>>>>”I’m just speculating but this seems plausible.”

Well, for starters, they didn’t report it. NGP VAN discovered the error, patched it, and discovered the unauthorized activities in their audit logs. As for what advantage, it’s all speculation. But having access to the Clinton campaign’s notes on early primary voters is, as described in the article, extremely…

Well, I mean, I do think the DNC is spending way too much time supporting Clinton, and not enough time focusing on local campaigns, who need the help and where the DNC could really make a big impact. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a legitimately terrible DNC head who should’ve been fired after the disaster of 2014. But…

You’re right, you’re a conspiracy theorist. Sanders’ campaign fucked up and got caught. That’s the long and short of it. Sanders supporters are really starting to rely on some crazy theories to explain his (inevitable) loss.

The way some Sanders supporters online are bending over backwards in all kinds of bizarre rhetorical justifications for his staffers accessing data they knew they weren’t supposed to be rifling through is getting a bit pathological. If Clinton staffers had done the same thing, those same commenters would be Bern-ing…