Charles Pierce: Why Did the DNC Let the Bernie-Hillary Tech Story Leak?

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34127-why-did-the-dnc-let-the-bernie-hillary-tech-story-leak

This is still just a cock-up by a technology company that evidently should be selling lawn sprinklers instead of data access.

The Democratic committee blamed NGP VAN for the software glitch."This was an isolated incident, and we're conducting a full audit to ensure the integrity of the system and reporting the findings to the D.N.C.," said Stu Trevelyan, NGP VAN's chief executive. "The D.N.C. was notified on Wednesday by its data systems vendor NGP VAN that as a result of a software patch, all users on the system across Democratic campaigns were inadvertently able to access some data belonging to other campaigns for a brief window," said the committee's communications director, Luis Miranda. "The D.N.C. immediately directed NGP VAN," he said, "to conduct a thorough analysis to identify any users who accessed the data, what actions they took in the system, and to report on the findings to the party and any affected campaign."

There was some serious dumbassery involved on the part of the Sanders campaign, and the person most responsible has been sacked, so the story's over, right? The DNC could allow the Sanders campaign access to the data again. But what admittedly sends my thoughts up a grassy knoll is how this relatively minor blip made it to The Washington Post in the first place. After all, the bungling was with the vendor, and with the DNC for hiring the vendor, so wouldn't the smart play

have been to keep this whole thing in-house? Also, if this story survives through the Saturday night debate, let alone becomes an issue therein, and if the Sanders campaign is shut out from the national party data for longer than this weekend, I'm going to be very, very suspicious.

Devious and clumsy are, after all, the hallmarks of the DWS era.

[Proserpina]

1. It's called dirty tricks, Nixon-style.

and if there was any justice in the system, heads would roll.

[Paka]

2. K&R

Rovian tricks for sure.

[Scuba]

3. "Devious and clumsy" are indeed the hallmarks of DINO Deb.

[Fuddnik]

4. DNC Chair Chuck Colson.

[DhhD]

5. I believe that the Democratic campaign of the 1% somehow got my private email address

and sent me an email asking for my support and a donation on the day that the firewall was allowed to drop. I am very unhappy with the Clinton Campaign Supporter who sent me the email. I would like to know how my private email address was made available on that day.

Progressive Democrats, like myself, have had enough of 1%ers and third way flip flopping and triangulation.

[Enthusiast]

6. Devious and clumsy are, after all, the hallmarks of the DWS era.

Yup!

If she was honorable she would resign. So we know that is out!

[mountain grammy]

7. Truthfully, she should have resigned after the 2014 debacle.

[Betty Karlson]

8. Mr. Pierce hits nails on the head, as usual.

Ever since he left the NYT, his prose has been poetry to my ears.

[Chemisse]

9. W-S probably thought this would be to Clinton's advantage.

And it probably would've been if she hadn't had such a draconian reaction, causing the backlash of sympathy and anger over Bernie's plight.