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A Bernie Sanders campaign adviser made some pretty strong insinuations that the staffer who they had to fire for breaching Hillary Clinton‘s voter data was a DNC plant.
You’ll recall that last week, the Sanders campaign got in trouble over this breach of data. The DNC cut off their access to the database, but gave it back after the Sanders camp filed a lawsuit.
The unnamed Sanders adviser spoke with Yahoo News’ Hunter Walker and said that the staffer they fired, Josh Uretsky, came recommended by people not just close to the DNC, but to NGP VAN, the firm the DNC contracted to run the voter file. The adviser said, “It’s not as if we conjured this guy Josh from thin air.”
He was reportedly recommended by the DNC’s National Data Director, an individual closely involved in the voter file program, and someone who had worked as the COO of NGP VAN up until a few months ago.
The adviser calls it “utter hypocrisy” the DNC would try to punish them like that:
I mean here we are being attacked for the behavior of an individual, which we ultimately fired. We agree he acted improperly, but it’s just amazing to me that this … individual that actually caused this trouble in our campaign was recommended by these guys.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
Add to this, that the CEO of NGP VAN, the company that set up the voter file database for the DNC was a former employee and avid supporter/fundraiser for Hillary Clinton...only adds weight to the 'set-up' theory.
originally posted by: theySeeme
But if we follow the logic spewed around here that President's are pawns with no real power, and the banks are the real ones that rule the world, why are people so caught up in this election?
No offense, but even in some of your posts in the past you have stated/agreed with the theory that president's have no real power and are "puppets", so why so emotionally invested in the political race? Just curious
originally posted by: xuenchen
I knew it.
The entire episode was suspicious.
The big question was *WHY* was somebody snooping around in the first place?
Definitely a planned mission.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
Add to this, that the CEO of NGP VAN, the company that set up the voter file database for the DNC was a former employee and avid supporter/fundraiser for Hillary Clinton...only adds weight to the 'set-up' theory.
originally posted by: theySeeme
But if we follow the logic spewed around here that President's are pawns with no real power, and the banks are the real ones that rule the world, why are people so caught up in this election?
No offense, but even in some of your posts in the past you have stated/agreed with the theory that president's have no real power and are "puppets", so why so emotionally invested in the political race? Just curious
originally posted by: IAMTAT
The only way to avoid nominating Hillary Clinton...is for everybody to vote for somebody else...and even THAT isn't a 100% guarantee.
According to the adviser it was ”outrageous” the Clinton campaign was given the audit logs that it showed to the media and Sanders’ team was not. The adviser said these logs were unquestionably given to the Clinton campaign by NGP VAN or the DNC.
“This is one of the things that we were whipsawed in over the course of the, you know, 48 hours,” the adviser said. “NGP VAN was leaking information, clearly provided documents to the DNC and the Clinton campaign — or the DNC was providing those documents to the Clinton campaign. Documents that we didn’t have.”
The adviser said the Sanders campaign was “trying to scramble around and find out what happened” in the immediate period after the breach was revealed. According to the adviser, it was hard to determine the extent of the incident because campaign staffers were locked out of the DNC software and not given the logs. Meanwhile, with the logs in hand, the Clinton campaign was able to make detailed public allegations about improper activity by members of Sanders’ team.
“It would have been fair play to provide us the info in proper time … they basically locked us out and then started throwing stuff under the table,” said the adviser.