DNC software breach gave Sanders campaign confidential Clinton Data

[The Other Castro]

Here's a statement from NGP apologizing for the bug:
http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy

[The Other Castro]

Sanders campaign threatening to sue the DNC.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sanders-campaign-threatens-to-sue-dnc-216942

[The Other Castro]

The DNC is just blatantly supporting the Clinton campaign at this point, it's not even subliminal anymore. I highly advise everyone to read past just the headlines, and specifically read Griffin's posts on NGP VAN (as another user of the system).

[The Other Castro]

If the DNC wants Sanders to run as an independent, its strategy is working. Gross overreactions like this only serve to stain the image of the Democratic party. Yes the workers from the Sanders campaign involved should be held responsible, and the right people should be fired if found to be involved in any deliberate breach, but to suspend the entire group access to crucial campaign tools is verging on a subversion of democracy. I understand Lief's trolling on this topic, but the reactions of many of you are surprising and disappointing.

[The Other Castro]

If the DNC wants Sanders to run as an independent, its strategy is working. Gross overreactions like this only serve to stain the image of the Democratic party. Yes the workers from the Sanders campaign involved should be held responsible, and the right people should be fired if found to be involved in any deliberate breach, but to suspend the entire group access to crucial campaign tools is verging on a subversion of democracy. I understand Lief's trolling on this topic, but the reactions of many of you are surprising and disappointing.

Sanders would never run as an independent, he cares too much about the issues. Sanders running third party is giving the presidency to Donald Trump.

I'm not saying he would, he knows that, but actions like this certainly don't help.

[The Other Castro]

If the DNC wants Sanders to run as an independent, its strategy is working. Gross overreactions like this only serve to stain the image of the Democratic party. Yes the workers from the Sanders campaign involved should be held responsible, and the right people should be fired if found to be involved in any deliberate breach, but to suspend the entire group access to crucial campaign tools is verging on a subversion of democracy. I understand Lief's trolling on this topic, but the reactions of many of you are surprising and disappointing.

Amen.

If Sanders wants to run as an independent, he should do so. Get 4 or 5 percent, hand the election to the republican, and teach the democratic party a lesson about not trying to rig their nomination process. Priebus is being very fair on the Republican side, that's how DWS should be too.

Eh, probably a very bad idea though. He knows he'd get the Nader treatment if that happened, and probably wants more than most people to avoid having Cruz or Trump in the White House. In the end, this whole thing probably doesn't matter as Clinton will most likely be the nominee and the vast majority of Sanders supporters will vote for her, but it would be better if primary elections could actually maintain some legitimacy.

[The Other Castro]

Welp, this is an overall depressing development. Going forward, the main goal of the Clinton campaign for the rest of the primary season should be to win over as many Sanders supporters as possible, and not to turn off too many of them. She doesn't need to attack; the nomination is hers and Sanders attacks will only serve to turn away would-be general election voters. For Sanders, his goal should be to run a clean issue based campaign for the next few months (until around March/April or so), and then fully and wholeheartedly endorse Clinton for President against Republican nominee Trump/Cruz/Rubio/Other.

[The Other Castro]

Boston Herald's cover for tomorrow:

[The Other Castro]

Bernie campaign says that DNC caved. DNC confirms that they are restoring access.

https://twitter.com/maryaliceparks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

I'm a big fan of MaryAlice Parks.

[The Other Castro]

Just to be clear, jfern and ProgressiveCanadian, there is no reason at all to suspect yet that the Clinton campaign was involved directly in any way with the actions of the DNC. She is by all accounts a victim of a bug exploited by a member(s) of the Sanders campaign. Attacking her campaign reflects badly on Sanders supporters on this forum. Feel free to argue that the reaction by the DNC was unjustified in its magnitude (which it was), but don't try to negate the argument by saying that oh Clinton did the same thing. That won't work.

[The Other Castro]

*waits for Lief's reaction*

Lief might implode due to cognitive dissonance.