Lulzsec claimed to have attacked News International, owner of the Sun newspaper website, on which a false story was planted suggesting that the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, had died.
He planted beech saplings in a well-spaced circle and, according to one story, then carried bottles of water up the slope to irrigate his saplings daily on that arid summit.
Back in 1993, NBC famously admitted it had planted remote control explosives under the bed of a General Motors pickup for astory portraying GM trucks as vulnerable to fiery explosions in side-impact collisions.
Miller called the planted question a "bad idea" intended to create an initial IRS apology by Lerner before the story broke with the release of the inspector general's report.