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Watergate 2: Sanders campaign caught stealing data?

December 18, 2015 By: Stephen Dietrich

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A break in… allegations of spying… the Bernie Sanders campaign suddenly has a Watergate-style scandal on its hands.

According to The Washington Post, one of Sanders’ staffers exploited a technical glitch to break into a server that had private voter information belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

And the backlash has already been severe.

The Sanders’ campaign has claimed it fired the staffer who accessed the information, but the investigation into who was really behind the data breach is just getting warmed up.

In response, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) isn’t pulling its punches. Effective Thursday, the DNC announced that Sanders’ campaign is suspended from accessing any DNC voter data again until it provides a proper explanation, a punishment many analysts consider a major blow to Sanders’ presidential campaign.

The DNC keeps a massive amount of voter information in a master data file, and rents the information within to Democratic campaigns on both national and local levels. The data rented from this DNC master file is then added to by each campaign in their own file with information gathered by volunteers.

Gaining access to another campaign’s data could be a huge advantage, as it could help a campaign target their rivals’ supporters.

To prevent this, information firewalls are set-up by a third-party vendor that handles the master data file. The goal is to prevent rivals from stealing data gathered by their opponents’ campaigns, or tampering with opponents’ information.

The third-party company handling the information, NGP VAN, indicated that Wednesday that while they were patching their firewall software, a staffer from the Sanders campaign may have used a temporary security window to access proprietary information from the Clinton campaign.

Sanders’ campaign being cut off from the national party’s voter data is crippling, because it prevents his campaign from registering new supporters or contacting many current volunteers.

About the Author

Stephen Dietrich

Stephen is a U.S. Army veteran with over a decade of combined experience in political commentary, economics, and news.

Comments

  1. Main Street says

    December 18, 2015 at 10:01 am

    He is like someone you’d see on a soap box in Harvard Square. Yet he is a step up from Hillary. Trump’s looking good.

    • Frank Bryan says

      December 18, 2015 at 11:58 am

      They are both Socialists whom has loyalty ONLY to themselves .Remember uncle Joe(STALIN most of the peoples were killed ,his closest buddies. Communists and Socialists are a large but the stupidest groups. It shows on Obama and the two other stooges Granny Hillary and Sanders. They will finish Obama’s plan to Africanise the U.S. .And how stupid they are just look what they doing and how many useful idiots are following them (Democrats)

      • pjt says

        December 18, 2015 at 12:19 pm

        Looks like lying and thievery is the democrat standard nowadays.

      • FREEDOM says

        December 18, 2015 at 4:16 pm

        Actually they are both COMMUNISTS…

        • Steve says

          December 21, 2015 at 12:30 am

          FREEDOM, What/Who do you mean by your remark, “Actually they are both COMMUNISTS…” Is it the lying or the thievery?
          I think it is both of those, PLUS quite a bit of other stuff they won’t tell us about. Most likely it involves lying, stealing and cheating. And you know how Barry would feel if someone tried to step on his turf. He will sell you ANYTHING we have, be it Top Shelf Secrets, or, Where is America’s hoard of gold? He will sell it to you. Why? If you haven’t put it together by now, he is a common, street-corner type of a treasonous-terrorist. One we all would be better off without.

  2. PAUL DENIS says

    December 18, 2015 at 11:06 am

    Hillary has so much too hide to just get to the elections. She is a liar and should take down Obama with her. Two peas in a pod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Steve says

      December 21, 2015 at 12:39 am

      How can these two be walking around free, when there are others doing time cause they couldn’t afford to pay a traffic ticket.
      Dear God. Please come soon, you are sorely needed on this planet. Someone named Barry may be eliminated this week. And, know what? I don’t care! Whoever does it, I hope you make the jerk SUFFER as all get-out! You will honor the hero, right Lord? I knew you are teriffic!!!

  3. Darcy says

    December 18, 2015 at 11:10 am

    I do not believe Bernie Sander had any knowledge of this happening.. How sad that someone else’s action could hurt the best person we have running for President. I am here for you Bernie. I will never vote for Hillary.

    • Gordon says

      December 18, 2015 at 11:22 am

      So your a socialist or communist?

