Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the chair of the Democratic National Committee, on Friday defended the party’s decision to suspend Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign from the DNC’s voter file after one or more campaign staffers viewed confidential information stored by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Wasserman Schultz told MSNBC that by temporarily suspending the Sanders campaign, the DNC is just following an agreement they have with each campaign.
“They are prohibited from accessing another campaign’s proprietary information, and we have the ability to suspend that campaign’s access to the voter file in order to make sure that we can preserve the integrity of the voter file and ensure that there is confidence in it,” she said.
During a brief breach on the software managing the DNC’s voter files on Wednesday, campaigns were able to view voter files stored by other campaigns. Typically, firewalls prevent campaigns from seeing each others’ information stored by the DNC. But for a brief period on Wednesday, NGP VAN, the vendor that manages the DNC’s voter files, had an issue with a new piece of the software that temporarily made the information available to other campaigns.
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