Bush's former top campaign official in New England has been indicted for disrupting Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts by having a system that would tie up democratic phone lines.
A former Republican Party bigwig in New England has been indicted on charges of orchestrating a low-tech version of a denial-of-service attack.
Internet DoS attacks, which overload a Web site's servers and cause them to be temporarily inaccessible, have targeted everything from Whitehouse.gov to the SCO Group and eBay.
Now James Tobin, who was the top Bush campaign official for New England and formerly the Republican National Committee's regional director, is being accused of mounting a similar kind of attack on the phone networks of five Democratic Party offices during the November 2002 election.
A federal grand jury indictment released Wednesday charges Tobin with attempting to "disrupt communications" by clogging the Democrats' phones on Election Day through repeated hang-up calls. The four-count indictment also says Tobin targeted the Manchester Professional Firefighters Association's phones in an attempt to interfere with its get-out-the-vote effort.
Which is the party of moral values? The one that lets the firefighters call out, or the one that interferes with their calls?