When Will Lieberman Apologize To Lamont?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Connecticut, Democrats, History, Independents, Internet, Lieberman, Technology
Back in Fall 2006, Joe’s website went down and his campaign blamed the rival Ned Lamont’s campaign…mostly because the netroots were backing Lamont and it was an easy accusation to make against bloggers.
Well, it turns out that not only did Lamont not have anything to do with it, but Lieberman’s people knew the real cause soon after an investigation by the FBI was conducted…back in 2006. That’s right…Lieberman knew about this back in 2006. And the information is only coming out now because a Connecticut newspaper filed a Freedom of Information Act request.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Lieberman’s re-election campaign caused its own Web site to crash on the eve of the August 2006 Connecticut primary, federal investigators have found — not supporters of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, whom Lieberman implied were responsible.“In short, the server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured,” according to an Oct. 25, 2006, e-mail included in FBI documents obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. “There was no evidence of (an) attack.”
Once reported by the media, the accusations by Lieberman’s campaign helped overwhelm the Web site on primary day, too, the investigators said.
Fair’s fair and for Joe to sit on this for more than a year and a half says a lot about his character. This type of nonsense gives Independents a bad name, and it’s time to apologize, and soon.
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April 11th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Justin
Joe maybe sitting in the Senate without any party affiliation but he definitely isn’t an Independent – no how no way.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:17 am
When Will Lieberman Apologize To Lamont?…
Back in Fall 2006, Joe’s website went down and his campaign blamed the rival Ned Lamont’s campaign. Well, it turns out that not only did Lamont not have anything to do with it, but Lieberman’s people knew the real cause soon after an investigatio…
April 11th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Most websites run into problems sooner or later, but the way this was handled is embarrassing.
This year Hillary Clinton’s website ran into some serious trouble, as shown by a recent survey of presidential candidate websites made by Pingdom (http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=275), but at least there hasn’t been any fingers pointed.