Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, has publicly accused the Democratic National Comittee of “actively attempting to undermine our campaign” in a press conference on Friday.
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There’s a freaky story about potential computer hackery this morning, involving the Democratic National Committee and the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton – the two front runners on the Democratic side.
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The political brawl came one day before a debate between the presidential rivals, fueling rising tensions and highlighting complaints from Sanders and his liberal allies that the DNC is trying to help Clinton, particularly by limiting the number of debates and scheduling them on low-viewership periods like Saturday nights.
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“If the Democratic National Committee holds our data hostage… we will be in federal court this afternoon seeking relief”, Weaver said”. Suspending the campaign’s access, Weaver said, is an “inappropriate overreaction”, meant to boost former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.
On the eve of the party’s next presidential debate, it also thrust into the open longstanding suspicions among Sanders and his supporters that the national party is unfairly working to support Clinton’s candidacy.
The back-and-forth on the eve of the party’s next presidential debate underscored Sanders’ attempt to cast himself as an anti-establishment upstart willing to take on Clinton, the unquestioned front-runner for the party’s nomination.
“We are also looking at the option of an independent audit by a data security firm”, the source said. “The campaign should not be punished for the carelessness of the DNC and its third-party vendor”.
The Sanders campaign said the breach of the files, which contain voter information such as past support and donation history, was an isolated incident and blamed it on the DNC’s software vendor, Washington-based NGP VAN, which it said has dropped the firewall between the various Democratic candidates’ data a couple of times.
Beyond simply reviewing the data, the logs show the Sanders staffers took deliberate steps to harvest and store the information.
Wasserman Schultz said the DNC had asked the Sanders campaign for a “full accounting of whether or not this information was used and the way in which it was disposed”.
Yes, accessing a competitor’s data seems questionable, but again remember that the mistake here appears to be because of the DNC itself – or, rather, its computer system vendor NGP VAN.
Fallon said the Sanders campaign staff conducted 25 searches from four different accounts, saving the data into the Sanders campaign account.
The DNC suspended the campaign’s access to voter data when it was revealed the Sanders campaign accessed private data from Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
He said that he and other staffers accused of accessing the confidential information “knew that what we were doing was trackable” and they did not “use it for anything valuable”.
“We immediately segregated that information … put it in a password-protected file so we could document that in fact there had been a breach – because we were very concerned that large amounts of our own data was being downloaded – and we contacted the DNC to remedy the situation”, he said.
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“The DNC places a high priority on maintaining the security of our system and protecting the data on it”, Miranda said.
