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*Newsweek* has released highlights from its Special Election Project: a
team of reporters in the campaigns to gather the inside story, aided by an
agreement with their sources that none of what they reveal will be published
until after Election Day. Read the whole thing
here<http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581>;
excerpts below.
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of
a sophisticated cyber attack by an unknown "foreign entity," prompting a
federal investigation, Newsweek reports in its exclusive special election
issue, "President Obama" on newsstands Thursday, Nov. 6.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what
they initially thought was a computer virus, a case of "phishing"--a form of
hacking often employed to steal passwords or credit card numbers. But by the
next day, both the FBI and the Secret Service came to the campaign with an
ominous warning: "You have a problem way bigger than what you understand,"
an agent told them. "You have been compromised, and a serious amount of
files have been loaded off your system." The following day, Obama campaign
chief David Plouffe heard from White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, to
the same effect: "You have a real problem... and you have to deal with it."
The Feds told the Obama campaign in late August that the McCain campaign's
computer system had been similarly compromised (a top McCain official
confirmed to Newsweek that the campaign's computer system had been hacked
and the FBI was had become involved).
As Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes, FBI and White House officials told
the Obama campaign that they believed that a foreign entity or organization
sought to gather information on the evolution of both camps' policy
issues--information that might be useful in negotiations with a future
administration. The Feds assured the Obama team that it had not been hacked
by its political opponents (Obama technical experts later speculated that
the hackers were Russian or Chinese). A security firm retained by the Obama
campaign took steps to secure its computer system and end the intrusion.
White House and FBI officials had no comment earlier this week.
Newsweek's 2008 Special Election Issue marks the magazine's seventh
consecutive installment of providing a behind-the-scenes account of the
entire presidential campaign. It will be on newsstands Nov. 6-16. The
exclusive narrative of the campaign is reported by a separate Newsweek
Special Project team that worked for more than a year on this historic
campaign. The text of the nearly 50,000-word project will be posted in
chapters on Newsweek.com Nov. 5-Nov. 7.
Highlights from the report:
o Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive
than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top
advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy.
One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits
for the convention and hire a stylist but instead she began buying for
herself and her family--clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks
Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a
vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked
when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the
clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when
the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of
thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went
to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently
been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla
Hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth
will eventually come out when the Republican party audits its books.
A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put
anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on
their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false
accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than
they do about Governor Palin."
o McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign and aides kept
him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they
were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at
his Arizona concession speech but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed
the request.
Story continues below
o The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service
showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in
September and early October, at the same time that the crowds at Palin
rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative
crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to
make people hate us?" Michelle Obama said to a top campaign aide.
o On the Sunday night before the last debate, McCain's core group of
advisers--Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, adman Fred Davis, strategist Greg
Strimple, pollster Bill McInturff and strategy director Sarah Simmons--met
to decide whether or not to tell McCain that the race was effectively over,
that he no longer had a chance to win. The consensus in the room was no, not
yet, not while he still had "a pulse."
The Obama campaign's "New Media" experts created a computer program that
would allow a "flusher"--the term for a volunteer who rounds up nonvoters on
Election Day--to know exactly who had, and had not, voted in real time. They
dubbed it Project Houdini, because of the way names disappear off the list
instantly once people are identified as they wait in line at their local
polling station.
o Palin launched her attack on Obama's association with William Ayers, the
former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan
to raise the issue. McCain's advisers were working on a strategy that they
hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and
top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.
o McCain also was reluctant to use Obama's incendiary pastor Rev. Jeremiah
Wright as a campaign issue. He had set firm boundaries: no Jeremiah Wright;
no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the
military. McCain balked at an ad using images of children that suggested
that Obama might not protect them from terrorism; Schmidt vetoed ads
suggesting that Obama was soft on crime (no Willie Hortons); and before word
even got to McCain, Schmidt and Salter scuttled a "celebrity" ad of Obama
dancing with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres (the sight of a black man
dancing with a lesbian was deemed too provocative).
o Obama was never inclined to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running
mate, not so much because she had been his sometime bitter rival on the
campaign trail, but because of her husband. Still, as Hillary's name came up
in veep discussions, and Obama's advisers gave all the reasons why she
should be kept off the ticket, Obama would stop and ask, "Are we sure?" He
needed to be convinced one more time that the Clintons would do more harm
than good. McCain, on the other hand, was relieved to face Biden as the veep
choice, and not Hillary Clinton, whom the McCain camp had truly feared.
o McCain was dumbfounded when Congressman John Lewis, a civil-rights hero,
issued a press release comparing McCain with former Alabama Gov. George
Wallace, a segregationist infamous for stirring racial fears. McCain had
devoted a chapter to Lewis in one of his books, "Why Courage Matters" and
had so admired Lewis that he had once taken his children to meet him.
o At the convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys'
club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark
Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed
into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She
told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute,"
she said.
o The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for the
Democratic primary debates, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider
this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find
myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a
stupid question, but let me ... answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking
me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say,
you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking
about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is,
Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs
in my house. It's because of something collective'."
--
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over
their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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