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

[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.