DNC Rips Off Sanders: Wasserman Schultz is Untrustworthy and Must Go - Brent Budowsky/Observer

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59. Did you read the article that you cited? The searches were about strategy

No one claimed that voter files were exported but the searches and information stolen by the Sanders campaign dealth with sensitive data about strategy and voter targeting. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-data-breach-217019

Clinton’s top strategist and pollster-in-chief, Joel Benenson, who oversaw two successful Obama campaign operations that set records for maximizing core-voter turnout, says his staff is eagerly awaiting the results of a third-party audit into the hack of the Democratic National Committee-housed lists. The DNC said it is just beginning the process of securing an independent audit by a data security firm.

The Clinton campaign also wants to learn basic details of the narrative — like why, for instance, Sanders’ campaign manager didn’t tell his candidate when he learned of the breach last Wednesday; Sanders was only looped in a day later, after DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz called him personally with the news. Jeff Weaver, Sanders' campaign manager, told POLITICO on Saturday he withheld the information from Sanders because he at first believed the breach was a staff-level concern that could be dealt with in-house. “My field director informed me,” he recalled. “I said, ‘Let everyone know that no one is to do anything with the Clinton data.' It was not clear immediately there was any problem on our side.”

On Saturday, it was still not clear to the Clinton campaign how much damage had been done. "I don't think any of us will know until this audit is completed how serious this all is,” Benenson said after the debate at Saint Anselm College — adding that the value of the information is less about the specific voters being targeted than hints about how Clinton’s campaign plans to deploy its resources.

“All of [the data] is extremely valuable; it is work produced by tens of thousands of volunteers," Benenson said, adding that "it is part of a road map to how we are running and strategizing in our campaign and how we get to the totals we need to win in Iowa and New Hampshire, especially,” his voice rising with exasperation.
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