Sanders campaign under investigation

But ultimately the two sides came to an agreement and Sanders regained access to the database Saturday morning. “Problem number two is, they apparently have generated a number of logs and a number of documents which they have distributed to the media and the Clinton campaign of which they have refused to share with us”. The Sanders campaigned filed a lawsuit against the DNC on Friday for breach of contract.

“This is totally unacceptable and may have been in violation of the law”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said.

“We are extremely pleased that the DNC has reversed its outrageous decision to take Sen”.

“This is not the type of campaign that we run”.

The Sanders operative added: “Clearly, they were very concerned about their prospects in court”. By the end of the day Friday, the campaign had collected more than $1 million, the vast majority of it over the Internet, according to the person close to the campaign, who requested anonymity to more freely discuss a number that Sanders has not announced. Transparency at the DNC is essential.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said an investigation would continue to make sure that any poached data has been erased. Bernie Sanders’ campaign’s access to a critically-important voter database. Late Friday, the DNC backed down. The massive database is one that all candidates, from the federal down to the local level, have access to in order to build contact lists, voter models and more.

The information mostly contained things like demographics and voter history, which is vital to Sanders because it “has been financed primarily with contributions from individual donors rather than Political Action Committees”, the suit says.

The allegations over the data breach were expected to be a main topic of Saturday night’s Democratic debate as Sanders and Clinton staffers exchanged in a back-and-forth over what happened when a firewall separating the campaigns from each other’s data went down briefly earlier this week.

The Sanders campaign disputes that any new information was provided.

“See, Sanders backed Hillary on E-mails at the debate, hurting himself, and then she threw him under the bus (but failed)”, Trump wrote.

The Democrats’ third debate was marked by controversy from the start over a recent data breach of Clinton’s campaign voter files by a Sanders staffer, who was subsequently fired.

If Clinton is too aggressive in taking on Sanders over the data breach, she could risk alienating his passionate liberal voters, whom she would need to win in a general election.

Clinton aides contended that Sanders’ message was undermined by the newly revealed actions of his staff. They said the information that the four Sanders workers reviewed in 25 separate searches included details on voter turnout and candidate preferences, revealing the Clinton campaign’s approach in early voting states such as Iowa and New Hampshire.