2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders campaign hints ‘hacker’ who accessed Clinton data may have been a DNC plant [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)It would be the obvious thing -- ie Why was he hired -- response -- he was recommended, by whom? -- the DNC.
Note that nothing there is CT. The suspicions here -- that it was the DNC planted him there to create a problem if needed -- are strange and unlikely. It is weird that seeing the firewall down, that he immediately told several subordinates to take things.
Given the timing - the firewall problem was supposedly just 40 minutes, it is completely unlikely that he saw it -- went to Weaver or someone else and was told to do this. He was almost surely the highest person involved and he likely did it of his own initiative.
A harder question is what should be done with the others. In their case, they were told what to do by their boss. However, they should have known that it was wrong and should have refused. (Not an easy thing to do - especially if you like your boss. )
As to Sanders, it is clear that he is angry that his team lost access to their own data for several days -- at a time when every day is critical. Given that HE personally did nothing wrong -- and this was the action of a rogue employee, I can see why he won't drop it - especially as DWS completely trashed him and his campaign. (Ironic as it seems that this happened in 2008 and the party that did it was Clinton's and DWS was a co chair. Then, there was no penalty or throwing them off the system.) Whether accurate of not, I seriously doubt DWS would have treated the Clinton campaign as harshly if the roles were reversed.
In addition, there was the fact that DWS made this public when there was no reason to do so -- and in 2008 it was not made public. Bernie Sanders has a reputation for honesty and integrity, earned over decades. It is clearly important to him and he is asking to prevent himself being smeared with the label of condoning a campaign that would act dishonestly.
Do you object to HRC defending herself from the worst accusations that were leveled at her because of her poor judgment in using a single account for business and private email on her private server?