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Ino

(3,366 posts)
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 07:39 AM Dec 2015

Clinton camp: "egregious breach of data and ethics"

So much for Hillary taking the high road. They're in full outrage, scornful mode.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/263801-clinton-campaign-calls-for-quick-resolution-of-sanders

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is calling for a quick resolution to the “egregious breach of data and ethics” by rival Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign.

“We hope that the court will resolve this matter tonight and the Sanders campaign has access to their voter files right away, with adequate protections of our proprietary information,” Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon said in a statement.
(snip)
“(We want) assurances that no data or strategic insight from this act of intrusion will be used by his campaign,” Fallon said. “This was an egregious breach of data and ethics.”

Clinton’s campaign is also calling for “a full, independent accounting” into the staffers’ actions.


Fallon tweets:
Four users linked to @SenSanders campaign steal data from a rival campaign. Only one is fired. Guess the others get a pat on the back

If you are so proud of your grassroots organization, you should not need to resort to stealing campaign data.
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merrily

(45,251 posts)
2. Wasn't the breach the fault of the DNC's vendor, who used to be Hillary's data guy?
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 07:46 AM
Dec 2015

Wasn't the Sanders campaign the campaign that told the DNC about the breach months ago? Wasn't the Sanders' campaign the one that deliberately made a record to inform the vendor that it was looking at the data? Wasn't the guy working for the Sanders campaign also someone who had worked for the Clintons?

BTW, any campaign could have taken advantage of that breach, but I bet the Sanders' campaign was the only one making it clear that it was looking. And the Sanders guy, who I believe had also worked for the Clintons in the past, said the data was being looked at in an attempt to determine the possible effect of the breach on Sanders' data.

Ino

(3,366 posts)
6. There have been several posts...
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 08:44 AM
Dec 2015

from Sanders supporters complaining about getting emails from Hillary Clinton. I am one of them. For an inexplicable reason, I started getting emails from her a few months ago.

Now we know why.

That door was swinging both ways, Lil Missy.

Lil Missy

(17,865 posts)
10. And I get them from the Sanders.
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 09:59 AM
Dec 2015

Which has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, nor does it have ANYTHING to do with a Sanders operative stealing proprietary data, thus committing a federal crime. 25 times!!

BlueCheese

(2,522 posts)
12. Many progressive organizations share lists with each other.
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 10:03 AM
Dec 2015

If you've ever donated or signed up with a liberal organization or candidate, your name will get circulated later on.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
5. After what this scandal revealed about Sanders' character flaws...
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 08:33 AM
Dec 2015

I'll be thinking long and hard about the "lesser of two evils" if faced with a choice between one of these Republicans and Sanders.

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