Courtesy of Pam Martens.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Address the DNC Data Breach During the Democratic Debate on Saturday evening, December 19, 2015
According to a Rasmussen national telephone survey during the week ending December 10, only 24 percent of likely U.S. voters think the country is heading in the right direction. Tens of millions of Americans believe that they can’t put a person in the White House or in Congress who shares their core principles because the system is rigged in favor of powerful moneyed interests.
Against that backdrop, with a continuance of the Clinton Dynasty and the Wall Street power players looking ever more likely to dominate in the 2016 Presidential election, along comes an astounding story of how the Democratic National Committee (DNC) handles critical voter information for competing Democratic Presidential campaigns.
Let that sink in for a moment. A Presidential candidate like Senator Bernie Sanders who is asking the American people to engage in a political revolution to meaningfully change the status quo, is dependent on the Democratic voter database of a centrally organized body, the DNC, which is using an outside vendor that has, on multiple occasions, allowed competing Presidential primary campaigns to see the confidential data of the other side.
The most recent blowup became public late last week when the Hillary Clinton campaign, and the DNC, blasted Bernie Sanders’ campaign for an effort to “steal” Clinton data during a bug in the software of an outside vendor to the DNC, a company called NGP-Van. The DNC took the contractually unlawful step of blocking the Sanders’ campaign from continuing to use their critical database, according to a Federal lawsuit filed by the Sanders’ campaign.
Of note, Nathaniel Pearlman, the founder of NGP Software, which later merged with Voter Action Network to become NGP-Van, was Chief Technology Officer for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential primary bid against Barack Obama. According to the lawsuit filed by the Sanders’ campaign on Friday, during the 2008 primary campaign between Clinton and Obama, “a similar security incident arose with the NGP VAN software” with the outcome that confidential information from the Obama campaign was transmitted to Clinton’s campaign.
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