WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign filed a lawsuit against the Democratic Party on Friday after it was temporarily barred from accessing a trove of information about potential voters as punishment for improperly accessing data compiled by the campaign of rival Hillary Clinton.
The reaction of the Democratic National Committee to the data breach, the depth of which was debated by all involved, thrust into the open longtime suspicion among Sanders and his supporters that the national party is unfairly working to support the candidacy of its front-runner.
DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said “the Sanders campaign had inappropriately and systematically accessed Clinton campaign data,” rejecting an effort to portray the breach as the fault of a software glitch and a small group of rogue staffers.
