The Lawsuit has been filed!!
Lawsuit has been filed!!
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http://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000151-b72f-d1ae-add5-f76f14db0001
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Um, George, anyone with actual knowledge of how breaches work knows that there are forensic footprints and you don't need a timing lookout. It's either there or it's not.
The fired data director said - much earlier today - that he knew the vendor would know they were there. Hell, anyone studying for their CISSP exam could determine that.
"...on the verge..."
Dude, it really isn't like, "Lookout, guys! The DNC is coming! Get out of there."
Summaries of data logs provided to the AP show the Sanders team spent nearly an hour in the database reviewing information on Clinton's high-priority voters and other data from nearly a dozen states, including first-to-vote Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Some of these voter lists were saved into a folder named "Targets," according to the logs. Uretsky's deputy appeared to focus on pulling data on South Carolina and Iowa voters based on turnout and support — or lack of support — for Clinton.
http://news.yahoo.com/dnc-barring-sanders-team-accessing-data-breach-143911771.html#
After one Sanders account gained access to the Clinton data, the audits show, that user began sharing permissions with other Sanders users. The staffers who secured access to the Clinton data included Uretsky and his deputy, Russell Drapkin. The two other usernames that viewed Clinton information were “talani" and "csmith_bernie," created by Uretsky's account after the breach began.
The logs show that the Vermont senator’s team created at least 24 lists during the 40-minute breach, which started at 10:40 a.m., and saved those lists to their personal folders. The Sanders searches included New Hampshire lists related to likely voters, "HFA Turnout 60-100" and "HFA Support 50-100," that were conducted and saved by Uretsky. Drapkin's account searched for and saved lists including less likely Clinton voters, "HFA Support <30" in Iowa, and "HFA Turnout 30-70"' in New Hampshire.
Despite audit logs, Weaver said at the news conference that NGP VAN has told the campaign that no Clinton data was printed or downloaded.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-18/sanders-campaign-fires-data-director-after-breach-of-clinton-files
First, while NGP VAN and, by extension, the DNC, are ultimately responsible for the fact that the firewall was dropped for a “brief window” — between 30 and 40 minutes — attempts to shift blame on these organizations, as the Sanders campaign and his supporters have done, is misdirection. NGP VAN is the DNC’s vendor for data management, which means that practically every Democratic campaign in the country uses it. The DNC isn’t about to fire NGP VAN, nor could they. They’re basically the only game in town. That aside, the Clinton and O’Malley campaigns also had the opportunity to access each others’ data during the breach, and the audit has not suggested that either of them did. It seems clear now that Sanders’s data team really did do wrong here, violating a critical campaign norm (to say nothing of NGP VAN’s terms of use) by downloading data they knew they shouldn’t have access to.....
Second, it’s worth noting here just how sensitive the DNC is when it comes to data, and how seriously it takes potential security breaches. Access to VAN accounts with more than bare minimum levels of access is closely guarded, and every user action is tracked. Field organizers are told to be wary of creating volunteer VAN access for people they don’t know very well, as one spy from another campaign with too many permissions could wreak all kinds of havoc on a campaign’s field operation. In other words, the reason the DNC was able to search for and identify the users who had improperly accessed data, and what data they had improperly accessed, in a matter of hours is because the DNC doesn’t mess around when it comes to managing its data.
Third, it’s also worth noting just how big of an offense it is to use another campaign’s modeling data for your own benefit. As Jeremy Bird, President Obama’s 2012 Field Director, pointed out today, millions of dollars worth of research goes into the turnout and support models that the Sanders campaign appears to have used to build lists of Clinton voters in early primary states. Just because your neighbor leaves their door open doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to walk in their house and take their TV. That’s basically what happened here.
Fourth, while I was initially skeptical that the DNC’s punishment fit the Sanders campaign’s crime (and I wasn’t the only one) I’m fine with it now. Given the fact that the Sanders campaign’s story hasn’t held up — one low-level staffer running an issue up the flagpole quickly became one high-level staffer downloading things he definitely shouldn’t have downloaded and granting others access to do the same — it’s perfectly reasonable for the DNC to shut off access to the database until they have assurances that the issue has been completely resolved.
