The Clinton campaign is not the one that screwed up. The Sanders campaign did. If Bernie and his people cooperate and show that they no longer have Clinton's files, then undoubtedly they will get their access back.

This projection is getting tiring. From the first moment that the news broke that people in the Sanders campaign accessed files from the Clinton campaign, Bernie people have been screaming that it's all Hillary's fault. That is just ridiculous.

How does she do that? Do you really want to be in the same category as the Gowdies and the Gingriches?

Sanders campaign snoops via a vender's error and it's Clinton's fault. UN-believable.

Bring a link with proof or take it someplace else.

Didn't this become known after the DNC was notified by the SBS campaign?
Was any data copied other than the search protocols of those who had notified the VAN repeatedly that the firewall was down?
Didn't they document their own activities as a white hat is supposed to when investigating a potential data vulnerability?
If this was a theft of data it's the unlikeliest one I have ever heard of.

"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.

The Sanders campaign employees who accessed the Clinton voter information without authorization appear to have run afoul of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, said Jason Weinstein, a former supervisor of the Justice Department's computer crimes section."

I don't want to download that ap. Thank you.

Short response is that something like what you describe happened in 08 when Clinton's campaign accessed Obama data on the VAN but then DNC Chair Dean settled it quietly among the parties. DWS was a director of the Clinton campaign at the time so she knew there is precedent for managing this sort of thing but she chose to go public instead.

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.

I think charges against the responsible persons are in order:

You don't 'download' anything--it's Associated Press published at Yahoo.

Here is another source with additional detail:

Urestsky and the others also documented their own searches. That sounds like white hat not malicious intrusion. How do we explain that?

It wasn't "just a list of files." It was the material IN the files. The lists of voters, and their degree of enthusiasm re: voting for Clinton.

They did a bad, bad thing. If Clinton's people did this to Sanders, this board would be livid.

this happened in 2008 and oh my was clinton's data withheld from her... was she quickly and directly attacked by the dnc... no... so no tin foil here... just pointing out corruption when it peaks from under the emperor's clothes

please reread my post... thanks...

you seem clear minded and objective...happy holidays

Because clearly it couldn't have been that anybody working for Sanders might screw up.

all in the family

So this "Clinton people" meme is getting a little lame. If Bernie did any polling in 2006, odds are these guys were "Bernie people" too.

And everyone knows it, whether they admit it or not.

Rather than deal with the arduous endeavor of building a political network of like-minded individuals over decades, you want a coronation for your candidate. The self-righteous zealots on Bernie's staff sought a short cut by abusing the access granted by the Democratic Party to its infrastructure.

Shame on those operatives. Bad form. They betrayed Bernie.

A Hillarite complaining of a "coronation."

Her clan consists of Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and Charlotte et al. Her supporters tend to actually like people, hence the greater number and diversity in her ranks.

Which you would know if you had any interest in facts or truth. But your only interest is in crowning your Queen.

According to an audit obtained by Bloomberg, Sanders staffers exploited a temporary glitch in the DNC's voter database on Wednesday to save lists created by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told reporter there were "24 intrusion attempts" by the Sanders campaign. He and Mook insisted that the Clinton campaign did not take advantage of the bug to look at Sanders' data.

The database logs created by NGP VAN show that four accounts associated with the Sanders team took advantage of the Wednesday morning breach. Staffers conducted searches that would be especially advantageous to the campaign, including lists of its likeliest supporters in 10 early voting states, including Iowa and New Hampshire. Campaigns rent access to a master file of DNC voter information from the party, and update the files with their own data culled from field work and other investments.

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.

Well, why wouldn't you.

I suppose I could link to every one finding the same to be true. The National Data Director of the Sanders campaign was fired.

That's a fact. That's the truth. Or do you believe that Bernie sacirficed his National Data Director without cause?

Do you believe Bernie?

Hillary's own violation of laws related to information security. But, if this reporting is accurate, I would agree that these four may have swallowed the lure.

People may have had varying intentions. The facts will come in soon enough and each of us can make a better judgement about motives. The lure was the repeated dropping of the firewall and the continuing failure of the vendor to fix the problem despite repeated complaints by the Data Director.

They all went through the door. They knew better. They felt entitled, IMO, taking what wasn't theirs--"for the Clinton campaign's own good" we are supposed to believe.

But yeah, we'll see.

They're back peddling because this is blowing up in their faces - as it should

I didn't care for a number of the slime balls who worked for Hillary in 2008. Like their leader, they had difficulty maintaining their honesty, etc.

This garbage brought back those bad feelings from 2008. I'm getting the sad feeling, she's surrounded herself with another ugly crew.

They spit on a good man's integrity today.

It's the same measured tone as their earlier release.

No--it means "We know they stole from us, and they got caught, and they should be ashamed of themselves."

Sanders will end up apologizing to Clinton over this. Maybe another head--or three--will roll.

He is exposed.

Whee, bald assertions are fun!

