Senate aide fired for offensive Web site

[Duckster]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond on Thursday fired his communications director for running a political Web site named for the tail number of a plane that crashed in 2000, killing the state’s Democratic governor.

“The actions of a member of my staff in using official computers to make hurtful personal attacks on public servants were totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” Bond said in a statement issued Thursday.

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The site’s title – N8354N – “is not random,” a note on the Web site read. “It marks an inflection point in current Missouri politics. On that day, the worm began to turn.” Content was removed from the site early Thursday morning.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/03/missouri.website.ap/index.html

A Google search reveals the actual web site indeed no longer has any content.

However, that same Google search reveals the cached web site is available.

Just how stupid was this (now former) Senate staffer??

:wally