2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Very disappointing: Bernie Sanders repeats falsehoods about data breach. [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...but here's the thing: the reporting on technical issues is always problematic, as it can be hard to get the facts right while also covering the human and (in this case) political aspects. So that being the case, the media has used words like "firewall" (which almost certainly does not apply) and "hacking" (which most certainly does not apply). So Sanders is left with the need to stress that no one on his team did any hacking, or actively seeking Clinton data in the first place.
So I see why he stresses the passive part of it, and I also see why you do not agree with it. Me, I wish people could always be scrupulously accurate about such things -- but most people are not techies, and we all have our biases, so that is undoubtedly a vain hope.