You're still not backing that assertion up with anything that proves that it's true. Probably because there isn't any such thing, and the evidence is that Bernie came out of this with 1) restored access to his data, and 2) a big ol' pile of money from outraged supporters. On the other side, Clinton looks slimier than ever, and her little minion DWS will probably be thrown under the bus very soon.

So for having "sabotaged" himself, I'd say Bernie's doing pretty well.

(Psst, I think this is the part where you brokenly repeat your little line.)

We didn't save the data, we staged it on known hosts so that we could then inform the DNC in April.

and another tremendous contrast against the reaction of Sander's campaign.

As always, let the adults in the room do the work.

I still think it's funny that people blame Hillary for someone else hacking her campaign information--it's like a SNL joke.

sabotaged their own campaign. All Hillary has to do is let them proceed.

Where is the outrage for the vendor that allowed this data breach to occur? I have yet to see any comment from Clinton that the failure of NGP VAN cause their data to be exposed. That would seem to be the bigger concern so it can be avoided in the future, but by focusing on Bernie and making strongly worded responses like the OP, it is becoming more apparent why the DNC responded the way they did.

They once worked for her. A fact that the MSM failed to mention today.

I think she will be forced to at some point because the majority of the backlash is on the DNC and her relationship with DWS.

Clinton is not outraged. The Sanders campaign is outraged. The Revolution is outraged.

Man, Weaver is sure going a long way to make it so Bernie does not have to answer foreign policy questions in tomorrow's debate?

Clinton is not outraged though. The Clinton campaign should be very concerned with the failed firewall and the vendors failure to keep her data, and the other campaigns, safe. Her statement only focuses on Bernie and his campaign.

I have had my credit card compromised in the past, and while the person that used it was at fault, I still questioned my bank on why it was compromised in the first place. Ultimately I went to another bank after the second failure to keep my account safe. Should I believe that Clinton is very concerned that her data was accessible by the Sanders camp, but is not concerned enough to question the vendor that made it all possible?

the IT guy is a clinton supporter and the dnc was appraised of the lack of a firewall months ago and did nothing. why would they do nothing? were they also taking advantage of the lack of a firewall to benefit their own data by downloading info on sander's donors?
there are doubts and the longer this goes on, the uglier it is going to get.

If the Sanders campaign does nothing they will be excoriated by the press until they do.
Stealing and then lying about it is not the way to go.

same and we will not know until they are also audited. as a democrat who has donated to the dnc i want to know what the exact truth is which for me requires both campaigns to be equally scrutinized.

own campaign stealing files from Hillary's database.

They need to own it.. and quit trying to weasel out of it.

on Hillary!?

You know, in the ongoing lawsuit that he called. It will likely include an audit of the DNC's records, and Hillary's as well. It should be very interesting to see what that turns up!

As part of the agreement, the Sanders campaign agreed to an audit of its data, which will be carried out by corporate investigation firm Kroll, according to a Democrat familiar with the outcome. The Democrat also told POLITICO that the Sanders campaign had agreed to sign an affidavit attesting to the actions of its staffers during the data breach.

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

Hyping up a made up scandal to discredit Sanders and attack his integrity. Truly a disgusting political hack job. Rovian dirty politics.

Exactly what the DNC mind control machine want you and the voters to think. That Sanders did something wrong. Its a political calculated attack by the Clinton bias DNC.

They will end up alienating a large section of Democrats and kill voter participation. This should of been handled internally and not played out in the media. The DNC leadership is a disaster. Shultz needs to resign her position due to her obvious bias.

This will end with the Sanders campaign apologizing to the Clinton campaign, and four people may well feel rather burnt when they end up in court accused of crimes.

Priceless.

poor saboteurs

He feels all resources should be open to him without any of the responsibility of building the party.

I hope this backfires on his victim mentality.

No need for her to respond to (or even acknowledge) the hysteria and tinfoil-hattery emanating from the other side.

Really proud to support Clinton today. The crime was against her and she is being fair and measured.

Good on Clinton. Didn't expect any less.

Hillary can stop her bleeding immediately.

Clearly Bernie felt he had to stop the bleeding. If the other staffers violated federal law, Bernie may have to cauterize a bit more. That DWS and HRC are reviled by some, does not mean either is wounded.

That would be the mature thing to do.

that there are many Rovian's at DU

were so proud of their grassroots why did they steal Hillary's data?

So lay off the ctrl-v, sheesh!

... his campaign is tarnished. Any victory along the way will be suspect.

her statement is well crafted, and if the Sanders campaign puts out any snarky Facebook GIFs with half-truths about her funding, she can claim that he's in breach of this agreement and sue. Turnabout is fair play and the fact that Sanders is going to law against his own new-found party is revealing. Is he really in this to win, or to make sure Clinton loses? That's a question I've never gotten a good answer to.

headed off at the pass, now there has been activity he will have to answer, his campaign staff is not his best friend. It was a terrible deed.

...of ALL access to those databases over the last few months, with an independent group looking at the logs in detail, to ensure that there was no other unauthorized access during the campaign so far.

Given the history of the company and the DNC ignoring security issues that were brought to their attention, that seems like the only fair way to proceed.

And Hillary should know all about this.