brought to a good conclusion for the Bernie campaign, I am voting for Bernie in the primary....but this is breaking the party in two pieces. I am not handling it well.

[arcane1]

55. And no assurance that the Sanders data is safe while it's locked up.

They could be combing through it this very minute.

[Betty Karlson]

31. Kick!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

32. Does Team Hillary really believe this crap is going to fly?

[madfloridian]

34. Yes, they do.

[madfloridian]

33. How do you prove what you deleted? DNC insists the campaign prove it's deleted.

Democratic National Committee says it won't restore access to the voter file until the Sanders campaign can show that it has deleted all the data it accessed.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/18/10496492/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-confidential-voter-data

[riversedge]

39. guess they will have to call in the FBI and seize the computer

[SwampG8r]

48. Once they start digging

They will find out that Hillary did the same thing with the help of the DNC

[madfloridian]

50. Questioning Bernie's strongest asset...his integrity. I am furious.

[daleanime]

56. Of course....

Bernie has an outstanding record on race issues, they attack him on that.

He has been great on gender issues, they attack him on that.

He has been consistent and focused for decades, they attack him on that.


DWS said repeated on TV that they were investigating this 'incident', but they have already leveled the penalty. If this is allowed to stand, stick a fork in it, the Democratic Party is done.

[Uncle Joe]

53. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, madfloridian.

[mindwalker_i]

54. If the DNC was notified months ago

... and the DNC/DWS are in Hillary's pocket, is there any reason to believe they weren't accessing Bernie's data? If the guy doing the IT had worked for Hillary for decades, anything they say should be accompanied by mountains worth of salt.

Admiral Ackbar just got his ass kicked by a metric ton of fish.

[FloriTexan]

58. Kick!