      • Jane says

        December 18, 2015 at 1:18 pm

        Put a lid on it Gordon. How many bigots are there supporting Trump. Hopefully you are not one of them. There are more Democrats out there than there are Republicans. If Trump runs against Hilary Clinton or Bernie Sanders he will lose and frankly, I would never vote for Trump. He is at the bottom of the pack and to glorify him makes a statement about you.

        It is too bad that this has happened. Hopefully it will resolve itself soon.

        • DLW says

          December 18, 2015 at 5:20 pm

          Obama & the DNC WILL TAKE CARE OF IT , LIKE THEY HAVE DONE CONCERNINGS HILLARY’S many SINS. BUT ONE THING FOR SURE, WITH BOTH OF THEM THE DNC AND DEMOCRATIC VOTERS ARE WAY BELOW THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL.Cruz or Trump speakers better for Tax Payers and Home Owners.

        • robert says

          December 18, 2015 at 8:11 pm

          GO TRUMP he will be the next President! there are not more democrats than Republicans Jane. There is more freeloaders {Democrtas} collecting welfare and thats how Nobama got into the oval office.

        • Neal says

          December 19, 2015 at 8:05 pm

          Jane, you surly can’t think the Independent Reagan Democrats will put up with “Slick Britches” Hillery and her shenanigans, do you? There was a reason they went for Reagan at that time. The DNC couldn’t put anyone up who was as good for the Country as Reagan was. THE SAME is true this time around!!!

        • Helen Higgason says

          December 21, 2015 at 11:59 am

          Apparently your NOT one, Janie baby, why don’t you put a lid on it, you liberal , yourself, we will surly prevail over the lying liberals, you can ALWAYS tell when they are lying, WHEN their LIPS MOVE, and they move a lot lately!!!!!

    • DirtyWork says

      December 18, 2015 at 11:51 am

      Poor Hilliary can’t keep her stuff hidden from anybody. I wonder if she is still using the same server she used while SOS. Burnie is as big a loser as she is. Together they have a combined IQ in the range of five to six and a trustworthy rating of zero. Only a fool would ever vote for a Democrat.

      • DixieBelle says

        December 18, 2015 at 1:13 pm

        Tjat server is now in the hands of the FBI who is finding emails Hillary thought she had deleted. I bet she wishies she had never seen that server.

    • John Nadratowski says

      December 18, 2015 at 12:34 pm

      WILL YOU THEN VOTE REPUBLICAN? IT WOULD BE THE SMART CHOICE FOR YOU AND THE COUNTRY !!!

      • Loreta says

        December 18, 2015 at 5:58 pm

        I Agree With You 100%

    • dfinch says

      December 18, 2015 at 2:35 pm

      A “staffer” is just that. They do paperwork and send out flyers. This was someone who had the knowledge on how to do it and he was looking for something specific. I’m sure he didn’t just decide one day to do it. He got instruction from someone.

    • 72rt says

      December 19, 2015 at 3:30 pm

      Bernie Sanders instructed them to do this,,he is crook and a liar

      • Helen Higgason says

        December 21, 2015 at 12:03 pm

        He a notorist socialist , he is an OLD man, he’s become senile and crotchety , he needs to be in a nursing home , poor thing!!!

    • Helen Higgason says

      December 21, 2015 at 4:03 pm

      Hey you guys, another liberal speaking out for ole’ Bernie , another ignorant leftie, so sorry for you woman, welllll , you can’t expect any better for the uneducated, if these people WERE educated, they would NEVER, EVER vote for a communist liberal …

    • Helen Higgason says

      December 21, 2015 at 4:03 pm

      Hey you guys, another liberal speaking out for ole’ Bernie , another ignorant leftie, so sorry for you woman, welllll , you can’t expect any better for the uneducated, if these people WERE educated, they would NEVER, EVER vote for a communist liberal …

  4. Genierose says

    December 18, 2015 at 11:11 am

    Now I ask you, given the information in this article don’t you think it is strange that they knew it was a Sander’s staffer that accessed the file??? How did they know that, or it this a Clinton stunt?

    • Stephanie says

      December 18, 2015 at 12:20 pm

      My sentiments exactly..I thoroughly believe that Clinton paid someone to access the files just to knock out her only DNC rival..looks like Trump will be gaining even more votes.

    • DixieBelle says

      December 18, 2015 at 1:14 pm

      They can tell whose computer hacked it.

