Bernie Sanders Camp Manager Threatens to Sue DNC for ‘Sabotage’ of Campaign

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JEFF WEAVER (Bernie Sanders campaign manager): "Third, rather incredibly, the leadership of the DNC has used this incident to shut down our ability to access our own information. Information which is the lifeblood of this campaign. This is the information about our supporters, our volunteers, the lists of people that we intend to contact in Iowa, new Hampshire, and elsewhere. This is information that we have worked hard to obtain.

"As I mentioned before, this is information gathered by our volunteers across the country, and funded by the over $2 million contributions we received online. It is our information, and the information of all of the volunteers and the people who support our campaign and not the DNC's.

"In other words, by their action, the leadership of the Democratic National Committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. This is unacceptable. Individual leaders of the DNC can support Hillary Clinton in any way they want, but they are not going to sabotage our campaign. With one of the strongest grass root campaigns in modern history.

"We are announcing today if the DNC continues to hold our data hostage and continues to attack the heart and soul of our grass roots campaign, we will be in federal court this afternoon seeking immediate relief. What is required here is a full and independent audit of the DNC's mishandling of this data, and its security from the beginning of this campaign to the present. Including the incident in October that we alerted them to when we are fairly confident that large amounts of our data were sent to another campaign."