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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bloomberg: Sanders campaign has fired its National Data Director, Josh Uretsky, [View all]R B Garr
(18,060 posts)31. But running searches from multiple accounts
is not a vendor mistake. It:s a willful act. Someone was fired. This is just repetitive now.
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Bloomberg: Sanders campaign has fired its National Data Director, Josh Uretsky, [View all]
pnwmom
Dec 2015
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If all Josh Uretsky did was make a mistake, why didn't they ask for his resignation?
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#56
Business 101. If a mistake is made that makes the news, someone has to fall on the sword.
LiberalArkie
Dec 2015
#151
Look how much this mistake cost the campaign! A Presidential campaign! Try costing an
merrily
Dec 2015
#152
So if you see the bank left their back door unlocked, and you tell the police about it,
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#8
No, he didn't do anything clearly illegal like storing top secret classified information
jfern
Dec 2015
#6
There is no evidence that she ever stored then-classified information on her home computer.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#7
What does that have to do with anything? It wasn't marked classified or in actuality classified
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#113
It has everything to do with everything, for those whose eyes aren't wide shut
JonLeibowitz
Dec 2015
#114
It has nothing to do with this case because this information wasn't considered or marked
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#117
It was NOT classified at the time (marked or unmarked). It was RETROACTIVELY classified.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#135
Ran searches how? Did they just happen to run a search when the data was available?
jfern
Dec 2015
#15
It didn't say anything about them purposefully searching Clinton campaign information
jfern
Dec 2015
#20
Why did Weavers call him a "low level staffer"? That doesn't seem very honest. n/t
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#28
You don't think it matters if he improperly accessed her data and got fired for it?
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#45
Well, the campaign thought it was so important they FIRED him, instead of asking
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#53
Resigning and being fired are very different things, and if an employee hasn't done
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#71
I think that if the DNC wants to completely alienate Bernie voters, it will continue to cut off
JDPriestly
Dec 2015
#39
Wouldn't it be something if the investigation shows that Hillary's team had access, used it and
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#62
LOL Why would you need this when you were so sure Hillary would win anyway?
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#63
If you think its funny BS campaign is totally locked out of access to the DNC computers..
Historic NY
Dec 2015
#21
Why would the firing of a dishonest Bernie employee "illegitimize" a Hillary victory? n/t
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#72
No. It was probably a low level staffer who actually might have seen the data. But the National
JDPriestly
Dec 2015
#41
Either sloppiness or intentional breach on the part of the DNC and/or its vendor.
JDPriestly
Dec 2015
#52
Uretsky says he did a lot more than simply view it. But it was all in a good cause.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#149
Bloomberg reported that it was Uretsky, the National Data Director, not some underling,
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#73
Maybe not. Maybe the Clinton data was provided to the Sanders campaign in error and the
JDPriestly
Dec 2015
#43
"Searches were run from four user accounts while data from Clinton's campaign was exposed"...
riversedge
Dec 2015
#58
Generally a user assumes that searches they do are authorized. This was a security failure on the
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#66
ha ha. Blame others is silly. The Director did the snooping FOUR times. Simple as that.
riversedge
Dec 2015
#87
If it was a simple error, why did they fire the Director and make him leave in disgrace?
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#95
Asked and answered a multitude of times. Please re-read my previous replies tp refresh
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#99
If it was the vendor's error, why did they fire their own National Data Director
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#84
How in the hell is this anything like Nixon? Watergate was more like Hillary and Emailgate since the
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#67
They notified the DNC that hired the vendor months ago. Not their job to notify the vendor
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#68
Disagree. Communicating directly to someone you did not engage or choose is overstepping by a lot
merrily
Dec 2015
#140
In other words, you will be happy to see Hillary elected at any cost, even illegitimately?
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#69
Jumping to conclusions and being judgemental without even knowing the facts are not progressive
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#85
First of all, the news media often uses fired, resigned interchangeably.
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#96
And only Bloomberg has said that and they couldn't possibly know that. Looks like bad
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
#102
Ah yes.. right away Jim Weaver loses credibility by trying to disingenuously shift the blame. He's
Cha
Dec 2015
#97
No integrity for the Sanders data Director. He saw the lid off the cookie jar and ate the
riversedge
Dec 2015
#90
It's nothing like Watergate, although it's interesting this talking point is being parroted.
winter is coming
Dec 2015
#109
IMO this is similar, though a clitch allowed access, a breakin allowed access in
Thinkingabout
Dec 2015
#115
The DNC has already alienated a whole lot of voters and this isn't going to help.
Vinca
Dec 2015
#159
It turns out that all they're asking for is an "assurance" that they haven't retained HRC data,
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#160
But, according to the Sanders lawyer, without access to the computer data they can't prove anything
Vinca
Dec 2015
#167
"Josh who? Some low level staffer. Never heard of him." - Sanders Campaign
alcibiades_mystery
Dec 2015
#124
Firing the Data Director was the right thing to do and NGP VAN should fire those on their side
Larkspur
Dec 2015
#156
Thanks for spotting the updated info! That wasn't in the article when I posted it.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#164