"According to Ed Butowsky, an acquaintance of the family, in his discussions with Joel and Mary Rich, they confirmed that their son transmitted the DNC emails to Wikileaks.
Since then, the DNC hired a “spokesperson,” Brad Burman, a known hatchet man to basically cut off any further communications with Mr. Rich’s parents. Interestingly, it is well known in the intelligence circles that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron Rich, downloaded the DNC emails and was paid by Wikileaks for that information."
the other important piece which is easy to miss...the guy writing this isn't just some 4000 pound orca hacker living in his wife's basement. it's "James A. Lyons, Jr., a retired U.S. Navy admiral, was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations."
This guy has connections, and his comment about "well known in intelligence circles" comment stands out.
This is the only thread, huh? As someone who felt disillusioned by this case, these new facts are at least interesting. They might make it very difficult to be a Democrat at any time, but especially now and especially 2018.
Nolan Turner
>the DNC emails
Zachary Sanchez
1) this opinion piece legitimizes an opinion which has repeatedly been dismissed and debunked.
2) legitimizing the DNC emails as a leak destroys the russian collusion narrative.
3) legitimizing the DNC emails legitimizes the contents of the emails. wetworks by the pool, walnut sauce, dominos on pizza or pasta, handkerchief with a pizza related map...all of it needs to be explained.
Lincoln Foster
autism bump
Jaxson Bailey
His Name was Seth Rich!
Anthony Walker
Bumping for justice.
Jordan King
Shills are trying to slide this.
Henry Mitchell
...
Carter Lee
that's a good capture.
it's still cooking, user.
Leo Rodriguez
>mfw the thread is still up
Aaron Hernandez
Nigga that's Pastor Anderson , not Victor Thorn
John Rogers
NGP VAN, the company whose software hosts the Democratic National Committee’s voter file, released a routine software update. The update introduced a bug that allowed members of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns, among others, to filter the voter records they share using “scores” they do not share (about which more shortly). For the next hour or so, members of Sanders’ staff ran twenty-five searches using scores generated by the Clinton campaign; their intentions in doing so are now the subject of heated dispute. By noon, NGP VAN staff were aware of the issue and had taken steps to fix it. By Friday, the DNC — which brokers access to VAN/VoteBuilder and mediates disputes between its users — went public with the story and ordered NGP VAN to deny the Sanders campaign access. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook accused the Sanders campaign of deliberately stealing data to gain a competitive edge. The Sanders campaign fired its data director, Josh Uretsky, and Uretsky, taking full responsibility for the actions of his subordinates, insisted they had only intended to document the problem. Hoping for an injunction to regain access, the Sanders camp sued the DNC in federal court. By Friday evening, the DNC had given the go-ahead for access to be restored, and by Saturday morning it had been.
Austin Myers
I was a software developer for NGP VAN from the summer of 2011 through the spring of 2015, having first heard of the company as a volunteer in the 2008 Obama primary campaign. While at NGP VAN, I contributed to a system through which the scores at the center of this dispute can be loaded into the voter file. The Voter Activation Network (“the VAN”), which the DNC brands as “VoteBuilder,” is also employed by foreign political parties, the AFL-CIO, NGOs, and — surprisingly, for a brief period in 2013 — Uber. Amusing as it’s been to find that some of the technical minutiae of my old job has become a hot topic of conversation, coverage of the story so far has been tendentious and often plainly inaccurate. The Clinton campaign has exploited the obscurity of the software and the institutional context in which it’s used to grossly mischaracterize the actions of Sanders staffers. That said, Uretsky’s statements of intent do not accord with the logs released by NGP VAN. To assess the plausibility of the competing narratives on offer — from the campaigns and Uretsky himself — a bit of background on the mechanics of a contemporary Democratic voter outreach operation is needed.
Ethan Jones
As early as the 1960s Dems began systematically assessing which precincts should be allocated campaign resources using statistics aggregated over fairly wide geographic areas. By the 1990s, the precinct was being supplanted by the individual voter as the unit of analysis, just as wall maps and clipboards were giving way to web apps and Palm Pilots. The Help America Vote Act of 02, which imposed standard formatting on voter registration information collected by the states, paved the way for party-maintained, nationally comprehensive registries of voters. By the 06 midterm elections, Sasha Issenberg writes in The Victory Lab, Voter Activation Network’s eponymous system had “emerged from a pack of state-specific interfaces to become the national standard for voter contact on the left.” VAN was a cornerstone of Obama’s unprecedentedly large and sophisticated Get Out The Vote efforts in 08, ensuring its centrality to party infrastructure for years to come. VoteBuilder is comparable to a shared Google spreadsheet, each row of which represents one of the tens of millions of persons currently registered to vote. The DNCis responsible for compiling this list from voter registration data available to the public from state governments, which they clean up in various ways (e.g., removing duplicates and records of the dead). The ideal upshot of this process is a unique “VANID” for each registered voter in the country that can be used to track the person from election to election, potentially from state to state, and determine whether and how to attempt to persuade the voter to support a particular candidate. At a min, each record will include the voter’s name and address. In some states, party affiliation, voting history(whether, but not how, one voted),gender, and phone number are also available.This is the core data to which all Democratic campaigns have access;think of them as the columns in the spreadsheet everyone in the party can see.
Carson White
It’s worth noting that NGP VAN’s relation to this data is exactly analogous to Google’s relation to your data when you paste it into Google Docs. The VAN provides a bespoke means of accessing and manipulating the voter file, but the DNC retains all intellectual property rights. Particular campaigns can, so to speak, add columns to the spreadsheet that only their staff can see and act upon. For example, when a volunteer contacts a voter, she’ll typically rate the voter’s level of enthusiasm for the candidate on a numeric scale. It is not unusual to see a half-dozen such ratings associated with the record of a voter in an important district. Additional columns are often derived from data on consumer habits (e.g., magazine subscriptions) available from data brokers or polling done at the behest of the campaign. Large campaigns may have an in-house team to enrich their voter files, but most of this work is conducted by outside firms specializing in political marketing analytics like Catalist or TargetSmart. The considerable cost of compiling and maintaining this information is justified by the promise of efficient employment of the campaign’s volunteer resources in the pursuit of vote totals. When field staffers in a regional office are confronted with fifty volunteers three months before a primary, they turn to the VAN to generate marching orders. Who should get a phone call? Who should get a visit from a volunteer?
Gavin Wilson
this should be a sticky
Elijah Wilson
>i mattered the fucking ego on this deadguy
Cameron Flores
As Election Day nears, the pace at which such decisions are made quickens, with the available data and prevailing strategic thinking (e.g., “ought we target women more aggressively?”) changing all the while.
Indeed. For Great Justice. When you think about it this pretty much finishes Mueller off. Of course the kike media wont allow that so like a fucking Vampire he will continue.
Dominic Collins
>Shills are trying to slide this. Front page is full of garbage it feels like. Completely retarded threads like "Opinion about X?"
Carter Lee
U hear that? Kikes panicking everywhere
Jayden Rivera
And yet even with resources like this they couldn’t drag Hillary’s body across the finish line. Hmmm...
Jaxon Reyes
This.
Alexander Russell
Bump
Luke Howard
Bump
Nathaniel James
good story user. capping and imagizing for posterity.
