Lieberman's Web Site Hacked !!!!!!

[EAT MY ASSHOLE]

One can only hope...

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August 8, 2006
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Joe Lieberman Web Site Off Line: 'The Hacker Ownz You System'
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By Jo Anne Way
Aug 8, 2006

Joe Lieberman had his web site hacked on Tuesday. Lieberman, the incumbent Senator from Connecticut is battling challenger Ned Lamont for the opportunity to run as the Democrat for US Senate on November.


Joe Lieberman Website Hacked: 'The Hacker Ownz You System'

The Lieberman campaign immediately blamed supporters of Lamont.

Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith said the campaign has contacted the Connecticut attorney general's office and asked for a criminal investigation by state and federal authorities, reports AP.

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"If Ned Lamont has a backbone in his body, he will call on these people to cease and desist," Smith said.

"We call on Ned Lamont to make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist immediately," Smith said in a statement. "Any attempt to suppress voter participation and undermine the voting process on Election Day is deplorable and has no place in our democracy."

Smith said the site began having problems Monday night and crashed for good at 7 a.m.

"Voters cannot go to our Web site. They cannot access information," Smith said. "It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters."

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When one tries to visit www.joe2006.com this message comes up:

This account is under construction. Please check back soon. It will be available shortly. Thank you.

MSNBC's Bob Sullivan notes that it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack. One screen capture of the alleged defaced version of Lieberman's site carried the message "The hacker Ownz you System," but there was no way to immediately confirm the capture was authentic.

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That means no e-mail for Lieberman staff and supporters of Lieberman and no way to visit his web site.

--Jo Anne Way writes from Seattle




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Originally posted by LoungeMachine



One screen capture of the alleged defaced version of Lieberman's site carried the message "The hacker Ownz you System,"

LMAO


Good work JizzySTOOL


He's Hungry for the Hack

[DrMaddVibe]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/08/08/why-the-lieberman-website-hack-story-is-nonsense/

Why the Lieberman Website Hack Story Is Nonsense
By: John Amato on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 11:57 AM - PDT
I agree with Matt. Giving Joe’s campaign free time to attack Lamont’s camp over something that wouldn’t make any sense is very disturbing.

MyDD

Ok, the story about the website hacking is nonsense. First of all, I just talked to Tim Tagaris, and he says that the Lamont campaign is willing to send someone to Lieberman HQ to help put their site back online. Hacking Joe2006.com is something the Lamont campaign just wouldn’t do. It would be a stupid and unprofessional move. Skinner at Democratic Underground has a good post on why the Lieberman story doesn’t add up. If this is a DOS attack, how come they have access to their server and can upload messaging?…http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/8/141421/9441

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Originally posted by LoungeMachine
August 8, 2006


Joe Lieberman had his web site hacked on Tuesday.

Truer, more accurate words were never spoken. Desperate times, call for desperate measures, eh, Joe?

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Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/...y-is-nonsense/

Why the Lieberman Website Hack Story Is Nonsense
By: John Amato on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 11:57 AM - PDT
I agree with Matt. Giving Joe’s campaign free time to attack Lamont’s camp over something that wouldn’t make any sense is very disturbing.

MyDD

Ok, the story about the website hacking is nonsense. First of all, I just talked to Tim Tagaris, and he says that the Lamont campaign is willing to send someone to Lieberman HQ to help put their site back online. Hacking Joe2006.com is something the Lamont campaign just wouldn’t do. It would be a stupid and unprofessional move. Skinner at Democratic Underground has a good post on why the Lieberman story doesn’t add up. If this is a DOS attack, how come they have access to their server and can upload messaging?…http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/8/141421/9441

FROM THE SAME LINK AS MADDVIBE'S......


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Every second Lieberman denies help from the Lamont campaign is an indictment
By: John Amato on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 12:10 PM - PDT
Tim

We’ve offered to send our tech guru over to fix their website problems. That was over an hour ago… no response. UPDATE: Here’s the Google cache version of Joe’s campaign website. It’s not perfect, but it has all the content preserved.

Lieberman’s camp obviously doesn’t want help. It could have been fixed hours ago.

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Lieberman Camp Blames Foes for Web Site Crash


By PATRICK HEALY and JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: August 8, 2006

The campaign of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman accused its opponents of trying to suppress Connecticut voter turnout today in the unfolding Democratic primary race for the United States Senate between Mr. Lieberman and Ned Lamont, a Greenwich multimillionaire whose antiwar candidacy has proved unexpectedly strong.

The Lieberman camp, which had been encouraged by a poll on Monday showing Mr. Lamont’s lead narrowing, saw its newfound optimism dimming somewhat this afternoon. Aides fulminated over the collapse of their campaign Web site, which they blamed on unnamed “political opponents.”

Mr. Lieberman’s campaign manager, Sean Smith, said the online blackout was tantamount to voter suppression, because the Web site was a tool to communicate with some Democrats. He said the campaign would file a formal complaint asking state and federal legal authorities to investigate.

But another Lieberman adviser, Dan Gerstein, said his camp at this point was not considering challenging the results of the Senate primary on the basis of a voter suppression charge.

