How the DNC Just Sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ Campaign in One Devastating Move

[99th_Monkey]

How the DNC Just Sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ Campaign in One Devastating Move
by Amanda Girard * December 18, 2015 * U.S. Uncut

As chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Debbie Wasserman Schultz has spent the last 8 months using her position to put a lid on Bernie Sanders’ momentum. And after what was arguably the biggest week of the Sanders campaign, she may have finally succeeded.

Late Thursday night, the DNC took the drastic step of cutting off the Sanders campaign’s access to its comprehensive 50-state voter file that lists voter patterns and preferences, effectively shutting down the campaign’s voter outreach operations just over a month before the critical Iowa caucus and a little over 50 days before the New Hampshire primary.

The punishment came about as the result of a 30-minute glitch in NGP VAN — the vendor that handles the DNC’s voter data — in which internal models for each Democratic presidential campaign were briefly available to other competing campaigns while NGP VAN was applying a patch to the software. Michael Briggs, a communications aide for the Sanders campaign, said this isn’t the first time they’ve reported security bugs in the DNC’s voter file. ~snip~

The DNC has vowed to not grant the Sanders campaign access to the voter file until it has proved that it destroyed all of the Clinton campaign data it inadvertently accessed as a result of the glitch. However, as Reddit user bastion_of_press pointed out, the Sanders campaign cannot prove it destroyed something it doesn’t have, meaning the ban on accessing critical voter information could be indefinite.

“The DNC hires a group to manage their database and firewall between the campaigns. They screw up and some low level Sanders staffer sees and reports it. Nothing is saved or printed out and now the DNC is withholding crucial access to voter data until the Sanders campaign can prove it doesn’t have the data from the Clinton campaign and won’t release access to voter data unless somehow the Sanders campaign can prove a negative – that they have destroyed data they don’t have. Which is impossible.”

http://usuncut.com/politics/dnc-sabotages-bernie/

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1. ...

"Turns out that Nathaniel Pearlman, the CEO of NGP-VAN, the company that is responsible for the data leak that got Sander's campaign banned by the DNC from seeing Democratic party voter roles, was the chief technology officer of the Clinton 2008 campaign."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Pearlman

[elehhhhna]

2. Prove HRCs people didn't access it. Bet they have. Known glitches exploited...

I don't see the big deal here. Until we find out the dnc set this up

[99th_Monkey]

3. Yep. I saw that. And we're supposed to believe this is not a set-up? -nt-

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6. looks like a duck.....

the same guy will be the one to do the "investigation" and provide the "records"

and since it is his software,he can make the records say anything he wants....kinda like voting machines

[LanternWaste]

4. We must righteously point our fingers in such a way as to avoid self-reflection.

We must righteously point our fingers in such a way as to avoid self-reflection.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Bernie did more than self-reflect, he fired the responsible staff person. -nt-

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. They aren't going to get away with it. FEDERAL COURT THIS AFTERNOON IF BERNIE DOESN'T GET HIS ACCESS

Back to HIS CAMPAIGN files. He can't even access what his campaign has spent money to gather, hundreds of thousands of campaign workers going door to door to gather HIS CAMPAIGN data. BLOCKED BY DWS. If they don't get access today, they're going to FEDERAL COURT this afternoon.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE