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Sanders accuses DNC of helping Clinton campaign amid data breach

Devine argued that “the remedy imposed here by the Democratic National Committee is extreme” because they need fair access to that voter data too.

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Two staffers were readily identifiable from the documents: National Data Director Josh Uretsky, who has been fired by the campaign, and the campaign’s deputy director.

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The DNC says the Sanders campaign will not be allowed access to the system until it gives the DNC a full account of its actions during the breach “as well as assurances that all Clinton data has been destroyed”, though given Bloomberg Politics’ reporting and Sanders’ statement it does not seem likely that a significant amount of data was taken.

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Hours later, the Sanders camp filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington seeking an immediate restoration of access to the database. The campaign estimated the loss of access would cost it $600,000 in contributions, a serious blow because it has “been financed primarily with contributions from individual donors rather than Political Action Committees”.

The company that manages the master file says the breach happened on Wednesday; Sanders and his workers won’t be able to see the master list until it can prove that Clinton’s campaign info wasn’t ruined and explain to DNC officials why the breach happened.

Firewalls are put in place to prevent campaigns from looking at data maintained by their rivals.

Weaver branded the DNC as aiming to “hold our data hostage and continues to try to attack the heart and soul of our campaign”.

At the press conference, campaign manager Jeff Weaver went on the offensive, claiming that Sanders campaign data was taken by another campaign when the firewall between campaigns was dropped in October, and that the campaign had reported the issue at the time.

According to the Sanders’ team, one staffer has been fired. His campaign filed a lawsuit to get it back.

The Democratic Party then adds data from commercially available lists that track such information as television habits and magazine subscriptions.

Meanwhile, Stu Trevelyan, the NGP VAN’s CEO, told the Post the breach was an “isolated incident that was fairly short in duration…”

Reports said Sanders aides accessed the data, which is maintained by a vendor for the DNC.

Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, responds to a question from the news media during a press conference at Sanders’ campaign headquarters in Washington on December 18, 2015.

Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said in a statement Friday that after a discussion with the DNC “it became clear that one of our staffers accessed some modeling data from another campaign”.

The campaign asked “that the Sanders campaign and the DNC work expeditiously to ensure that our data is not in the Sanders campaign’s account and that the Sanders campaign only have access to their own data”.

“We have a memorandum of understanding that specifically has a provision in it that allows us to suspend access to the voter file when they’re – particularly in cases like this where there has been a breach of proprietary information”, she said.

Clinton’s campaign declined comment on the incident.

Clinton has 55.9 percent to Sanders’ 30.7 percent in the latest national RealClearPolitics average of national Democratic polls. What is required here is a full and independent audit of the DNC’s mishandling of this data, and its security from the beginning of this campaign to the present.

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That decision infuriated Weaver, who said the party had cut Sanders and his team off from “lifeblood of any campaign”. He was upset that the Sanders campaign was sending out fundraising appeals accusing the party of unfair treatment.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Davenport Iowa on Dec. 13