What I find interesting in all these debates here is not whether Clinton or DWS is ultimately responsible, or if Sanders is acting properly, but why the question of who the other campaign was that access files from a competitor? No one has ever named the other campaign that took advantage of the breach, and I find myself wondering why.
Yes, Sanders campaign people were wrong and have been fired. But, it was their campaign that first notified the DNC of the problem with the software back in October - software supplied and managed by a former Bill Clinton staffer. Sanders former IT director said he was back tracking the breach to determine its extent when all this came to light, so if you assume that he has nothing left to lose, why make the comment?
Is it possible that the breach identified in October was never removed by the software company, and that it was only blocked until the Sanders campaign backed off its investigation?
Is it possible that the entire thing was not done with any knowledge of Hillary Clinton, but rather was something set up by the DNC and DWS with the software firm to allow Clinton’s IT staff access to other campaigns’ information on instructions or at the very least acknowledgement by Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton is not above dirty politics, never has been. He was the one who made racism an issue in 2008, he was the one who drove out the advisers who were telling HRC to limit his presence in her campaign, and he is the one who has a less than stellar reputation for respecting his wife in private. Bill Clinton has an ego that will never let his wife shine above him, and she is willing to allow it.
She may have a huge organization, but she still has large unfavorable rankings in the polls, even among many Democrats, and a good bit of it stems from Bill and his behaviors. Bill Clinton took over his wife’s campaign in 2008 and she lost to Barack Obama. He may be trying to do the same thing here with a modern day “Watergate” type tactic against the Sanders campaign, but it may well backfire on him since Sanders is actually a very astute politician and campaigner in his own right.
Yes, the Sanders supporters are looking at DWS and HRC colluding, but I am not sure that HRC was behind this, and the fact that the other campaign that took advantage of this breach is not being named makes me look squarely at the HRC IT team and Bill Clinton. DWS practically swoons around him, and he does have the ability to manipulate women down to a science even today. And where her husband’s actions are concerned, HRC has years of putting her head in the sand. So look at the players, and then consider my question: who else benefits from the breach since it supposedly affected all campaigns and only Sanders’ campaign brought it to the DNC last October?