At a press conference just now, the Sanders campaign unloaded on the DNC, threatening to sue them in federal court if their VAN access isn’t restored. Based on what we know so far, they don’t have a leg to stand on. If they want their access restored in order for them to have a functional operation any time in the near future, they need to take their lumps and cooperate on this one.
According to a blog post written by Trevelyan, shortly after the breach was fixed, the company audited its system and determined that only the Sanders campaign, and no other outside parties, could have possibly retained any of the exposed data. On Thursday, the DNC requested that NGP VAN suspend the Sanders campaign’s access to its records. “We will continue to work with and report to the DNC regarding this issue to ensure that this isolated incident does not recur,” Trevelyan wrote. “We have and will do better.”http://www.wired.com/2015/12/sanders-clinton-data/
They searched for voter lists, they ran keyword searches, they SAVED them in their PERSONAL folders. They cheated.
They're going to see the inside of a courtroom for this, those four hackers, and the higher ups had better hope they were acting on their own and that those two mystery user names weren't very senior people. The Sanders campaign has committed a serious ethical breach. No wonder Sanders looks like hell lately. I don't think any of this "Anything to Win" shit is his idea.
This is NOT a happy man:
Now take your logic and apply that to Sec.Clintons FBI server _issue
honey...
The more shaking you do (and I have a feeling it's going to be ALOT of shaking) the better! 
it's amazing how the bullshit detector gets refined through time, especially when the same ol' bullshit keeps coming 'round again and again. 
don't you go calling us ol' ladies "honey." It's "ma'am" to you. 
I was playing monopoly with a white haired man in my grandma's house when I was about ... older than I thought I was thinking back ... 
I can't remember his name ... I think it was White. I remember him getting a call to leave and he did. It was the White House asking him to return, him, the greatest expert on the USSR to advise Kennedy on the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were always dems going back to forever but we have a few stories. You live long enough, you see a lot. Take care, my dear Hepburn. Merry Christmas.
I remember HH well. My husband's family -- friends of Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor R.
I have frankly have seen much to much of the Third Way Dems...miss the real ones!
my mom and I worshiped Eleanor. So did my dad and the fam. I agree with you. I wonder how many remember what a good man Adlai was and all of the rest? I would be sick if my first presidential memory was Ronald Reagan.
go, truer words were never spoken 
To prove it...
And I find it hilarious that YOU think its Clinton who is in trouble.....
Can't be said enough times.
...what a shock...NOT!
The minute I saw the sanctions for breach of the K and they were listed specifically...my thoughts were that the Petn for Injuctive Relief is most likely going to be granted.
I do some ghost writing for other attys and sit second chair in complex litigation...but I do not miss the everyday ins and outs of running a practice. Too much stress!
I suspect 'granted' too, but STILL haven't finished reading.
GREAT that you still have your fingers in. I never did run a practice, worked for a Fed agency, and then some contract work. I'm WAY out of it now, so enjoying this exercise.
and mostly Administrative law thereafter. GREAT you partnered like that. GOOD to meet you. About to post a 'sidebar,' for any interested DUers.
circular firing squads abound in the history, shooting our/themselves in the foot.
And then we don't contest election fraud! 
The suit is about the terms of a contract. Even if there was wrongful conduct by the Sanders campaign -- which I do not believe there was -- the issue is what remedies are available under the contact for alleged wrongful conduct? If you read the contract you will see that the sanctions levied by the DNC were no part of the written contract. Thus...other conduct which you feel the Sanders campaign did is not relevant. It is the conduct of the DNC which appears to be a breach of the written agreement which is at issue. Either by the terms of the contract the DNC had a right to do this or they did not. A reading of the contractual agreement most assuredly supports the conclusion that the DNC had no right to take the action which they did.
Can we please stick to the issues?
And will handle his office as President of the United States!
& Rec !!!
