As the blogosphere calms down after just over a week of frenzied investigation into the real cause of Lieberman’s website woes, I’m beginning to wonder if there’s any investigation at all. While the Lieberman campaign asked the FBI and the Connecticut Attorney General’s office to investigate the failure of their site on Election Day, sufficient questions have been raised as to the veracity of their claims that I expect they might want to rescind those requests.
As Rotophonic.com and TPMmuckraker reported last week, the Lieberman campaign’s ability to reach its supporters had not been completely disrupted, as they originally claimed. And the questions (here and here) about the robustness of their web hosting and the wisdom of their technical staff will surely color the investigation. I definitely know the FBI won’t appreciate being pulled off counter-terrorism detail to investigate the failure of Lieberman’s staff to adequately build, operate and manage its own website.
Rotophonic.com and David Sirota at The Huffington Post haven’t forgotten about the story and eagerly await the publication of any new details about Lieberman’s website failure and an explanation for what really happened.