    • Patty says

      December 18, 2015 at 2:04 pm

      How did the staffer know when the third-party company handling the information, NGP VAN, indicated that Wednesday that while they were patching their firewall software, a staffer from the Sanders campaign may have used a temporary security window to access proprietary information from the Clinton campaign.

  5. Jeffrey says

    December 18, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Who really cares! Heck all of the BS crap that killers has done is far worse than anything Bernie could do But leave it to the Demoncrats to protect the top Demon and punish the minions!

  6. T says

    December 18, 2015 at 11:22 am

    Again anyone that is in the same Boat with Trump,and somehow thinks this Guy looks good for POTUS,is blind in one eye and can”t see out of the other,he is so far right he is out of this WORLD,to boot,he hates everyone except his self and rich friends,where does that leave the 98% of the rest of the Citizens,thinking he is going to make the right moves for anyone but himself is kinda out there to,but thats just my opinion,this is America,all of our opinions count? If he wins election,the US will be in for a RUDE awakening,everytime he gets on the stage and makes a face or states his opinion,he is telling you exactly what you are in for,one big nightmare? Is he really the Adult in the room or just a spoiled Rich Fat Cat–ask yourself that question before you go to sleep at night,when you wake up ,you might have the answer? Or not?

    • Jack says

      December 18, 2015 at 11:35 am

      Well anybody who votes for a Democrat is complicit in evil, murder of unborn babies, ungodly homosexual activity, gay marriage, high taxes, big government, socialism and communism because that is what your politicians all stand for. If you deny this you are also a liar.

    • Francis says

      December 18, 2015 at 11:49 am

      Yea I guess you still believe in Obama’s transparency, change this country for the good of common people, bowing before the Muslim leaders and Kings. You ought to go to sleep and stay a sleep, take OBOZZO with you jerk-off. TRUMP 2016

    • Larry says

      December 18, 2015 at 12:02 pm

      You just described Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton perfectly.

      • Roy Fredrichsen says

        December 18, 2015 at 1:52 pm

        I totally agree. O’Bummer is trying his best not only to disarm citizens, but to destroy the USA and put it in the hands of ISIS, or, attempting to become King Barack the first king of America.

    • robert says

      December 18, 2015 at 8:13 pm

      Go Trump he is all about protecting america something Nobama has FAILED at doing.

    • Helen Higgason says

      December 21, 2015 at 12:06 pm

      You , liberal, wait till come next nov, we’ll see about that , !!!! Nn

    • Helen Higgason says

      December 21, 2015 at 4:10 pm

      Apparently you are NOT an adult, if you were, you would not be voting for a lying bunch of liberals, this HILLARY is really a very evil woman, she do most anything to get her way, do you think would have a person annilated ????? I think so!!!! Which I have heard she has done this in the past, back in the WhiteWater days, remember those days don’t you, folks?????

  7. Francis says

    December 18, 2015 at 11:43 am

    Hillary how do you like your enemy stealing data from you, oh thats right you already provided that with your private server, you idiot. You and you family should be locked up anyway. TRUMP 2016

  8. Bob says

    December 18, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    This is wonderful, now HRC and Bernie can share a prison cell ;-)) Thank you FBI

    • Helen Higgason says

      December 21, 2015 at 12:08 pm

      That could be really cozy for the two, they could play footsie together or something else more intriguing , ha,ha,ha!!!! N

  9. mama bear says

    December 18, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    Trump is not the liar. he doesn’t talk like a precher or terrorist but loves this county. cruz and rumio both went with obama to legalize the ilegas and make the citizens, with video. I pray the Trump who tells the truth will win, it is our last chance. why would anybody go to Cruz or Rubio and bush who set up obama in busines leave Trump the only one the CFR and not gobble up , the rest are lap dogs. I also hope the black people finally realize te devider in chief the whole DEM is keeping them in gettos’s..soon as Clinto or Bernie gets in their welfare check disapear. how sad

  10. Cedra says

    December 18, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    Trump is not the answer. You’re jumping from one extreme to death. Having an idiot run the country… might as well put an infant in the seat. We need someone for the people. All the people. You get these overly rich and selfish individual’s in the seat. Guess what? They can run the country into the ground. Take medicare and social security, etc., from the citizens without a care in the world. WHY? They are already set. They have all the money they need plus more. We nor our children will have anything after working all our lives. You’re going to be old and homeless without anything. Everyone’s so worried about race but when it all comes to a head… We all, except the big pockets will suffer. Then it won’t matter whose black… white… or purple. The United States is showing the other countries just how divided we are… “UNITED…,” WE ARE NOT. Now we’re becoming the weakest link. We make it easy for others to come over an destroy. Because from the top to the bottom. We have losing our values for life… people… God… as a whole. We better wake up because a new and sad day is coming.

