Bernie Sanders sues Democratic National Committee

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However, the access logs do show that Sanders staff pulled not one but multiple lists—not searches, but lists—a fact that shows intent to export and use. And the lists were highly sensitive material. News reports have indicated that the data was “sent to personal folders” of the campaign staffers—but those refer to personal folders within NGPVAN, which are near useless without the ability to export the data locally.

Even without being able to export, however, merely seeing the topline numbers of, say, how many voters the Clinton campaign had managed to bank as “strong yes” votes would be a valuable piece of oppo. While it’s not the dramatic problem that a data export would have been, it’s undeniable that the Sanders campaign gleaned valuable information from the toplines alone. It’s also quite clear that most of the statements the Sanders campaign made as the story progressed—from the claim that the staffers only did it to prove the security breach, or that only one staffer had access—were simply not true. It’s just not clear at this point whether the campaign’s comms people knew the truth and lied, or whether they were not being told the whole truth by the people on the data team who were still making up stories and excuses to cover their tracks. I suspect the latter.

Still, the Sanders camp’s reactions have been laughable. It was their team that unethically breached Clinton’s data. It was their comms people who spoke falsely about what happened. The Sanders campaign wasn’t honeypotted into doing it—their people did it of their own accord. NGPVAN isn’t set up to benefit Clinton at Sanders’ expense—and if the violation by the campaigns had been reversed, Sanders supporters would have been claiming a conspiracy from sunrise to sundown. What’s very clear is that the Clinton camp did nothing wrong in any of this. Sanders campaign operatives did, and then Wasserman-Schultz compounded it by overreacting. And in the end, the right thing ended up happening: the lead staffer in question was fired, and the campaign got its data access back.

Can't see much coming from it, these parties aren't even required to have these primaries if they didn't want them.

If Bernie wants to win he starts having to hit Hillary over he lack of ethics and the laundry list of scandals, I wish Jerry Brown ran since at least he's not a wimp when it comes to the Clinton's.

Actually primaries are required by federal law as a compromise between the people and parties.
It was also done to weed out corruption too.

Anyways primaries were signed into law in the 1960s.

didn't know this, can you point me to this law?

Also, I think Bernie is ultimately a team player and will fall in line with Hillary since I don't think he ever had the slightest thought that he'd have a chance to win which is why he's avoided attacking her. Hillary will pick Elizabeth Warren to try to win over the Bernie grassroots supporters and Bernie will get that prime time speaking spot. Altho I think Warren would be a bad choice for VP since Trump would savage her for lying about being Native American. I don't think Hillary would want that distraction, they've been prepping Julian Castro for a long time now.

Like Jerry Brown in 1992, the DNC will offer Bernie Sanders a prime-time speaking spot during the Democratic National Convention. Gee, don't bust a gut trying to assuage what would otherwise be a federal civil lawsuit, there.

The DNC, like the RNC, is famous for playing favorites. While I don't like Sanders, he has a legitimate legal complaint.

Who cares the socialist hunchback can't even hit the wicked witch over her emails, no wonder he is losing to her!! !

Who cares the socialist hunchback can't even hit the wicked witch over her emails, no wonder he is losing to her!! !