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Bush Campaign Offices Burglarized

Posted by michael on from the dirty-pool dept.

DesScorp writes "The Washington State offices of the Bush campaign were burglarized, and computers with sensitive campaign data were stolen. The computers belonged the executive director and officer in charge of the 'get out the vote' campaign; one was set to be delivered to another office within the state. The staff says that secret strategy information and voting data are on the computers, and ironically, they're comparing it to Watergate. The staff blames Democratic Party activists intent on stealing the information. Of course, they deny this."

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  1. Unsurprisingly by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Karl Rove also denies any involvement.

  2. No, three equally plausible scenarios! by El · · Score: 5, Funny

    3. Democratic Party operatives planted bags of pretzels, bicycles, and a Segway in an attempt to do in the incumbent president.

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    1. Re:No, three equally plausible scenarios! by Malfourmed · · Score: 1, Funny

      4. Profit!

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  3. October "surprise" ? by drivers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this the "big surprise" Rove was talking about?

  4. I did it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those laptops were not running Free Software, as should be befitting of a party that defends Freedom. I have reformatted and installed Debian GNU/Linux; as soon as I get X, the sound card, the ethernet card, and the USB working, I will return them with a polite note.

    -- Smelly GNU/Hippie 'puter poacher

    1. Re:I did it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      as soon as I get X, the sound card, the ethernet card, and the USB working, I will return them with a polite note.

      Better hurry, the election is less than 5 weeks away...

  5. Disregard by drivers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ok, that was lame.

  6. 72 hour plan leaked by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    From TFA: "But, he said, the loss creates a potential security breach about the campaign's so-called 72-hour plan, the Bush get-out-the-vote effort."

    The following is from the document they found:

    Bush's 72 hour plan

    1. Tell people to vote for me.
    2. Remind them that my opponent is in favor of terrorism.
    3. Remind them that my opponent forgot about Poland.
    4. Ask Mr. Cheney what to do next.
    5. ???
    6. President!
  7. Too liberal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    You should have phrased it as follows:

    Communist Hollywood Elite Liberals Take Time Off From Killing Babies And Homosexual Intercourse To Steal Computers From Ordinary Plain-Spoken Republicans Who Want The Best For America

    That would be fair and balanced. Your version comes across as something Noam Chomsky might say.

  8. the top ten by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 4, Funny
    the top ten things the Republican laptops were last seen doing:

    10. hacked by democrats looking for Windows XP serial#
    9. kicked off IRC for inventing words
    8. tricked into running a Word macro virus by therightisright@hotmail.com
    7. accidentally installed YouthfulIndiscretion XP, regrets it
    6. voting negatively in the online polls at homosexualmarriage.org
    5. busy checking paypal transactions from SaudiArabia@hotmail.com
    4. engaged in IM session at Halliburton.com
    3. busy DDoS-ing iran.com
    2. browser choked on pretzel.com
    1. infected by trojan whilst browsing alt.sex.binary.gay.marriage

  9. stolen by durtbag · · Score: 2, Funny
    Those b0x3n must have also had all of Bush's witty retorts that were planned for the debate last night. God knows he could have used them....

    BTW, anyone know where to find the debate video for d-l? Not streaming, straight download, be it torrent or otherwise. Thanks.

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  10. Those darn activists by lightspawn · · Score: 1, Funny

    You know, I bet these were those activist judges you keep hearing about.

    Anyway, I'm sure all the sensitive data (if not the entire hard drive) was encrypted, so the only thing we have to worry about is the terrorists finally getting their hands on encryption software.

  11. Re:Alert Forrest Gump! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Where's Forrest Gump when we need him?

    He was accidently killed by friendly fire in Iraq while searching for WMD.

  12. Re:To everyone saying this was Rove's plot by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is just as plausible to say that Watergate was a Democrat plot to make Nixon look bad.

    To cover his tracks, one of the Democrats involved (G Gordon Liddy) served five years in prison on charges of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping before his 20 year sentence was commuted by President Carter- who, it turns out, just happened to be a Democrat. Coincidence? You decide. Then to make extra sure nobody was onto him, he became a conservative talk show host and pretended not to be a Democrat for years and years. This guy continues to cover up his sabotage of Nixon's reelection campaign to this very day. There is no depth to which these people will not sink.

  13. Re:I'm trying to imagine... by jcenters · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two words: James Carville.

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  14. It's 'BURGLED', you morons! by EnglishTim · · Score: 2, Funny

    Christ!

    Next we'll have people saying "Last night I was burglarized by burglarizer"!

    Or perhaps in a few years time it shall be known as getting 'burglarizered'...

    WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END?