FBI rules out 2006 Lieberman ‘e-bomb’
p2pnet news | Politics:- It was apparently the, “ultimate political dirty trick of the digital age” when an opponent’s Web site was crashed on on the eve of a primary election, says the New York Times.
Or so the campaign of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, “charged in 2006 when its site crashed the day before the upset victory of the challenger, Ned Lamont, in the Democratic primary,” says the story.
But according to the FBI, it wasn’t like that.
The agency’s New Haven office, “found no evidence supporting the Lieberman campaign’s allegations that supporters of primary challenger Ned Lamont (right) of Greenwich were to blame for the Web site crash,” says the Stanford Advocate, going on:
“Lieberman, who was fighting for his political life against the anti-Iraq war candidate Lamont, implied that joe2006.com was hacked by Lamont supporters.”
But, “The server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured. There was no evidence of (an) attack,” according to the FBI in an email.
“New Haven will be administratively closing this investigation,” it concluded.
New York Times – Explaining Lieberman’s Web Crash April 10, 2008
Stanford Advocate – Fed: Lieberman campaign Web site not hit by e-bomb, April 9, 2008
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