    • InRussetShadows says

      December 18, 2015 at 12:29 pm

      Why do you think that rich people hate people who aren’t rich? You are projecting your own beliefs about rich people on to them. As for big government programs, why do you support government running people’s lives? Why do you think people are too stupid or helpless to handle their own health? Nobody is worried about race except for racists. How do you know I can’t save and will be left with nothing? Aren’t you just projecting your own inability to save and fears onto me? Aren’t you scared you will be hit by a bus en route to the voting booth or something? How do you make it to work in the morning if you are so fearful?

    • John Nadratowski says

      December 18, 2015 at 12:58 pm

      THIS AS YOU DESCRIBE, ALL THIS HAS TAKEN PLACE UNDER THE OBAMA CLINTON ADMIN. YOU DO NOT FIND SUCH DIVISION OF RACE UNDER ANY REPUBLICAN ADIM. JUST LOOK BACK OVER THE LAST 7+ YEARS BE HONEST WITH YOUR CONCLUSIONS RE: RACE, ECONOMY, RESPECT FOR AMERICA AND THE POOR TREATMENT OF OUR ALLIES PATICURLARY ISRAEL.

    • robert says

      December 18, 2015 at 8:27 pm

      your right Nobama has made us the weakest in the world. hope you didnt vote for him because i sure would not admit that i voted a muslim in office!

    • Neal says

      December 19, 2015 at 8:14 pm

      Sounds like you are a “Slick Britches” Hillery, know-nothing, Liberal to me. Am I wrong?

    • Dorothy says

      December 21, 2015 at 10:39 am

      Hey folks! This is all very scary talk. The next thing your going to tell us seniors is that Obama is going to encourage selective (over age 70 folks) euthanasia. Can you think of any other dastardly political move to reduce the number of seniors on Medicare? Ask Trump. Think of the old folks and find some one else to pin on all these accusations. Give me a break! I’m sick of people in glass houses throwing stones. Dottie

      • Helen Higgason says

        December 21, 2015 at 12:12 pm

        Dorothy, I wouldn’t put it past him, I think this guy would do about anything, to elongate the”old” , hey , wait a minute, that would mean ELIMINATING his old MOTHER- inlaw, hummmm , that ought to work !!!

        • Helen Higgason says

          December 21, 2015 at 12:15 pm

          Correction…..its eliminate is the word…

  11. Kdenney says

    December 18, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    Hacked the DNC let’s get MAD!!! Hack Secretary of States PERSONAL computer with minimum protection NOTHING TO SEE HERE! DNC COMPUTER HACKED is a crime that should be punished! IRS attacking conservatives? No big here!!! Border floweing with illegal and some ISIS members? Don’t over react they are only children and WOMEN???? Like in PARIS the woman blew up trying to kill the cops! HUM seems like a BIT of stupidity to me!

  12. Jim Marostica says

    December 18, 2015 at 12:38 pm

    Hillary campaign allowed this to happen to get Sanders out of the race! No one in Washington is stupid — they are all as clever as a fox! They know what they are doing. Those following the Pied Piper are all Blind Mice!

  13. Charles Tilley says

    December 18, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    Hillary knows about Stolen data ,that is why she in under a FBI Federal criminal Investigation .

  14. Max says

    December 18, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    Trump is a BIG Business man, and he far better than anything in the last 8 years…………….Do you DEMONTIC RATS, think that The KING of muslin islamic turd heads knows how to run a FREE Country like the great USA. If you do, then you and them LEAVE and find a country who will welcome you. And as for KILLARY, they lie everytime they open that trap called the mouth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take them with you, also.

    TRUMP/CRUZ for 2016 Making this country GREAT again, like our fore fathers intended it to be!!!

