Bernie Sanders Accuses DNC Of Undermining Campaign - filing a Federal Injunction this afternoon

[AgingAmerican]

DWS has opened a can of worms and she can't stop it now!

Sanders Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver said:

First, this is not the first time that the vendor hired by the DNC to run the voter file program, NGP VAN, has allowed serious failures to occur. On more than one occasion, they have dropped the firewall between the data of competing Democratic campaigns. That is dangerous incompetence. It was our campaign months ago that alerted the DNC to the fact that campaign data was being made available to other campaigns. At that time our campaign did not run to the media, relying instead on assurances from the vendor that the problem would be resolved. Unfortunately, the other day, the vendor once again dropped the firewall between the campaigns for some data.

Secondly, after discussion with the DNC it became clear that some of our staffers irresponsibly accessed some of the data from another campaign. That behavior is unacceptable to the Sanders campaign and we fired the staffer immediately and made certain that any information obtained was not utilized. We are now speaking to other staffers who might have been involved and further disciplinary action . Clearly, while that information was made available to our campaign because of the incompetence of the vendor, it should not have been looked at. Period.
Thirdly, rather incredibly, the leadership of the DNC has used this incident to shut down our ability to access our own information, information which is the lifeblood of any campaign. This is the information about our supporters, our volunteers, the lists of people we intend to contact in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere. This is information that we have worked hard to obtain. It is our information, not the DNCs.

In other words, by their action, the leadership of the Democratic National Committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. This is unacceptable. Individual leaders of the DNC can support Hillary Clinton in any way they want, but they are not going to sabotage our campaign – one of the strongest grassroots campaigns in modern history.

We are announcing today that if the DNC continues to hold our data hostage, and continues to try to attack the heart and soul of our campaign, we will be in federal court this afternoon seeking an immediate injunction.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/18/bernie-sanders-accuses-dnc-undermining-campaign-threatens-federal-lawsuit.html

I believe it's time to investigate ties between the Clinton campaign and the open corruption at the DNC on her behalf. We need a federal prosecutor!

[phleshdef]

1. I have nothing against Hillary Clinton. But DWS has to go. She isn't fit for the job.

This is a self inflicted wound on the DNC and it doesn't help our party or ANY of our candidates.

[Cal33]

21. It's looking like that DSW's ambition is bigger than her common sense and judgment.

[fredamae]

2. I just got off the Ph with

the Chair of my states Dem Party ... Hahahahahahahahaha They're (surprisingly) getting Hell over DWS hahaha
back to work

[NowSam]

3. Bernie is a Boss

and he will be the president.

[floriduck]

4. Awesome.

Put the screws to DWS and the rest of the third way DNC. They deserve whatever punishment they get.

[AgingAmerican]

5. The bigger question is:

Has Hillary's campaign been coordinating this with DWS? If so, what are the illegalities of it? Turns out the server company owner is Hillary's former IT guy.

[dogknob]

7. Gotta link for that?

[AgingAmerican]

8. It needs to be asked

I believe it is naive to think that the corruption was only one sided and that DWS was acting as an independent rogue without Hillary campaigns knowledge/coordination.

[dogknob]

9. I meant a link for the IT guy. n/t

[Faux pas]

6. K N R

[Zorra]

10. Righteous. I'm a fed up lifetime Democrat, and I support this message.

[Jarqui]

11. The founder of vendor NGP VAN is Nathaniel Pearlman

who was chief technology officer for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
Pearlman supervised Bryan Pagliano as the 2008 Clinton campaign IT director
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/clinton/clintonorg.html
Pagliano went on to set up and manage Clinton’s private email server.
Pagliano pleaded the 5th when Hillary's emails and his role came under scrutiny.

This is getting a little smelly.

[Robbins]

12. you got that right

it smells so fishy.

[EndElectoral]

13. Thank you. Was unaware of the conflict of interest.

[glinda]

14. lots of IT traps......what a plan

[snagglepuss]

15. Please consider posting this as an OP. This is a very

interesting "coincidence".

[longship]

17. This needs to be a DU OP.

With any and all documentation available to back it up.

Your link will do, but some excerpts from the link would be helpful to flesh this out a bit.

Thanks, friend.

[WillyT]

16. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[Dems to Win]

18. Bernie should have never touched any DNC resources

Easy for me to say in hindsight, of course. But it's now clear he should have created his own standalone database, and not trusted the DNC to hire people who would give him competent service.

Not to excuse any staffers, if they really did access HRC's data for anything other than trying to assemble proof that the vendor needed to get their act together. But I cant say I really trust any computer logs being shown by people who are diehard Hillary supporters, the owners of the company. This just should never have happened, period.

Having campaigns able to access each other's data multiple times? That's staggering incompetence.

[mythology]

20. Any excuse to deflect

What the hell happened to personal responsibility?

The Sanders staffers fucked up. Just move on. It's not a conspiracy. Stupidity is the cause of this not your imagined nonsensical conspiracies. If you stopped thinking that Sanders is some sort of savior, you'd have a much better chance at developing some semblance of objectivity around things.