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To: longnshort who wrote (316037)	12/20/2006 2:56:15 PM
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Lieberman is such a liar. He would make a perfect GOPer. Lamont camp cleared in hacking of Lieberman By Brian Lockhart Staff Writer Published December 20 2006 The U.S. attorney's office and state attorney general have cleared former U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont and his supporters of any role in the crash of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's campaign Web site hours before last summer's Democratic primary. "The investigation has revealed no evidence the problems the Web site experienced were the result of criminal conduct," said Tom Carson, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal confirmed the joint investigation "found no evidence of tampering or sabotage warranting civil action by my office." Both men declined to provide additional information, such as what might have happened to the site. Calls to Lieberman went unanswered yesterday. Lieberman's site, www.joe2006.com, failed the afternoon before the Aug. 8 primary, which he lost to Lamont. Lieberman won a fourth term in November's general election as a petition candidate. Dan Geary, who developed Lieberman's site, had classified the problem as a denial-of-service attack, which is characterized by attempts to prevent access to a site by overwhelming it. The Web site crash received media scrutiny, fueled by comments from Lieberman and his staff who implied it had been hacked by Lamont's supporters. A Lieberman campaign spokeswoman, Marion Steinfels, had called it a "coordinated effort to wreck our Web site and make us incapable of communicating with each other and our voters." Visitors who tried to access Lieberman's site received a message calling on Lamont to "make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist immediately." Lamont's campaign denied any involvement, and staff posted a link to a duplicate or "cache" version of Lieberman's site on Lamont's blog. Tom Swan, Lamont's campaign manager, and George Jepsen, his campaign chairman, were not surprised by the findings of the probe. "It's a shame that they chose to waste public investigation resources for what they knew was a bogus charge," Swan said. Jepsen said he did not believe the Lieberman campaign's attempts to link Lamont to the crashed Web site had an effect on the general election. "I think it was just a tiny blip on a very large radar screen," Jepsen said. "It just shows when people get in the middle of a campaign, anything that goes wrong they assume is deliberate sabotage by the other side." Copyright © 2006, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. stamfordadvocate.com