  15. Jim Tucker says

    December 18, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    All you Demc. on this page I feel sorry for you,All of you are going 2 be saved by Trump just as I am, you should be banded from this country until your brain grows bigger than a pea and wash your head off from all the shit on it because you have had it up Obama and Hillary ass so long.I foresee a big increase in the funnel business from all all of you killing yourself when the Demc. get fired from Washington, the lines will be long leaving . If TREY GOWDY goes in as the A/G some of them will stop off at a prison before going home.

    • FREEDOM says

      December 18, 2015 at 4:20 pm

      Actually some of them need a PRISON CELL to be their Next and Final Home…

    • robert says

      December 18, 2015 at 8:31 pm

      Trump will do as Bush did while in office protect us. Clintons let everyone walk over us and Bush put a stop to it, then came Nobama pulling troops out of Irag like a big shot and now we have ISIS which trump will put a stop to! and hopefully Trump will force these low life welfare people work for what they get going foward.Democrats like having everyone be dependant on the government replubicans like to work for what they get! enough said.

  16. Sue says

    December 18, 2015 at 2:25 pm

    Wonder why they have done nothing to Hilary yet? Or Obama? Makes one wonder…Our justice system is so crooked. There is no justice in America anymore. Soon we will be like the other countries. That is what Obama wants and he shall get it.

    • Genierose says

      December 18, 2015 at 4:22 pm

      I am afraid he will get it over many dead bodies… Just sayin’.

  17. FREEDOM says

    December 18, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    This proves what I have said for a long time…The D****RATS Do Not Like Each Other….They ONLY TOLERATE EACH OTHER…for the Promotion of their DESTRUCTIVE AGENDA…

  18. KayO says

    December 18, 2015 at 4:33 pm

    Hillary really isn’t in much of a position to complain or point fingers. She was fired from her first job in Washington for deception in her role of prosecuting Nixon.

  19. Red Anderson says

    December 18, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    Looks to me Sanders did nothing wrong. His staffer just used the information that was available to him. It was not their fault the server provider did not have their crap together. Who’s to say Hillary’s team did not set them up on this one?? Nothing is off limits to her!!

  20. Average Joe says

    December 18, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    Dems. They are all crooks

  21. RIck says

    December 18, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    Daaaaa……This country better wake up! This next year will show us all where our future is going to be. Read between the lines. Our government as it is now is the most corupt in the history of this country. It is SO obvious. Most all of the people ( I use that term loooooslly ) running for President are afraid and are like walking through a cow pasture an trying not to step on any stuff. Trumph has shaken up this “don’t make waves” political popycock. Again it is right in front of everyone and some people just keep on clamering stupid answers. Hillery is a good example. I see those people holding her signs and ask myself “where the hell have they been” after all her and her hubby Bill have done to other people for years. She must have one of those things that wipe out peoples memories like in “The men in Black” move…. WAKE UP and MAKE a DIFFERNCE in this country and think for yourself!!!

  22. Larry says

    December 18, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    Tried to watch Bernie on this U tub and they cut the sound so you could not hear what he was saying.
    Then the media came on after that and it was load and clear what they were saying.
    So you are so far down that you had to do something to under mined Bernie.
    No one believes that you were not behind this trick,
    750.000 people know this right now and you will be knowen for what you are,
    This only drives your numbers down for a trick like this one to under mind Bernie.
    And you will lose a lot of your supporters ,
    It only shows that Bernie is the better president for the White House,
    What will you try next,
    Now your true colors are coming out and you will be seen for what you really are as a person.
    People are watching, I stand with Bernie. and Bernie stands with all of us.
    When your trying to throw dirt on Bernie,
    Your losing ground,
    No matter what the reporters say or the headline or the news casters,
    Bernie is on top and every one knows it.

    • Neal says

      December 19, 2015 at 8:18 pm

      Bernie is a Socialist, Communist! Are you one too?

  23. Linda says

    December 19, 2015 at 12:04 am

    Those Democrats and computers! Looks like Hillary and Bernie can’t follow the rules. Bad sign for our country! 😉

  24. Bob says

    December 19, 2015 at 12:16 am

    From “BLACK MILLENNIALS” and they nailed it!

    “Elected to public office in 1981, Bernie Sanders is considered a political outsider. A registered Independent and self-described democratic socialist, Sanders attracts those rebellious white progressives ….
    Unlike the corporate feminists who cape for Hillary, his supporters are much more paternalistic and arrogant. Why? Because they think that their rebellious, anti-establishment views give them license to shit on everybody else. Especially Black people.”

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