Mr. Lieberman, meanwhile, canceled the last two events of his 10-day bus tour, citing a lack of voters at the polling stations. Instead he went to his headquarters to call mayors, union leaders and other allies, his aides said, while his advisers appeared consumed by the Internet problem.

The Web site’s malfunction disabled campaign e-mail accounts and hampered communications among field offices and with tens of thousands of supporters, Mr. Lieberman’s advisers said. They said high traffic and connections to the campaign Web server overwhelmed its allocated bandwidth, the advisers said. They could not say how great the bandwidth was.

Dan Geary, the Internet consultant to the Lieberman campaign, said that the site, Joe2006.com, began coming under attack on Monday morning.

“Midmorning yesterday, a very rapid, instant number of server queries to the site — not just traffic to the site — completely disabled our network,” he said. “It’s like trying to drink from a fire hose.”

The Lamont campaign denied having anything to do with the Web site difficulties and replied to the accusations of blame by offering to send a technician to Lieberman headquarters to help fix the problem.

Connecticut state officials said this afternoon that they had no verifiable numbers on voter turnout, but Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz predicted very strong turnout of 40 percent turnout or higher. “These are promising numbers,” Ms. Mara said.

And both campaigns said voter turnout appeared to be relatively strong.

In Bridgeport, a fiercely contested city where Mr. Lamont has campaigned repeatedly in the last week, John Stafstrom, the city’s Democratic Party chairman, said he expected turnout to reach at least 30 percent, a figure he called “amazing.”

While unusually high turnout in a contested election like this one often favors the challenger, Mr. Stafstrom, who supports Mr. Lieberman, said he believed it was a positive sign for the senator. “In most parts of the city, I think people are moving back to the senator. It’s what we’ve seen in all our outreach and calling in the last few days.”

Mr. Lamont voted at 7 a.m. at Greenwich High School, and Mr. Lieberman voted shortly before 10 a.m. in New Haven, where he lives. Mr. Lamont held a slight lead of 51 percent to Mr. Lieberman’s 46 percent in a Quinnipiac University Poll on Monday. That six-point spread was within the poll’s margin of sampling error, and represented a bit of a turnaround for Mr. Lieberman, who had trailed by 13 points in a Quinnipiac poll last week.

As reporters gathered this morning at the site where Mr. Lieberman would vote, warring supporters of Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Lamont gathered as well, though they were far out numbered by the news cameras. One Lamont supporter held up a sign that read “Jews for Lamont,” provoking sneers from Lieberman partisans. Of a dozen voters who streamed into the polling station after 9 a.m., meanwhile, eight identified themselves as Lamont supporters.

Mr. Lamont, a cable television executive, planned to visit election precincts in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford, three cities where he is counting on a strong vote for his insurgent bid. Among the 697,000 Democrats who are registered to vote today, Mr. Lamont has particularly targeted African-Americans, disaffected union members, antiwar Democrats, and liberals as crucial blocs in his calculus for victory, his advisers say.

Some polling stations in major cities reported a steady but modest flow of voters today. Political analysts say it is more difficult that usual to predict the turnout and ultimate outcome of a primary in early August, when many voters are on vacation.

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Lieberman Cancels Campaigning, Fox Carries On The Nation




The Nation -- Joe Lieberman canceled his scheduled campaign events on Tuesday afternoon, with his campaign announcing that the embattled senator would spend the rest of primary day making get-out-the-vote calls.



Depending on one's perspective, that's either a sign that the senator is confident, or a sign that he's giving up on winning the primary.

But one thing is sure: the Fox News Channel is still campaigning for Lieberman. An Election Day report on the neoconservative cable channel featured an image of the neoconservative senator's anti-war challenger in today's contest for Connecticut's Democratic Senate nomination, Ned Lamont, above the line: "HAVE THE DEMOCRATS FORGOTTEN THE LESSONS OF 9/11."

The same report featured images of Lamont and Lieberman on a split screen with an image of an Israeli tank, all above the line: A LAMONT WIN, BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRACY IN MIDEAST?"

Apparently, the network is delivering on Fox personality Sean Hannity's pledge of support from earlier this year. "If you ever want me to do anything, for you and your re-election," Hannity told the senator in February, adding that, "I think we ought to have Conservatives for Lieberman, a big fundraiser in Connecticut, and if I could ever do that, I'd make it the biggest blowout celebration ever."

No fund raiser? O.K., how about some TV time?

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Courtesy of "Salmon Enchanted Evening" at DU.....

Beat JoeMentum
(To the tune of Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith)

(CH)
Beat JoeMentum
Beat JoeMentum

Backing that man who’s away clearin’ brush
Kissin in the aisle, what the hell’s with this mush
Casting my vote and with it I’ll declare
That s DINO like you ain’t welcome nowhere

Some snide lil Annie with a voice like a gent
And a bug killing thief say that you’re heaven sent
With support from them and from Alan Colmes’ sire
It’s a sign that it might be time to retire

(CH)

Now you’re on Fox with ole LoofahLove Bill
Talkin’ like you just spent the last week at a still
Now even Rush is endorsin’ your ass
Welcome dear Joe to the head of No Class

(CH)

Called on the folks over there at townhall
Like the lemmings they are, man the answered that call
They can play echo chamber for as long as they want
Cuz where’s honor’s concerned, you can’t beat Ned Lamont
No you can’t