âThe Sanders campaign (says) never âstoleâ any voter file data; the Sanders campaign never âexportedâ any unauthorized voter file data; and the Sanders campaign certainly never had access to the Clinton campaignâs âstrategic road map,â"
I say bullshit!
âAfter the breach, Sanders himself apologizedâ
Good. Iâm very glad to hear Sanders has regained a little common sense and decency.
The lawsuit, filed late last year, came after the DNC abruptly cut the Sanders campaignâs access to the database after finding a Sanders campaign worker inadvertently accessed proprietary data from former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonâs campaign.
Not true. Once that worker was in, s/he kept on searching. Once the wall was breached, the worker should have stopped and notified the DNC â but s/he didnât do that, s/he continued to search through Clintonâs proprietary data.
Maybe Iâm just being naive, but I see it as extending an olive branch. His way of saying he knows itâs over and, while staying in the race, heâll rein in some of the harsher rhetoric.
You know it!
I think youâre right. Iâm guessing this is Sandersâ way of starting to wind down his campaign and ease his way into âsupportingâ HRClinton for POTUS when the time comes. Iâve never believed Sen. Bernie Sanders to be evilâfar from itâbut I do believe he got drunk on his own rhetoric and the great success of his campaign. Sanders has had a good run, but now is the time to wind it down, stop punching so hard and stop it with the personal attacks. Thank you, Sen. Sanders, for withdrawing this suit.
Wow, way to bury the lede.
This is the statement from the campaign:
They withdrew the lawsuit in response to the results of an independent investigation:
an independent investigation of the firewall failures in the DNCâs
shared voter file database has definitively confirmed that the original
claims by the DNC and the Clinton campaign were wholly inaccurate â the
Sanders campaign never âstoleâ any voter file data; the Sanders campaign
never âexportedâ any unauthorized voter file data; and the Sanders
campaign certainly never had access to the Clinton campaignâs âstrategic
road map.â
I totally agree! I want Sanders to just STFU go away and take that horrible wind bag of a wife with him. Iâm so sick of these scammers I could scream.
Thatâs a press release from Sandersâ campaign. Who did this independent study?
Of course they did. This never was anything more than a fundraising ploy. Hillary took the high road and brushed it off; this crank raised money off the âestablishmentâ. Another reason I support her over him.
I hope so I would really like to start liking him again.
If the independent investigation showed that what the DNC and Clinton campaign said was âwholly inaccurateâ why did they withdraw the suit?
I was wondering the same, tbh. I read the statement yesterday quickly - I do wish it linked to some source for the investigation results.
But just googled and found the info in the WaPo article:
Outside investigation conducted by a firm called Crowdstrike. Relevant bit:
The announcement followed the completion of an outside investigation
into the breach that found that four Sanders staffers had looked at
unauthorized data related to 11 states over the course of an hour on the
night of Dec. 16, according to a DNC summary of the findings. The DNC
declined to release the study itself by the firm CrowdStrike.
Oh I donât think there was any disagreement that some Sanders staffers accessed or had access to the data. The claims that Sanders camp are calling âwholly inaccurateâ are that anyone other than those originally implicated had access to the data, that anyone had access to Clinton âstrategy mapâ (whatever that might mean), or that there was intentional wrong-doing. The disagreements are about how the access occurred, who saw it, whether anything was downloaded, and so on. And itâs those claims that the investigation seems to have disproven.
A pity the DNC doesnât release the investigation results.
A press release from Bernie is the same as an independent finding, because Bernie never lies! And if it appears his campaign engaged in dirty tricks, itâs only because he loves his country so much!
Itâs the same reason Newt had all those affairs.
Wait. This was still a thing?
And, once again, a horrible terrible thing Hillary did that proves her mendacity and abject evil nature is shown to be a ⌠nothing burger.
I was pretty much on the fence at that time, but his campaignâs reaction to this event â sending me emails claiming a conspiracy by the âestablishmentâ was targeting him for no reason â really disappointed me. Itâs the same thing the Tea Party does when the IRS rightly investigates the abuse of tax exempt status of obviously politically affiliated groups. They cry âvictimâ and then fundraise over it. I expect that from Republicans, but Bernie is supposed to be a better person than that.
Thanks for the link. Sandersâ campaign is being disingenuous when they act like the DNC had no right to block his campaignâs access to info until this was cleared up. The following is pretty damning.
In a statement Friday, Luis Miranda, the DNC communications director, said that the CrowdStrike analysis âconfirmed that the DNCâs initial findings, which were the basis of the temporary shutdown in December, were accurate.â
The investigation found that the four Sanders staffers conducted 25 searches on the Clinton data and exported one statistical summary of a search related to voters in New Hampshire. The Sanders campaign said it has not been able to locate that file and no one with the campaign has ever seen it.
The CrowdStrike investigation found no evidence of unauthorized access of data by Clintonâs campaign or that of former Maryland governor Martin OâMalley, who was still in the race at that point.
Heâs slowly backing away from all of the ugliness that occurred last month, good. I would guess that by mid May everyone will have forgotten about the Clinton-Sanders spat or that there was ever any trouble among the Democrats. Sometimes thereâs an upside to the fact that our country has a very short attention span and almost no long term memory.
For the next three months expect nothing but Trump, Trump and more Trump 24/7 on all cable news channels, because thatâs where the ratings are.