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Investigators Find No Crime in Lieberman Web Site Crash
Joe Lieberman's web site crashed the day of the Democratic primary. Lieberman's camp swiftly leveled accusations that Ned Lamont's supporters were behind it. There were strong indications, however, that the Lieberman campaign's techies were just cheap... and incompetent. The feds launched an investigation. Since then, nothing.
And now, they're done. The conclusion?
"The investigation has revealed no evidence the problems the Web site experienced were the result of criminal conduct," Tom Carson, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor, said Tuesday.Attorney General Richard Blumenthal confirmed the joint investigation "found no evidence of tampering or sabotage warranting civil action by my office."
As we flagged at the time (though there is no direct evidence of this and no indication the FBI is pursuing it), if the Lieberman campaign knew that the site had not been hacked when they lodged the complaint with the FBI, that would be a crime.
Comments (6)
tom wrote on December 20, 2006 3:31 PM:Why is "The Last Honest Man" always so dishonest? Has he called a press conference yet to publically apologize to Ned? Do any of the press have the balls to ask him about it?
Mimir wrote on December 20, 2006 5:04 PM:Your title is too stingy.
The Blumenthal camp actually found no evidence of WRONGDOING, which is much more exculpatory than merely referencing criminal conduct.
Mark F. wrote on December 20, 2006 6:54 PM:"if the Lieberman campaign knew that the site had not been hacked when they lodged the complaint with the FBI, that would be a crime."
They most likely didn't. Since the day it happened, I've suspected that the reason the Lieberman site came down is because their host was buying bandwidth from someone else. The company Lieberman's campaign was doing business with probably went over *their* bandwidth for the month, and their auto-shutdown instructions kicked in--probably without their knowledge--taking their site, the Lieberman site and the rest of their clients' sites down at the same time. I suspect the whole affair comes down to a LOT of people who were mostly clueless.
Mark_W wrote on December 20, 2006 11:11 PM:>"I've suspected that the reason the Lieberman site came down is because their host was buying bandwidth from someone else."
I recall that there were dozens of sites cohosted with the Lieberman campaign website. It was noted at the time that the other cites did NOT go down. Some of us suspected that the campaign pulled it down to make a false claim.
Mark_W wrote on December 20, 2006 11:16 PM:>"I've suspected that the reason the Lieberman site came down is because their host was buying bandwidth from someone else."
I recall that there were dozens of sites cohosted with the Lieberman campaign website. It was noted at the time that the other sites did NOT go down. Some of us suspected that the campaign pulled it down to make a false claim.
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