Joe Lieberman Can’t Run a Website

Joe Lieberman was ostracized by the Democratic party because of his stance on the war. So he had to run as an independent, and his Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont, had supporters that were accused by the Lieberman campaign for DDoS’ing his website Joe2006.com.

I wrote about the scandal at the time and noted that the FBI would investigate. They did. I also warned that campaigns needed to be prepared to fend off website flooding and to not skimp on security. The FBI concluded that the website was not DoS’ed, but the campaign didn’t configure the server to handle the load.

Dumbasses. The story by the Advocate is here.

A federal investigation has concluded that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site the day before Connecticut’s heated Aug. 8 Democratic primary.

The FBI office in New Haven found no evidence supporting the Lieberman campaign’s allegations that supporters of primary challenger Ned Lamont of Greenwich were to blame for the Web site crash.

Lieberman, who was fighting for his political life against the anti-Iraq war candidate Lamont, implied that joe2006.com was hacked by Lamont supporters.

“The server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured. There was no evidence of (an) attack,” according to the e-mail.