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In reply to the discussion: What Really Happened With the DNC’s “Datagate”? (from Jacobin) [View all]Jarqui
(10,131 posts)Clinton stealing my data from the October breaches and/or before. There's a pretty interesting way of dealing with it. You put in some fake data that only you know and your lawyer about - including for example, fake email addresses. Put in a few in each state that would have voter data that would appeal to the Clinton campaign (voter has money to donate, likes Hillary, you know ...). If the Clinton campaign starts sending emails to those bogus email addresses that only the Sanders campaign created and knows about, how do the Clinton campaign explain that?
Sanders campaign manager Weaver is "very confident" a campaign got a hold of their data. He wants an audit. If that audit doesn't turn up the trojan horse data, well, he can cry foul on the audit, can't he.
This thing isn't over because the Sanders campaign took Clinton's data last week. The logs and the software vendor have already established that didn't happen. They knew from those logs very quickly it didn't happen. I strongly suspect they did it to smear the Sanders campaign - to make them look bad - worse than they really were at the very least.
This thing isn't over because the Sanders campaign is pretty convinced somebody took their data ... and from the sounds of Weaver, they must have some pretty compelling evidence to keep the court case going and stand in front of the national media maintaining they're "very confident" somebody took their data.
If they're in possession of Trojan horse emails (as one example) or evidence that the Clinton campaign took their data last October or whenever and that comes out, oh, say a week or a few days before Iowa goes to the polls, the primary polls could get pretty interesting, doncha think? Bernie would be getting a little media attention then I'll bet.
You're damn right this isn't over. This thing smells bad. I have no evidence the Clinton campaign is guilty. But the stench to me isn't coming from the Sanders campaign. The way their heading with this, it could be a real problem for another campaign - they're not letting go. If they're truly convinced someone took their data, why should they?