The Sanders campaign has fired data director Josh Uretsky for “improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton,” — according to “several party officials.”
These unnamed ‘party officials’ are the ones responsible for the security of this master list of likely Democratic voters, which the campaigns pay to access. The system is run by vendor NGP VAN. Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver squarely blamed them for the glitch — and blamed the DNC for hiring the company. “Sadly, the DNC is relying on an incompetent vendor who on more than one occasion has dropped the firewall between the various Democratic candidates’ data,” he said.
The Sanders campaign should be hammering the DNC over this situation.
It is time for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to go. The massive conflict-of-interest in DWS running the DNC has been easy enough to ignore, apparently — she was national co-chair of Hillary’s campaign in ‘08 — but enough is enough.
”The choice the American people will face in next November’s election couldn’t be more important. It’s time to see our candidates present a strong vision for how to keep America moving forward.” --DWS
Wasserman-Schultz chopped the debate calendar down from 26 events in the ‘08 primary to just SIX this year.
#DNCdropDWS
~martinV
UPDATE:
”ABC News spoke to Josh Uretsky, the Sanders campaign staffer who was fired after viewing Clinton campaign data. Uretsky said he was trying to investigate the data issue, to see what information was vulnerable on their end, so he could adequately report it to the software company. He said his team did not export any data. He said he intentionally left a record of what he was doing in the system and did not try to hide his actions.
“The breach was in no way our fault. I saw it and attempted to investigate and attempted to do it in a transparent manner,” he said. “To my knowledge, we did not take anything out of the system it was in and did not gain anything out of it. We saw a security breach and we tried to assess it and understand it.”
When asked why he did not simply raise his hand immediately and poked around in the system at all, he emphasized he was intentionally being "transparent."
"You see something, you investigate it first. ... I knew full well that I was creating a record that the administrators could see," Uretsky said.
Uretsky said he had been with the campaign for three months. He said he is leaving Burlington, Vermont, immediately and returning to his home in Philadelphia later today.”
Friday, Dec 18, 2015 · 7:12:19 PM +00:00
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martinV
"The Democratic National Committee's decision to attack the campaign that figured out the problem, rather than go after the vendor that made the mistake, is profoundly damaging to the party's Democratic process. DNC leaders should immediately reverse this disturbing decision before the committee does even more to bring its neutrality in the race for President into question."
Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America