MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has suspended two more staffers after it was accused of exploiting a breach in a voter database to access files kept by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Sanders spokeman Michael Briggs confirmed the suspensions following a Democratic debate in New Hampshire but did not immediately provide more details.
The campaign fired its data director this week after finding that he improperly accessed Clinton’s files in a voter database owned by the Democratic National Committee and managed by an outside vendor.
Asked if he would apologize during Saturday’s debate, Sanders did, to Clinton and to his own supporters. He said, “If I find anybody else involved in this, they will also be fired.”
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Bernie is a good man…probably too good to be President.
Senator Sanders is a really good person. He was not served that well by his IT staff. Even if data was not saved somewhere his staff still saw the information, and can share verbally what they saw. Hopefully they did not.
There’s a reason DWS, former National Co-Chair of Hillary’s 2008 Presidential campaign, schedules these debates on Saturdays. She WANTS less viewers. Come on, Saturday night during prime Christmas party season, the opening of Star Wars, the NY Jets and Dallas Cowboys NFL game? NY and Dallas, the 1st and 5th largest TV markets? Could it be anymore obvious she wanted Bernie to have as few viewers as possible? With Hillary’s lead, this kind of bullshit is unnecessary.
There is now little doubt in my mind DWS engineered the Bernie campaign scandal. For me, being in the Clinton camp, that Hillary is going along with this shit really saddens me. Hillary is too smart to be oblivious to DWS tilting the scale so unfairly in her favor. Hillary is aware the positive press after the debate and who they declare the winner is all that matters, not so much the many debate viewers. You didn’t need to do this Hillary. And Debbie, to paraphrase Denny Green, you’re who I thought you were. I’ll vote for Hillary with the same enthusiasm I had shooting our suffering family dog. I wanted her to win, but not this way. To all Bernie supporters, I’m sorry. Your man never had a chance from the start. DWS rigged this campaign early on.
So you trash Hillary for what DWS does? The Clinton Campaign is not the DNC.
I remember getting ‘suspended’ for some silly shit in school but the egregious stuff got people expelled. I’m thinking suspending his staffers is the admittance that they are guilty and that means that they should be gone just like the boss. Sanders told Clinton this is what he would do and so he should flat out can them for at least two reasons.
This whole deal seems fishy, so after a brief spanking on the Sanders side, it just needs to be dropped. It isn’t really meaningful and Bernie and his team could all be Boy Scouts and it wouldn’t change a dang thing. He has his rep and Hillary has hers and that is the battle. May the best woman win