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U.S. NEWSSaturday 19 December 2015
Sanders camp says Democratic group ‘undermining’ campaign
KEN THOMAS Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver, speaks during a news conference at the Sanders and his supporters
LISA LERER Bernie 2016 Campaign Office in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. Weaver says the Democratic that the national party is
Associated Press National Committee is “actively attempting to undermine” Sanders’ White House bid. unfairly working to support
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ber- the candidacy of its front-
nie Sanders’ presidential (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) runner.
campaign angrily ac- “Clearly, in this case, they
cused the Democratic Par- and discontent roiling the cratic National Commit- debated by all involved, are trying to help the
ty of “taking our campaign Clinton campaign,” said
hostage” on Friday after Republican Party. tee to the data breach, thrust into the open long- Sanders campaign man-
it was temporarily barred ager Jeff Weaver, who
from accessing a trove of The reaction of the Demo- the depth of which was standing suspicions among threatened to file a lawsuit
information about poten- against the DNC as soon
tial voters as punishment as Friday afternoon, unless
for improperly access- the party backed down.
ing data compiled by the DNC Chairwoman Deb-
campaign of rival Hillary bie Wasserman Schultz re-
Clinton. sponded that “the Sanders
The incident interrupted campaign had inappro-
a period in which Demo- priately and systematically
crats were sailing toward a accessed Clinton cam-
peaceful primary season, paign data,” rejecting
with Clinton comfortably Weaver’s effort to portray
ahead of Sanders nation- the breach as the fault of a
ally in a campaign that software glitch and a small
harbors little of the discord group of rogue staffers.q
