2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: An Explanation of What Bernie Sanders Staffers Actually Did and Why It Matters [View all]Jarqui
(10,124 posts)I don't think anyone asked that the writer "litigate" the issues.
In the campaign's first press conference on this and in the fired employee's first interview with CNN and since, prior incidents and a claim of data lost to another campaign has been raised. What would be absurd is for the media to overlook that.
When one considers what the campaign did this time, I think it is only fair to consider the context of their actions: that this was not the first time their data had been exposed and in at least one case, they feel that because of an exposure like this, their data was lost to another campaign.
That is a pretty darn good motive to get proof of the scope of the security breach. I don;t think it's unfair to expect the media to provide some reference to the past problems as a frame of reference for their recent actions.