2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Should there be a full criminal investigation of the Bernie Sanders data breach? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I looked at the federal law and didn't see anything applicable.
Bernie's campaign WAS AUTHORIZED to have access to the information by what NGP Van admits and identifies as a "bug" in one of its releases of the data.
There was not unauthorized access as I understand it.
There was no crime.
This OP is like asking someone about the last time he beat his wife. It assumes there was a crime when there wasn't.
Ethical? Well it depends on what Uretsky intended when he queried the database, and we don't know that.
Criminal? Not unless something was done that we don't yet know about.
I just don't see how accessing information that is opened up to you due to a bug in the software is a crime. NGP Van says no one could gain from the searches that were made and the data found.
At most, a very clever person might learn something about Hillary's strategy. But that is not all that valuable. It's the software company that had the problem.
Bernie's campaign is not accused of having in anyway attempted to obtain access in any illegal way to Hillary's part of the massive database.
This kind of post divides the Sanders supporters from the Hillary campaign, from Hillary and her political philosophy more than we were.
If Hillary supporters want to completely split progressives from the conservative DNC Hillary bloc of the Party, then they should push this kind of insult further.
If not, if they want harmony in the Party, then they should stop this nonsense.
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