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In 2006, Joe Lieberman's crappy website went down and they used their incompetence to insinuate that Lamont's campaign was behind it.
Almost two years later, word comes down the line that the FBI has concluded their investigation and found no wrongdoing on the part of the Lamont campaign. I'll be expecting Team Joementum to be reimbursing the federal government for the frivlous waste of our tax dollars any moment now (not).
It makes me pretty angry that this was a story that was widely discussed and may have had an impact on the race, yet I imagine this news will go quickly into a one-day press rotation and then evaporate.
Here are some of Tim Tagaris' and Matt Browner Hamlin's words on the subject (Lamont's loss was Dodd's gain), two people who know a little something about the Lieberman-Lamont battle. MBH:
Of course, this is what the Lamont campaign, experts at Blue State Digital, and bloggers around the country said when joe2006.com went down. Lamont's campaign immediately offered to host Lieberman's site on their own servers to ensure parity in the closing hours of the election. Instead of realizing their own incompetence cost them at a critical time and taking the offered help, the Lieberman campaign went into rabid attack mode, blaming pretty much anyone who had ever typed the words "Ned Lamont" into a search engine as the culprits for the site crash.
And Tagaris:
"The sad thing is, Lieberman himself repeated the charge all day in an attempt to discredit his opponents and drive down Ned's primary vote," Tagaris instant messages to me. "It was broadcast on every cable news channel, and papers from The New York Times to the Hartford Courant wrote about it."
"And he got away with it -- who cares what's reported today," Tagaris continues. "He won the election based on a pattern of lies loudly repeated and dutifully stenographed."
"Now maybe someone will run an investigation into Joe Lieberman's repeated claim that no one wants to end the war more than he does," Tagaris concludes.
How fitting, given this news, that if the election were held today, Lamont would be crushing Lieberman 51% to 37%.
Update: elwood makes an outstanding point I rightly should have put front and center in this post: the investigation into this ended in October 2006, before the general election. News of it most certainly have hurt Lieberman. But we hear of it only now because of a FOIA request. Another type of DoJ slow-walk?
