[lit-ideas] Lieberman & Rovian Tactics
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Literature and Ideas List <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:58:50 -0400
Senator Lieberman lost the Connecticult Democraty primary
to the almost unknown challenger Ned Lamont, and on the
last day before the election Lieberman's website went
down -- sort of.
Lieberman's staff immediately claimed that the site,
<http://joe2006.com>, had been "hacked" and had been
subjected to a Distributed Denial of Service Attack --
two inconsistent explanations of what went wrong
(although it is possible that there were two separate
attacks).
Lamont's staff reportedly offered Lieberman's staff
space on their web server until the problem could be
resolved, but Lamont never received any reply.
Instead, Lieberman accused Lamont's campaign of being
responsible for the dastardly deed and accused Lamont of
Rovian tactics, demanding a statemen from Lamont repudiating
the hacking, a statement that apparently had already been
issued by Lamont.
It appears that the most likely cause of the outage was that
Lieberman had not purchased enough bandwidth to handle the
demand on the last day of the election. In any event, the
server has been back up for a long time -- and may never have
been down -- although all it says now is:
This account is under construction
Please check back soon. It will be available shortly. Thank you.
It should, however, only have taken an hour or two to get the
web pages back up on the old server, or on a new one -- like
Lamont's. The only explanations that anyone seems to be able
to think of for this delay is that Lieberman's staff did not have
any backups of the material on the web site or that Lieberman
wants the site to stay down so that he can continue to accuse
Lamont of hacking and Rovian tactics -- in other words that
Lieberman's campaign was unbelievably incompetent or that
Lieberman himself is using what he would call Rovian tactics.
I think the country is very lucky that LaLamont won.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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