Post #148

Subject: Joe Lieberman, another politician...

I’m no fool. I realize most politicians are the worst form of human scum, lyin’ cheatin’ bastards who’ll do anything to get elected. Sometimes, tho, I’ll run across one whom I think to be misguided but honest.

Joe Lieberman

Senator 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 October 25, 2006, e-mail included in FBI documents obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. "There was no evidence of (an) attack."

That was some two weeks BEFORE the general election. Who in the Lieberman campaign knew about this – that is, the charge that their political opponent engaged in dirty tricks was false – BEFORE the election?

Lamont said Wednesday that Lieberman, a Democratic-leaning independent, should apologize.

"Senator Lieberman's campaign team accused an awful lot of good people of breaking the law on the eve of the primary, and they did it for political purposes," Lamont told the AP in a telephone interview. "If he does the right thing, he'll stand up and say, 'I was wrong."

Lieberman had implied that Lamont supporters had hacked the site, saying on primary day: "I'm concerned that our Web site is knocked out on the day of the primary, you'd assume it wasn't any casual observer."

His campaign asked the Justice Department to investigate; Lamont's campaign denied involvement.

A Lieberman spokesman said Wednesday that the Senator considered the case closed.

"We were told by our Web site administrator that there was clear evidence of an outside effort to disrupt our site, and that the administrator was so certain that the site had been attacked that he was willing to swear to it in a legal affidavit," Dan Gerstein said.

Not so fast. Joe Lieberman should apologize for the false accusations and for the time between when he first knew the accusations were false and now. It’s only decent.

And un-political….