Mission Accomplished, Debbie!

No appreciation of value of the database to Sanders, AND no recognition DWS/DNC are in the WRONG in seizing it as they did, I guess.

It proves their incompetence. Threat of lawsuit made them fold. Too late, all eyes on Bernie now! Thanks DWS!!

bernie that they have no experience with: a backbone

than they expected.

yet again.

And his supporters manage to outdo themselves building conspiracies and walls of denial.

which is the usual MO.

please.

As you say Bernie's campaign depends on unpaid volunteers, mostly young with little experience and many with volunteer experience as activists dating back to the Kennedy days. We certainly are not in it for the money and few are paid, I am so proud as one of the older activists to be associated with so many energetic, thinking, and committed younger people. Again please keep reminding us how the people who should be deciding which way this government is run are unpaid amateurs rather than professional politicians as they kiss the boots of the oligarchy. Keep reminding us we are the little people, it stirs up a fight you in us you cannot imagine. We welcome terms such as riff raff, amateurs and other terms of elitism designed to degrade us. We amateurs are what fight your wars for oil, we are the ones after losing our jobs in coal mining day slowly from black lung, and we are the ones that endure police violence which we note is inflicted upon the poor and unconnected politically. Yep, just keep reminding us. Every time you call us amateurs, we rejoice we are not paid lackeys as we fight your beloved establishment and its candidate. We are proud and redouble our effort. Please add riff-raff to your vocabulary, it always energizes me to know I stand against elitism and with the people. Go Bernie!

What an embarrassment for your party.

... and the abyss gave 'em a great big juicy grin.

...but the causes of action in the suit for damages are not. May be little damage because the Hil-NC immediately reversed themselves, but that does not mean that the other causes of action pleaded in the alternative, for damages, are moot because Bernie has access again. Yep, I would love to do the discovery on this lawsuit!

b/c they (DNC) realize they can't handle the liability?

Bernie had a total winner on his petn for injunctive relief. IMO, all they are doing now is mitigating the damages which were alleged in the alternative causes of action in the petn.

Good morning!

It's been interesting on the DU today!

how humiliating!

HRC's facebook page says it all...hit after hit after hit telling her, basically, to go to hell.

on twitter there is no outstanding hashtag, not sure why, you would think this would be a major ordeal but if there is a hashtag, I have failed to find it.

I'm betting the buck-ninety-eight that I have in my pocket that the Sanders data was breeched and if so, wouldn't Discovery allow an investigation to find out if that was the case? Can you tell I have absolutely NO legal background? LOL!

injunctive relief, then, yes, there most likely will be discovery.

... but Bernie is a better man than I.

She has been relentlessly disastrous for the Democratic Party.

running an amateurish campaign.

they wouldn't have folded their tent. Discovery is the word that busted their bullshit. They have to hand over every single thing that they wrote, spoke or emailed. The entire sham will be exposed. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of doofuses. This isn't amateur hour for Bernie. He is the pro here. Its stupid for the others, amateurs all who feel that cash trumps class.

Some of these Sanders supporters are just as crazy as the nuts on the far right.Bernie can't do no wrong in there eyes this was obviously someone on his staff fuck up but they iwant to blame solely.the DNC .How the hell do they expect Clinton supporters like me or the democratic party as.a whole get behind them if he's the nominee

action was neither.

...would have been to keep it quiet, discipline staffers behind the scenes, and fix the damned security bugs in the VAN. This could have been resolved with a few phone calls, and having misbehaving staffers called to the carpet without getting the media involved.

The Sanders campaign already did the right thing - fired the IT guy who, perhaps innocently, perhaps not, violated policy and privacy by accessing those files in the VAN. And seeing the that VAN is a web app, the only thing to do is clear the browser caches of the computers involved.

Debbie decided to try to use this incident to Dean-Scream the Sanders campaign, and it looks like it blew up in her face.

DWS has got to go. A chair of the DNC has to be 100% impartial when presiding over primary races, and she's proven she is incapable of doing that. She just can't resist putting her thumb on the scale for her favored candidate, and in the end, this is likely to hurt Hillary more than it hurts Bernie.

She needs to resign. She has a clear conflict of interest, and that makes her calls as referee of Democratic primaries into a farce.

To petition the WH telling the President to remove her because hes the one that put her in that position

people like.

Wow.

Looks like DWS has no backbone or was she worried

I thought Sanders camp would not gain access until an independent investigation cleared

So this is not Watergate as many HRC alluded to ealier today

it will be good practice.

“The Sanders campaign has now complied with the DNC’s request to provide the information that we have requested of them. Based on this information, we are restoring the Sanders campaign’s access to the voter file, but will continue to investigate to ensure that the data that was inappropriately accessed has been deleted and is no longer in possession of the Sanders campaign. The Sanders campaign has agreed to fully cooperate with the continuing DNC investigation of this breach. The fact that data was accessed inappropriately is completely unacceptable, and the DNC expects each campaign to operate with integrity going forward with respect to the voter file.

beginning and there was no counter effort to not cooperate.

Bernie's campaign had already fired one person and was investigating the other allegations.

Schultz and the DNC's heavy handed action went overboard and it came back to bite them in the ass.

The DNC, according to the contract, *had* to give 10 days written notice before doing anything like this. In her zeal to damage the Sanders campaign, Schultz opened the DNC up to a losing (multi-)million dollar lawsuit.

With the investigation was a correct move after the original agreement of not violating other candidate databases had been broken. This is not what Sanders wanted and a staffer has delivered, all the stomp complaining DWS and the DNC is wrong in light of this staffer.

I thought it was a serious crime. Almost like a felony!
Don't u want justice? You know, to save the integrity of democratic process!

Big talking, threatening little Debbie is now rightfully eating humble pie.

...strange way of describing what's essentially a reprieve.

access to individual campaign's proprietary data was not possible. So they released access to the national data they all can use. There was no longer a reason to block the Sanders campaign's access.

At this point, the court case is moot. Access has been restored.

The investigation, however, continues into what the Sanders staffers did while they had access to Clinton data. The logs are still there, so they can still be examined.